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Notice ID:72068722R00005
Dear Prospective Offerors: The United States Government, represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is seeking offers from qualified persons to provide personal services in ...
Dear Prospective Offerors: The United States Government, represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is seeking offers from qualified persons to provide personal services in Madagascar under contract as described in this solicitation. Offers must be in accordance with the Attachment of this solicitation. Incomplete or unsigned offers will not be considered. Offerors should retain copies of all offer materials for their records. This solicitation in no way obligates USAID to award a PSC contract, nor does it commit USAID to pay any cost incurred in the preparation and submission of the offer. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)/Madagascar’s Health, Population and Nutrition (HPN) Office implements programs in family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH); maternal and child health (MCH); nutrition; water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH); infectious diseases; and malaria prevention and control. HPN partners also coordinate with the Title II food security programs to increase the overall effectiveness and reach of USAID’s assistance. Madagascar is a priority country for Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths (EPCMD), a President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) focus country, and a USAID High Priority WASH Country. The HPN Office manages a budget that has increased by 35% over the last four years to $72 million annually. HPN oversees twenty-three cooperative agreements, grants, and contracts. The approved staffing pattern includes three US Foreign Service Officers, three Personal Service Contract (PSC) positions, one direct hire US CDC staff person, and 13 Foreign Service National (FSN) staff. Since the lifting of the restrictions in May 2014, the Mission’s efforts are now increasingly focused on using USG resources to strengthen GOM health systems, especially in the areas of supply chain management for medicines, health commodities, and supplies; use of data for decision-making; increasing domestic resource mobilization and health financing. USAID is a chief supplier of health commodities, providing more than half of all family planning commodities in the country as well as rapid diagnostic kits (RDKs) and Artemisinin-based combined Therapy (ACTs) for malaria diagnosis and treatment, and insecticide-treated bed nets for malaria prevention. In total, supply chain management will comprise approximately 35% of the portfolio, and the appropriate functioning of the health supply chain determines the success of all USAID programming and the ability of the GOM to adequately provide health services to its population. USAID’s Digital Strategy 2020-2024 outlines the Agency’s vision “to advance progress in communities in our partner countries to build sustainable systems through efficient, effective, and responsible digital initiatives that enhance security and economic prosperity, consistent with the American values of respect for individual rights, freedom of expression, and the promotion of democratic norms and practices.” The Digital Strategy aims for Missions to designate a Digital Development Advisor to guide the digital vision for USAID. The USAID Bureau for Global Health developed Vision for Action in Digital Health to align with the Digital Strategy and provides clear direction for the health sector to: 1) Assess and advance national and regional capacity for digital health, in particular that of leadership and governance, 2) Support the development of, and align investments to, national and, where appropriate, regional digital-health strategies, 3) Support the development of, and align investments to, a national digital-health architecture, and 4) Adapt, re-use, and, where needed, provide support to global goods. USAID/Madagascar, therefore, requires the services of a Senior Digital Health Advisor with a strong focus on health systems strengthening and policy to be hired through a Personal Services Contract. The Senior Digital Health Advisor is intended to be a senior broad-based position who will provide oversight and leadership of digital health investments within the HPN program, with a particular emphasis on one of USAID’s key investments, supply chain management, and provide expert guidance on cross-sectoral digitization opportunities in alignment with the Agency’s Digital Strategy. The Senior Digital Health Advisor will be based in Antananarivo and is expected to spend approximately 25% of his/her time traveling throughout the country to monitor program activities.
