Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-07-04
Buyer: KfW
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 79417000
Submission deadline: 2017-08-08
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: KfW (short for ‘Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau’) is offering the following business opportunity which is tendered in two separate lots:
Service contract aiming at supporting KfW's risk and security management to ensure the security of KfW personnel and of consultants working on behalf of KfW in the Great Lakes region (Africa), especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The assignment includes information services, mission facilitation and emergency support. It requires the permanent presence of a security expert on-site.
Framework agreement aiming at supporting KfW's risk and security management to ensure the security of KfW personnel and of consultants working on behalf of KfW on projects and missions in the region of the Horn of Africa, especially in Somaliland. The assignment includes information services, mission facilitation on-site and emergency support. The contractor will coordinate, support and accompany KfW's staff and consultants on their missions.
While the contract is governed by German law and the place of arbitration shall be Frankfurt am Main (Germany), the services will be performed in the Great Lakes Region, especially Republic of Congo.
KfW operates offices in the Democratic Republic of Congo (mainly Kinshasa), in Uganda (Kampala), in Rwanda (Kigali) and in Burundi (Bujumbara).
The aim of this assignment is to reinforce a risk management System within KfW in order to ensure the security of KfW personnel and of various consultants working on behalf of KfW in this geographic region.
KfW requires on-site security services on an uninterrupted basis 365 days per year. The contractor must engage 2 to 3 experienced experts in safety and security management who will take turns to travel between the aforementioned countries, providing the following Services:
— Acquisition of security information and monitoring and assessment of the day-to-day security situation,
— Development of an early warning system for any gradual shift in the security and safety Environment,
— Site security assessments (office, hotels etc.), resulting in recommendations regarding the use of these facilities.
— Coordinating and managing of security or health related incidents, e.g. the transfer of affected persons to medical assistance or their evacuation,
— If needed, coordination of close protection services (the provision of close protection services as such is not part of this assignment).
The contractor must furthermore appoint 1 backstopper. This person will work off-site and provide technical and organizational support to the experts who are working on-site (e.g. support with working equipment, delivery of additional information for security reports, enabling contacts with important stakeholders). Moreover, the backstopper will act as contact person for KfW.
In order to achieve the above tasks, the contractor shall apply the following methodology, among others:
— Monitoring and analyzing open source information (press, news channel …) as well as security sector information (e.g. specialized databases),