Consultancy for the Development of Three New Modules for Caribbean Regional CR Field Epidemiology Laboratory Training Programme FELTP Contact Tracing Infectious Disease Simulation Exercise Assessing Healthcare Practice Readiness for Handling Outbreaks

Expression of Interest are invited for Consultancy for the Development of Three New Modules for Caribbean Regional CR Field Epidemiology Laboratory Training Programme FELTP Contact Tracing Infectious Disease Simulation Exercise Assessing Healthcare Practice Readiness for Handling Outbreaks REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST REOI CONSULTANCY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THREE NEW MODULES FOR CARIBBEAN REGIONAL CR FIELD EPIDEMIOLOGY LABORATORY TRAINING PROGRAMME FELTP CONTACT TRACING INFECTIOUS DISEASE SIMULATION EXERCISE ASSESSING HEALTHCARE PRACTICE READINESS FOR HANDLING OUTBREAKS CONSULTANCYThe Caribbean Public Health Agency CARPHA with funding from the 11th EDF Programme of Support for Health Security Strengthening for Prevention and Control of Outbreaks of Communicable Diseases in the Caribbean is seeking to engage a consultant to develop and pilot 3 online courses modules BACKGROUNDCARPHA s mission is to provide strategic direction in analysing defining and responding to public health priorities of Member States in an effort to prevent disease promote health and respond to public health emergencies Regional outbreaks over the past decade such as Influenza A H1N1pdm01 Dengue Chikungunya Zika and most recently the COVID 19 pandemic the spread of which was largely influenced by international travel and trade Over the past few years there has been an increased interest in strengthening health systems within the Caribbean region as most fall short of the requirements for implementing the goals of the International Health Regulations IHR Within the Region a mean score of 54 up from 50 in 2014 was reported for human resource capacity in the CARICOM States Parties Annual Reports to the 71st World Health Assembly 2018 Of the 15 mentioned CARPHA Member States CMS 7 reported less than 50 for human resource capacity 2 are at 50 79 capacity and 5 are at 80 and above While there has been some progress the Region still suffers from a low availability of critical skills and competencies in applied public health and consequently has limited capabilities to effectively respond to public health emergencies including outbreaks The CR FELTP is a widely recognized professional development programme for public health professionals that is based on service and on the job learning in applied epidemiology in the Caribbean The CR FELTP provides training in field epidemiology and laboratory practice at a Basic Level I and Intermediate level Level II To date 14 CMS have engaged to varying degrees in implementing and rolling out the CR FELTP Training is offered on a tiered basis consisting of Frontline Basic Level I and Intermediate Level II tiers with technical complexity and expected competency outcomes increasing with each level OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECTThe overall objective of the project of which this contract will be a part is as follows To improve the public health of the Caribbean population and the sustainable development of the region ELIGIBILITYIf shortlisted and invited to submit a tender Participation in tender procedures managed by the beneficiary ies is open on equal terms to all natural who are nationals of and legal persons participating either individually or in grouping consortium of tenderers effectively established in a Member State or a country territory or region mentioned as eligible by the relevant regulations basic act governing the eligibility rules for the grant as per Annex A2a PART II to the practical guide Tenderers must state their nationality in their tenders and provide the usual proof of nationality under their national legislation The rule does not apply to the experts proposed under the service tenders financed by the grant GROUNDS FOR EXCLUSIONIf shortlisted and invited to submit a tender tenderers must submit a signed declaration included in the tender form to the effect that they are not in any of the exclusion situations listed in Section 2 6 10 1 of the practical guide Tenderers included in the lists of EU restrictive measures see Section 2 4 of the PRAG at the moment of the award decision cannot be awarded the contract PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATAProcessing of personal data related to this procedure by the contracting authority takes place in accordance with the national legislation of the state of the contracting authority and with the provisions of the respective financing agreement The Request for Expression of Interest REOI the tender procedure and the contract relate to an external action funded by the EU represented by the European Commission If processing your reply to the invitation to tender involves transfer of personal data such as names contact details and CVs to the European Commission they will be processed solely for the purposes of the monitoring of the procurement procedure and of the implementation of the contract by the Commission for the latter to comply with its obligations under the applicable legislative framework and under the financing agreement concluded between the EU and the Partner Country without prejudice to possible transmission to the bodies in charge of monitoring or inspection tasks in application of EU law For the part of the data transferred by the contracting authority to the European Commission the controller for the processing of personal data carried out within the Commission is the head of legal affairs unit of DG International Cooperation and Development Details concerning processing of your personal data by the Commission are available on the privacy statement at http ec europa eu europeaid prag annexes do chapterTitleCode AIn cases where you are processing personal data in the context of participation to a tender e g CVs of both key and technical experts and or implementation of a contract e g replacement of experts you shall accordingly inform the data subjects of the details of the processing and communicate the above mentioned privacy statement to them OBJECTIVE OF THE CONTRACTThe objective of this contract is as follows To strengthen capacity for surveillance and response to outbreaks of Communicable Diseases includingCOVID 19 in the CaribbeanMore specifically a Consultant will be engaged to develop three 3 new online trainingcourses modules for CR FELTP namely Contact Training for Communicable Diseases targeted towards frontline public health workersinvolved in the contact tracing and investigation of infectious disease cases in Member States Infectious Disease Outbreak Management Simulation Exercise targeted towards public healthprofessionals working within the Caribbean Region Assessing Healthcare Practice Readiness for Handling Outbreaks targeting health careprofessionals in the Caribbean SELECTION CRITERIAFor Legal and Natural PersonsFor Key Expert Has a professional certificate appropriate to this contract such as at least a Master s degree inPublic Health Epidemiology International Public Health Global Health Minimum of three years experience more than 3 years will be taken into account working inonline instructional design with experience in developing online training and exposure to theLearning Management System LMS Moodle Minimum of three years experience more than 3 years will be taken into account working in public health in the areas of field epidemiology disease surveillance and infectiousdisease control disease risk modelling and outbreak investigation For Non Key Expert 1 At least a Master s in Online Instructional Design or Educational Technology At least 3 years more than 3 years will be taken into account specific experience working inonline instructional design with experience in developing online training and exposure to theLearning Management System LMS Moodle An understanding of public health issuesFor Non Key Expert 2 At least a Master s in Training and Development 4 At least 3 years more than 3 years will be taken into account working in TrainingDevelopment Evaluation and Assessment with experience in developing online training andexposure to the Learning Management System LMS Moodle An understanding of public health issuesBUDGET The maximum amount for this activity is EURO 20 000 inclusive of all incidentals No travelis required for this contract IMPLEMENTATIONThe indicative period of the contract is August 2020 to February 2021 a duration of 5 five months INVITATIONCARPHA invites eligible consultants to indicate their interest in providing the services Interested consultants must provide information indicating that they are qualified to performthe services CV s brochures description of similar assignments experience in similarconditions availability of appropriate skills among staff business profile etc Suitablyqualified consultants will be short listed and invited to tender for the Project through acompetitive procedure DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING EXPRESSIONS OF INTERESTExpressions of interest must be delivered in English by email to the address below byWednesday 17th June 2020 at 4 30 pm Atlantic Standard Time AST to E mail lalkhash CARPHA ORGFollowing the assessment of the submissions a shortlist of not less than three and not morethan eight applicants will be provided with the terms of reference and invited to submittechnical and financial proposals to undertake the assignment CARPHA reserves the right toreject late applications or to cancel the present invitation partially or in its entirety It will notbe bound to assign any reason for not short listing any applicant and will not defray any costsincurred by any applicant in the preparation and submission of Expressions of InterestProcurement OfficerCaribbean Public Health Ag

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