REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
DEVELOPMENT OF A PHARMACEUTICAL INFORMATION PORTAL (PIP) DATA WAREHOUSE AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM – PHASE I
Background and Problem
The U.S. Agency for International Development awarded Management Sciences for Health’s Center for Pharmaceutical Management a five-year cooperative agreement to implement the Securing Ugandans’ Right to Essential Medicines (SURE) Program. SURE’s mandate is to strengthen the national pharmaceutical supply chain system to ensure that Uganda’s population has access to good quality essential medicines and health commodities. SURE will fulfill its mandate by:
Improving Uganda’s policy, legal, and regulatory framework to produce pharmaceutical supply chain stability and sustainability
Improving capacity and performance of central government entities, especially the National Medical Stores (NMS), to carry out their supply chain management responsibilities
Improving capacity and performance of districts, health sub-districts, and implementing partners in their supply chain management role
Currently decision makers at various levels of the medicines supply chain in Uganda lack comprehensive information for strategic decision making to improve access and availability of essential medicines due to scattered data sources that are not easily accessible and sometimes of questionable quality with no system in place to facilitate comprehensive cross cutting analysis.
Proposed Solution
To address the before stated problem SURE and the Ministry of Health (MoH) Pharmacy Division and Resource Center have envisioned the design of a Pharmaceutical Information Portal Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence System that will deliver strategic information to decision makers at all levels of the medicines supply chain to help improve access and availability of medicines.
A legally registered competent vendor, company, consulting firm, software house, etc is sought to implement the requirements definition, design, development, testing, deployment, training and maintenance of phase I of the Pharmaceutical Information Portal data warehouse and business intelligence system. The vendor should demonstrate extensive experience in the design, development and deployment of large scale complex data warehouse and business intelligence systems preferably in the public pharmaceuticals sector on the Microsoft SQL Server DW/BI suite.
A copy of the RFP for Phase I of the Pharmaceutical Information Portal can be accessed and downloaded from the SURE website at the following URL: www.sure.ug
Proposals will only be accepted via email. Interested vendors should submit technical and financial proposals and all other required documents to [email protected] with the subject PIP RFP no later than midnight of 27-Jul-2011. Queries pertaining to the RFP can be addressed to the Technical Advisor – Pharmaceutical Information Portal via the same email address [email protected] with the subject PIP RFP no later than 30-Jun-2011.