Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2024-03-01
Region: DEA22
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000 | 72230000: Custom software development services | 72260000: Software-related services | 72262000: Software development services
Submission deadline: 2024-04-03
EU fund: eu-funds

Technical requirements: Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB
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 contract is part of the Multi-Donor Project "Strengthening Good Financial Governance in Zambia IV" (GFG IV), which is jointly co-financed by the European Union, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The duration of the project is scheduled from 01.07.2023 to 30.06.2027. 

GFG IV aims to support the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) to implement its planned public financial management (PFM) reforms aimed at restoring fiscal sustainability and improving efficiency and effectiveness of public resource allocation, and spending, for better public service delivery. The objective of the project is to strengthen public financial management in Zambia. To achieve this objective, the project focuses on 3 main intervention areas - (1) improving budget credibility, (2) strengthening domestic resource mobilization, including tax policy and tax administration, as well as (3) increasing GRZ"s capability to steer and implement comprehensive cross-cutting PFM reforms and processes. These main intervention areas are addressed via six outputs.

The tender is associated with the program"s second intervention area, "strengthening domestic resource mobilization". This intervention area consists of 2 outputs, namely Output 3, which aims at enhancing the Ministry of Finance and National Development"s (MoFNP) capacities to design equitable tax policies in a more effective, efficient, gender sensitive and equitable manner as well as Output 4, that focuses on improving the voluntary and enforced compliance management of the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA).
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. 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: 3,000,000.00 EUR
2. Average number of employees and managers in the last three calendar years, at least 20 persons

Eligibility requirements: other


Winner: Beschaffungsamt des BMI