Conducting market research to understand the private sector urban TB market scenario in zone 3, 4 & 5 of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC)

The Challenge TB (CTB) Project is the flagship global initiative for implementing USAID’s TB strategy and is being implemented in 22 countries including Bangladesh by a unique coalition of nine international organizations in TB control. The CTB is being implemented in Bangladesh since 2014 and providing technical assistance to the National Tuberculosis Program (NTP), Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of Bangladesh (GoB). The current focus of the initiative is to lay strong ground for the Zero TB Cities Initiative recently launched by the MoHFW. As part of its urban focused activities, CTB is looking for an Academic Intuition/Research Organization/Consultancy Agency to carry out a market research on the private sector urban TB market scenario in zone 3, 4 and 5 in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), Bangladesh. The study is intended to analyse market landscape of private sector urban TB service providers, price of relevant services and patient preference in procuring services. This will help NTP to understand urban TB treatment and diagnostic market landscape and link the private sector providers and patients with national programme to reach the national target. The result of the studies will also help the decision making process of the Government and other stakeholders to plan for appropriate TB services in the private sector to search, treat and prevent TB in urban context.

Please find enclosed the Terms of Reference (ToR) for the provision of input to the studies entitled:

• Market research to understand the private sector urban TB market scenario in zone 3, 4 and 5 in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), Bangladesh.

The CTB invites interested Academic Intuitions/ Research Organizations/Consultancy Agencies to submit their short proposals (not more than 12 pages for each study including 2 pages for list of references, font type Times New Roman and font size 12 and at least 2cm page margins in all sides) including budget covering the items outlined in the ToR and accompanied by the following application documents:

• Short Technical and Financial proposals separately
• Curriculum Vitae (CV) of Principal Investigator and all proposed co-investigators (maximum 2 pages).
• Letter of motivation outlining how your institution/organization/agency’s (including investigators) experience, skills, qualifications and professional networks fit with the required deliverables (two pages maximum) of the call
• Copies of at least five relevant study reports and/or articles published by the investigators as team in peer-reviewed international journal through indication of www links in the CV and submission of hard copies of at least 3 reports/papers with the technical proposal.

In order to participate in the call, please submit your detailed proposal with budget – to Interactive Research and Development (IRD), Bangladesh Office located at Florida Castle, Suite E2, House # 7,Road # 23/A, Gulshan 1, Dhaka -1212, Dhaka-1212 - by end of business day (Bangladesh Time) 21 January 2018.