Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2022-05-06
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 72210000: Software programming services
Estimated value: 1003300 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: 81275883-Technical assistance to the set-up of a web-based platform in  support of access to finance of SMEs
On behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) advises the government of the Republic of Senegal in improving the business environment in the country with a special focus on small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The main implementing partner of GIZ is the Senegalese government Agency for the Development and Accompaniment of Small and Medium Enterprises - French: Agence de Développement et d"Encadrement des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises (ADEPME). ADEPME and GIZ jointly develop an SME data platform (Guichet Unique Financement GUF) which will allow SMEs to access tailored information on financial services meeting a given SMEs" concrete financial needs. Financial institutions, in turn, will be able to access to verified financial and other information on SMEs which are in search of a suitable financial solution for their planned investments.
The procurement is aimed at IT service providers with the purpose of assisting ADEPME in setting up the web-based SME platform, its connectivity with Senegalese financial institutions as well as various business service providers in the field of SMEs. Subject of the tender is an agile development of the SME platform to enable ADEPME to better target business development services to SMEs and to more effectively match financial needs from SMEs with corresponding financial services offered by the Senegalese financial sector. The SME platform will be hosted by ADEPME. Assisting ADEPME in the development of the SME platform, GIZ launches the present tender.
On behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) advises the government of the Republic of Senegal in improving the business environment in the country with a special focus on small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The main implementing partner of GIZ is the Senegalese government Agency for the Development and Accompaniment of Small and Medium Enterprises - French: Agence de Développement et d"Encadrement des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises (ADEPME). ADEPME and GIZ jointly develop an SME data platform (Guichet Unique Financement GUF) which will allow SMEs to access tailored information on financial services meeting a given SMEs" concrete financial needs. Financial institutions, in turn, will be able to access to verified financial and other information on SMEs which are in search of a suitable financial solution for their planned investments.
The procurement is aimed at IT service providers with the purpose of assisting ADEPME in setting up the web-based SME platform, its connectivity with Senegalese financial institutions as well as various business service providers in the field of SMEs. Subject of the tender is an agile development of the SME platform to enable ADEPME to better target business development services to SMEs and to more effectively match financial needs from SMEs with corresponding financial services offered by the Senegalese financial sector. The SME platform will be hosted by ADEPME. Assisting ADEPME in the development of the SME platform, GIZ launches the present tender.
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 special terms and conditions.
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.


Winner: ATOS SENEGAL SA
Award value: 1003300
Number of bids: 1