81293844-Implementation of Digital Skills Training Programmes Referenznummer der Bekanntmachung: 81293844
Auftragsbekanntmachung
Dienstleistungen
Abschnitt I: Öffentlicher Auftraggeber
Postanschrift: Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1 - 5
Ort: Eschborn
NUTS-Code: DE71A Main-Taunus-Kreis
Postleitzahl: 65760
Land: Deutschland
Kontaktstelle(n): Leinemann Partner Rechtsanwälte mbB
E-Mail:
Fax: +49 6974093874
Internet-Adresse(n):
Hauptadresse: http://www.giz.de
Abschnitt II: Gegenstand
81293844-Implementation of Digital Skills Training Programmes
The regional East African Community (EAC) project "Digital Skills for an Innovative East African Industry" (dSkills@EA) builds on its predecessor and continues to support the "Centre of Excellence for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in East Africa" (CENIT@EA) by further improving the quality and sustainability of the Master"s Programme "Embedded and Mobile Systems" (MSc EMoS), such as through close collaboration and involvement of the private sector. Furthermore, short course trainings on advanced digital skills for different target groups (unemployed graduates, private and public sector, university staff) are supported by the project. The trainings are in addition to the two-years MSc EMoS offered at CENIT@EA at the Nelson Mandela African Institution for Science and Technology (NM-AIST) in Arusha, Tanzania, to reach more beneficiaries. Finally, dSkills@EA improves the digital innovation and entrepreneurship capacity of young East African students at universities and graduates in the EAC through a regional network of innovation hubs, multi-stakeholder dialogues, and matchmaking mechanisms with companies.
The project focus is that, employment and innovation related digital skills of young people in the East African Community Partner States strengthened.
With the industry as an ultimate beneficiary of these digital skills, the collaboration with the private sector is a key element of dSkills@EA. In this regard, the project can build on the "ICT4Business" dialogue platform and established collaborations with companies like SAP, IBM or Kiira Motors.
dSkills@EA is part of the technical development cooperation between the EAC and Germany. It supports the EAC integration process and its economic development. The political partner is the EAC Secretariat, and the main implementation partner is the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA), together with an East African-German academic consortium and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The academic consortium is led by NM-AIST and the University of Oldenburg in Germany. Other consortium partners include the University of Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania), University of Technology and Arts in Byumba (Rwanda), Mannheim University of Applied Sciences and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). Further partners include innovation hubs, national and regional industry associations as well as regional and international companies.
This consulting assignment supports dSkills@EA in its efforts of its digital skills trainings intervention area (Output 3). The specific objective for that project area is that short-term training courses for digital skills designed according to the needs of the industry have been successfully carried out.
Demand for digital skills training is continuing to surge, as jobs that previously did not require digital skills more and more do so and as digitalization is creating new jobs that did not exist before. Digitalisation capacities have in addition become a crucial aspect for the competitiveness and innovativeness of companies. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the speed of change.
The project is addressing this digital transformation by aiming to equip its target group of young people from university as well as businesses with the necessary market oriented digital skills to increase their employability and provide businesses with the necessary skills to harness the benefits of digitalisation and become more competitive and innovative. Thereby these trainings fit in the logic of the EAC development strategy which demonstrates the importance of accelerating the utilization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for driving socio-economic development and integration.
00000 Tanzania
The consultant team shall implement market-oriented digital skills trainings through locally sub-contracted training providers and their curricula in the EAC, to enhance digital skills of young people and businesses in the seven EAC Partner States (Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda).
In its implementation, the contractor will take on the role of coordinator for the training activities and will be required to demonstrate a strong implementation presence within the EAC. In addition, the coordinator will be responsible for provision of already existing curricular on topics mentioned in work-packages 2,3 and 4 that are designed for implementation within the EAC, logistics of the trainings, reporting, monitoring and overall project management; including, the understanding of national regulations of each state within the EAC with regard to implementation of national projects by international organisations. Example, in Tanzania, it is required for international organisations implementing projects within the country to have national registration of their offices that are tax paying within the country.
Training experts shall be identified according to the transparent quality criteria outlined in section 4.
A minimum of 470 participants shall be trained equitably among the EAC Partner States, of which at least 40% must be women. A participant can be trained on one training package only as follows: Digital Skills for Universities Transformation towards Quality Education Experience or Data Analytics, Visualisation and Narrative generation or Digital Marketing and E-Commerce for Business Expansion.
