Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-01-22
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000
Submission deadline: 2021-02-24
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The contractor will be mandated on a case by case basis by the Office 365 team to develop and operate optimal and cost-effective IT solutions within IDA for the departments of GIZ in close collaboration with IT's Office365 (Cloud Services I) team.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1-5, 65760, Eschborn.
This requires a comprehensive know-how of Beezy and its interaction with Microsoft Sharepoint. The knowledge should cover the following topics:
Customising and programming services are also required in the context of the further development of IDA, in particular:
— customising and programming services based on the above mentioned Microsoft Office 365 and Azure products as well as Beezy;
— programming of interfaces to existing GIZ systems (SAP, web applications, OpenText Content Server);
In the field of system administration, external support is required for optimisation, troubleshooting and debugging, especially with regard to the interaction between MS Sharepoint and Beezy. Experience in the analysis of logs and traces is required.
2) Eligibility declaration that no grounds for exclusion in Section 123, 124 of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB) apply.
1) At least one reference project from the last 2 years in the field of ‘Further development and operational support of collaboration platforms in the Beezy/Microsoft sharepoint environment’ in comparable sizes and with comparable requirements is explained.
2) The reference projects are accompanied by the relevant information, namely the project name, the contracting authority, the execution period, the contract value in EUR, the country, the name of the employee (if this is a co-offered person), the field of expertise and a brief description of the project in 5 to 10 sentences.
3) The bidder is a Microsoft competence partner in at least one of the areas: cloud productivity, collaboration and content, communications, cloud platform.
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;

Eligibility requirements: 1) Trading name and address, commercial register number. 2) Eligibility declaration that no grounds for exclusion in Section 123, 124 of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB) apply. 3) Eligibility declaration subcontractors if applicable. 4) Association clause if applicable.