Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-06-28
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 80000000
Estimated value: 490000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2021-07-26
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Jordan's unemployment rate has increased significantly in recent years, and young people are particularly affected. More than a third of the country's youth are without work, and young women have by far the lowest economic participation in the region.
While Jordanian companies lack qualified skilled workers, the vocational and higher education institutions often focus rather on theory than practice. Most students and parents reject technical vocational education and training (TVET) as viable employment paths, preferring academic educations leading to university degrees.
In line with Jordan's HRD Strategy, GIZ on behalf of The German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has launched the flagship project ‘Labour Market Oriented Vocational Education, Higher Education and Training — MOVE-HET’ in 2017. The MOVE-HET Project has an overarching goal of aligning TVET and Higher Education programs with labour market needs to improve employability. BMZ's mandate includes supporting the Jordanian Ministry.
The MOVE-HET project supports and encourages the involvement of the private sector in TVET and Higher Education and supports the improvement of interactions and stakeholders on the political level (ministries and centralised institutions) as well as on the level of institutions. The project also addresses the tension between labour demand and labour supply through the matching of demand and supply by collecting and evaluating labour market data. This also supports the quantitative control of the option for Jordanian nurses to enter the German labour market. At the same time, MOVE-HET will support the compatibility of the education of Jordanian nurses with requirements of the respective German labour market.
With the addition of the healthcare sector to the MOVE-HET project, i the improvement of the data basis for the sector will be tackled. The objective is to serve the need for a better forecast of workforce, in the domestic labour market as well as internationally. It is to be considered that the Jordanian labour market can currently not absorb the nurses that are being qualified through university education, due to a lack of financial resources of the sector. Nevertheless, the lack of skilled workers currently prevents the achievement of SDG 3.8 (Universal Health Coverage): Only 2.3 doctors and 2.8 registered nurses per 1,000 inhabitants in Jordan (UHC target: 4.5). The infant mortality rate is 16.2 per 1 000 live births (in Germany it is 3.72 per 1 000 live births). Working conditions are difficult due to a high workload, and there is increasing evidence of overwork among nursing staff. Lack of employment prospects in the local health care system and difficult working conditions have led to a high emigration of Jordanian health care workers abroad.
That being said, there is a major lack of statistical data regarding the nursing labour market. With multiple governing bodies, councils and entities involved in shaping the nursing labour market, a clear data source highlighting the numbers of registered nurses in Jordan (both employed and unemployed) as well as figures of Jordanian nurses working abroad, and a geographic distribution of these assignments is heavily lacking. Thus, the MOVE-HET project will focus on two key areas of activity in the field of nursing:
— support the development of a Labour Market Information System (Platform) for the nursing sector with relevant partners;
These interventions will help empower the Jordanian counterparts to make informed decisions about the nursing labour market, thus guide student enrolment in nursing programs, adapt nursing programs, understand employment prospects in the labour market and inhibitors to that, and finally, regulate nursing emigration and make informed decisions on the migration of Jordanian nurses. The latter is a window the Jordanian government is very keen on exploring.
The contractor is responsible for the support of the development of a functioning Labour Market Information System (platform) in close cooperation with local agencies and local authorities. The contractor is furthermore responsible for the training of 250 ministry employees in the data collection and usage of the aforementioned platform, once developed.
In addition, the contractor shall support the improvement of inter-ministerial cooperation regarding the nursing sector and the to be created platform through the initiation of regular exchange formats and through the implementation of capacity development measures for employees of the relevant ministries to collect labour market data.
The main activities of the Contractor consist in the support of the development, administration and use of an online platform for forecasting and analysing the national labour market needs and the national supply of manpower in the health sector.
The platform is intended to entail relevant data of the national labour market in the health sector, specifically in nursing, to have it evaluated by experts and to make it available to the relevant stakeholders. Relevant stakeholders are the training institutions for nurses (universities and colleges), Ministry of Higher Education, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labour, as well as the Jordanian nursing council, and the Jordanian Nurses and Midwives Council, among others.
The contractor shall provide the following specific services in order to implement the terms of reference:
1) Improving inter-ministerial cooperation in order to adequately address needs by organising regular meetings between the governing and coordination bodies of the nursing sector;
2) Support to the development of a labour market information system (Platform) for forecasting and analysing the national labour market needs and the national supply of workers in the health sector. This includes:

Eligibility requirements: 1) Trading name and address, commercial register number; 2) Eligibility declaration that no grounds for exclusion in Section 123, 124 of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB) apply; 3) Eligibility declaration subcontractors if applicable; 4) Association clause if applicable.

Award value: 490000