The project is looking
for a consultant / company to conduct the research and mapping of regulatory and
administrative procedures in the pharmaceutical sector.
The
main objective of this assignment is to prepare an analytical note on the
pricing regime in several countries – Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, China, the
USA, and the UK.
Based
on the experience of other countries, the consultant shall provide recommendations
on simplification and increasing efficiency of the pricing regime in Pakistan.
The
assignment will consist of the following parts.
a.
Description of the overall pricing regime (its goal,
rules and principles), mapping and analysis of procedures, required for setting
or changing a retail price for a medication, produced in mentioned six
countries, to the respective domestic markets.
b.
Recommendations for changes of the pricing regime in
Pakistan, with the goal to make it supportive for the pharmaceutical industry
development and create incentives for the pharmaceutical industry to invest in
R&D and new products manufacturing.