Expression_of_Interest_(1).pdf

Expression of Interest

This is an Expression of Interest (EOI) for the USAID Global Health Support Initiative III program. It is USAID’s intent to award a small business contract to support this program. USAID encourages interested parties, specifically small businesses to read the

EOI and submit the requested information by the deadline noted below.

Please note, this is not a Request for Proposals (RFP) and should not to be construed as a commitment by the U.S. Government to issue a solicitation or ultimately award a contract on the basis of this EOI, or to pay for any information submitted as a result of this request. If a solicitation is released it will be synopsized in FedBizOpps. It is the potential offeror's responsibility to monitor these sites for the release of any solicitation or synopsis. It should be noted that responding to this EOI will not give advantage to any organization in the subsequent procurement. USAID will not provide answers to any questions submitted in response to this request. Responses will be held confidential.

Proprietary information should not be sent.

This EOI is seeking no more than a one (1) page response from interested parties, which includes the following information:

•Organization name and address;

•Organization point of contact name, telephone number, and email address;

•Organization business size and status (e.g., small business, 8(a), HUBZone, etc.), the number of years in business, and affiliate information;

•A brief description of the services provided by your organization

Respondents to this EOI must submit the information to jacbell@usaid.gov by December 2, 2013 at 12:00pm Eastern Standard Time. Responses must be submitted in the format of the attached template. Any response received that is not in the attached template format will not be reviewed. Any information provided beyond one page will not be reviewed.

Below is a brief synopsis of the anticipated Global Health Support Initiative III program.

Purpose

The purpose of the proposed contract is to establish an award that can continue the provision of non‐direct hire global health support services to the USAID Bureau for Global Health (GH) and its offices in Washington and overseas. These offices include the USAID Bureau for Global Health (GH) and its offices in Washington; Regional Bureaus

(Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Eurasia, and Latin America and Caribbean); and, Regional Missions and Country Missions overseas. The contractor will recruit, hire and maintain a contracted technical, professional, operational, and support staff that supply support services to USAID’s health programs worldwide. There are 250 personnel with a variety of technical skills required. An illustrative list includes: admin staff, Health Sector Experts, Physicians, Pharmacists, Senior Newborn Health Advisor, Water Supply, Sanitation, and Environmental Health Technical Advisor, HIV/AIDS Regional Advisor, Microbicides Senior Technical Advisor, Senior Cultural Anthropologist, Technical Advisor for Fertility Awareness, and Technical Advisor, Child Health and Nutrition. An offeror must provide these personnel with equal or better salaries and benefits while ensuring minimal disruption during a contract transition period.

The General Framework

Recent reforms to U.S. Foreign Assistance have produced an updated framework that flows down strategies and objectives from the Executive Branch of the United States Government (USG) for agencies such as USAID to follow when creating programs. At the highest levels of the framework, the foreign assistance reforms set forth three important pillars, “diplomacy, development and defense” – and an overarching USG foreign assistance goal: “To help build and sustain democratic, well‐governed states that will respond to the needs of their people, reduce widespread poverty, and conduct themselves responsibly in the international system.”

Additionally, the updated framework consists of six regional/country categories of focus. Within each of these six categories, all foreign assistance is organized so that the agencies’ programs can support the achievement of the following five priority objectives: peace and security, governing justly and democratically, investing in people, economic growth, and humanitarian assistance. These objectives each support the overarching USG foreign assistance goal.

Under this updated framework, the programs of the USAID Bureau for Global Health fall under the “Investing in People” objective, in the program area of “Health” in the “Development” pillar. The primary purpose and focus of the Health program area is “…to contribute to improvements in the health of people, especially women, children, and other vulnerable populations in countries of the developing world, through expansion of basic health services, including family planning; strengthening national health systems, and addressing global issues and special concerns such as HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases.”

The work to be performed by the contractor’s staff provided under this contract is in support of the primary focus of the Health program areas and its USAID established, corresponding elements and program outcomes:

Element 1: HIV/AIDS – Reduce the transmission and impact of HIV/AIDS through support for prevention, care and treatment programs.

Element 2: Tuberculosis – Reduce the number of deaths caused by tuberculosis (TB) by increasing detection of cases of TB and by successfully treating detected cases, as well as addressing issues of multi‐drug resistant TB, TB and HIV, and investing in new tools for TB.

Element 3: Malaria – Support the implementation of the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), related malaria control programs, and malaria research activities to reduce malaria‐related mortality. Develop effective malaria vaccines, new malaria treatment drug, and targeted operations research.

Element 4: Avian Influenza – Limit the spread of avian influenza (AI) in animals and help to prevent a human influenza pandemic, and in the event of a pandemic, provide appropriate humanitarian response.

Element 5: Other Public Health Threats – Address public health threats posed by infectious diseases not targeted elsewhere in the Framework, as well as significant non‐communicable health threats of major public health importance.

Element 6: Maternal and Child Health – Increase the availability and use of proven life‐saving interventions that address the major killers of mothers and children and improve their health and nutrition status, including effective maternity care and management of obstetric complications; prevention services including newborn care, routine immunization, polio eradication, safe water and hygiene, and micronutrients; improved maternal, infant and young child feeding; and treatment of life‐threatening childhood illnesses.

Element 7: Family Planning and Reproductive Health – Expand access to high‐quality voluntary family planning (FP) services and information, and reproductive health (RH) care. This element contributes to reducing unintended pregnancy and promoting healthy reproductive behaviors of men and women, reducing abortion, and reducing maternal and child mortality and morbidity.