Digital Square Rapid Concept Note 2022

From: Carl Fourie <cfourie@path.org>
Sent: 01 July 2022 15:49
Subject: Digital Square Funding opportunity - Rapid Concept Note

Dear Global Goods Innovators community 

I wanted to reach out with a very quick ask and an interesting opportunity. We currently have a time-bound opportunity to issue awards with fairly unrestricted funds towards improving/advancing and enhancing the broader global good community and tools. The funds will need to be spent by the end of September 2022.  

To this end I’m inviting you to submit to myself [cfourie@path.org] (including Maria Soc [msco@path.org]) a very focused concept note (please use attached template) that clearly outlines what you are proposing and very distinct deliverables that will be accomplished. We are aiming to have these as fixed fee / deliverable based awards and as such invoiced on and payment made on deliverables. Concept notes (max 8 pages) are to be submitted by 11 July 2022 8PM PST (GMT+8). 

Our budget ceiling on this, for all awards, is $300’000 and with this we expect to make multiple awards (5 to 8 awards) and as such we encourage you to ensure that your deliverables are well bounded and easily severable should the technical evaluation committee want to select a subsection of your concept and deliverable list to fund. 

This is a great opportunity and we encourage you to rapidly put ideas down and be excited about helping round out your tool/community and drive the space forward. Not being prescriptive but rather to jog ideas please see the list of illustrative deliverable ideas below: 

Global Good product: 

·         Key feature developed 

·         Data exchange / interoperability interface built 

·         Quality assurance / tests developed for a focused feature set 

·         Performance testing (building a reusable framework) 

·         Security testing and the inclusion of DevSecOps in your pipeline 

·         Translations 

·         Etc 

Global Good Community 

·         Key community resources updated (be explicit with the list) 

·         Onboarding guides 

·         Training material 

·         Product information documentation 

Global Good Impact and Space development 

·         Whitepaper on the impact and scale of your tool 

·         Creation of a shared set of requirements for a domain (e.g Immunization suites, CHIS, etc) 

·         Other publications… 

 Regards 

Carl Fourie 

There is no financial contribution from the openIMIS Initiative to Notice F0, but we’d be happy to see teams from the openIMIS community apply for this. Good luck to all the bidders!