Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2024-08-01
Region: DEA22
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72212311
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: According to Article 160, Section 3 of the German Act Against Restraint of Competition (GWB), application for review is not permissible insofar as
1. the applicant has identified the claimed infringement of the procurement rules before submitting the application for review and has not submitted a complaint to the contracting authority within a period of 10 calendar days; the expiry of the period pursuant to Article 134, Section 2 remains unaffected,
2. complaints of infringements of procurement rules that are evident in the tender notice are not submitted to the contracting authority at the latest by the expiry of the deadline for the application or by the deadline for the submission of bids, specified in the tender notice.
3. complaints of infringements of procurement rules that first become evident in the tender documents are not submitted to the contracting authority at the latest by the expiry of the deadline for application or by the deadline for the submission of bids,
4. more than 15 calendar days have expired since receipt of notification from the contracting authority that it is unwilling to redress the complaint.
Sentence 1 does not apply in the case of an application to determine the invalidity of the contract in accordance with Article 135, Section 1 (2). Article 134, Section 1, Sentence 2 remains unaffected.
GovStack"s objective is to develop the first global toolbox for eGovernment services, based on interoperable and reusable Information and communications technology (ICT) building blocks. GovStack is a multi-stakeholder initiative established in 2020 between the BMZ, Estonia, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL).
Public services and administration processes, such as awarding contracts, patient records, passport management or the distribution of social benefits, sometimes generate considerable administrative effort both on the part of citizens and on the part of the authorities. As a result, public services - especially in countries with low resources - are often inefficient, inadequate, user-unfriendly and expensive. In addition, technical and bureaucratic silos in the administrations make coordination difficult or lead to fragmented solutions that cannot be scaled.
The GovStack Initiative develops technical specifications for ICT building blocks. These specifications are functional requirements descriptions for software products and are necessary for any e-government service. The ICT building blocks are defined in working groups of more than 70 digital experts. Based on the specifications, digital products can be developed, and existing products can be tested for compliance with the specifications and adapted if necessary. In the catalogue for digital open-source products developed by GIZ and DIAL, products based on the specifications are made available. With a digital test environment developed specifically for GovStack, the GovStack Sandbox, governments can develop Prototypes for digital administrative services and test them at a low threshold. This improves the quality of digital government services and accelerates their development.
GovStack operates in four fields of work:
- GovSpecs: Countries build their services based on Building Block specifications, Countries may contribute to their development in working groups 
- GovTest: Countries identify and prioritize use cases which can then be demonstrated, tested and explored in Sandboxes.
- GovLearn: Countries benefit from capacity building (e-learning, workshops) and exchange knowledge through Communities of Practice.
- GovExchange: products based on GovStack specifications are made available
As of May 2023, GovStack is being piloted in Rwanda, Egypt and the Horn of Africa (Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia).  GovStack also has a partnership with the Ukrainian Ministry for Digital Transformation (MDT). Ukraine is a frontrunner in digital government solutions. Despite the Russian war of aggression, the Ukrainian state is still capable of acting and continues to provide important services for its citizens. This resilience is made possible by the determined development and provision of digital public services.
From January through May 2023 GovStack and MDT did a Fit Gap Analysis. It focused on the difference between the technical requirements of GovStack and the Ukraine"s Registry management system - an innovative solution that enables public administrations to conveniently create and manage registers .   The outcome was that the Registry management system covers 70% of GovStack´s specifications in the building blocks architecture, digital registries, registration, security and workflow. Due to this analysis, the need for adjustments to obtain a GovStack compliant Prototype of Registry management system is clear.
Zur Ermittlung des wirtschaftlichsten Bieters wird hier von der Vergabestelle die erreichte Gesamtpunktzahl nach fachlicher Wertung eingetragen. Es werden nur Angebote mit einer fachlichen Bewertung von über 500 Punkten gewertet. Fachliche Angebote mit weniger Punkten scheiden als fachlich ungeeignet aus.
The main Goal is to create an instance of the Ukrainian eGovernment tool Registry management system (further called "Prototype") from Open-Source modules and deploy it into a separate "Registry management system Sandbox" into the "GovStack Sandbox". Both Sandboxes aim to be an isolated, safe environment simulating a small governmental e-service system (reference implementation of the GovStack approach). While the Platform Sandbox is an environment where the Prototype of the Platform is installed, with the demo service on top of the Registry management system, the GovStack Sandbox is the technical interface for other Governments to test and experience GovStack Solutions. The Platform Sandbox is therefore connected through the GovStack Sandbox with a so-called Mediator. Both Sandboxes are not intended to be production environments, and it does not contain sensitive data. It is a demonstration environment to learn and a technical environment to test and develop digital government services. 
The tender is about to find a contractor for the following services:
- Prototype creation and deployment to Platform Sandbox: The Prototype deployed into the Sandbox will be used to demonstrate functionality, provided by the Platform. It shall showcase the operation of the Platform by showing the creation, modelling and usage of the Platform in an effective way in on-line mode.
- Gateway Component: The Prototype implementation provides a gateway component that is deployed inside the GovStack Sandbox. The gateway provides s GovStack-compliant API and transparently accesses the externally deployed Protype Sandbox.
- Extracting Building Blocks: The current Platform has a deep integration with a signature and an authentication module. These modules shall not be an integrated part of the Prototype and delivered in a separate Building Blocks which will be deployed separately to the Sandbox and integrated through interfaces. In general, the Platform is ready for this integration and has to be adjusted through the installation scripts.
- Localisation: As the current Platform is only available in Ukraine language and there is no localisation module implemented it is requested from the contractor to design a new module which shall give the current Platform and the Prototype a possibility to switch between different languages.
- Demo Registry: For showcasing reasons one requirement of the tender is also the creation of a demo registry and a service (Governmental Process) of the tender shall also be the implementation of one example registry.
- Tutorials: To understand the usage of the Platform from an administrator as well as from a user or citizen 2 video tutorials shall be designed
o Video how to create Registry
o Video how Driver Licence works
- Live-Demonstration of the prototype: After the successful implementation of the Prototype the contractor shall be available for multiple live demos of the prototype system.


Winner: Datenservice Öffentlicher Einkauf (in Verantwortung des Beschaffungsamts des BMI)
Number of bids: 8