Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2024-06-05
Region: DEA22
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 73200000 | 79000000
Estimated value: 264584 EUR
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.
The PESEREE III (Higher Education Program for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency) program is implemented by the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). 
The general objective of the PESEREE III program is to improve training of renewable energy and energy efficiency experts in Senegal in terms of quality, quantity, orientation towards employment and promotion of entrepreneurial skills. In particular, PESEREE III supports its main partner, the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) in establishing practice-oriented training institutions at the interface between vocational and university education, the so-called "Instituts Supérieurs d"Enseignement Professionnel (ISEP)". Five ISEP already exist in different regions of Senegal, a sixth ISEP (ISEP Mbacké) is going to be established with the support of KfW.
GIZ may optionally commission contract amendments and/or increases based on the 
criteria in the tender documents to the successful bidder of this tender. For details, 
please see the terms of reference.
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.
According to the needs of the needs of the already existing and future ISEP, the 3 work packages (WP) of the services contract are:  

1: Developing the capacity for assurance of a) quality tutoring during company internships and b) quality teaching of external teachers 
- Study tour for ISEP staff (20-25 persons) to a French speaking African country  
- Support ISEP staff on enhancing the standardization of quality tutoring of interns (= ISEP students) at enterprise level 
- Improve the quality of the teaching in ISEPs provided by professionals 

2: Developing managerial capacities in cooperative education approaches 
- Realize a needs assessment 
- In-person capacity-development sessions for directors in organisational management of cooperative approaches in technical higher education institutes  

3: Advising ISEP Mbacké with its Green Campus in developing a sustainable development strategy 
- A study trip for the staff of ISEP Mbacké on the strategies and initiatives of "Education for Sustainable Development" of higher education institutions or institutions of vocational training in Germany and/or a French speaking European country 
- Support ISEP Mbacké in developing and implementing a sustainable development strategy
 
The contractor is required to take the following key measures to avoid or reduce possible unintended negative results and to support gender equality in its area of responsibility. In the design of all measure's attention must be paid to avoid gender-specific disadvantages and to enable equal participation of men and women. 

The tenderer is required to show how the specified targets and results are to be achieved with the work packages. The tenderer should consider the following five factors: strategy, cooperation, steering structure, processes and learning and innovation. In addition, the tenderer must describe the design of the project management system in the narrower sense and explain how it will consider sustainability requirements (i.e., how the ISEPs will sustainably use the tools, resources and capacities that are produced/developed during the service provision). 

The tenderer is expected to present CVs of experienced team members (one team leader, one expert, and 2-4 expert as part of an expert pool), in total, about 150 expert days.


Winner: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Award value: 282696
Number of bids: 7