Facilitating curriculum development in evidence based practice in health

Title: facilitating curriculum development in evidence based practice in health
General information
Contact person: Tuija Lehtonen

Institution/similar: Spider / Department of computer and systems science

Direct award regarding: Service

Estimated value: Max 100 000 SEK

Questions answered through: www.tendsign.se

Last day for questions: 20170525, noon CET.

Last day for tendering: 20170529

The tender validity time is until 20170615.



The agreement is valid from 20170531 until 20171031


Reservations
Stockholm University cannot guarantee that this procurement will result in an agreement. The invitation to tender might be withdrawn if all tenders exceed available funding or we do not receive any acceptable tenders.



The procurement will be withdrawn if tender prices exceed 100 000 SEK, which is the upper limit for procurement according the direct award procedure.



Tenders must entirely be in accordance with this invitation to tender. Reservations are not accepted.



Summary
Stockholm University is inviting you to tender for the service of facilitating the development of a postgraduate curriculum on evidence based practice in health with Tanzania University partner, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS). The expected output at the end of the facilitation is a draft curriculum submitted to MUHAS university senate for approval. Through the sub-programme, Library and ICT, (Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions) SPIDER and MUHAS are expected to deliver a curriculum on evidence based practice that will be used to train post graduate students at MUHAS.



Background


DSV has an agreement with Sida to give support to the development of a robust IT infrastructure at MUHAS. In addition to improving the IT systems and infrastructure at MUHAS SPIDER and DSV will assist the directorate of library services in developing curricula relevant to postgraduate training. The project period is 2015-2020.



DSVs contributes to the project with advice and support on project plans and methods. More specifically DSV through the SPIDER center provides expert knowledge when required.



MUHAS identifies the need of an expert, provides Terms of Reference (ToR) for contracting and then SPIDER/DSV identify expert candidates through tender invitations.



As part of MUHAS’s component Support to Library and ICTs, the principal investigator (PI) Professor Lwoga, expressed the need for a workshop developing the curriculum for post graduate students on evidence based practice in Health. The workshop will be held in collaboration with the directorate of Library services at MUHAS.



Evaluation of Tenders


The most qualified and economically advantageous offer will be accepted:

Tenders are to be evaluated according to the following award criteria



1. Quality of curriculum development proposal

2. Curriculum development proposal meets the required objectives.

3. Availability of the trainer

4. Price




Requirements on the supplier:
Only tenders from registered companies in the country where the supplier is established will be accepted.

The tenderer must also be registered for reporting and paying VAT, value-added tax in Sweden or in the home country. They must have legally stipulated requirements in connection with their registration, tax and fee obligations. The tenderer may not have any debts regarding social fees and taxes.

With regard to Swedish tenderers Stockholm University will obtain information from the Swedish Tax Agency (“Skatteverket”) concerning fulfillment of liabilities concerning taxes and social fees. Swedish tenderers do not need to attach any documentation to confirm the fulfillment.

Foreign tenderers must, append corresponding certificates in Swedish or English from official authorities in their home countries confirming their fulfillment regarding registration in professional or commercial register and fulfillment of payment of all prescribed taxes and social fees stated above.

Crime or serious faults in exercising the profession
A review regarding exclusion of the tenderer will be performed according to 10 Chapter 1-4§ LOU

A tenderer will be excluded if conditions according to 10 Chapter 1 § and/or 2 § LOU are valid.



Requirements regarding ability and capacity
The tenderer must have the ability and capacity in order to supply the product and/or the service asked for.

The tenderer will verify this by giving a short description of the company its organization, size and competence of relevant personnel.


Subcontractors
If the tenderer intends to engage subcontractors in order to accomplish any parts of the delivery, then a list with the name of subcontractors and the parts of the delivery which they will perform must be included in the tender.

The tenderer is responsible of any subcontracting staff and work to the same extent as of their own parts. Subcontractors must meet the same requirements as the tenderer.

The list must contain:

Information about the subcontractor

List the parts of deliveries which will be accomplished by subcontractors.



References
State references from earlier projects or deliveries that have been accomplished during the last three years (name/company, contact person and telephone or E-mail address) will be used to qualify tenderer.



Economic and financial status
The same requirements are valid for Swedish and foreign tenderers.

The tenderer must have such a stable economy and be financially sound to perform the commission without any risk of disturbances caused by poor economy.

Stockholm University will make a review of the tenderer’s economic and financial position through the Business-and Credit information company Soliditet’s risk rating.

If the tenderer fulfills a rating corresponding to B or better, the requirement regarding economic and financial state is fulfilled. If the tenderer does not have the requested credit rating, then the requirement regarding economic stability is regarded as not fulfilled and the tender is not qualified for evaluation.

Exceptions from the requirement regarding rating of risk might be possible if the company for some special reason have difficulty to meet the requirement. If the rating is less than the accepted value then Stockholm University will ask for an explanation and / or certificate that clearly shows that the tenderer has similar economic stability.

Requirement of the service


Requested:



To facilitate a week long workshop in evidence based practice in health at MUHAS in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in June 2017 with the following general and specific objectives:



General Objective:

To develop in cooperation with MUHAS the curriculum on evidence based practices in health.



Specific objectives

Develop tools and conduct a baseline survey to determine the requirements for a curriculum in evidence based practice among postgraduate students and staff at MUHAS

Develop a curriculum on evidence based practice to postgraduate students and other health professionals by using prescribed guidelines at MUHAS



Required attachments:

- Your course proposal in English.

- Budget incl. fees for each item such as facilitation, travel costs, accommodation, materials, insurance etc.

- Preferred week(s) between June and July 2017.

- CV

- References

- Proof registered company.


Commercial terms and conditions- concept agreement
Other standard terms and conditions than those specified in the concept agreement are not accepted.

The Tenderer must accept terms and conditions in the attached Concept Agreement. A Tender with any reservations or changes in the Concept Agreement will not be accepted for further evaluation.

See attached Concept Agreement which is the base to the final Agreement between the Tenderer and Stockholm University.



Confidentiality
The main rule is that anybody who desires to take part of the procurement documentation has the right to do so.

All information in the tenders including enclosures, in paper and/or electronic documents are absolute confidential until an award decision or decision to withdraw the procurement process is made public. After the award decision or a decision to withdraw the procurement process is made public, information in the tender documents including enclosures can remain confidential if they concern individual business or operational activities, if for special reason it is presumed that the individual may suffer damage if the information is made public.

Stockholm University will review any desires to keep contents of tenders confidential. The tenderers are asked to specify in writing any information in the tender that is desired to be kept confidential and to specify the damage the individual might suffer if the information is made public. Nota bene that Stockholm University never can guaranty that any parts of the tender can be kept confidential and that a review will be performed for each case.