Tanzania Comprehensive Health Services Delivery Program (CHSD) | RFI 621 16 00001

Opportunity Information: Apply for RFI 621 16 00001

The Tanzania Comprehensive Health Services Delivery Program (CHSD) is presented as a Request for Information (RFI) issued by USAID/Tanzania (USAID Dar es Salaam) under opportunity number RFI 621 16 00001. This announcement is not a Notice of Funding Opportunity and is not a solicitation for proposals or applications. Instead, USAID is gathering input from interested parties to help refine a draft program description and shape the final design of the program to maximize development impact in Tanzania’s health sector. Any responses provided are strictly informational, cannot be treated as an application, and cannot be used to create any binding agreement with the U.S. Government.

The opportunity is framed around comprehensive health services delivery, and it sits within the Health funding activity category under CFDA 98.001. While the RFI itself does not lay out full technical requirements or implementation details, the title and categorization indicate a wide-ranging service delivery focus rather than a single-disease or single-intervention project. In practice, programs described as “comprehensive health services delivery” often relate to strengthening how health services are planned, managed, staffed, financed, and delivered across multiple levels of the health system, potentially spanning community services, primary care, and facility-based care. The intent of the RFI is to solicit feedback that can improve the draft program approach before USAID finalizes any future funding opportunity or awards.

USAID indicates that any eventual assistance mechanism would likely be a cooperative agreement, which typically implies substantial involvement by the funding agency during implementation (such as collaboration on work planning, monitoring, technical direction, and adaptive management), as opposed to a standard grant where the recipient generally has more independent discretion. The opportunity is listed as discretionary, meaning awards would be made based on agency priorities and competitive or merit-based considerations if and when a formal funding opportunity is released.

The source information anticipates three awards, with an overall listed award ceiling of 144,811,110 (currency not specified in the provided data). A key point is that each award is expected to have a different ceiling amount, as described in the draft program description referenced by USAID. That suggests USAID was considering multiple separate awards that could cover different geographic areas, different technical scopes, or different components of a broader national health services strategy, rather than one single uniform award.

Eligibility is described as “unrestricted,” which generally signals that a broad range of organizations could provide input to the RFI and, in a later formal competition, potentially be eligible to apply. This could include international and local non-governmental organizations, universities, private firms, consortia, and other entities, depending on the final solicitation terms. The RFI closing date is listed as November 16, 2015, with a creation date of October 16, 2015, which situates this as a time-bound market research and program-design step rather than an active funding competition.

Overall, the CHSD RFI is best understood as an early-stage planning instrument: USAID/Tanzania is signaling its intent to pursue a major health service delivery program with multiple anticipated awards and significant potential funding, while explicitly asking stakeholders to comment on the draft design before anything is finalized. The practical takeaway is that the document is meant to shape a future program and inform USAID’s decisions, not to invite proposals, budgets, or applications for award at this stage.

• The Tanzania USAID-Dar es Salaam in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Tanzania Comprehensive Health Services Delivery Program (CHSD)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 98.001.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2015-10-16.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2015-11-16. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $144,811,110.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted.

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