Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-02-20
Buyer: 81311589-Technical support for the implementation of the RECOTwin project
Region: DEA22
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 79000000 | 80000000
Estimated value: 982800 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 "Regional Cooperation on Labour Market Policy (LPM) and Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for a Twin Transition in ASEAN" (RECOTwin) Project is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The project"s objective is to ensure that regional bodies and ASEAN Member States (AMS) are in a better position to align Labour Market Policy (LMP) and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) with the needs of the green and digital transformation in a future-oriented manner. The implementation period started in February 2024 and will end in January 2028. RECOTwin is following the long-standing RECOTVET project, that supported TVET in ASEAN for almost 10 years. 

The political partner of the project is ASEAN as represented by the ASEAN Senior Labour Officials Meeting (SLOM). The Human Development Directorate (HDD) with the support of the Labour and Civil Services Division (LCSD) at the ASEAN Secretariat is responsible for the coordination with GIZ to ensure the implementation of the project activities with relevant partners at the country, regional and international level. Main implementing partners are SLOM, ASEAN TVET Council (ATC) as well as ATC and SLOM focal bodies in AMS. Further, RECOTwin partners with selected TVET institutes, non-governmental organisations and the private sector as well as GIZ"s and other donors" relevant projects for implementation and creating evidence on the ground in ASEAN.

RECOTwin supports the following thematic areas and activities:
a) Regional Governance
- Provide technical assistance/expert advice to ASEAN sectoral bodies (especially SLOM and ATC) and AMS in fulfilling their commitments in implementing the work plan on Labour and TVET
- Support ATC to enhance their institutional capacity, strengthen their visibility at national level and participation of the private sector and women representatives
- Provide advisory services for the establishment of an ASEAN pooled funding mechanism on Human Resource Development (HRD)
b) Labour Market Policy (LMP)
- Workforce projection in e.g. the renewable energy sector and translation of evidence into skills policies with a focus on the potential for women's employment
- Capacity development strategy to strengthen competencies in AMS for gender-sensitive anticipation of skills needs
- Knowledge exchange, capacity development and expert advice of labour market actors on the strengthening of labour market information systems (LMIS) in AMS (gender-specific disaggregated data collection, normalisation, harmonisation, analysis, processing, interpretation, dissemination and use by decision-makers). 
- Capacity development for ATC/SLOM members and other relevant national actors to use data for the design of green and gender-responsive labour market policies and active labour market policies.
c) Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
- Support ATC in developing regional tools and standards to support the green and digital transformation of VET systems
- Collection, quality assurance and dissemination of existing curricula, e-learning programmes and newly developed regional tools for green and digital transformation with SEAMEO VOCTECH via the sea-vet.net website 
- Creating and collecting learning experiences from AMS to inform and shape the discussion of regional bodies

The contractor is expected to contribute to the activities in all thematic areas by providing adequately sourced international as well as regional senior experts and experts in close coordination with the GIZ RECOTwin team.
GIZ can extend the framework agreement up to three times for a period of six months each.
The consulting firm shall provide long-term strategic project advice regarding thematic, political and processual aspects of the project as well as specific technical and process advise of short-term experts on defined tasks for the different project activities, in close coordination and communication with the project staff.

The consulting firm shall provide expertise which can be deployed flexibly according to the specific requests from RECOTwin. Experts assigned will be required to work on assignments involving: 

1. Policy analysis and advice (e.g. on LMP, TVET standard development).
2. Technical expertise (e.g. green, digital and economic transformation and the resulting skills and jobs implications, greening of TVET, active labour market measures, Labour Market Information Systems).
3. Transfer of experiences, expertise and conceptual know-how in the area of LMP and TVET as well as on topics relevant for a Just Twin Transition (e.g. on methodological concepts and instruments).
4. Multi-stakeholder engagement (e.g. within ASEAN and among AMS). Furthermore, short-term experts (STE) may be requested to contribute to capacity development of partner institutions and their staff (e.g. trainings, workshops, peer-to-peer exchange).


Winner: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Number of bids: 2