REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ROLL-OUT OF A MOBILE APPLICATION FOR COMMUNITY AND HEALTH FACILITY LEVEL CASE-BASED REGISTRATION AND TRACING OF VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS (VL) PATIENTS IN BANGLADESH /

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The Ministry of Health (MoH), Government of Bangladesh and the Accelerating the Sustainable Control and Elimination of NTDs programme (ASCEND), wish to engage an Implementing Partner to provide services which support the Visceral Leishmaniasis Elimination Initiative in Bangladesh.

Crown Agents Limited, as leader of the consortium managing ASCEND, now invites bids from suitably qualified Bidders to be engaged as subcontractors to support the MoH in Bangladesh to provide services to develop, pilot and roll-out a mobile application for community and health facility level case-based registration and tracing of Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) patients in Bangladesh.

Bidders should note that this request for proposals (RFP) was originally issued in March 2020 and is now being reissued with an updated RFP document.

The Contract will be for a period of approximately 28 weeks, expected to run from July 2020 to January 2021.

This is an open competition under which bids are invited from any organisation. Bidders may be commercial (for profit) firms, faith-based, and non-profit organisations, either independently or in partnership or consortia.

The full request for proposals (RFP) document is available on request from requestRFP@ascend.crownagents.com. When requesting the RFP, please ensure that your email contains the RFP reference above in the subject line.

The deadline for submission of bids is 10:00 hours noon (UK time) on Friday 12 June 2020. Bids must be submitted electronically in accordance with instructions contained in the RFP. Late bids will be rejected.

Bids will be evaluated in accordance with procedures and evaluation criteria described in the RFP. The successful bidder will be invited to negotiate and sign a subcontract based on terms set out in the RFP.