This appeared last week:
Australian Digital Health Agency
DH4237 Development of Digital Health Standards Gap Analysis
Opportunity Type Professional Services and Consulting (Seek proposals and quotes)
Opportunity ID 19944
Deadline for asking questions Wednesday 16 March 2022 at 6pm (in Canberra)
Application closing date Friday 18 March 2022 at 6pm (in Canberra)
Published Friday 11 March 2022
Panel category Strategy and Policy
Overview
Procurement to engage experienced sellers who have capability to assist the Agency to:
• Understand how different health jurisdictions (local and international) support the promotion and adoption of digital health standards
• Design and develop a framework, methodology (and corresponding toolkit) that would support the Agency to: o Assess and evaluate relevant health priorities, use-cases or standards to identify the gaps and shortfalls that are still required to be developed for their successful implementation o Conduct an indicative Risk/Impact/Cost analysis of the standards gap; and to o Prioritise standard development needs in an objective manner
• Consider foreseeable barriers to change and adoption in the use of the designed framework and gap-analysis toolkit by the Agency and the broader digital healthcare ecosystem.
Estimated start date 1 April 2022
Location of work
Australian
Capital Territory
New South Wales
Queensland
Victoria
Offsite
Working arrangements
Offsite/Online
Length of contract
3 months
Contract extensions
2 x 3 Months
Evaluation criteria
Essential criteria - Weighting
The Respondent’s demonstrated understanding of the Requirement 35%
Capacity to deliver within the required timeframe, including the Respondent’s proposed personnel 35%
The Respondent’s experience and performance history 30%
Here is the link:
https://marketplace.service.gov.au/2/digital-marketplace/opportunities/19944
Note the ADHA is a meant to be a National Digital Health Agency which has 200 full time staff!
Yet they say they need consulting help to undertake a
project that clearly should be totally within their skill set and easily done
in-house. Why I wonder?
If the Agency can’t undertake work of this nature then just what exactly is it good for?
That it is tendering the work out really shows badly this nook of public service has become a collection of time-serving drones and not an agency with any actual capability.
The CEO should be horrified that this has happened on her watch and do something about it!
Until this has happened the ADHA should just be ignored as a source of any guidance and skill.
Just an astonishing failure!
David.
What a brilliant description- "a collection of time-serving drones".
ReplyDeleteWhat is the appropriate collective noun?
NB. a murder of crows is already gone
How about BEREFT A bereft of incompetents
ReplyDeleteAs you say -
ReplyDeleteQ. "If the Agency - with 200 full time staff - can’t undertake work of this nature then just what exactly is it good for?"
A. It's good for nothing.
Looks and smells like a preordained contract for a known “friendly”. My money is it’s that lady to rollout every now and then, she was sprucing ‘standards resurrections’ at the recent AIDH conferences. Seemed to ignore the reality or existing SDO’s or the decades of solid work.
ReplyDeleteADHA has a large recruitment drive on, I here a wave of people are leaving and all they can hope for is a round of contractors to help plug the gaps.
@Sarah Conner. Pretty well spot on.
ReplyDeleteA few people are leaving, some have had enough most are part of the assimilation to pure breed APS.