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The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is a global federation of Member Associations (MAs) and Collaborative Partners (CPs) working across more than 150 countries to deliver sexual and reproductive health services, advance rights, and advocate for policy change. IPPF’s efforts include health services, sex education, policy change, assistance in crises, and advocacy from grassroots communities to national and international political arenas. We advance and defend rights, shape public health approaches and services, and change narratives of sexual and reproductive health and rights.

IPPF has been implementing its customized version of OpenEMR across MA clinics for close to 20 years. This system supports the delivery of high-quality client care, strengthens data use, and improves the flow of health information within MAs. IPPF seeks to continually maintain, enhance, and expand the functionality of OpenEMR across its clinic network. This includes ensuring system stability, supporting MA implementations, and enabling ongoing innovation.

The objective of the services being procured is to provide ongoing development and technical support services for IPPF’s OpenEMR platform, ensuring it remains robust, scalable, and responsive to the needs of MAs.

This will be a time and materials contract, with a start date of 1 January 2027, IPPF estimates between 300-350 hours per year of support with an anticipated initial duration of two years, subject to performance and organizational needs.

Required Expertise

The ideal contractor should demonstrate:
• Strong experience with OpenEMR development and customization
• Proficiency in relevant programming languages (e.g., PHP, MySQL, JavaScript)
• Experience supporting multi-country or distributed health information systems
• Knowledge of digital health standards and interoperability
• Ability to provide remote and responsive technical support, across time zones ranging from Latin America to Oceania
• Strong documentation and communication skills

Pre-Qualification Requirements
OpenEMR knowledge
• OpenEMR architecture and modules, including older versions.
• Patient registration, encounters, billing, scheduling, clinical documentation, etc.
• Understanding of how to customize screens, forms and workflows.
• Ability to develop or modify OpenEMR features.

Programming skills
• Strong PHP — current OpenEMR development documentation lists PHP 8.2+.
• MySQL/MariaDB and SQL/database design.
• JavaScript, HTML, CSS and web development.

API/integration skills - For integration-focused roles, knowledge of:
• REST APIs
• OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect
• HL7 FHIR R4
• SMART on FHIR
• JSON/XML
• Healthcare-system integrations
• Knowledge of DHIS2 beneficial

Development environment - Comfortable working with:
• Linux or Windows development
• Docker/Docker Compose
• Git
• PHP development environment
• MySQL/MariaDB
• Composer
• Node.js/npm