Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-04-07
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85312320 | 90700000 | 90713000
Submission deadline: 2023-05-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: In the coming years, transport emissions are expected to grow faster than all other sectors due to the increase in the number of cars per capita in Mexico. This growth accounts for several reasons. One of them is the low quality and inefficiency of public transport services, which lack connectivity, have long waiting times, and overcrowded vehicles. Public transport services are often not accessible and inclusive for everyone, as their design leaves behind disabled people, women, children, and other vulnerable groups. Furthermore, public transport is perceived as unsafe, as it is a space where crimes such as muggings, robberies or sexual assaults take place. Finally, the COVID-19 pandemic led more people to use private transport to avoid infection.
The shortcomings of the public transport system stand as a major challenge to Mexico's achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and its advancement towards green and competitive cities. To curb the trend towards private motorised transport, it is necessary to implement high-quality, smart, inclusive, and climate-friendly public transport services that make them more attractive than the private car. The strategies published so far to promote sustainable urban mobility are still very general. They also provide little practical guidance to states and municipalities on how to implement sustainable public transport systems. Especially in fast-growing medium-sized cities, knowledge, implementation-oriented capacities, and financing resources are required to carry out improvement measures.
In this context, the Mexican and the German Government, through the Secretariat for Agrarian, Land and Urban Development (SEDATU) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), respectively, jointly implement the urban mobility project "Transition towards an integrated, accessible and smart public transport system in Mexico (TranSIT)". TranSIT is a bilateral project and commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of Germany. It has a duration of 3,5 years (09/2022 - 03/2026).
The project aims to improve the framework conditions for an accessible, smart, and climate-friendly public transport in Mexico. TranSIT aims to develop solutions at the national and subnational level around three areas:
1) Decision-making tools: Development and improvement of decision-making tools and strengthening of professional competencies of public transport employees in the public and private sector.
2) Demonstration projects: Implementation of demonstration projects to create hands-on experience at the subnational level and empower actors to independently apply further improvements and replicate measures.
3) Knowledge exchange and transfer: Dissemination of experiences and lessons learned from the demonstration projects in exchange networks.
The main counterpart of the project is the Mexican Ministry of Agrarian, Territorial, and Urban Development (SEDATU). TranSIT works closely with the mobility and transport authorities of the pilot regions in Oaxaca, Yucatan, Puebla and León/Guanajuato, the private sector, NGOs, civil society, and academia on state and subnational levels.
The cross-cutting topics of digitalization and data will play an important role during the implementation of the project. Digitalization is a means for transformation. Increasingly, the use of digital tools contributes to better understanding how the population and goods move in cities, allowing to provide useful information and to take actions to make day-to-day transit more efficient, accessible, safe, connected and multimodal. Smart mobility solutions may target and benefit transport planers (i.e. optimizing routes, traffic control, permit management), providers (i.e. improving fleet management, monitoring vehicle efficiencies and demand management) as well as passengers (i.e. accessing real time information on fastest route and electronic payments). Apart from mature digital technologies also rather new technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, blockchain and internet of things potentially benefit public transport.
Aspects such as data requirements, digital competency, regulatory feasibility and process provisions for smart mobility solutions are key for successful adoption. This transformation comes with certain challenges including the need to design inclusive digitalization processes to leave no one behind, developing digital skills as well as establishing and maintaining the necessary infrastructure.
The contractor shall provide short-term expert (STE) support to contribute to the digital processes promoted in the framework of TranSIT ranging from a baseline assessment on digital readiness in the urban mobility sector (specifically public transport) on national level and of the pilot regions, over designing specific implementation roadmaps for smart mobility pilot projects to capacity development measures.
Through work package 1, the contractor shall realize an in-depth analysis of the current state of digitalization and digital readiness to adopt smart solutions in the public transport sector in Mexico. The contractor shall analyse and describe opportunities, solutions and challenges for the digital transformation of the public transport sector in Mexico in general and specifically in the four selected pilot regions. The results shall be presented in a white paper.
Furthermore, with view to transport data management the federal states in Mexico are obliged to report mobility data to the federation. However, most states are not yet able to comply with its obligation due to the lack of data recollection and analysis. Therefore, the contractor shall review the baseline situation in the four pilot states and provide technical support to the public authorities to overcome existing shortcomings. Based on the experience in the pilot regions, the contractor shall elaborate a list of recommendations on how to improve the transport data collection and analysis given different starting points.
Work package 2: Smart mobility solutions for demonstration projects in pilot regions - proposals and implementation roadmap
Work package 2 has a specific focus on opportunities for digitalization and efficient data usage in the selected pilot regions in Mexico (Yucatan, Puebla, Oaxaca and León). Specific entry points for smart mobility solutions shall be defined and proposals of feasible demonstration projects developed.

Eligibility requirements: 1) Name and address of the company, legal form, registered office (country), owners and controlling parties, commercial register number/dirstrict court, bank account, tax number, VAT identification number, brief company profile and contact in event of queries. 2) Extract from the commercial register or equivalent evidence/proof in English  or German (not older than six months). 3) Self-declaration that no grounds for exclusion in Section 123, 124 of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB), section 22 of the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG) and EU-Russian sanctions apply. 4) If a candidate/tenderer wishes to use the capacities of another company for the execution of the contract or to prove his/her eligibility, she/he must prove by submitting a declaration of commitment that the corresponding capacities are available to him/her for the execution of the contract and a declaration of commitment and a declaration that no grounds for exclusion pursuant to Section 123 GWB and/or Section 124 GWB apply to them must be submitted. 5) In the case of participation as a bidding consortium: tenderers must appoint a leading member and authorise this member to represent the group and to receive payments with discharging effect also for the other members. A corresponding agreement, signed by all members, must be attached to the application for participation. For this purpose, the form provided by GIZ must be used.