Closed ATM View - Health/2019-20/10973
Survey and report on Australian facilities that may hold or handle possible poliovirus containing materials.
Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart
The Department of Health seeks the services of an organisation to develop and implement a self-reporting survey of facilities that hold or handle poliovirus risk materials. The facilities to be surveyed includes all laboratories that may handle risk materials such as; human faecal and respiratory samples, environmental sewage/water samples and specimens from animals used in polio research. This includes facilities that could be collecting, handling or storing such materials for non-polio related work, in a time or location (including individuals moving from affected areas). The survey is to be based on, and promote awareness of, the WHO’s Guidance for Non-Poliovirus Facilities to minimize risk of sample collections potentially infectious for Polioviruses (PIM Guidance). The PIM Guidance sets out the requirements for all countries to complete a national inventory of poliovirus potentially infectious materials as part of the pre-containment stage of the WHO’s global eradication of polio plan. The organisation will also be required to prepare a detailed report on the survey for eventual submission by Australia to the WHO.
WHO Guidance for Non-poliovirus Facilities to Minimize Risk of Sample Collections Potentially Infectious for Poliovirus (2018) (PIM Guidelines) http://polioeradication.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/polio-containment-guidance-for-non-poliovirus-facilities-20180614-en.pdf
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Up to 52 weeks from execution