Date: Jan 5, 2021
OpenLMIS participants: Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed), Brandon Bowersox-Johnson, Sierra Petrosky (Unlicensed)
UNDP: Chinara Israilova (procurement lead for the bid), Zafar Yuldashev
Internal reference docs:
Invitation to Bid can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5mr02prtd6cjfjs/ITB_GPH2720000.docx.pdf?dl=0
Most recent Returnable Forms sections (completed by Sierra) can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/54yifbkwqo3pfvb/Section%206%20Returnable%20forms%20-%20SP%2012.29.docx?dl=0
Proposed agenda by UNDP for today:
- Representation of Open LMIS by Village Reach
- Village Reach operational structure
For reference, notes from yesterday's Stewards call:
- List of Questions for Chinara (UNDP)in tomorrow's meeting:
- How to divide the application content between VR and other partners?
- For example: "Company profile"- to put only VR info or combine with other partner info? CVs?
- Brandon: focus on way they can get supported OpenLMIS software, and then say in the work to implement/roll it out would come from the partners. We don't have to price other than give range/ceilings
- How to position Enterprise support and our open source nature in the budget/strategy of the submission Brandon Bowersox-Johnson to raise this in the call
- Describe Enterprise support, show our flyer, and talk about how implementations work–how does this fit into the form?
- How to divide the application content between VR and other partners?
- Coordination with Vitalliance on this effort:
- Has this bid come up in any recent conversations with them?
- I'm pretty sure they are submitting a bid for OneNetwork; and since they will steward OpenLMIS in the future, how will this work? VR just remain the lead on this specific opportunity? (because multiple LTAs cannot be issued to Vitalliance)
- Come up with wording for the bid, "There is another partner that will begin stewarding this..."
- Check with Ann Holmes on opinion + potential wording in bid
- Can we internally sync on how we think we should approach the cost section of the application? Options are either to give lump sum or SaaS...
- and how will we come up with the estimates? They should be a conservative estimate as once country-specific opportunities are named the numbers will be used as s reference ceiling which future OpenLMIS country bids cannot exceed
- Brandon: use lots of caveats, with asterics and explanatory paragraph. To say that prices dont account for size of country, scale of implementation, training model, etc. So we can add onto the pricing form
- Could CHAI assist on the SaaS pricing (what they are funding for the COVID edition for Cameroon)?
- Any other operational questions?
Next Steps: