Review of National Communicable Diseases Surveillance

The Department is seeking submissions from Potential Suppliers to undertake the Services below.

a. Desktop review to analyse the activities currently being undertaken for each of the Commonwealth-funded surveillance systems and assess their capacity and capability to be scaled up to deliver a robust and tailored response in the event of increased disease threat or potential large-scale outbreaks. The desktop review will also involve a needs, gaps and duplication analyses to identify cross-overs between programs and opportunities to harness economies of scale, and establish new surveillance networks where a need has been identified.

b. Consultations with stakeholders to gather information to supplement the findings from the Desktop Review, and to gain a better understanding of whether the various communicable disease surveillance systems are meeting their intended surveillance objectives.

c. Final Report with recommendations for enhancing Australia’s communicable disease surveillance systems to ensure they are better equipped to respond to disease outbreaks and other public health threat. This may include an implementation model describing system change(s) that the Department may use in the future to approach the market for system design and build.