Date: April 30, 2021
Participants: Dauda, Trevor, Gaurav, Dean, Brandon
Reference documents
Objectives for today:
Review of 2 part contracting approach required by Gavi
Walk through key aspects of proposed SOW and collect high level comments re:
Review of Scope of Proposed activities (Word doc)
realistic (particularly phased approach including health facilities? Anything missing?
Review of functional areas (Excel doc)
achievable? Any red flags?
Timeline
AOB
Contracting-
There are two parts of this project, which are moving at different paces.
The first is rolling out the OpenLMIS COVID-19 module, which we would like to do quite quickly by contracting CHAI, JSI or VillageReach as these were providers selected through a COVAX-related RFP that our PEF team ran. Selecting one of these providers will allow us to contract quickly using PEF funds. (not a competitive bid process)
2. The second is rolling out OpenLMIS in its entirety, which will be done along a longer time horizon and will require to run an RFP, do the review and selection process etc. and will be funded through the HSS grant. From an accountability and project management perspective, we would like to contract one provider, who could then sub out different pieces of work to other partners (A competitive bid process)
-Re partner configuration, below is a recap of each partner’s capabilities and desired roles:
Any Q&A or inputs re: partner configuration?
Trusted Partner | Key Capabilities/skillsets | List areas of support you are interested in providing | # of relevant Nigeria-based staff (with either supply chain or digital skills) |
CHAI | Central and state level MOH and stakeholder relationships, knowledge of supply chain processes for vaccines and other commodities, prior supply chain and digital health work, implementing vaccines, RMNCH and a number of other programs for MOH | Liaising with MOH centrally and in states, stakeholder management, BA, requirements gathering, master data collection, testing, trainings, deployment, hardware procurement, support | Central and state-level presence. 5-10 staff but I’ll need to check the numbers. Close to 200 total staff |
JSI | Project Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Multi state presence, Relationship with MoH and NPHCDA | Requirement gathering/validation, Project plan and client management, UAT and User Training, User guide, SOP, Job aids, Go-live and post production support | 10+ current staff. Can quickly hire more |
SolDevelo | Software development, cloud infrastructure and hosting services, testing and quality assurance, maintenance and support | Software development, deployment in the cloud, hosting and maintenance, L2/L3 support | - |
VillageReach | Technical expertise in OpenLMIS, supply chain, data use, software implementation | TA for requirements definition, reference data configuration, technical design, training/deployment, governance | 1 w/ supply chain expertise |
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