Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2023-05-15
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72221000: Business analysis consultancy services | 72224100: Systems implementation planning services | 72263000: Software implementation services | 72310000: Data processing services | 72313000: Data capture services
Estimated value: 959825 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: GIZ implements the project "Scaling digital agriculture innovations through start-ups" (SAIS) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The purpose of SAIS is to increase the investor readiness of selected African start-ups in the foodtech and agritech sector that are in the post-seed phase and about to scale. For this purpose, the project provides tailor-made company development (e.g. improving business models, product development, customer relations, financial management) through an Investment Readiness Programme (IRP) and facilitates access to additional investment and business opportunities.
It is anticipated that thereby start-ups will obtain access to additional capital, thus enabling them to grow faster and better scale their digital innovations. As a result, more digital innovations are to arrive in the hands of end-users in Africa and will create more income-saving or income-generating effects.
In this regard, the tenderer is tasks with improving the digital products and services of up to 20 start-ups per year. The main focus of the intervention lies in strengthening the digital solutions of the company to a scalable version whilst connecting it with data analytics solutions for continuous improvement. Furthermore, the tenderer aims to improve this, by supporting start-ups to improve their systems and usage of data analytics and come to a situation in which they make data-driven management decisions for their start-ups.
00000 All African Countries SS, SO, ZW, SL, SC, SN, ST, ZM, RW, NG, NE, NA, MZ, MU, MR, MA, ML, MW, MG
GIZ implements the project "Scaling digital agriculture innovations through start-ups" (SAIS) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The purpose of SAIS is to increase the investor readiness of selected African start-ups in the foodtech and agritech sector that are in the post-seed phase and about to scale. For this purpose, the project provides tailor-made company development (e.g. improving business models, product development, customer relations, financial management) through an Investment Readiness Programme (IRP) and facilitates access to additional investment and business opportunities.
It is anticipated that thereby start-ups will obtain access to additional capital, thus enabling them to grow faster and better scale their digital innovations. As a result, more digital innovations are to arrive in the hands of end-users in Africa and will create more income-saving or income-generating effects.
The contractor is responsible to support up to 20 African Ag- and Foodtech start-ups with data analytics and service on their way towards digital scalability for in close dialogue and under the oversight of SAIS for two successive cohorts, namely the ones starting in 2023 and 2024. There is an opportunity to extend this support for another additional cohort of start-ups in 2025. The goal of the contract is to offer practical support for selected start-ups, so they have a performant digital solution in line with their business model and the ability to collect meaningful data (of customers, customer value etc). Furthermore, the management team of the start-up is enabled to use the data to continuously improve their product and service via key metrices.
The tenderer shall run a analyses of each start-up based on their business model, the scalability of their digital solution and state of their data analytics setup. On this basis the implementation plan is developed with the management of the start-up and a SAIS representative.
The tenderer shall implement the agreed specification and enables the start-up to become a data driven organization through digital tools.
The tenderer shall ensure that the start-ups are able to use the newly designed, introduced or improved data analytics systems on their own.
The tenderer shall document all new components, hand them over to the start-up and offer monthly office hours for further support.
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.
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.


Winner: MaibornWolff GmbH
Award value: 959825
Number of bids: 7