Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2021-05-17
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 65110000
Estimated value: 375441 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: EU Fund

Technical requirements: The project ‘Water and sanitation services for vulnerable people in Northern Iraq’ is part of a broader programme to improve public services for vulnerable people in the areas of education, health, and water/sanitation. The programme is financed by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) with co-financing through Agence Française de Développement (AFD) for the water component.
The overall programme aims to strengthen the capacity of public actors to provide basic services to vulnerable groups of the population. The regional focus is on the Governorate of Dohuk in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The water component aims to improve the management and service provision in water supply and sanitation. One of the outputs includes the development of water safety plans for the water supply system served by Khrabdeem Water Treatment Plant, which is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River some 45 km northwest of Dohuk city.
A contractor is required to develop water safety plans including implementation, financing, and monitoring strategies. The plans should identify existing and potential hazards, threats, risk assessment and risk mitigation measures. The contractor is required engage responsible stakeholders including different administrative levels, such as the relevant Directorates of Water in Dohuk and the surveillance directorate of environment. This shall include improvements of the risk monitoring and mitigation system for urban areas of Dohuk Governorate: the contractor is required to provide a team of specialists for this purpose who shall work alongside project partners in consultation with the GIZ project team. This shall include an international short term expert as team leader, a national long term expert in water resources management, and a team of national and international short term experts with various profiles over a total period of 8 months.
The project ‘Water and sanitation services for vulnerable people in Northern Iraq’ is part of a broader programme to improve public services for vulnerable people in the areas of education, health, and water/sanitation. The programme is financed by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) with co-financing through Agence Française de Développement (AFD) for the water component.
The overall programme aims to strengthen the capacity of public actors to provide basic services to vulnerable groups of the population. The regional focus is on the Governorate of Dohuk in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The water component aims to improve the management and service provision in water supply and sanitation. One of the outputs includes the development of water safety plans for the water supply system served by Khrabdeem Water Treatment Plant, which is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River some 45 km northwest of Dohuk city.
A contractor is required to develop water safety plans including implementation, financing, and monitoring strategies. The plans should identify existing and potential hazards, threats, risk assessment and risk mitigation measures. The contractor is required engage responsible stakeholders including different administrative levels, such as the relevant Directorates of Water in Dohuk and the surveillance directorate of environment. This shall include improvements of the risk monitoring and mitigation system for urban areas of Dohuk Governorate: The contractor is required to provide a team of specialists for this purpose who shall work alongside project partners in consultation with the GIZ project team. This shall include an international short term expert as team leader, a national long term expert in water resources management, and a team of national and international short term experts with various profiles over a total period of 8 months.
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: Dorsch International Consultants GmbH
Award value: 375441
Number of bids: 7