Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2021-01-19
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71317200 | 71317210
Estimated value: 1478477 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The goal of the technical cooperation project is to improve the quality and quantity of health services, including access through health insurance. It covers five outputs, of which two are being tendered (output 2/3) while there needs to be close cooperation with and contributions to the two other areas (digitalization, governance) throughout implementation.
The focus of the consultancy package is on performance improvement of selected health facilities in neonatal care as well as on improvement of services for reproductive health, in particular comprehensive emergency obstetric and neonatal care and post-partum family planning services in the supported partner health facilities. Supported health centers and hospitals will be enabled to establish functional new-born care units and assure adequate treatment of premature, low birth weight and critical new-borns and their timely referral. The focus on improved access to facility-based family planning and emergency obstetric (and neonatal) care will contribute to lowering maternal and neonatal mortality.
The objective of the tendered service package is to support the implementation of the IHCT technical cooperation (TC) module. The tender services encompass all interventions (but the procurement of equipment) under Output 2 and Output 3 and require significant cooperation with the other areas concerning governance (Output 5) and digitalization (Output 1). The supported facilities comprise the two regional, and six district hospitals, and 8 health centres in the regions Mbeya and Tanga. The duration of the assignment is estimated to start from October 2020 and will run until end of March 2022.
— Technical assistance to improve new-born care. The contractor is expected to build and enhance the capacity of staff in the target facilities to provide adequate new-borne care including the underlying support processes and to establish continuous learning. According to the policy of the Government of Tanzania new-born care areas at health centres are to be established. Their scope bis to cater for stable, but premature or low birth weight new-borns or stabilization of critical ones until they can be referred to a District Hospital or a Regional Referral Hospital, which also receive support to establish (in Tanga) or improve (Mbeya) new-born services
— Technical assistance to improve comprehensive emergency obstetric (and neonatal) Care (CEmONC). The contractor is expected to: strengthen mentorship and supportive supervision, build and enhance basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric and neonatal care using a patient-centred care approach, train on asphyxia prevention and management, improve communication and referral between the different levels, integrate support into quality improvement approaches and establish continuous learning processes,
— Technical assistance to improve family planning (FP) services. The contractor is expected to: integrate FP counselling into frequently used services such as antenatal care, postnatal care and expanded programme on immunization (EPI), develop and implement behaviour change interventions for FP providers, develop and provide (youth-friendly) information, education and communication (IEC) materials,
— Technical assistance to improve managerial capacities and data quality and use. The contractor is expected to: build and enhance the managerial capacity of staff in the target facilities in selected areas using different approaches (on-the-job-training, coaching and mentoring), improve data quality and use for enhancing quality of services for new-born care, EmONC and FP; build and/ or enhance the capacity of facility staff in accurate/ correct use primary/ user maintenance and planned preventive maintenance of medical equipment.
It needs to be highlighted that the overall objective is to establish Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (CEmONC) services at selected health centres and district hospitals. Readiness to provide these services differs considerably between health centers and district hospitals and between the different health centers. Therefore, the contractor must take an approach that builds the necessary capacity for providing caesarean sections, anaesthesia and blood transfusion while at the same time building capacity for Basic Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (BEMONC) and ensuring continued services provision.
— Staff trained on CEmONC signal functions at health centers and district hospitals in both regions (skill/ competency-based trainings),
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.


Winner: Health Focus GmbH
Award value: 1478477
Number of bids: 4