Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-05-24
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 75211200
Estimated value: 996000 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The programme ‘Promotion of Perinatal Health in Kyrgyzstan’ commissioned by BMZ aims to improve the quality of perinatal care services for pregnant women and newborns in Kyrgyzstan. It intends to improve management and clinical procedures in selected health facilities in the pilot regions (Bishkek, Chui, Issykul, Naryn and Osh) with focus on perinatal care. The Programme looks for the consultancy agency for the provision of highly specialised technical knowledge and skills via 2 international pools of experienced experts.The agency should provide a manager to managing both expert pools in terms of contracting experts, ensuring travel, accommodation, per diems and other relevant expenses. The services required include organizing and conducting 2 major workshops at the beginning and at the end of the project as well as the necessary trainings in the health care facilities.The project is scheduled for a first phase of 2 years with the possibility of extension of another 2 years.
The project ‘Promotion of Perinatal Health in Kyrgyzstan’ commissioned by BMZ aims to improve the quality of perinatal care services for pregnant women and newborns in Kyrgyzstan. In order to achieve that aim, 3 desired outputs have been identified:
(1) Embed human resource planning and management tools at the new Perinatal Centre in Bishkek; (2) Improve management of clinical services;
(3) Improve the referral system for pregnant women and newborns so that it meets the standards required of an integrated, patient-centred system. For the purpose of achieving output (2) the Project intends to improve management and clinical procedures in selected health facilities in the pilot regions (Bishkek, Chui, Issykul, Naryn and Osh) with focus on perinatal care. The quality improvement support is going to be provided on demand-base; health care organisations will have to apply for support through the project. The project plans to support up to 13 facilities. The introduction of quality management processes can support the development of services at the health facilities according to their needs. In participating facilities, the quality improvement committees will be established — or, where they already exist, supported — at the facilities in order to move towards compliance with the national and/or international standards. The quality improvement tools will be aligned to the facility's needs and will focus on management and clinical procedures. The quality improvement committees will be supported in developing quality improvement plans. On the basis of that plans, the facilities will be able to access demand-driven support services in the form of technical advice or equipment. Experience gained by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the World Bank in quality improvements shall be incorporated. In addition, health care organisations may need to upgrade the clinical skills in obstetric and perinatal care of their staff to improve the quality of their services. When specific, highly specialised technical knowledge is required the project will provide an access to an international pool of experts.
Therefore, the project looks for the consultancy agency for the provision of highly specialised technical knowledge and skills via international pool of experienced experts. The first pool of experts is expected to provide continuous coaching on quality improvement, while the second pool will support improvement of certain clinical skills to physicians, nurses and midwifes. This will be defined on a needs-assessment in consultation with the concerned facilities. The support will be closely coordinated with the GIZ project as GIZ will provide 2 mentors to support across facility learning and support. The consultancy agency is also required to pay attention to close coordination with a third party (another contractor, selected under tender No 81229877), which will be developing dhis2-based IT-applications to support quality monitoring. These applications include a dashboard to visualize selected data and an online portal to collect CEMD data, to review them and to visualize them. Details of the IT approach are conceptualized in parallel to this tender, but meaningful population of the applications based on jointly agreed quality indicators can only be achieved through close cooperation and synchronized efforts of both contractors. The agency should provide a manager to managing both expert pools in terms of contracting experts, ensuring travel, accommodation, per diems and other relevant expenses. The services required include organizing and conducting 2 major workshops at the beginning and at the end of the project, as well as the necessary trainings in the health care facilities. The project is scheduled for a first phase of 2 years with the possibility of extension of another 2 years.
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.
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: EPOS Health Management GmbH
Award value: 996000
Number of bids: 2