We urgently need to see health differently. If we want to make the world healthier, we need to look at the whole picture of what makes millions of people miss out on basic healthcare. We need to ask difficult questions. We need to confront the big issues.Because missing out on health isn’t inevitable. Neither is poverty. They are caused by discrimination, by racism, by companies, by governments. These are decisions made by people in power – and that means we can change them. By seeing health differently, and its links to poverty, we can build a healthier future.At Health Poverty Action, we work alongside ignored communities worldwide who refuse to accept the injustices that deny people a healthy life. In Guatemala, we stand with local midwives to fight the discrimination that stops Indigenous women from giving birth in health centres. In the UK, we highlight how the legacy of colonialism has caused the devastating global health and inequality we see today.We don’t pick the easiest road, we pick the one that will make the biggest difference to people’s lives. That’s why our local team in Myanmar will trek for six weeks through the freezing mountains to run health training courses. It’s why we join forces with communities in remote Somaliland villages, supporting people to demand better transport links to health facilities. Our approach partners us with some of the most remote and marginalised communities around the world.And it’s why we confront policy issues that are complex and sometimes controversial, like the fact that the ‘war on drugs’ has only made inequality – and health – worse. Taking on these barriers to health doesn’t make our job easy. But, just like the communities we work with around the world, we won’t accept the status quo if it takes away someone’s chances of living a healthy life.At Health Poverty Action we see health differently. We do what’s needed, not what’s easiest, to stop health being denied.

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HEALTH POVERTY ACTION,

Rwanda Country Office,

KigaliKigabaga

Email address: procurement@healthpovertyaction.org

January 8th2025

To:

Request for Quotation No. WEE project -07 -024

Description of the service: Personal Protective Equipment

Dear Sir or Madam

Health Poverty Action (HPA) with funding from GIZ herebyrequests the submission of quotations for startup kits as per the attached Bidding Form titled ‘RFQ No.WEE project – 07-024

Bidders should submit the attached HPA Bid Form (Annex P8 attached at the end of this letter). Please indicate your present stock level, availability, and delivery period on the same form. Your quotation should be submitted to the aboveprocurement email address, clearly marked ‘Request for Quotation No. WEE project – 07 – 024.

The deadline for receipt of your quotation is 14th/1/2025 at 04:00 PM at the address above.

Your quotation should be submitted as per the following instructions.

  • Prices:The prices should be quoted for service delivery to HPA staff as given in the attached Bidding Form.
  • Evaluations of Quotations:Offers determined to be substantially responsive to the technical specifications will be evaluated, in part, by comparison of their prices.
  • The service delivery period may also be a consideration in the contract award.
  • Award of Purchase Order:The contract award will be made to the bidder offering the best value for money (not necessarily the lowest price). The successful bidder will sign a Contract (Purchase Order) as per the attached HPA General Conditions of Contract for Procurement of Goods and must also sign and uphold the HPA Code of Ethics.
  • Validity of the Offer:Your quotation should be valid for a period of 30 days from the deadline for receipt of the quotation.

All bids and questions should be addressed to: procurement@healthpovertyaction.orgPlease note that the items required do not have to be considered as a whole and HPA may decide to award to each supplier one or more items (seen as lots) depending on the most valuable bid received for each item.

Under HPA’s Code of Ethics, Policy Bidders shall observe the highest standard of ethics during the procurement and execution of such contracts. HPA will reject a Bid if it determines that the Bidder recommended for award, has engaged in corrupt, fraudulent, collusive, or coercive practices in competing for, or in executing the Contract. Only the successful bidders will be contacted.

Please note that the successful bidder will be requested to submit the following documents before signing the contract:

  • Signed and completed Annex P8 HPA Bid Form (included in this letter)
  • Signed and stamped HPA General Terms & Conditions (Annex P18);
  • Signed and stamped HPA Code of Ethics (Annex P19);
  • Trading License,
  • Copy of VAT certificate;
  • Copy of Rwanda Revenue Clearance Certificate;
  • Proof of the company EBM (copies of some printed bills);
  • Two references of the similar supply of items undertaken.

Bids received will be evaluated on the following criteria:

  • Compliance to the request for quotation and documents requested (5%);
  • Compliance with technical specifications of the items requested (35%);
  • Price (35%);
  • Delivery times (10%);
  • Similar supplies of items undertaken in the past (15%).

Yours sincerely

HPA Country Office