Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2024-08-22
Buyer: Norad – Direktoratet for utviklingssamarbeid
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 73000000 | 73200000 | 73210000 | 73220000 | 73430000
Estimated value: 11000000 NOK
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: The purpose of establishing the framework consultancy agreement is to ensure that Norad has continual access to flexible expert services of high quality within the identified areas of global health and SRHR. The framework agreement shall contribute to increase the knowledge base for the continued implementation of the Norwegian global health and SRHR policy.

The Contracting Authority needs consultancy services within global health, SRHR and development, covering different components in line with the Sustainable Development Goal 3 and 5. Norad will enter into two framework agreements for the areas A, and B: 

Area A: Global health general (UHC, public health and health security)
Area B: SRHR, harmful practices and LGBTI+
Topics: 
Universal health coverage (UHC) with special emphasis on Primary Health Care (PHC) 
o Health system strengthening; universal health coverage; health financing; domestic resource mobilisation and utilisation; integration and transition from global health initiatives and funding mechanisms; public financial management and anti-corruption; health systems in humanitarian settings and crisis 
o Vaccination programmes and systems 
o Local production of vaccines and pharmaceuticals; market mechanisms; procurement mechanisms; logistics and supply systems
o Communicable diseases; integration of programs such as HIV; tuberculosis and malaria; and new and emerging diseases
o Equitable/progressive integration of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in primary health care and wider health systems.  
o Human resources for health, including planning, recruitment, deployment, incentives and remuneration of personnel, and broader policy and implementation 
o Digitalisation and health including HMIS; innovative digital solutions; Artificial Intelligence (AI) 
o Maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (MNCAH), including sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) with special emphasis on access to full range of commodities and health systems strengthening
o Interface between development assistance for health and health related humanitarian aid. 

Public health intervention – prevention, promotion and treatment 
o Social, environmental, and political determinants of health
o Prevention of non-communicable diseases, including mental health
o Climate, environment, and health; climate adaptation and resilience 
o Institutional capacity to promote population health and reduce risk factor exposure within health and across other sectors; legislative, regulatory and tax action; focus on clean air, sugar, tobacco, and alcohol

Pandemic preparedness and response
o Global health security and International Health Regulations (IHR), including prevent, protect, detect and respond
o Anti-microbial resistance (AMR) 

Norad will need the following types of consultancy services related to Area A:

General deliveries:
– Development of technical and analytical programme related documents such as studies, briefs, concept notes and reviews
- Systematic review of knowledge/research 
– Appraisal of project proposals from partners including multilateral agencies, INGOs and NGOs, including assessments of results framework and budgets, 
- Desk reviews with sound analysis of programmes and initiatives and activities of other actors including multilateral agencies, NGOs and private sector. 
– Midterm and final reviews, and evaluations of projects and programmes 
– Rapid evidence assessments 
Background documents for health and SRHR policy development as well as developing technical reports for regional and global use. 
– Assist in preparation of briefs and documents relevant to international meetings, UN negotiations etc., 
- Assistance in production of digital materials
– Other consultancy services related to the areas.

Technical advice regarding country programme implementation including: 
Provide technical advice to country programming processes
– Develop/review country-and project specific results frameworks, 
Review and assessment of health and other sector plans. 
Review and assessment financial reports, budgets and value for money related to health. 
- Development/review of country specific concept notes and briefs.

Reporting on results relevant for Norwegian global health and SRHR efforts: 
– Reporting on results from county specific programs and initiatives 
– Develop methods on how to measure aggregated results on the 
– Consolidation of information from different initiatives into aggregated reporting on results, 
– Development of information summaries, briefs and updates on global health processes, 
Contribute to reporting on Norwegian strategies and white papers

The above-mentioned tasks may include fieldwork and desk studies. The assignments will require reporting either in English or Norwegian, Norad will inform about it in each call-off.
Topics: 
Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) 
o Comprehensive SRHR according to the Guttmacher- Lancet Commission's definition in 2018
o Expertise in Norway's priority topics: Safe abortion, Comprehensive Sexuality Education in and out of school, family planning and contraceptives 
o SRHR services and knowledge for LGBT+ people, adolescents, people with disabilities and other marginalised groups
o Digital service delivery and teaching platforms (SRHR and CSE)
o International agreed SRHR language in the normative space

Harmful practices 
o Gender-based violence
o Sexual gender-based violence (gender-based violence as a weapon in war)
o Female genital mutilation
o Early, forced and child marriage

Anti-gender backlash and its pushback 
o Relevant groups, their tactics and effects on the backlash and its pushback 
o Monitoring, mitigation, prevention and protection in backlash and its pushback 
o LGBT+ people and their organisations are particularly targeted by the opposition 
o The interlinkages between SRHR, SGBV and harmful practices, and the broader gender equality agenda, and its interlinkages with the anti-gender backlash

Nexus across conflict, peace, humanitarian and long-term development 
o Operational SRHR, GBV, SGBV, harmful practices and LGBT+ across the humanitarian, development and peace nexus
o The Youth Peace and Security agenda
o The Women Peace and Security agenda 

Approaches and linked topics
o Human right based approaches
o Leaving no-one behind, gender equality and intersectionality
o SRHR links to demographic issues, such as demographic dividend 
o SRHR links to climate and environment including in crisis
o The localisation agenda in development related to the areas above
o Justice/legal sector, reproductive justice, litigation strategies etc. 
o Advocacy and communication related to the topics above
o Digitalisation, data and the use of AI  
o Mapping of international funding trends in SRHR, including domestic resource mobilisation 

Other relevant topics related to area B might also be required.

Norad will need the following types of consultancy services related to Area B:

General deliveries:
– Development of technical and analytical programme related documents such as studies, briefs, concept notes and reviews
- Systematic review of knowledge/research 
– Appraisal of project proposals from partners including multilateral agencies, INGOs and NGOs, including assessments of results framework and budgets, 
- Desk reviews with sound analysis of programmes and initiatives and activities of other actors including multilateral agencies, NGOs and private sector. 
– Midterm and final reviews, and evaluations of projects and programmes 
– Rapid evidence assessments 
Background documents for health and SRHR policy development as well as developing technical reports for regional and global use. 
– Assist in preparation of briefs and documents relevant to international meetings, UN negotiations etc., 
- Assistance in production of digital materials
– Other consultancy services related to the areas.

Technical advice regarding country programme implementation including: 
- Provide technical advice for country programming processes
– Develop/review country-and project specific results frameworks, 
Review and assessment of health and other sector plans. 
Review and assessment financial reports, budgets and value for money related to health. 
- Development/review of country specific concept notes and briefs.

Reporting on results relevant for Norwegian global health and SRHR efforts: 
– Reporting on results from county specific programs and initiatives 
– Develop methods on how to measure aggregated results on the 
– Consolidation of information from different initiatives into aggregated reporting on results, 
– Development of information summaries, briefs and updates on global health processes, 
Contribute to reporting on Norwegian strategies and white papers

The above-mentioned tasks may include fieldwork and desk studies. The assignments will require reporting either in English or Norwegian, Norad will inform about it in each call-off.


Winner: Euro Health Group
Number of bids: 4