Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-07-25
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 66115000 | 72266000: Software consultancy services
Submission deadline: 2023-08-22
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: 81298213_Implementation of measures from the Smart Africa "Blueprint for e-Payments for the Facilitation of Digital Trade across Africa"
The objective of the project is to improve the framework conditions to enable African MSMEs, in particular women-led enterprises, to harness the potential offered by digital trade more effectively trough
- Supporting the establishment and piloting of an MSME cross-border payments platform (work package 2), and
- Providing capacity development measures for key stakeholders to address capacity gaps that are hindering e-Payments for e-Commerce / digital trade (work package 3).
The contractor shall provide support services for the establishment of an e-Payments dashboard for the EAC, advice on the implementation of an MSME cross-border payments platform and consult on capacity gaps that hinder e-Payments for e-Commerce/ digital trade in eastern Africa.
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.
1. Self-declaration: name of company and address, tax ID, registration commercial register number or equivalent register in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of origin and extract from the commercial register;
1. Average annual turnover for the last three years (last-but-four financial year can be included in case of tenders held within 6 months of end of last financial year), at least: 400,000 EUR
1. The technical assessment is only based on reference projects with a minimum commission value of 150,000 EUR.
2. At least 1 reference projects in the technical field cross-border e-Payments in developing countries and at least 1 reference project in Africa in the last 3 years
All communication takes place  in English via communication tool in the project area of the procurement portal.
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.

Eligibility requirements: 1. Self-declaration: name of company and address, tax ID, registration commercial register number or equivalent register in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of origin and extract from the commercial register; 2. No grounds for exclusion pursuant to § 123, § 124 GWB, § 22 LkSG; 3. Declaration of bidding consortium and/or declaration of subcontractors (if applicable); 4. Association clause if applicable.