Notice ID: REQ-24-0269
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) seeks industry input for an upcoming solicitation for the services of an independent consultant to conduct a development impact performance assessment of healthcare facilities. These are healthcare facilities in which DFC invested directly or indirectly through DFC-supported financial intermediaries, such as investment funds.
DFC anticipates issuing a solicitation on or about mid-July 2024.
A two-phase competition is presently planned. In the first phase, vendors would submit a brief statement of their capabilities and relevant experience, as well as past performance references. Based on DFC’s evaluation of vendors’ capabilities and relevant experience, DFC would conduct an advisory downselect to only the most highly qualified vendors.
In the second phase, vendors remaining in the competition would be required to provide an oral presentation addressing their approach to this requirement and a price quote.
Following this second phase, DFC contemplates the award of a single purchase order to the successful vendor. The period of performance is anticipated to start in mid-September 2024.
DFC’s ODP seeks an independent consultant to conduct a development impact performance assessment of healthcare facilities in which DFC invested directly and indirectly through DFC-supported financial intermediaries, such as investment funds (referred to hereafter as the “Healthcare Portfolio”). The assessment will encompass the Healthcare Portfolio’s impact (positive and/or negative) on healthcare accessibility, affordability, quality of care, gender equity, and impacts on the local healthcare ecosystem.
DFC’s ODP requires the services of an independent consultant to conduct an analysis of the development impact performance of DFC’s Healthcare Portfolio in meeting U.N. Sustainable Development Goal Three (Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Well-being for All) (SDG 3). The objective of the assessment is to better understand DFC’s contribution to SDG 3, specifically Target 3.8 (Universal Healthcare Coverage) and its three primary components of
- affordability,
- access, and
- quality of care; and recommend ways DFC could better measure these impacts using standardized metrics that are commonly used in the industry.
The assessment will apply a gender lens that will enable DFC to glean lessons learned on how it can advance gender equity through investments in the healthcare sector. In addition, the assessment will include an analysis of how the investments in the Healthcare Portfolio impact the broader healthcare ecosystem in the community.
DFC’s standard healthcare metrics are largely measuring the change in the number of patients served on an annual basis. DFC also requires healthcare facilities receiving DFC capital to meet internationally recognized standards, typically achieved through international certifications (e.g., ISO and JCI). However, the high costs for accreditation are often limiting to smaller healthcare facilities operating in some markets. These challenges limit DFC’s ability to fully understand the impacts of its Healthcare Portfolio in advancing SDG 3.8.
The assessment consists of evaluative, comparative case studies of 21 healthcare facilities located in 12 different countries in which DFC made investments directly or indirectly though financial intermediaries.[1] The assessment will include recommended improvements in DFC’s ability to analyze these impacts for future investments in the sector throughout its sourcing, origination, monitoring, and evaluation processes.
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