Foreign economic-aid-related services

Tender description

Stronger Health Partnerships for Stronger Health Systems (SHPSHS), by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). DFID leads the UK Government’s efforts to eradicate poverty and improve health and well-being in low-income (LIC) and lower-middle income (LMIC) countries. DFID’s requirement for a supplier to undertake the implementation of the SHPSHS. This is a 28 500 000 GBP requirement from approximately September 2019 to end of March 2023 with a possible 24 month extension and additional 13 000 000 GBP dependant on DFID's future approach to health partnerships, performance and additional funds being available. SHPSHS will contribute to the UK Aid Strategy and Single Departmental Plan (SDP) objectives; 2 (strengthening resilience and response to crises) and 4 (tackling extreme poverty and helping the world’s most vulnerable), and DFID’s cross-cutting health priority to support countries to achieve Universal Health Care and strengthen health systems. DFIDs intention is to tender a Restricted OJEU process for implementation of a contract with outputs as below: (a) accelerated progress on health systems priorities in 10 focus countries through 48-80 strategic health partnership projects that are aligned with national health plans; (b) UK expertise shared and new initiatives tested to address specific health systems constraints through up to 100 smaller partnership projects with potential for innovation, learning, and scale-up in a wider range of LICs and LMICs; (c) contribution to a supportive UK environment that enables NHS volunteers with the right skills to take part in health partnerships and to benefit the NHS with mutual learning and reverse innovation; (d) efficient and effective programme, partnership and grant management to ensure VFM, and drawing on monitoring, evaluation and learning to continuously improve performance (working with the external evaluation provider, contracted separately by DFID to improve the evidence base on the contribution of this type of health partnership to health system strengthening).