The contractor is deemed as the central coordinator for these activities to put together the implementing team, which includes qualified training experts. In particular, the contractor is overall responsible for:
- Project management
- Develop a concept for the trainings provision, implementation plan - including timeline for each training, to be conducted for each of the seven EAC Partner States
- Identify training experts to train on the topics in work-packges 2, 3 and 4, facilities, technical infrastructure and equipment (eg Learning Management System) to conduct trainings in a physical or blended-learning or virtual approach in the EAC. A table of content with topics and sub-topic description should be provided as attachment at point of tender submission.
- COVID-19 restrictions in the countries need to be observed in designing the training approaches. Fully online trainings should be an exception and used only where necessary or as the ToR provides.
- Design and organise the application and selection process for participants from the EAC Partner States
- Develop communication material: These include but are not limited to project reports, meeting minutes, training certificates, call for application to participants, Training participation material to the participants and summaries to GIZ, Surveys and reports. This applies to external and internal communication to project stakeholders.
- Backstopping with the responsible GIZ project advisor throughout the process on the following: Regular reporting (weekly during training implementation) on the training and participation (eg number of participants, gender, country, industry affiliation, position in the company, upcoming project matters and to contractors' position) and overall staggered project reporting to GIZ as will be indicated on the reporting schedule outlined on respective workpackages. All this communication to external parties and participants and internal parties to the project (stakeholders) will be carried out in the English language.
- Survey among participants at the end of each training about the satisfaction and quality of the training
- Certification of successful participants. Upon successful completion of a training program, participants will be awarded with certificates of successful completion. The contractor will be required to give a definition of success in relation to the training programs. In addition, provide draft certificate design according to project partner representation as will be guided by the project.
The contractor contributes to the project"s output 3 ("Short-term training courses for digital skills designed according to the needs of the industry have been successfully carried out.") as described in this document.
The contractors indicators in contributing to output 3 are:
Indicator 1:
5 short-term training courses on digital skills that are relevant to the industry are carried out in collaboration with the industry.
Contractor"s contribution to the indicator:
3 short-term training courses on digital skills that are relevant to the industry are carried out in collaboration with the industry.
Indicator 2:
462 of 700 participants, 185 (40%) of whom are women, successfully completed a short-term training course on digital skills.
Contractor"s contribution to the indicator:
310 of 470 participants, 124 (40%) of whom are women, successfully completed a short-term training course on digital skills.
Project Timeline:
The duration of contract is from contract award until 31.12.2024.
GIZ is entitled to extend the period for fulfilment of the original contract by unilaterally notifying the Contractor. For details, please see the special terms and conditions.
The assignment will only be entrusted to companies with the required expertise and capacity (eligible companies), which meet the criteria listed in the document "Request to participate and Eligibility declaration by applicants (Call for competition)", and which are not excluded under the terms of Sections 123 or 124 of the German Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB) or who can prove restoration of their integrity in line with Section 125 of the same act and also not excluded under the terms of section 22 LkSG.
If there is a previously announced limit to the number of applicants, an assessment will be carried out according to the relevant evaluation scale included in the tender documents.
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 special terms and conditions.
Abschnitt III: Rechtliche, wirtschaftliche, finanzielle und technische Angaben
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) and in Section 22 LkSG apply.
3. Eligibility declaration subcontractors if applicable.
4. Association clause if applicable
1. Declaration on the average annual turnover for the last 3 financial years (last-but-four financial year can be included in case of invitation to tender held within 6 months of end of last financial year);
2. Declaration of the average number of employees and managers for the past three calendar years.
1. Average annual turnover for the last three years at least 1.500.000,00 EUR.
2. Declaration of the average number of employees and managers for the past three calendar years at least 15 persons.
It is necessary to provide references in the technical field "digital skills trainings" with a minimum commission value of 350.000,00 EUR.
1. At least 3 reference projects in the technical field of "digital skills trainings" and at least 2 reference projects in Eastern Africa in the last 3 years.
2. The technical assessment is only based on reference projects with a minimum commission value of 350.000,00 EUR.
Abschnitt IV: Verfahren
Abschnitt VI: Weitere Angaben
The communication with the bidders will only take place via GIZ e-tendering platform (VMS).
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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.