Procedure for the procurement of consulting service - DOH

MANUAL PROCEDURES FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF CONSULTING SERVICES
4.2 Determine study design.
4.3 When the study design has been defined and the order of events and level of effort
required, determine what can be done by DOH staff and what best the consultant should
be doing, i.e., the primary areas of concern the consultant(s) should undertake.
4.4 Determine the expertise required and whether this (these) expertise is/are within the DOH
or to be supplied by the consultant.
4.5 Determine phasing of the project and whether there are prerequisite outputs or action that
have be delivered or done first before the principal area of consulting services or if there
are factors that should be assessed or considered separately or beforehand before the
next step. The level or extent and how to address the issues previously identified should
be taken into consideration including the importance and worthiness of services outcomes
by level of efforts.
4.6 Determine service design, in terms of content, format, timeframe and order in which the
activities are undertaken.
4.7 Resolve the objectives and scale or magnitude of professional services or efforts needed.
For objectives, state the general purpose and list down principal outputs needed. The
objectives must be very clear, concise and precise, and can be easily understood by the
consultants who will be doing the project, the DOH the funding agency and the public who
have stake of the project.
4.8 Designate the executing agency and the partner offices. For example, the following should
be a major partner if not the executing for following services with the corresponding offices
in Centers for Health Development and hospitals and partners:
ITEMS
Health promotion services, communication, plan development,
behavioral change communication; social marketing, IEC
development and similar services
Human resource development
Policy and health financing studies & researches, Monitoring
and evaluation
Disease surveillance, Health information system, Surveys, medical
informatics, burden of disease studies
DESIGNATED
OFFICE
National Center for Health Promotion
Health Human Resource
Development Bureau
Health Policy Development and
Planning Bureau
National Epidemiology Center
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