Development of a Mobile Phone Application for the Essential Newborn Care Clinical Practice Pocket Guide that can be installed on iOS and Android devices

Background

        Approximately every two minutes, a baby dies in the WHO Western Pacific Region.  The majority of newborn deaths occur within the first few days, mostly from preventable causes.  The high mortality and morbidity rates among newborns are related to inappropriate hospital and community practices that currently occur throughout the Region.  In 2014, the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific published the Early Essential Newborn Care Clinical Practice Pocket Guide.  The guide aims to provide health professionals with a user-friendly, evidence-based protocol to essential newborn care – focusing on the first hours and days of life.  The target users are skilled birth attendants including midwives, nurses and doctors, as well as others involved in caring for newborns.  It provides a step-by-step guide to a core package of essential newborn care interventions that can be administered in all health-care settings.  It also includes stabilization and referral of sick and preterm newborn infants.

        By getting the services of a creative agency (contractual partner), a Mobile Phone Application (App) will be developed by the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Unit of the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO/MCA) for both iOS and Android devices to convert the existing Early Essential Newborn Care Clinical Practice Pocket Guide into an interactive Application.  All written and visual content included in the already published work should be included in the Application.  The Application should also feature an easy-to-use search function to help users easily navigate the contents of the pocket guide.

Purpose/Specific Objective of the Activity

        Under the guidance of WPRO/MCA, a Mobile Phone Application (App) will be developed by a contractual partner to create a more useful and accessible version of the Essential Newborn Care Clinical Practice Pocket Guide.  When installed on iOS and Android devices, the App should be able to allow offline usage in remote areas where there is poor internet connectivity.  The App should be highly useful, easy to navigate and should feature a strong search function for optimal user experience.

        The resulting work is to be a completed iPhone and Android app available for download in both the Apple App Store and Google Play store.

Description of work to be carried out by the contractual partner

        App design and development; presentation of a Beta version; App review; App to be published and made available publicly

Description of the tasks/process involved in carrying out the activity

        To develop a Mobile Phone Application (App) that will work in both iOS and android devices; be compatible with mobile phones and tablets; be easy to navigate/operate

        The App should feature all the contents of the Early Essential Newborn Care Clinical Practice Pocket Guide (English version) (found here: http://iris.wpro.who.int/handle/10665.1/10798).

• Foreword
• All text from Chapter 1 "Preparing for Birth" to Chapter 8 "Equipment and supplies maintenance checklist"
• Explanation of acronyms when relevant acronyms are clicked by the user
• Instructions on how to use the App
• All Algorithms developed into an immersive format that moves the user step by step through the decision tree process
• All interventions, actions, time bands and notes (layout is not required to match the printed       pocket                 guide)
• All diagrams
• Index in the form of Search functionality

Timeline/Duration of assignment
October to December 2016

Required profile of the contractor

        App developer or App development company that provides digital application development services. 

Interested should submit the following documents at wprosao@who.int by 12 September 2016. Please use Tender Notice No. 49039 as subject to all submissions. Contract start date 1 October 2016 with duration of 3 months.

• Expression of interest (cover letter), proposal and cost estimate.
• Company Profile (for institutional applications) or Professional Profile (for individual applications).
• Links and/or materials demonstrating their products, available in the public domain.

Please note that the application may be closed before the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. Only successful candidates who submitted all requirements will be contacted.