Technical Assistance for Response to Public Health Tender - 18341639

Procurement Summary

Country: Dominican Republic

Summary: Technical Assistance for Response to Public Health or Healthcare Crises

Deadline: 27 Jan 2018

Posting Date: 20 Nov 2017

Other Information

Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 18341639

Document Ref. No.: CDC-RFA- OT18-1804

Competition: ICB

Financier: Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership: -

Tender Value: Refer Document

CPV Classification

71356200 - Technical assistance services

Purchaser's Detail

Name: Login to see tender_details

Address: Login to see tender_details

Email: Login to see tender_details

Login to see details

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Technical Assistance for Response to Public Health or Healthcare Crises
Estimated Total Program Funding: $15, 000, 000
CDC will strengthen the U.S. public health system’s response to public health or healthcare crises by providing specialized support to State, Tribal, Local and Territorial health departments (STLTs) when engaged in a response. Because STLTs vary widely in capacity and expertise - as well as in the demographics and disease burdens of the populations they serve - an emergency in any location is likely to reveal areas in which they need assistance to launch and sustain effective response activities. The purpose of this NOFO is (1) to establish a pool of non-governmental organizations capable of rapidly providing essential expertise to governmental public health entities involved in a response, and (2) to fund select awardees to provide that support, when required, based on CDC’s determination of need. The role of the awardee will be to function as a rapid provider of information and/or resources, as well as a coordinator of the project management components involved. Awardees will primarily support public health departments, but may be engaged to support CDC programs also involved in the response. Awardees will perform activities in the following two strategy domains: STRATEGY 1: Ensure Effective Process Implementation Process is a critical success factor in response efforts, where lives may depend on the speed of a transaction, placement of personnel, or delivery of equipment. Awardees must have strength in and be able to effectively perform the activities associated with each of the following process areas: 1) Expedited Procurement (ability to supersede normal acquisition procedures to accelerate delivery); 2) Agile Administration & Operations (ability to react to requests, develop plans, deploy resources, and perform administrative actions quickly and with highly-coordinated communication); and 3) Strategic Partnering (access to and the ability to rapidly engage multi-sector partners to amplify, augment or otherwise improve response efforts). STRATEGY 2: Provide Critical Content Expertise The awardee’s strength in process implementation (addressed by Strategy 1) serves as the foundation for delivering critical content expertise. Applicants must have demonstrated strength in and be able to provide support in one or more of the following content areas: 1) Administrative Logistics (travel, transportation, shipping, printing, transcription, convenings and event planning, small purchases, etc.); 2) Communications (situational awareness, risk communications, media support, project monitoring and reporting, cultural and lingual translation, graphics, writing/editing, training development and delivery, etc.) 3) Human Resources & Specialized Expertise (recruiting, hiring, general staff augmentation, payroll, onboarding, orientation, and acquisition of specialized expertise, including but not limited to epidemiology, entomology, infectious disease, environmental health, emergency response, etc.) 4) Direct Services (specific emergency response activities, as directed by CDC) This strategic approach ensures health departments will have access to the expertise needed to fill capability gaps and the process strength to deploy it effectively. CDC will use applicants’ submissions (particularly the “Strategies and Activities” section) to create an inventory of their capabilities. In the event of a crisis, CDC will use that inventory to identify potential awardees based on the needs associated with the scenario(s) or threat(s) at hand. Given the difficulty applicants face in preparing an application for events that haven’t occurred yet and for which we can offer few details, please note that we expect your initial application to focus more on identifying and elaborating on your process and content capabilities, and less on providing detailed plans for activities, evaluation and performance measurement. As such, we anticipate more specificity in your program narrative sections (e.g., Background, Purpose, Strategies and Activities, Collaborations and Organizational Capacity of Applicant), and more generality in the evaluative and numeric sections (e.g., Outcomes, Applicant Evaluation and Performance Measurement Plan, Work Plan, and Budget Narrative). Again, these expectations apply to your initial application. In the event of a crisis, if we select you for award, we will request an appropriately- detailed, revised work plan and budget from you, and work with you to develop specific outcome and performance measures tailored to the scenario(s) at hand. This NOFO is designed to collect responsive proposals from eligible applicants and retain them as “approved but unfunded” (ABU) until a crisis occurs. The NOFO will only be funded upon occurrence of a particular public health or healthcare crisis. At that time, depending on the nature of the scenario, specific applicants and specific components of their applications will be selected for funding. These funding decisions will take into account various relevant factors such as geographic location, expectations of spread (e.g., with infectious disease-related emergencies), applicant’s capabilities, national priorities, impact of the emergency on an eligible jurisdiction, and target populations, etc. For the purposes of application, review and award, this NOFO defines “public health or healthcare crisis” as one or more of the following 3 scenarios (more may apply after award): 1. Declaration of an emergency by the President of the United States per the Stafford Act and/or the National Emergencies Act; 2. Declaration of an emergency by the U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services via the Public Health Service Act, Section 319 and/or Social Security Act, Section 1135; or 3. Identification of a threat to the public’s health by the U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services and/or the CDC Director/ATSDR Administrator, for which the Secretary and/or Director/Administrator have responsibility and/or authority to direct resources in response.

Documents

 Tender Notice