Ausschreibungen European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

The Contractor, in close coordination with the European Commission and other contracting authorities, will perform all services needed to design, set up, create, improve and maintain the contracting authorities’ web presence and other digital communication channels.

Lot 1: Vaccine effectiveness, disease burden and impact studies using primary data in the hospital and primary care setting Work area 1: Vaccine effectiveness, disease burden and impact studies in the hospital setting (all age groups and including special populations), by building on the existing VEBIS hospital network. Work area 2: Vaccine effectiveness, disease burden and impact studies in the primary care setting (all age groups, special populations), by building on the existing VEBIS primary care network. Work area 3: Additional and ad hoc studies within the hospital and primary care setting. This work area can also be used for additional settings, for example those where there is exposure to infected animals or to an environment in which infected birds or animals are or have been present, e.g. for assessing VE against zoonotic influenza. Lot 2: Vaccine effectiveness, disease burden and impact studies using mainly Electronic Health Registries

The purpose of this framework contract is to provide a framework under which the following services can be requested: the provision of a diverse (in both methodology and size) range of scientific and technical capacity building activities, in line with the strategic priorities of countries. The focus will be on HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections prevention and control. The overall objectives are: 1. To build EU/EEA countries’ scientific/technical capacity to end and eliminate these diseases 2. To increase technical and scientific exchange among EU/EEA professionals working on these diseases to strengthen evidence-based decisions on public health policies and practice.

The overall objective of this call for tender is to support the development of ECDC public health advice and science-based recommendations by conducting several types of literature reviews, such as: systematic reviews, rapid reviews, living reviews, scoping reviews and structured literature reviews. ECDC is aiming to expand its capacity to produce high-quality, evidence-based outputs on topics related to public health prevention and control. The outputs of this call are intended to be based on evidence-based best practices and standard reference guidance for conducting reviews, in the field of public health prevention and control of communicable diseases. Traditionally, systematic reviews have been predominantly conducted to assess the effectiveness of health interventions. However, in this call for tender, we want to keep a pluralistic approach and consider different types of systematic reviews, considering the different research questions to be answered, to provide the best possible evidence-based guidance, case by case. Therefore, the contractor is expected to conduct not only effectiveness reviews, but also prevalence and/ or incidence reviews, diagnostic test accuracy reviews, aetiology and/or risk reviews, policy reviews, etc. The contractor will, in close collaboration with ECDC, develop and refine search terms and strategies, and will then conduct the review, according to the needs of each specific request for services under the FWC. Reviews will require assessments of the available peer reviewed, pre-print, and/or grey literature, depending on the request. The priority areas for scientific advice covered by this tender include, among others, sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, respiratory infections, food and waterborne diseases, zoonotic and emerging diseases, vector-borne diseases, vaccine preventable diseases, immunisation, virology, bacteriology, parasitology, SoHO, antimicrobial resistance, healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial consumption, prevention and programmes monitoring on communicable diseases. Evidence-based advice and tailored guidance from ECDC to stakeholders are intended to support their decision-making in public health and must be provided in a timely, accurate, and relevant manner.