RFP 2026.09 Long-Term Agreement for Technical Services for GO₂AL Country Support and Medical Oxygen Market Assessments

RFP 2026.09 Long-Term Agreement for Technical Services for GO₂AL Country Support and Medical Oxygen Market Assessments

In order to access the Request for Proposal (RFP) documents, please log-in as a registered Supplier (Account registration accessible on https://www.ungm.org/Account/Registration). If any Bidders experience difficulties in accessing the RFP documents after having registered and expressed interest, please send an email to: unitaid-rfp@who.int

Objective of the consultancy:

To identify qualified multiple providers to deliver technical services for the GO₂AL Country Support Platform, covering public sector support and industry engagement, and/or Unitaid’s country-level medical oxygen assessments and analysis.

Bidders may submit proposals for one or more of the following scopes:

• Work Area A, Lot 1: Public Sector-facing Support, comprising core support and country-specific medical oxygen Roadmap (costed oxygen strategy/plan) engagements;

• Work Area A, Lot 2: Industry Engagement & Market Solutions, comprising core support and country or multi-country Industry Communities of Practice (CoPs);

• Work Area B: Unitaid Country Deep-Dive Assessment and Analysis on Medical Oxygen, comprising separately commissioned country assessments, including primary data collection.

Qualification of Firm and Consultants:

Proposals must be submitted by a legally registered entity. Individual consultants are not eligible to submit proposals. Bidders may propose a team drawn from a single organization, a consortium or subcontracting arrangements.

a) General requirements (all bidders)

• Strong team project leadership and technical expertise, demonstrated through proposed team member profiles.

• Ability to mobilise multidisciplinary expertise rapidly across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in multiple regions, including countries where the bidder may not already have an established presence.

• Demonstrated ability to work with Ministries of Health, national technical bodies, development partners and multi-stakeholder partnerships.

• Experience coordinating with other implementing organizations and operating within partnership-led delivery models.

• Strong analytical, facilitation, communication and technical-writing skills.

• Ability to work effectively in English, and to mobilise appropriate language capacity for country assignments, including French, Spanish, Arabic and Portuguese where relevant.

• Demonstrated systems for quality assurance, safeguarding of confidential information, conflict-of-interest management and delivery oversight.

• Ability to operate effectively in government-led and multilateral partnership environments, including appropriate management of institutional sensitivities, confidentiality, stakeholder relationships and organizational mandates.

b) Work Area A, Lot 1: Public Sector-facing Support

Essential:

• At least 10 years of organizational or senior-team experience in public health, health-systems strengthening, strategic planning, programme design or country technical assistance.

• Proven experience supporting government-led national strategies, roadmaps, implementation plans or comparable planning processes in LMICs across multiple regions.

• Demonstrated track record of working directly with Ministries of Health and national health authorities and coordinating technical and partner inputs around government-led processes.

• Ability to translate assessments and evidence into prioritised, feasible and implementable actions.

• Experience in institutional strengthening, implementation coordination and facilitation of multi-stakeholder technical processes, including approaches that strengthen country ownership, sustainability and transition from externally supported processes.

• Capacity to mobilise relevant technical specialists, including biomedical/clinical engineering expertise where required, without relying on large-scale primary data collection as the default delivery model.

Desirable:

• Experience with national medical oxygen roadmaps, strategies, policies and planning tools.

• Demonstrated networks with Ministries of Health, national regulatory authorities and other relevant public- and private-sector stakeholders.

• Experience linking country plans to costing, investment prioritisation, domestic financing or resource mobilisation.

• Experience facilitating peer learning and cross-country exchange, including targeted exchanges between countries facing similar strategic or implementation challenges.

c) Work Area A, Lot 2: Industry Engagement & Market Solutions

Essential:

• At least 10 years of organizational or senior-team experience in health-product markets, supply chains, market shaping, private-sector engagement or related fields.

• Demonstrated network and ability to engage manufacturers, distributors, service providers and other relevant private-sector actors.

• Strong understanding of medical oxygen markets, technologies, supply and service ecosystems; direct oxygen-sector experience is strongly preferred.

• Demonstrated ability to broker dialogue and practical solutions between governments, industry and development partners while maintaining neutrality.

• Experience analysing market bottlenecks, supply chains, service and maintenance ecosystems and policy or regulatory constraints affecting access to health products.

• Demonstrated capacity in market intelligence, data management and analysis, including use of market and supply-chain information to identify trends, constraints and opportunities and to inform strategic decision-making.

• Capacity to provide strategic advice on market, supply-chain and industry-engagement challenges beyond project coordination alone.

• Demonstrated ability to navigate institutional, regulatory and commercial sensitivities when working with governments, industry, multilateral organizations and other partners, including appropriate management of confidential or commercially sensitive information.

• Robust conflict-of-interest policies and demonstrated ability to operate independently of individual commercial suppliers.

Desirable:

• Experience with industry groups, supplier engagement platforms or market-shaping initiatives in global health.

• Experience in oxygen production, distribution, maintenance, medical devices, infrastructure or related industrial ecosystems.

• Experience supporting public-sector decision-makers to understand market options without acting as a procurement agent.

• Existing industry relationships across multiple LMIC markets and regions.

• Experience designing or facilitating country, multi-country or regional approaches to industry engagement and market problem-solving.

• Experience maintaining and analysing market or supply-chain datasets, mapping tools, dashboards or comparable strategic information systems.

d) Work Area B: Unitaid Country Deep-Dive Assessment and Analysis on Medical Oxygen

Essential:

• Demonstrated experience designing and conducting country-level or multi-facility assessments in LMICs.

• Strong quantitative and qualitative data-collection, data-management, analytical and data-visualisation capacity, including appropriate data-quality and quality-assurance systems.

• Experience assessing medical oxygen, health technologies, health facilities, supply systems or closely related health-system areas; direct medical oxygen assessment experience is strongly preferred.

• Ability to rapidly mobilise multidisciplinary technical expertise and country-level assessment capacity across different geographic settings.

• Experience working with governments and other national stakeholders to obtain, interpret and validate country-level data and evidence.

• Experience working with international and regional partners, implementing partners, private-sector actors, communities and civil society.

• Demonstrated ability to translate complex assessment findings into concise, decision-oriented analysis for governments, funders or global health agencies.

 

Bidders are invited to submit a proposal for the above-mentioned RFP in accordance with the documents attached in the "Tender Document" tab. Proposals must be submitted via UNGM, through the “RFP documents” tab and upload documents in “My Tender Return” no later than 17:00 hours CET (Geneva time) on 26 November 2026.

Given the time constraints and hard deadlines, extension of tender closing date may not be feasible. Bidders are encouraged to plan and submit the proposals by this closing date.

We look forward to receiving your participation in this RFP.

Kind regards;

Unitaid Procurement