Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-05-26
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30211300 | 75122000 | 75211200 | 85100000: Health services | 85110000: Hospital and related services
Submission deadline: 2021-06-25
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: EU Fund

Technical requirements: The project ‘Technical Assistance in Electronic Health Records System’ will build on work that started in Malawi in 2019, the development and testing of an innovative light weight e-Register platform in Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH) using OpenSRP at Bilira Health Centre in Ntcheu District.
The assignment will support the Digital Health Division of the Ministry of Health in Malawi and Ntcheu District Health Office to further expand the e-Register platform to an additional 2 health facilities, and to deploy and strengthen interoperability with other digital health systems operational in the country.
GIZ Health Office, Malawi Royal Hill Apartments Area 11/69, PO Box 31131, Lilongwe 3, Malawi 00000 Malawi.
The project ‘Technical Assistance in Electronic Health Records System’ is implemented through a service contract as part of the Malawi German Health Programme 3 (August 2020-July 2023) and contributes to output 3, Health Information and Digitalisation. The contractor will be responsible for achieving the output indicator ‘One model approach for e-health in the field of clinical care and health information system is documented for general introduction’.
The main task is to support the Digital Health Division (DHD) under the Directorate of Planning and Policy Development (DPPD) in the Ministry of Health to implement the Digital Health Strategy 2020-2025 and is divided into three Work Packages (WP):
3) Support to the operationalisation of the Malawi blueprint for an integrated end-to-end hospital information system.
— support the development and dissemination of standards and guidelines for digital health solutions;
— support local hosting of health data and availability of computing devices in selected health facilities;
— build capacity of DHD, Ntcheu district management and health care workers to deploy, support and use of the eRegister platform and its 5 modules including setting up a helpdesk at DHD;
— identify and develop user and system requirements specifications and business process analysis for interoperability between the various digital health systems;
— explore, test and strengthen interoperability of OpenSRP based eRegister platform with other MOH recommended EHR applications and digital health information systems;
— identify a specific work package (and develop TORs) for a firm with expertise in OpenSRP to make the necessary modification of the eRegister platform to further enhance existing features and allow interoperability with other digital health systems implemented and piloted by the Malawi Government and its partner.
— facilitate user engagement workshops to assess the different solutions against final user requirements, capacity building, implementation and support strategies;
— facilitate review of the interfaces between the systems and interoperability among the systems, e.g. how patients would be referred between systems and the levels of care;
— facilitate development of the solution architecture including an information and application architecture.

Eligibility requirements: 1) Trading name and address, commercial register number; 2) Eligibility declaration that no grounds for exclusion in Section 123, 124 of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB) apply; 3) Eligibility declaration subcontractors if applicable; 4) Association clause if applicable.