BID SOLICITATION Grand Challenges Canada MaRS Centre, West Tower, 661 University Avenue, Suite 1720, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1M1 T 416.583.5821 E
[email protected] Bid Solicitation Innovation Portfolio Sensemaking Submission Deadline: 27 January 2020 – 17:00 ET RFP Reference Number: RFP-2020-01-02 1 Part 1: Introduction 1.1 Grand Challenges Canada’s Objective Grand Challenges Canada is seeking assistance with its activities to nurture the scalability and sustainability of global health innovations that Grand Challenges Canada supports. The objective of this bid solicitation (“Bid Solicitation”) is to select vendor(s) to enter into a contract with Grand Challenges Canada to provide the services described in the Statement of Work, as defined in Appendix A. Appendix B defines the evaluation criteria that will be used during the selection process. 1.2 About Grand Challenges Canada Grand Challenges Canada is dedicated to supporting Bold Ideas with Big Impact®. Funded by the Government of Canada and other partners, Grand Challenges Canada funds innovators in low- and middle-income countries and Canada. The bold ideas Grand Challenges Canada supports integrate science and technology, social and business innovation – known as Integrated Innovation®. One of the largest impact-first investors in Canada, and with a feminist investment approach, Grand Challenges Canada has supported a pipeline of over 1200 innovations in more than 85 countries. Grand Challenges Canada estimates that these innovations have the potential to save up to 1.6 million lives and improve up to 51 million lives by 2030. Grand Challenges Canada is hosted in Toronto at the Sandra Rotman Centre at the University Health Network.