RFP for Sub-Sub-Recipient
Organization: Gujarat State Network of People living with HIV/AIDS (GSNP+)
Apply By: 06th July 2026
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FROM ORGANIZATIONS WISHING TO REGISTER AS SUB-SUB RECIPIENTS (SSR) WITH ALLIANCE INDIA (PR) FOR VIHAAN CSC2.0– THE GLOBAL FUND-SUPPORTED PROGRAMME IN JAMNAGAR (GUJARAT)
I: Introduction
India HIV/AIDS Alliance (Alliance India) as Principal Recipient (PR) has been awarded the Grant funded by Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), for the programme known as Vihaan care and support programme for People Living with HIV across India. Gujarat State Network of People living with HIV/AIDS (GSNP+) is implementing VIHAAN Program in the state of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh as Sub Recipient (SR).
II: Background of the programme:
India revised care and support strategies in 2013 under NACP IV and under the new strategy, National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) is providing all treatment including treatment for opportunistic infections through Govt. healthcare facilities and a civil society organisation will provide care and support services to all needy PLHIV. India Country Coordination Mechanism (CCM) selected the India HIV/AIDS Alliance as the Principal Recipient (PR) to implement care and support programme across the country.
The programme is being named as ‘Vihaan’ which is providing care and support services to needy PLHIV since June 2013. Until March 2024, the programme reached about 1.68 million PLHIV provided with care & support services through 310 care and support centres. The programme is being implemented in close coordination with NACO, SACS and ART centres at national, state and district levels respectively.
Alliance India has received approval from Global Fund for programme continuation from April 2024 to March 2027. During this period, care and support centres (CSCs) exclusively supported by Global Fund will be functional to cater for the service needs of PLHIV enrolled in ART centres across the country.
GSNP+ is a Sub Recipient (SR) for 2 states (Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh) and 1 UT (DD&DNH) and is providing the hand holding support to the 36 CSCs and will be collecting the applications of the interested NGOs/CBOs.
III: Objectives of VIHAAN CSC2.0:
CSC 2.0 programme has evolved over a period of time as one of the good models of community-based care and support programme supporting the national HIV programme through enhancing the quality of life of PLHIV.
The specific objectives of Vihaan CSC2.0 include:
- To accelerate HIV prevention and promote testing among family members/sexual partners of PLHIV
- Eliminate Vertical Transmission of HIV among HIV Positive pregnant women and HIV-exposed infants
- To increase retention of PLHIV On ART through intensified peer-led outreach by tracking
- To augment viral Load testing to improve coverage and reach third 95 targets by 2027.
IV: Scope of Work of Care & Support Centre 2.0
CSC 2.0 will prioritise outreach services for 11 specific groups. The ART centre will provide CSC 2.0 staff with a monthly list outlining outreach service requirement. Additionally, priority cases, including follow-up of Positive Pregnant women and HIV-exposed infants and weekly follow-up of those awaiting viral load results, Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) cases, MIS cases, and Lost to Follow-Up cases for which line list & outcomes will be shared on a weekly basis. Following the completion of outreach services, CSC 2.0 will update the ART centre with outcomes for inclusion in the white card and master line list. Each priority population will receive specialized follow-up from the Community Health Liaison (CHL) within specific time frames.
V: What are Care Support Centres?
Care and support centres (CSCs) are friendly places where PLHIV receive information on care and support, access to a range of health referrals, education and linkages to social welfare schemes and entitlements.
Apart from these, clients will be able to access the services including counselling services, resting, recreational facilities, entertainment etc. The team at the CSCs would also conduct home visits for the registered clients at their convenience and agreed timing to provide information and treatment education, adherence, and any health referrals not only to the registered clients but the family, which would be taken as a unit for information, education and referrals especially to social welfare schemes and entitlements. Building on the lessons learnt from the programmatic experience since inception, the programme will now adopt the provision of differentiated care and support services to different categories of clients.
For more details on the functions of a CSC and other details, please visit: NACO CSC guidelines
The RFP is open from: 21st June 2026
Applicants wishing to respond to this RFP are required to submit their applications in the prescribed format (Form 1) with supporting documents by or before 11:59 pm on 6th July 2026 by Email on gsnpgujarat@gsnpplus.org , Form 1 is available as Annexure A.
Applications received after the above date and time shall be summarily rejected.
All eligible applications received shall be carefully appraised and assessed, considering all details provided in the prescribed format.
The appraisal process shall inter alia consider:
- HIV experience of organization in the district, where applying for SSR
- Financial Systems
- Governance and management systems
- Depth of work in the area of care and support, social protection, stigma reduction and advocacy
- Level and nature of involvement of PLHIV in the organisation
- Linkages of the organisation with SACS/DAPCU
- Monitoring and evaluation experience and systems
- Successful district-level advocacy
- Site visit for the detailed appraisal as mentioned will be carried out by a Joint Appraisal Team (JAT) comprising representatives from SR, representative from PR and respective SACS.
- The field visit shortlisted agencies on any day immediately after submission. for a detailed site assessment. Due to tight timeframes, the team may not be able to give some shortlisted organisations more than a day’s notice for the proposed site assessment.
Requests for a change of dates shall not be entertained due to the limited timeframe for this exercise.
For detailed information, please check the complete version of the RFP attached below.