DEADLINE: 6TH APRIL, 2021
PALLADIUM
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP)
TITLE: CONSULTANCY TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL SUPPORT TO THE BAUCHI STATE HEALTHCARE CONTRIBUTORY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (BASCHMA) TO ENSURE EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STATE HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME AND ACCESS TO QUALITY HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE BENEFICIARIES
Palladium invites applications from suitably qualified individual consultants to provide technical and capacity building support to the Bauchi State Contributory Health Management Agency (BASCHMA)in operationalizing its Scheme. In this Request for Proposal. Palladium expects offerors to develop a custom solution
and proposal to Palladium for consideration Bidders are required to provide justification for the work proposed ar methodology to be adopted This will be a Best Value procurement
The Integrated Health Program (HP) is a USAID-funded five-year project with a mandate to improve health systems, improve access to and increase quality of primary health care in designated states (Sokoto, Bauchi, Kebbi, Ebonyi and FCT). IHP is working with state governments to strengthen and advance operationalization of health finance reforms towards attainment of universal health coverage. As part of this mandate. IHP is working at state levels to strengthen the operationalisation of the state health insurance (contributory)
schemes
The Bauchi State Contributory Health Agency (BASCHMA)was set up in 2017 to implement the Bauchi Contributory Health Scheme (BACHES) which is expected to achieve Bauchi state’s residents financial access to quality health care services. At present BASCHMA, with the support of the USAID-HP project, has designed the technical elements and operational processes required to
operationalize the Scheme. These include a cost benefit package. operational guidelines on health insurance processes such as enrichment, TPA engagement claims management and quality assurance. BASCHMA has formally agreed with labour unions and associations to commence tomal sector deductions from January 2021 and wishes to conduct enrolment of the formal sector in the first quarter of 2021 and commence service provision no later than 1 April, 2021
In support of this objective, USAID-IHP now wishes to continue to support BASCHMA in implementing the designed technical guidelines and standard operating procedures and build the staf’s capacity to manage health insurance operations. In addition, as BASCHMA commences formal sector coverage. USAID-IHP will provide technical support to expand coverage to the informal sector and enhance the Scheme’s ability to collect, analyse and use encounter
and claim data to enable strategic decision making
Type of Contract
This is a fim fixed price deliverable-based contract. The consultant is expected to satisfactory accomplish the deliverables before he/she gets paid for that deliverable. The IHP Chief of Party reserves the right to confirm if a deliverable is delivered adequately or otherwise. No price change is expected after the contract is signed. IHP will not pay for the cost of any deliverable that is nat complete, of quality or any time.
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Submission information
Please follow the instructions as contained in the Request for Proposal (RFP) and submit to: consultancy@ihp-nigeria.com
This consultancy closes on April 6, 2021 by 11:59pm. No late application will be received after the deadline
