Development of Electronic System for Maternal and Child Home Visit Program

August 28, 2024
Posted by: humanitarianweb
Category: Humanitarian Jobs

Organization: Medical Aid for Palestinians
Posted: 28 Aug 2024
Closing date: 12 Sep 2024

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is a charitable organization dedicated to improving the health and dignity of Palestinians living under occupation and as refugees.

Vision Statement: MAP’s vision is a future where all Palestinians can access an effective, sustainable, and locally led healthcare system, achieving the full realization of their rights to health and dignity.

Mission and Activities

Immediate Medical Aid: MAP provides urgent medical assistance to those in need, particularly in times of humanitarian emergencies.
Capacity Building: The organization focuses on developing local healthcare capacity by working with trusted local partners in the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, and Lebanon. This includes training and equipping local health professionals.
Advocacy: MAP is committed to bearing witness to the injustices faced by Palestinians. The organization speaks out internationally and, in the UK, to address political and social barriers affecting Palestinian health and dignity

Job description

MAP is seeking proposals from qualified vendors to develop an electronic system for the Maternal and Child Home Visit Program. This initiative aims to enhance the efficiency effectiveness of the program by transitioning from paper-based medical records to an electronic system.

The primary objective of this project is to develop an electronic system that caters specifically to the needs of the Maternal and Child Home Visit Program. The system should provide a user-friendly interface for community midwives and nurses to document, access, report and update medical records during home visits.

The system should be developed both as tablet/mobile friendly application and as a webbased application, to allow both midwives in the field to access and administrators on laptops, along with other MAP staff for accessing reporting.

Scope of Work

The scope can be divided into the following broad categories:

1. Hardware & Infrastructure Provisioning

2. Application Development

3. Data Migration, Data Persistence & Validation

4. Case Management

5. Reports, Insights & Dashboarding

6. Support & Maintenance

RFP Important Dates

The Vendor should observe the following dates (as of midnight GMT):

RFP Issued Date: August 6, 2024
Vendor Questions Deadline by Email: August 26, 2024
MAP Answers Deadline by Email: August 27, 2024
Primary Contact: Bilal Ghuneim (bilal.ghuneim@map-uk.org)
Technical and Commercial Proposal Submission Deadline: September 12, 2024
Evaluation of all the received Proposal: September 26, 2024
E-Invites to shortlisted Vendors: September 28, 2024
Presentation from the chosen Vendors: October 2024
Vendor Finalization & fine-tune proposal with information: October 2024
Final commercial Negotiation with selected vendors: October/November 2024
MSA Signoff with Selector Vendor: October/November 2024
Project Start Date: After finalization of contract

About Medical Aid for Palestinians

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) works in partnership with Palestinian communities to uphold their rights to health and dignity. We do this by developing effective, sustainable and locally-led healthcare services, providing medical aid during emergencies, and campaigning to break down the barriers to Palestinian health and healthcare today and for the future.

MAP has a zero tolerance policy with regard to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by MAP‘s personnel against the people they serve. Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) is the responsibility of everyone, and all selected candidates will be required to comply with MAP’s PSEA Policy at all times. Selected candidates will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks against their past behaviour related to sexual exploitation and abuse, and may be required to provide additional information further on in the selection process.

The detailed Request for Proposal document as well as vendors questions and answers can be downloaded from MAP’s page here.