PROVISION OF GOODS. WORKS. NON-CONSULTING SERVICES AND CONSULTING SERVICES

MINISTRY OF HEALTH TENDER JANUARY 2025  

STATE DEPARTMENT FOR MEDICAL SERVICES

1. The Government of Republic of Kenya has received financing in the amount of US$ 120 Million equivalent from the World Bank toward the cost of the Kenya Health Emergency Preparedness, Response and Resilience Project [KHEPRR], and it intends to apply part of the proceeds to payment for goods, works, non-consulting services and consulting services to be procured under this project. This project will be fully financed by the World Bank.
2. The project comprises the following components:

2.1  Component 1: Strengthening the Preparedness and Resilience to Manage Health Emergencies.

This component will finance capacity strengthening of essential institutions that contribute to the resilience of the health systems to cope with health emergencies. Specifically, this will include multi-sectoral and cross-border planning, health workforce development, access to quality health commodities, including local vaccine and pharmaceutical manufacturing, and digitization of information systems.

2.2  Component 2: Improving the detection of and response to Health Emergencies.

This component will finance expenditures related to strengthening operational readiness and capacities. This will include surveillance and laboratory diagnostics, emergency management, coordination, and essential service continuity; empowerment, and social protection during health emergencies.

2.3  Component 3: Project Coordination Unit.

This component will finance costs associated with the project coordination, activities for program implementation and monitoring.

2.4  Component 4: Contingent Emergency Response Components.

This component will be activated in the event of an emergency.

3. The goods, works, non-consulting services and consulting services that will be procured through Open International Competitive Procurement include:

1)    Consulting services by a WHO accredited Good Manufacturing Practices consultant to provide a detailed analysis of the technical, legal, and regulatory framework to ensure the alignment of vaccine manufacturing project with good international practice and readiness to commence manufacturing activities

2)    Consulting services to support negotiations and approvals of Technology Transfer Agreements with international vaccine manufacturers

3)    Consultancy services to support development of specifications, bidding, evaluation and general supervision of civil works including waste treatment plans and fill and finish facility.

4)    Consulting Services for support to reduction of backlog and developing a business plan on dossier assessment

5)    Design, implementation and operationalize toxicovigilance and the call centre

6)    Consulting Services on Good Manufacturing Practices for general medicines and vaccines

7)    Consulting Services for training on vaccine testing and results processing

8)    Consulting Services for in-vitro studies to carry out a baseline survey on bioequivalence capacity and technical assistance on bioequivalence.

9)    Consulting services to provide advisory services for project technical components

10)  Consulting services for design, construction supervision and Good Manufacturing Practice certification

11)  Engineering, supply, delivery and installation of a human vaccine ‘fill and finish’ production facility.

12)  Provision of insurance services for Machinery and equipment.

13)  Supply and delivery of laboratory reagents and consumables.

14)  Provision of warehousing and distribution services of National Strategic stockpile commodities.

15)  Provision of distribution services of National Strategic stockpile commodities

16)  Individual consultants ( Technical Manager, Safeguards – Environmentalist, Safeguards- Social Development Expert, Financial Management Expert, Procurement Expert]

17)  Consulting Services of a Transaction Advisor.

4. Procurement of contracts financed by the World Bank will be conducted through the procedures as specified in the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers, First Published July 2016 and Revised Fifth Edition September 2023 [Procurement Regulations], and is open to all eligible firms and individuals as defined in the Procurement Regulations. The World Bank shall arrange the publication on its external website of the agreed initial procurement plan and all subsequent updates once it has provided a no objection.
5. Specific procurement notices for contracts subject to open international competitive procurement will be announced, as they become available, in the UN Development Business online, on the World Bank’s external website and the Ministry of Health website: www.health.go.ke and the Government Advertising Agency [G.A.A], Public Procurement Information Portal, www.tenders.go.ke and local Newspapers in Kenya
6. Interested eligible firms and individuals who would wish to be considered for the provision of goods, works, non-consulting services and consulting services for the above-mentioned project, or those requiring additional information, should contact the Borrower at the address below:

The Principal Secretary

State Department for Medical Services,

Ministry of Health

Afya House, Cathedral Road

P.O. Box 30016-00100 Nairobi, Kenya

Tel.: 254-20-2717077

Email: ps.medical@health.go.ke, heprr@health.go.ke

Website: www.health.go.ke