Deadline: 27-Jul-20
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Country Office in Georgia kindly requests to submit your Proposal for Design an Intervention using Behavioural Insights to Address Low Uptake of HIV testing in Georgia.
The overall objective of the assignment is to Design a Randomised Control Trial (RCT) to identify barriers and ways of overcoming to increase HIV testing uptake among youth including YKP.
Behaviourally informed intervention will form an integral component of a comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support program which can increase knowledge about the target population behaviour and nudge essential attitude change to reduce stigma and discrimination and increase demand for service uptake.
The team of consultants will work under the direct supervision of the project implementation team in Georgia represented by UNDP Innovation Specialist and Behavioural Specialist and UNFPA Programme Analyst/HIV.
Qualifications of the Service Provider
The Service Provider must describe and explain how and why they are the best entity that can deliver the requirements of UNDP by indicating the following:
- Profile – describing the nature of business, field of expertise, licenses, certifications, accreditations;
- Business licenses- Registration Papers, Tax Payment Certification, etc.
- Latest audited Financial Statement, if any and/or – income statement and balance sheet to indicate Its financial stability, liquidity, credit standing, and market reputation, etc.;
- Track Record – list of clients for similar services as those required by UNDP for the past 3 years at least, indicating description of contract scope, contract duration, contract value, contract references;
- At least 5 years of proven international experience in Behavioural Science study and application of BI informed interventions, for policy development and implementation (minimum requirement)
- Experience in applying BI informed interventions for health policy development and implementation at least in 1 project (minimum requirement);
- Experience of engagement with local partners, data sources, networks in Georgia Written confirmation from at least 1 local partner on the existing or past partnerships in similar initiatives (minimum requirement);
- Written confirmation from at least 1 local partner on the potential partnership in the forthcoming assignment in the area of BI informed HIV interventions in Georgia (minimum requirement)
- Previous experience of obtaining ethics clearance for BI informed interventions from internationally recognized institution – provide a sample of IRB approval from previous projects ; (minimum requirement)
- At least 2 letters of recommendations from previous contract providers in the development of BI informed interventions for policy development and implementation (minimum requirement);
- 1. Detailed bank requisites; 2. Bank letter evidencing financial turnover for the last 3 years, minimum required turnover is USD 100,000 per year (minimum requirement);
- All information regarding any past and current litigation during the last three (3) years, in which the bidder is involved, indicating the parties concerned, the subject of the litigation, the amounts involved, and the final resolution if already concluded.
- Written Self-Declaration that the company is not in the UN Security Council 1267/1989 List, UN Procurement Division List or other UN Ineligibility List.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=67719