Department of Defense Grant for Global HIV/AIDS Health Systems Strengthening and Surveillance

1. Request full proposals for the multi-country Health Systems Strengthening effort as described below by 07 October 2011 for first round consideration:

OHSS $500,000 – $750,000

The TBD offeror, in support of the DoD HIV/AIDS Prevention Program (DHAPP), shall conduct assessments and support system deployments of a health and prevention program management information system and enhanced disease surveillance capability in countries where an HIV/AIDS program, via support from DHAPP exists. The enhanced health and prevention program management and surveillance capability shall provide the potential for improved program performance tracking (e.g. prevention activities, HIV testing, suspected STIs, longitudinal patient tracking), and the earlier notification of potential disease outbreaks in resource-poor settings by incorporating the results of a thorough in-country assessment and providing appropriate surveillance tools. This system should provide an open source system that can be scaled and modified according to changing needs for data over time, and should not be resource intensive for its implementation, operation and maintenance.

In conducting this task, the TBD offeror shall act under the guidance and at the behest of the government, and make technical recommendations to the government who makes the acceptance on the deliverables and subsequent procurement decisions. The offeror shall have a continuing obligation to inform the government of known problems and issues in development and deployment of systems, and make disclosure of known risks associated with the system’s performance and with any of the other activities to be conducted under this task. Deliverables and recommendations shall be provided for government review and approval and provided only for the environments and specified conditions for which they were intended and/or tested. All efforts under this program shall be conducted in accordance with established Laboratory quality assurance procedures.

Included within the scope of work described herein is effort associated with the planning of future tasks.

The TBD offeror shall provide support to DHAPP for deployment of public health informatics tools developed to enhance resource-poor countries� ability for early recognition of emerging infectious disease, tracking and early detection of STIs, and other health and prevention program management and surveillance capability; and shall support deployment of these tools in DHAPP-defined locations.

Specifically, the TBD offeror shall,

– Make site visits to DHAPP-identified countries for the purposes of capability and requirement assessments.
– Support deployment of surveillance tool(s) in a resource-limited country for a specific task (i.e. data collection, data analysis, etc), to be used independently or in concert with other tools to create an end-to-end surveillance capacity, to DHAPP-selected locations in order to enhance the country’s ability to perform surveillance.