Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-10-08
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Submission deadline: 2021-11-04
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ESF

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
On behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), GIZ is implementing a lot of different digital solutions in various sectoral and global projects united in the department GloBe. All these global projects need special expertise during the next years. With this tender we want to assure a Help&Quality Desk (HQD) to coordinate a group of subject matter experts (SMEs) for special IT areas.
The HQD will therefore act as first and central contact point to GIZ internal staff. The HQD supports them in specifying their needs, to identify the most suitable special expertise and to specify the tasks, the SME should perform.
Moreover, the HQD support the GIZ contact person of this contract to manage monitoring and accounting of the frame-contracts with the SME providers.
On request of the GIZ contact person of this contract, it supports SMEs with regional or sectoral briefings or with backstopping services during their consultations. So that the SME get a better understanding of the role of the GIZ in the development projects and relevant cultural information.
Please note, that this tender is one lot of the whole project. This tender is only about the "Quality & Help Desk". The other lots (see "areas" in the long description) will be subject of seperate tenders.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1 - 5 65760 Eschborn
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) is a German federal enterprise in international cooperation for sustainable development. We work for our clients and together with our partners on more than 1,500 ongoing projects in around 120 countries. GIZ employs over 20,000 people worldwide. Of these, more than 4,000 work in Germany.
The promotion and dissemination of digitisation is a development policy goal in its own right, which the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is pursuing in a special way together with its partners. On behalf of the BMZ, GIZ is implementing a lot of different digital solutions in various sectoral and global projects united in the department GloBe. In addition to the BMZ Digital Transformation Centres operating worldwide, these include a wide range of projects such as the Fairwork Foundation, the European Union-African Union Data Markets, ICT building blocks, blockchain partnerships, cyber security and open data for policy-making. In line with the needs and potentials of the partners, these projects support local capacities to shape the digital transformation themselves.
Working in Germany and also in countries all over the world, all these global projects need special expertise during the next years. With this tender we want to assure a group of quality proofed, subject matter experts (SMEs) for these areas:
The selected experts will consult our internal employees as well as our external partners. External partners could be officials from governance, member of social society or local start-ups.
The specific services can range from general advice over the preparation of studies to concrete support in technical implementation.
One goal of this tender is to assure that the SMEs also have profound knowledge of and experience in the sector International Collaboration and Development. In addition, to help our internal staff in the selection of the right expertise and to improve the specific development context knowledge within the SME"s we also like to have a
The Help&Quality Desk will therefore act as first and central contact point to GIZ internal staff. The Help&Quality Desk supports them in specifying their needs, to identify the most suitable special expertise and to specify the tasks, the SME should perform. It gets in contact with the focal person of the SME providers and establish the contact between the SME, which is selected by the SME provider and the GIZ internal staff.
Moreover, the Help&Quality Desk support the GIZ contact person of this contract to manage monitoring and accounting of the frame-contracts with the SME providers.

Eligibility requirements: 1. Trading name and address, commercial register excerpt. 2. Eligibility declaration that no grounds for exclusion in Section 123, 124 of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB) apply. 3. Eligibility declaration subcontractors if applicable. 4. Association clause if applicable.