1.  UNDP aims to provide support to the Government of Ukraine by assessing the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the healthcare supply chain and is looking for a qualified consultant to implement the assessment.

2. MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE ASSIGNMENT

This main objective of this assignment is to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare supply chain in Ukraine in collaboration with WHO and explore opportunity for strengthening sustainability and to provide policy recommendations and multisectoral risk mitigation strategies.

3. DESCRIPTION OF RESPONSIBILITIES / SCOPE OF WORK

The Consultant will be responsible for conducting the following activities in order to achieve the overall goal of the assignment:

• Develop or propose an existing methodology that is tailored to Ukraine for assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare supply chain, managed by State-owned Enterprise Medical Procurement of Ukraine, international specialized organisations and the donor technical assistance (i.e. Global Fund, USAID).
• Conduct an assessment based on the methodology with a detailed (and where possible statistical inference) analysis of the data.
• Review how to strengthen sustainability within the healthcare supply chain system of Ukraine
• Prepare a report, a brief and a PowerPoint presentation in English and Ukrainian on the findings. The structure of the report should be proposed by the consultant and approved by UNDP and reflect the findings of the analysis. The report should not only identify problematic issues but should also capture potential positive strategies and approaches that have worked – contributing to sustainability of the health supply chains so that these could be subsequently replicated/scaled up in the future and in the case of other pandemics.
• Develop policy recommendations for improving the healthcare supply chain to make it more robust, sustainable and enduring. A special emphasis of the recommendations should fall on preventive and mitigation actions for risks that arise from the appearance of sudden epidemiological jeopardies and the ensuing impediments.

4. DELIVERABLES

5. COPYRIGHT

The Deliverables shall be submitted in English (and Ukrainian). The title rights, copyrights and all other rights whatsoever nature in any material produced under the provisions of this TOR will be vested exclusively in UNDP.

6. MONITORING/REPORTING REQUIREMENTS

Work-progress reporting/monitoring meetings will be held with the National Consultant on a regular basis. UNDP will be the final authority to control the quality and evaluate the work. No reports or documents should be published or distributed to third parties without prior approval of the UNDP.  The consultant will work under the overall supervision of the Programme Specialist. The consultant will interact with Project Associate, Chief Technical Advisor and CO staff to receive any clarifications and guidance that may be needed. He/she will also receive all necessary informational and logistical support from UNDP Country Office and the Project. On a day-to-day basis, consultant’s work will be supervised by the Chief Technical Advisor.

The satisfactory completion of each of the deliverables shall be subject to endorsement of the chief Technical Advisor and Programme Specialist.

The Consultant will duly inform UNDP of any problems, issues or delays arising in the course of implementation of assignment and take necessary steps to address them.

All reports and results are to be submitted to the UNDP in electronic form (*.docx, *.xlsx, *.pptx, and *.pdf or other formats accepted by UNDP).

7. PROPOSED PAYMENT METHOD

Payments will be made in 2 tranches according to the following payment schedule:

• upon satisfactory submission of deliverable #1 and #2 – 50%
• upon satisfactory submission of deliverable #3-4 – 50%

8. MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENTS

The consultant shall be responsible for managing the process of the work implementation, its resources, logistics and expenditures related to the tasks in a timely and accurate manner. The consultant will be reporting to Health Programme Specialist with cross-functional reporting responsibilities to Chief Technical Advisor.

COMPETENCIES

• Demonstrate/safeguard ethics and integrity;  

• Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment;

• Self-development, initiative-taking;

• Act as a team player;

• Encourage and participate in open communication in the team, communicate effectively;

• Create synergies through self-control;

• Manage conflict;

• Informed and transparent decision-making.

9. EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS REQUIREMENTS

Minimum qualifications and experience:

Education:

• Advanced university degree in Health Economics, Public Health or other relevant discipline with a training/specialization in healthcare supply chain

Experience: 

• Knowledge of the healthcare supply chain in Ukraine proved by minimum of 1 year of experience working in the field of procurement of medicines/medical devices and/or medical logistics
• Previous experience in impact of assessment
• Proficiency in Ukrainian and/or Russian

10. DOCUMENTS TO BE INCLUDED WHEN SUBMITTING THE PROPOSALS

Applicants shall submit the following documents:

11. EVALUATION

• Advanced university degree (Bachelor`s degree - 9 pts, Master`s degree - 15 pts)
• Knowledge of the healthcare supply chain in Ukraine proved by minimum of 1 year of experience working in the field of procurement of medicines/medical devices and/or medical logistics (1 year of experience in the sphere - 15pts, 2 years and more - 20 pts)
• Previous experience in impact of assessment (2 examples of assessments provided – 15 pts, 3 and more examples of assessments provided - 25 pts)
• Proficiency in Ukrainian and/or Russian (10 pts).

Cumulative analysis

Contract award shall be made to the incumbent whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:

a) responsive/compliant/acceptable, and

b) having received the cumulative highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.

* Technical Criteria weight: 70%

* Financial Criteria weight: 30%

Only candidates obtaining a minimum 70% from the maximum available technical score (49 points) would be considered for the Financial Evaluation

The maximum number of points assigned to the financial proposal is allocated to the lowest price proposal and will equal to 30. All other price proposals will be evaluated and assigned points, as per below formula:

30 points [max points available for financial part] x [lowest of all evaluated offered prices among responsive offers] / [evaluated price].

The proposal obtaining the overall cumulatively highest score after adding the score of the technical proposal and the financial proposal will be considered as the most compliant offer and will be awarded a contract.

Travel

In the case of unforeseeable travel, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and the Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed. In general, UNDP should not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources.

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