General Procurement Notice

Country:

Armenia

Notice/Contract Number:

None

Publication Date:

Jun 18, 2007

Funding Agency:

World Bank

Buyer:

HLTH SYS MOD (APL2)

Original Language:

English

Address:

Mr. Narek Yervandyan
Procurement Officer
Health Project Implementation Unit State Agency
17 Shirvanzade Street (Health PIU Office is located on the 1st and 2nd floors of the right wing of the Polyclinic of "Arabkir" Medical Center)
Yerevan 0014
Armenia

Telephone:

+37410 297536, 297537, 297538, 297539

Fax:

+37410 297540

Email:

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GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE

Republic of Armenia

Health System Modernization Project (APL2)

Credit No. 4267-AM

1. The Republic of Armenia has received a credit from the International Development Association in the amount of US$ 22 mln. credit amount equivalent, toward the cost of Health System Modernization Project, and it intends to apply the proceeds of this credit to payments for goods, works and services to be procured under this project.

2. The project will include the following four major components:

Component A: Family Medicine Development

1. Improvement of the retraining and residency training of family doctors and family nurses.
2. Strengthening of the primary health care infrastructure thorough rehabilitation of ambulatories and construction of rural centers.

Component B: Optimization of Hospital Infrastructure

1. Support of the optimization of physical infrastructure and human resources in the Selected Marzes, in line with the Marz Optimization Plan.
2. Rehabilitation of merged hospitals and provision of modern medical equipment.
3. Provision of training and technical assistance to introduce hospital quality assurance and medical waste management systems.

Component C: Institutional Development

1. Capacity building for the development of national health policy and strategy, assessment of health sector performance through periodic monitoring and evaluation of health outcomes, service utilization and private health expenditures at the hospital level and preparation of a human resources development strategy in health sector.
2. Strengthening of regulatory, oversight and management functions through review of existing health-related legislation and introduction of the revision as a result.
3. Improvement of public expenditure management in the State health Agency in order to build its capacity, including:(a) development of quality monitoring system for publicly funded services; (b) development of methodology for services costing; and (c) provision of technical assistance for improvement of its structure and function.
4. Strengthening of the design and implementation of the national non-communicable disease prevention and control strategy through training, piloting and evaluation of program outcomes.
5. Improvement of the medical education system, through: (a) the review of the higher medical education system; (b) review and provision of professional education standards; (c) development of the knowledge evaluation system; (d) revision of the continuous medical education program; and (e) evaluation of the needs of the State Medical University and the national Institute of Health of the Recipient.

Component D: Project Management
Strengthening of the management capacity of the MOH of the Recipient and its HPIU to monitor and administer implementation of the Project.

3. Procurement of contracts financed by the credit will be conducted through the procedures specified in the World Bank's Guidelines: Procurement under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits (published by the World Bank in May 2004 and revised in October 2006), and is open to all bidders from eligible source countries as defined in the guidelines. Consulting services will be selected in accordance with the World Bank's Guidelines: Selection of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers (published by the World Bank in May 2004 and revised in October 2006)

4. Specific procurement notices for contracts to be bid under the World Bank's international competitive bidding procedures and for large-value consultants' contracts will be announced, as they become available, in Development Business and in local newspapers.

5. Interested eligible bidders who wish to be included on the mailing list to receive an invitation to bid under international competitive procedures, and interested consultants who wish to receive a copy of the advertisement requesting expression of interest for large-value consultants' contracts, or those requiring additional information should contact:

"HEALTH PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION UNIT" STATE AGENCY
Mr. Sergey Khachatryan (Director)
Mr. Narek Yervandyan (Procurement Officer)
17 Shirvanzade street; Yerevan 0014, Armenia
(Health PIU office is located on the 1st and 2nd floors of the right wing of the Polyclinic of "Arabkir"MedicalCenter)
Tel.+37410 297536, 297537,297538, 297539
Fax +37410 297540
E-mail: hpiu@arminco.com

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