Contracting Mechanisms
Management Sciences for Health (MSH) and our partners offer a variety of US government contracting mechanisms that allow USAID missions and bureaus to quickly and easily procure qualified technical expertise to help strengthen health systems for greater health impact. MSH takes an integrated approach to building high-impact sustainable programs that address critical challenges in leadership, health systems management, health service delivery, human resources, and medicines.
To learn more about how we can help your mission or bureau achieve your country objectives, please email development@msh.org.
| A2Z Micronutrients | PSP |
| ABE-Link | RPM Plus/SPS |
| AIDSTAR I & II | SCMS |
| BASICS | STOP AI |
| Capacity Project | TASC II |
| ESD | TASC II-TB |
| GMS | TASC3 |
| HPI | TB CAP |
| LMS |
A2Z Micronutrients is the primary vehicle in USAID’s Health, Infectious Disease, and Nutrition Office to assist in the control and reduction of micronutrient deficiencies for the improvement of the nutritional and health status of infants, children, women, and families in developing and transitional countries. A2Z also supports organizations working to prevent child blindness. (Leader with Associate)
ABE-Link, Assistance in Basic Education, provides support to USAID missions and bureaus in implementation of strategic objectives pertaining to education and linkages in education and health, including health sector reform. (Indefinite Quantity Contract)
AIDSTAR I & II, AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources Programs: Sectors I & II, help US government agencies to meet evolving HIV & AIDS needs. The MSH consortiums are able to provide a seamless continuum of services at all levels—local, regional, district, and national—to extend the reach and impact of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). We help health managers increase the effectiveness and efficiency of their programs today, while planning for long-term sustainability. Support for prevention, care, and treatment is available through AIDSTAR I and institutional capacity-building issues through AIDSTAR II. (Indefinite Quantity Contract)
BASICS, Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival, allows USAID missions and other child survival stakeholders to immediately mobilize the expertise of the project’s six implementing partners (AED, MSH, JSI, the Manoff Group, PATH, and Save the Children) for technical assistance in operationalizing proven child survival interventions, including the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness. The project supports ministries of health and their partners in achieving population-level impact by scaling up community- and facility-based interventions that directly address the major causes of child mortality: malaria, pneumonia, diarrheal diseases, malnutrition, birth complications, and pediatric HIV & AIDS. (Indefinite Quantity Contract)
The Capacity Project applies proven and promising approaches to improve the quality and use of priority health care services in developing countries by: improving workforce planning and policy making; developing better education and training systems for the workforce; and strengthening systems to support workforce performance. (Leader with Associate)
ESD, Extending Service Delivery, addresses the need for quality community-based reproductive health and family planning services and information for poor, hard to reach, and underserved populations. (Leader with Associate)
GMS, Grants Management Solutions Project. Through GMS, MSH and our partners support the Office of the Global AIDS coordinator’s (OGAC) contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. GMS provides urgent, short-term technical support to countries with grants from the Global Fund in four areas: guidance to Country Coordinating Mechanisms; financial and grants management; procurement and supply management; and monitoring, evaluation, and reporting. GMS assists country coordinating Mechanisms and principal recipients to strengthen governance, improve grant performance, meet eligibility requirements and conditions, and resolve problems and bottlenecks that limit health impact. (For more information, please contact your local US embassy for the OGAC representative in your country.)
HPI, Health Policy initiative, is designed to exercise global leadership and provide field-level programming in health policy development and implementation. HPI supports core reproductive health and family planning, maternal health, and HIV & AIDS activities in policy dialogue and formulation and is also the mechanism designed to accept field support. (Indefinite Quantity Contract)
LMS, Leadership, Management and Sustainability Program, assists USAID missions and bureaus in working with public and private social-sector institutions to create sustainable programs and systems through improved leadership and management. By strengthening management systems and improving leadership at all levels, we improve the performance of health care organizations, develop human resources, and build the capacity to anticipate and respond effectively to changing external environments. (Leader with Associate)
PSP, Private Sector Program, allows USAID missions and bureaus to easily access high-quality technical assistance and support for their activities involving the private sector in health. PSP activities will promote private- and particularly commercial-sector strategies to expand service delivery and access to quality reproductive health and voluntary family planning, and other key health products in developing countries. (Indefinite Quantity Contract)
RPM Plus/SPS, Rational Pharmaceutical Plus Program/Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems Program, are available to US government agencies working with institutions and individuals in developing countries to strengthen the pharmaceutical components of health systems, improve the quality of pharmaceutical services and management, and build human resource capacity to improve their citizens’ access to lifesaving, essential medicines of assured quality. We work to help ensure the availability of effective and affordable medicines and provide health care personnel with the knowledge and skills to dispense new and existing treatments. (Cooperative Agreement/Leader with Associate)
SCMS, Supply Chain Management System, works with US government agencies in countries supported by PEPFAR to strengthen or establish secure, reliable, cost-effective, and sustainable supply chain mechanisms to help ensure availability of medicines, diagnostics, and laboratory supplies needed for the care and treatment of people living with and affected by HIV & AIDS. (Indefinite Quantity Contract)
STOP AI, Stamping Out Pandemic and Avian Influenza. MSH is working to prevent human exposure to the H5N1 virus that causes avian influenza by strengthening preparedness and planning to detect and contain HPAI outbreaks, decreasing high-risk behaviors associated with animal-to-human transmission, and limiting the exposure of health workers to the H5N1 virus. (Indefinite Quantity Contract)
TASC II, Technical Assistance Support Contract II, allows USAID missions and bureaus access to technical assistance and programmatic support areas including but not limited to the following: Policy Reform; Community and Individual Behavior Change; Service Delivery; Training and Commodities; Operations and Applied Research. (Indefinite Quantity Contract)
TASC II–TB, Technical Assistance Services and Support Contract II–Tuberculosis, allows USAID missions and bureaus access to technical assistance and programmatic support on all aspects of adapting the World Health Organization’s recommended directly observed treatment, short-course strategy (DOTS) to different countries’ needs. (Indefinite Quantity Contract)
TASC3, Technical Assistance and Support Contract 3, is a means for USAID missions and bureaus around the world to quickly contract MSH and its partners for expert services in global health, including reproductive health, family planning, maternal and child health, HIV & AIDS, infectious diseases, and health systems. (Indefinite Quantity Contract)
TB CAP, Tuberculosis Control Assistance Program, enhances the political commitment and ability of national health programs to have an impact on the global burden of tuberculosis. To accomplish this, we provide state-of-the-art, technically sound, context-appropriate, and cost-effective approaches for preventing TB and drug resistance in high-incidence countries. MSH provides support with leadership and management, laboratory networks, health systems strengthening, and drug management. (Cooperative Agreement)