GHSC-PSM Quarterly Report Year 2 Quarter 1

Sourcing and procurement volumes increased, with the number of requisition orders processed rising from approximately 580 at the end of September to about 780 at the end of December. The team issued almost two times the value of purchase orders issued in the previous quarter, totaling $80.0 million for the HIV/AIDS Task Order, $35.5 million for the Malaria Task Order, and $7.4 million for the Family Planning/Reproductive Health Task Order. The Deliver/Return team completed inventory transfers of HIV/AIDS and malaria products from predecessor projects, with over 200 line items delivered to their destinations in countries and at project regional distribution centers. The Management Information Systems (MIS) team launched releases 1.1, 2, and 2.1 of the Automated Requisition Tracking Management Information System (ARTMIS), improving capabilities for order and fulfillment management, sourcing processes, and reporting. The Country Programs team began transitioning field office operations from the start-up phase to planning for the first full year of implementation. By the end of December, first-year work plans were approved or in progress in 28 countries, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plans were approved or in progress in 16 countries. Strategic sourcing activities to reduce procurement lead times are reflected in the project's framework contract percentage for the quarter, which was 77.1 percent for Task Order 1 and 98.1 percent for Task Order 3. Cycle times for products procured under framework agreements were 63.4 days for Task Order 1 and 154.7 days for Task Order 3. Task Order 2 continued to make procurements under firm fixed price subcontracts exclusively, while also conducting sourcing events to put long-term agreements in place for ACTs and rapid diagnostic tests. Under the Plan aspects of the global supply chain, absolute percent forecast error for first-line adult and pediatric ARVs was under 5 percent. Percentage of shelf life remaining for TO2 and TO3 inventory is high, at 89.2 percent and 93.2 percent respectively. Additionally, quality control testing across all task orders showed none of the batches tested to be out of specification. Among GHSC-PSM's project-supported countries, Haiti, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, and Zambia reported overall stockout rates of ten percent or less in service delivery points. Of the aforementioned countries, Malawi, Nigeria, and Haiti had no stockout observations at the central and subnational stores, while Zambia, Namibia, and Mozambique had stockout rates at central and subnational stores of three, nine, and fifteen percent respectively. On the metric of SDP reporting rates to the logistics management information system (LMIS), twelve out of fourteen countries achieved reporting rates of more than 75 percent. Quarterly supply planning was also carried out in most countries, with 91 percent of supply plans updated for Task Order 1 and 100 percent updated for Task Order 3. The field offices also carried out capacity building activities, training 768 people in eight countries. The performance data also identified areas for improvement. For shipments procured and delivered by GHSC-PSM, the team achieved a 30.7 percent on-time and in-full delivery rate. Performance was stronger for Task Order 3 (53.8 percent) and for shipments of 1st line adult ARVs (65.4 percent), but weak for Task Order 1 laboratory items (16.7 percent).