Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2024-04-15
Region: DEA22
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72222300: Information technology services
Estimated value: 2136050 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.
Digital Delivery Unit (DDU) is an internal unit that has been tasked by the GIZ Morocco Management Team with accelerating and improving the design and implementation of high-impact digital initiatives within GIZ Morocco's projects. Its creation is the result of a growing integration of digitalization in projects in GIZ Moroccan portfolio, with an average of 40 digital initiatives per year and an increased share of the budget allocated to these. To date, the DDU has collaborated with more than 2014 projects in Morocco on 25 digital initiatives and has extended its support internationally with projects in West Africa. In addition to direct support of projects on specific digital initiatives, the DDU is also in charge of cross-cutting work and activities (methodologies, in-depth research, training, trends monitoring, HQ liason, building network of ecosystem partners...) The competence center "digital societies" is part of the sectoral department (FMB) of GIZ headquarter in Eschborn and collaborates closely with the DDU. The competence center provides services similar to those of the DDU but operates across all GIZ partner countries. It is split into several sub-teams that i) work on internal topics including developing new concepts and knowledge management and ii) offer services of project planning, inhouse consulting services during project implementation and preparing and tendering of large contracts to projects across all sectors.
GIZ reserves the right to extend the contract duration of the original contract twice by 12 months (up to a total of 48 months) by unliterally notifying the contractor in advance.
The goal of this framework agreement is to provide GIZ Morocco with a (one) reliable partner who flexibly provides high quality expertise in different technology consulting areas. Through joint learning and collaboration, the contractor will improve its own understanding of development work and GIZ approaches while supporting the DDU to scale its advisory services to the entire portfolio of GIZ projects in Morocco. The expected benefits for the projects are: i) quick and flexible access to high quality external expertise and support ii) reducing administrative workload and time when procuring these services iii) access to service provider that understands GIZ procedures (e.g. procurement process or data protection and security regulations) and overall goals (principles for digital development, sustainable solutions owned and managed by partners) The contractor has to provide expertise in the fields of: - IT consulting (incl. project scoping, planning and implementation and project management) - IT Requirement analysis and validation / Needs assessment (incl. classic requirement gathering, early phase ideation, process analysis) - IT Architecture and delivery consulting (incl. as-is system analysis, designing and estimating future solution and integrations) - IT Security consulting The contractor has to provide expertise by either a) performing the tasks as specified in the work packages b) performing "flexible days" : performing activities not related to a predefined work package but within the requested Expertise. Those activities and their deliverables would be agreed on a case by case request but always aligned with the role descriptions . Cost estimation would be based on the daily rates of the requested experts as indicated in the Price Schedule. c) providing adequate steering and learning of the overall framework contract Any GIZ project in Morocco can request the services of the contractor. The DDU will serve as a single point of contact: It manages, administrates, prioritizes and forwards the project"s requests to the contractor and matches the needs to the standardized work packages. DDU will pre-qualify the requests and might extend or modify services or deliverables of the requested work packages. In these cases, DDU will coordinate with the contractor to ensure feasibility and clarify requirements.


Winner: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Award value: 1841841.65
Number of bids: 6