Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2022-02-15
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Submission deadline: 2022-03-15
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
On behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), GIZ is implementing numerous digital solutions in various sectoral and global projects united in the department GloBe. All these global projects need special expertise during the next years. With this tender we look for a team of Experts in the area of: Artificial Intelligence.
The following consulting services on artificial intelligence are to be provided for projects on digital transformation and digital development:
Consultancy for GIZ and its partners on the following topics in a sustainable development context (not complete):
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1 - 5 65760 Eschborn
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) is a German federal enterprise in international cooperation for sustainable development. We work for our clients and together with our partners on more than 1,500 ongoing projects in around 120 countries. GIZ employs over 20,000 people worldwide. Of these, more than 4,000 work in Germany.
The promotion and dissemination of digitalisation is a development policy goal in its own right, which the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is pursuing in a special way together with its partners. On behalf of the BMZ, GIZ is implementing numerous digital solutions in various sectoral and global projects united in the department GloBe in addition to the BMZ Digital Transformation Centres operating worldwide. In line with the needs and potentials of the partners, these projects support local capacities to shape digital transformation.
The following consulting services on artificial intelligence are to be provided for projects on digital transformation and digital development:
a. the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in a sustainable development context  (E.g. in agriculture, mobility,?urban development, energy,?financial inclusion and the wider financial system and the public sector) , including the development, deployment and integration of ML systems with other software?
c. explanations of artificial intelligence and machine learning systems including the current status and potential of AI and ML that are accessible for a non-expert audience, in particular in GIZ"s partner countries?
d. risk assessments of the use of AI and ML in a sustainable development context, following international best practices and GIZs standards (will be provided)?and focussing on issues including potential discriminiation, especially of disadvantages groups, in training datasets and by AI/ML models, as well as mitigation measures for these identified risks, including approaches for de-biasing of training data
e. sustainability assessments for AI and ML deployments following GIZs the following three good practice standards 1) Principles for Digital Development? 2) criteria for ML projects (Annex A) and 3) "Self-sustaining Open AI cycle in nine steps" (Annex B)
a. analyses of the ecosystems of AI and ML including the mapping and assessment of stakeholders and analysis of framework conditions in partner countries of German Development Cooperation, nationally, regionally or globally?
b. contributions from a technical point of view to policy discussion around artificial intelligence e.g. data governance, local hosting requirements, data flows etc. ?
c. creation of material for and implementation of capacity building measures in GIZ"s partner countries, especially India, in the cross-section of AI and cyber security, especially on secure AI systems, the relationship between AI and cyber security and open AI training data and AI-based cybersecurity

Eligibility requirements: 1. Trading name and address, commercial register excerpt. 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.