Request for Expression of Interest (Consultancy Services)
Country: Nigeria
Project: Malaria Control Booster
Project Sector: Health
Consulting Services:
Impact Evaluation study: Household, Community, Public Primary Health, Facility,
Patent Medicine-Vendor and Community-Directed Distributor Surveys.
Credit Number: 4250-UNI
Project ID Number: P970921
Expression of Interest
This request for Expression of interest follows the General Procurement Notice for the project that appeared in the Development Business: No-GNP/002/07 of 9th September 2006 and February 2007, Newspaper advertisement in the Guardian and Daily Trust of 28th July, 2011.
Gombe State Government has obtained financing from the Internal Development Association (IDA) World Bank via a subsidiary credit agreement SCA between the State Government and the Federal Government of Nigeria and plans to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services for the Malaria Booster Project in Gombe.
The project is aimed at reducing morbidity and mortality due to malaria and related childhood ailments in the State through the delivery of the Malaria plus Package (MPP). The prime targets for these interventions are children under 5years and pregnant women.
The Consultant to:
- Contribute to Instrument finalization and manual development: Co-develop with Project Management and MIEP/Pls, final survey Instruments and manual, formatting of questionnaires and manual development.
- Reproduce questionnaires in a quantity sufficient to cover survey needs.
- The firm should have sufficient human resource: Interviewers and Medical Assistants Data Entry Operators; Supervisors; Senior Medical Experts(s); GIS experts (s); etc.
- To Provide Logistic support such as: office space and training venue, all necessary survey management, Computers, GPS units, malaria rapid diagnostic tests, etc and to provide all necessary logistic support
- Sample Design: Sampling strategy based on guidelines from Project Management and.MIE/PIs, Household listing and selected areas, additional listing in selected areas as required, section of survey and replacement households and communities and calculation of sample weights following data collection.
- Training: Conduct training of trainers, Interviewers and Supervisors, Medical Assistants and Supervisors, Data Entry Operators and to provide Training Materials.
7. Conduct Data Collection: Public Primary Health Facility, Patent Medicine Vendor, Community Directed Distributor, Household and Community Surveys.
8. Data Management and Quality Control: Organize and apply quality control measures during data collection, Create a computerized double-entry data entry template using CSPro with relevant quality control tools/measure, carry out data entry, ensure safe handling and security of all data in both hard and soft formats, enforce strict anonymity of data and to transmit full data set to Gombe State Malaria Control Booster Project, the NMCP and MIEP/Pls.
The Gombe State Malaria Control Booster Project now invites eligible consultants to indicate their interest in providing services in Firm to Implement Impact Evaluation Survey. The consulting services are to extend over a period of 12 months initially and renewable as needed depending on satisfactory performance.
Method of Application
Interested Firms must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (brochures, description of similar assignment, experience in similar condition, availability of requisite skills, etc). Consultants may associate to enhance their qualifications.
Firms will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the World Bank Guidelines; Selection and employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers (January 2011)
Interested Firm should obtain further information at the address below during office hours on Mondays to Fridays between 10:00-16:00 except on public holidays.
Expression of Interest must be delivered to the Address below on or before 11th August, 2011
Gombe State Malaria Control Booster Project
Project Implementation Unit,
New GRA, Behind Bulma Guest Inn, Gombe
Gombe State
Attention: Project Manager
GSM. No 08023706184, 07062518618
Email: arnobe195@yahoo.com
