KENYA COVID-19 HEALTH EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROJECT

Component 1. Medical Supplies and Equipment: This component Aims to improve the availability of

supplies and equipment needed to respond to COVD-19 and other public health emergencies and

strengthen the capacity of the MoH to provide timely medical Diagnosis for COVID-19 patients.

Component 2. Response, Capacity Building and Training: This component aims to strengthen response

and build capacity of key stakeholders including health works and communities.

Component 3. Quarantine, Isolation and Treatment Center:s This component will strengthen the

health systems capacity to effectively provide Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and case management

of COVID-19 cases.

Component 4.  Medical Waste Disposal: This component will ensure the safe disposal of waste

generated by laboratory and medical activities.

Component 5. Community Discussions and Information Outreach: Advocacy, communication and

social mobilization is an integral component of strengthening surveillance and response to health emergencies.

Component 6: Availability of Safe Blood and Blood Products: This support will go towards strengthening

the capacity of the Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service (KNBTS) to provide safe blood

and blood products.

Component 7. Project Implementation and Monitoring: To support implementation, the project would

finance costs associated with the project coordination, Activities for program implementation and

monitoring and to strengthen management capacity. 

Procurement will be done for the following:

Goods: sample collection and packaging supplies, Reagents and transport media (Covid-19 specific

primers, probes), Lab PPEs, Medical waste bins, Biohazard bags, safety boxes and body bags, pharmaceutical

and non-pharmaceutical commodities, thermos scanners and thermoguns, negative ambulances

and stretchers as well as emergency ICU and other equipment in National referral hospitals, Level 5

in 12 counties and Level 4 Hospitals in all the Counties;

Works:  Construct 20 bed isolation units in national referral hospitals and level 5 hospitals in 12

counties and 10 bed isolation units in level 4 hospitals in all counties, install and construct shelter

to house 45 special incinerators and ash pit in level 4 facilities across the country. Renovation

of IDU Mbagathi Hospital, Renovation of regional ambulance command centers. Construction

and equipping of Kenya’s Centre for disease prevention

Services: Sensitize community on mode of transmission through printing of pamphlets, posters and

 banners on preventive measures, and Train different categories of medical and support Staff.

Procurement of contracts financed by the World Bank will be conducted through the procedures specified in 

the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers for Goods, Works, Non-Consulting and  

Consulting Services, dated July 1, 2016 (revised in November 2017 and August 2018) Specific procurement

notices for contracts to be bid under the World Bank’s international competitive bidding (ICB) procedures

and for contracts for consultancy services will be announced, as they become available, in

UN Development Business and dgMarket in the Nation , Standard, The Star and the Government

Advertising Agency.

Prequalification of suppliers and contractors will not be required under the project.

Interested eligible bidders requiring additional information, should contact the address below

The Principal Secretary

Ministry of Health

Afya House, Cathedral Road

P.O. Box 30016-00100

Nairobi