Opportunities

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON LMIS SOFTWARE
AND IMPLEMENTATION SERVICES

Original RFI: https://www.gavi.org/rfp/ 5
OpenLMIS Response submitted: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OTc1sOuxH7Po95GQJzwUj-KS3LIllYGc 10
Important Dates:

• Issue Date: November 29, 2018
• RFI dead line to submit questions December 13, 2018 (13:00)
• RFI Closing Date: December 20, 2018 (17:00)
• Shortlisting of Vendors/Solutions January 31, 2019
• Use case demos for shortlisted vendors to be determined Q1, 2019

VillageReach submitted a proposal in response to RFP #PSM-MOZ-RFP-007 Mozambique SIGLUS Technical Assessment for OpenLMIS v3 Upgrade on April 25, 2018 and submitted a 'best and final' proposal on May 30, 2018. As of June 18, 2018, VillageReach is optimistic that Chemonics is preparing contract documents to move ahead with this engagement.

VillageReach's proposal includes some mobile software development support from both Ona and ThoughtWorks. The scope of the proposal is an assessment, not including any software development activities, but we sought out technical support because the scope does include creating detailed specifications and recommending work plans for software development activities.

Note: The opportunity to upgrade SIGLUS in Mozambique may also dovetail with the opportunity to upgrade SELV (the Vaccine/EPI instance of OpenLMIS in Mozambique) by trying to align with other funders and projects including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

VillageReach and JSI are continuing a dialogue with Chemonics about a possible scope of work for a first preparatory phase of an implementation of OpenLMIS v3. VillageReach previously contributed to a Readiness Assessment, and there are a number of areas to address to lay the groundwork for a successful implementation.

Update 18/June/2018: VillageReach is partnering with JSI to help support this SOW. We have come to agreement with Chemonics on a final SOW and specific deliverables, and now are working on finalizing budgets and trip planning to move towards contract signing.

Islamic Development Bank 

Science, Technology, and Innovation Transform Fund (IsDB-STIF)

Guidelines: https://s3.amazonaws.com/skipsolabs_ladec/frontend/challenge/Guidelines%20for%20the%20Application_English_114d.pdf

Application link: https://www.isdb-engage.org/en/challenge/call-for-innovation-via-transform-fund

Applications due by 31 Jul 2018 

Potential ideas based on the project categories:

1. Proof of concept ($50K-$100k)
• Senegal or Cameroon if they wanted to pilot any features of OpenLMIS or support a POC of integrating with OpenSRP or LoMIS

1. Scale up of successfully piloted project interventions in a MC of the Bank or assisted Muslim communities in a non-member country, which involve innovative technologies/solutions and in need for additional funding to replicate and/or scale up the projects in other MCs, especially in LDMCs. Such candidates are eligible for up to US$ 300,000 “equity participation by the bank”  
• Benin upgrade of OpenLMIS and integration with LoMIS
• Mozambique scale up of OpenLMIS (but would need it to be complementary to the current approach/funding)
• Guinea upgrade to OpenLMIS version 3 

1. Commercialization of technology up to $1M “equity participation by the bank”
• OpenLMIS core to build out SaaS or PaaS offering (following the sustainability work)

$10,000k awards

https://techforwardconference.org/technology-innovation-awards-2018/?utm_campaign=Tech%20Forward%202018&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=63653024&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8uEuu10bzZS9JJvljJfV1EE1ULQZjkACW2l3C0La1JFRTA8v_08wBo5TYm6FGW5yPlshcIpI0brsuP1M_bzaEVgTCUNieFjqVrA_jOh8SgArQ6TUw&_hsmi=63652736

Questions for Michael: 

What is the timeline for spending the money? 

Todo: need to come up with a way for the open-source community to vote or weigh in on what proposal we put forth. See below for notes.

Notes: Other open source communities have a process for overall community voting. Within that, some organization or person will write the proposal and receive the funding on behalf of the Community. At the end of that there should be Community feedback - we achieved what we set out to do.