INVITATION FOR CONSULTING SERVICES (53-person monthS with duration of 2022-2024)

Date: 24 March 2022 

Loan No. and Title: 3843-MON: Improving access to health services for disadvantaged groups-Tranche 1 (49173-004)       

BACKGROUND

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been Mongolia’s key health sector development partner since 1993, providing five loans totaling $84.90 million, seven grants totaling $37.00 million, and 15 technical assistance (TA) projects totaling $10.65 million. The past projects achieved significant results through comprehensive health system support and strengthening, including for PHC reform and investments, information and communications technology, medicine and pharmaceutical procurement reforms, establishment of health insurance, health infrastructure, and sector governance. Despite these achievements, Mongolia faces a continuing burden from both communicable and noncommunicable diseases, resulting in premature mortality and high levels of disability, which prevent the nation from fulfilling its economic potential. 

This Project aims to support in improving health care services to marginalized populations in Ulaanbaatar ger area, Khovd and Uvs aimags, and in selected soums, development of health financing system and procurement capacity nationwide. Emergency medical care will be strengthened by providing infrastructure and medical equipment. More information about the project can be obtained from: https://www.adb.org/projects/49173-003/main    

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

1. Strengthen urban and rural primary health care: The project will establish 10 gender and client-friendly family health centers (FHCs) providing expanded health services to target populations in Ulaanbaatar, and six gender and client-friendly soum health centers (SHCs) in selected aimags to strengthen PHC.
2. Strengthen district and aimag hospital services: The project will establish a model, gender-sensitive district hospital in Chingeltei district, and upgrade Khan Uul district hospital in Ulaanbaatar by functionally linking in- and outpatient services for surgery, obstetrics, gynecology, and other disciplines
3. Strengthen health financing system: The project will strengthen the capacity of health staff and streamline health services by establishing a program for service quality monitoring, and policy coordination for a strategic purchasing model involving the health insurance organization, MOF and MOH.
4. Strengthen procurement and financial management capacity of government health entities: The Project will support a continuous capacity building program for procurement, financial, and risk management procedures for the government entities.

     OBJECTIVE OF THE ASSIGNMENT 

The objectives of this consulting services are to produce detailed engineering design and deliver construction documents, including appropriate budget estimates for Uvs and Khovd aimags General Hospitals extensions, and to perform Author's supervision during construction works. The consulting service will require 53 person-months of national consulting inputs and duration will be until 31 December 2024 upon contract signing.

     Application submission procedure

Consulting entities should submit their expressions of interest (EOIs) through ADB’s Consultant Management System (CMS) at link: (http://cms.adb.org/) no later than 8 April 2022. 

     For more details and application procedures, please contact: 

          The Ministry of Health of Mongolia, Project implementation unit for HSDP-4,4+ and 5.

          Sukhbaatar district, Olympic Street 2,

          Extension of the Government Building-8, Room No.6

          Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 

          Tel: +976-329369

          E-mail: altantsetseg.batsukh@hsdp.org