GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE
UKRAINE
SUPPORT PILOT OF HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM PROJECTS
Health sector
GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE
IDF Grant No. TF 099614
The Government of Ukraine has received financing in the amount of US$ 300000 equivalent from the World Bank toward the cost of the Support Pilot of Health System Reform Projects, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds to payments for goods, works, related services and consulting services to be procured under this project.
The Grant consists of the following parts:
Part 1: Capacity development for pilot implementation
(a) Building institutional capacity in the Ministry of Health, oblast and city state administrations and local self-government bodies in four pilot regions (Donetska, Dniepropetrovska, Vinnitska oblasts and the city of Kiev) through inter alia: (i) organization of workshops on hospital planning and management practices, strategic purchasing, managed care principles, payment systems for providers, etc; (ii) provision oftechnical assistance to local steering committees for the health carereforms, to finalize preparation of the pilot projects and develop implementation plans; (iii) preparation of cost estimations for pilot projects in the three oblasts and the city of Kiev; and (iv) field and overseas visits and twinning to expose staff involved in designing and piloting healthcare reforms to successful health reforms examples in the Europe and Central Asia region.
(b) Provision of technical assistance to the central inter-agency working group in charge of spearheading the healthcare reform process and facilitate interaction of members of the working group with pilot oblasts and key reform stakeholders.
Part 2: Establishing the basis for a new Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system in healthcare
Provision of consultancy services to assess and review M & E capacity, staffing and functions and development of a new M&E strategy, to include a detailed analysis of the new functionalities and requirements in preparation for a future Health Management Information System (HMIS), as well as a set of complementary strategies (surveys, use of other data sources, etc.) to add to the existing HMIS-based information to assess the impact of the pilots.
The Ministry of Health of Ukraine is responsible for overall implementation, and under the oversight of the Ministry of Health, the Ukrainian Institute for Strategic Research at the Ministry of Health of Ukraine (hereinafter # the Institute) is responsible for day-to-day implementation. Under the World Bank supervision the Institute manages the activities financed by the Grant including procurement of goods and consultant services.
Procurement of contracts financed by the World Bank will be conductedthrough the procedures as specified in the World Bank's Guidelines: Procurement under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits(current edition), and is open to all eligible bidders as defined in the guidelines. Consulting services will be selected in accordance with the World Bank's Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers(current edition).
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 Businessand dgMarket, at the official websites of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine www.moz.gov.ua and of the Ukrainian Institute for Strategic Research at the Ministry of Healthof Ukrainehttp://www.uiph.kiev.ua.