Quality Assurance Strategy shaping

Milestones Points

Because of the complexity and multidimensional aspect of this work, it is envisaged that the framework roadmap be delivered including but not limited to the following areas of works points.

• Mapping of current Global Fund Quality Assurance requirements taking into consideration a product category dimension as well as a life cycle dimension;
• Identification of actors involved in implementing quality assurance requirements, their current roles and responsibilities across the institutions;
• Level of implementation of current Global Fund Quality Assurance requirements;
• Existing enforcement mechanisms and their efficiency;
• Evidence of the performance of the current GF Quality Assurance framework and impact;
• Comparison of Global Fund Quality Assurance Requirements with other quality assurance framework implemented by other donors and/or similar institutions;
• Effectiveness and limitations of the current Partnership, collaboration and reliance mechanisms at country, regional or global level
• Current Resources allocated to Quality Assurance: Systems, Process and Tools including sub-contractors such as Procurement Service Agent (PSA)

Scope

All Health commodities procured with Global Fund Funds including Pharmaceuticals, Diagnostics products, Condoms and other medical devices, Vector Control products for HIV, Malaria, TB disease as well as for commodities for Co-Infections and Co-Morbidity.

All types of procurement channels such as Pooled Procurement Mechanism (PPM) and national procurement.

All departments with the Global Fund involved in the procurement of the above-mentioned commodities such as Quality Assurance Team / Supply Operations, Health Product Management Specialist in Country Team within Grant Management Department and recipients of Global Fund funds.

Deliverables

The Objective is to deliver a comprehensive strategy for the Supply Operations department of The Global Fund with proposed vision, objectives and plan of actions. This should be articulate clearly in two separates scenarios which are supplementing each other such as:

• Scenario A – “As it is”: Quality Assurance Requirements remaining identical;
• Scenario B- “As it should be”: Improving current Quality Assurance requirements;

These two scenarios should help the SO department to pave the way for short to medium term improvement plan (Scenario A) to a more ambitious vision achievable on a longer term (scenario B) in a coherent manner.

Based on the areas identified where improvements are necessary, the bidder is expected to propose a roadmap with defined actions, which highlights the most efficient approach to implement agreed changes as well as to both coordinate internally and between partners.