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81311589-Technical support for the implementation of the RECOTwin project

The "Regional Cooperation on Labour Market Policy (LPM) and Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for a Twin Transition in ASEAN" (RECOTwin) Project is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The project"s objective is to ensure that regional bodies and ASEAN Member States (AMS) …

CPV: 80000000 Education and training services, 79000000 Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

Deadline:

Dec. 16, 2024, noon

Deadline type:

Submitting a bid

Place of execution:

81311589-Technical support for the implementation of the RECOTwin project

Awarding body:

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Award number:

81311589

1. Buyer

1.1 Buyer

Official name : Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Legal type of the buyer : Public undertaking, controlled by a central government authority

Activity of the contracting authority : General public services

2. Procedure

2.1 Procedure

Title : 81311589-Technical support for the implementation of the RECOTwin project

Description : The "Regional Cooperation on Labour Market Policy (LPM) and Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for a Twin Transition in ASEAN" (RECOTwin) Project is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The project"s objective is to ensure that regional bodies and ASEAN Member States (AMS) are in a better position to align Labour Market Policy (LMP) and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) with the needs of the green and digital transformation in a future-oriented manner. The implementation period started in February 2024 and will end in January 2028. RECOTwin is following the long-standing RECOTVET project, that supported TVET in ASEAN for almost 10 years. The political partner of the project is ASEAN as represented by the ASEAN Senior Labour Officials Meeting (SLOM). The Human Development Directorate (HDD) with the support of the Labour and Civil Services Division (LCSD) at the ASEAN Secretariat is responsible for the coordination with GIZ to ensure the implementation of the project activities with relevant partners at the country, regional and international level. Main implementing partners are SLOM, ASEAN TVET Council (ATC) as well as ATC and SLOM focal bodies in AMS. Further, RECOTwin partners with selected TVET institutes, non-governmental organisations and the private sector as well as GIZ"s and other donors" relevant projects for implementation and creating evidence on the ground in ASEAN. RECOTwin supports the following thematic areas and activities: a) Regional Governance - Provide technical assistance/expert advice to ASEAN sectoral bodies (especially SLOM and ATC) and AMS in fulfilling their commitments in implementing the work plan on Labour and TVET - Support ATC to enhance their institutional capacity, strengthen their visibility at national level and participation of the private sector and women representatives - Provide advisory services for the establishment of an ASEAN pooled funding mechanism on Human Resource Development (HRD) b) Labour Market Policy (LMP) - Workforce projection in e.g. the renewable energy sector and translation of evidence into skills policies with a focus on the potential for women's employment - Capacity development strategy to strengthen competencies in AMS for gender-sensitive anticipation of skills needs - Knowledge exchange, capacity development and expert advice of labour market actors on the strengthening of labour market information systems (LMIS) in AMS (gender-specific disaggregated data collection, normalisation, harmonisation, analysis, processing, interpretation, dissemination and use by decision-makers). - Capacity development for ATC/SLOM members and other relevant national actors to use data for the design of green and gender-responsive labour market policies and active labour market policies. c) Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) - Support ATC in developing regional tools and standards to support the green and digital transformation of VET systems - Collection, quality assurance and dissemination of existing curricula, e-learning programmes and newly developed regional tools for green and digital transformation with SEAMEO VOCTECH via the sea-vet.net website - Creating and collecting learning experiences from AMS to inform and shape the discussion of regional bodies The contractor is expected to contribute to the activities in all thematic areas by providing adequately sourced international as well as regional senior experts and experts in close coordination with the GIZ RECOTwin team.

Procedure identifier : 38645146-e522-4bdc-a9c6-1980c592daa3

Internal identifier : 81311589

Type of procedure : Open

The procedure is accelerated : no

Justification for the accelerated procedure :

Main features of the procedure :

2.1.1 Purpose

Main nature of the contract : Services

Main classification ( cpv ): 80000000 Education and training services

Additional classification ( cpv ): 79000000 Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

2.1.2 Place of performance

Town : Vietnam

Postcode : 00000

Country : Vietnam

Anywhere in the given country

Additional information : The services are to be provided in ASEAN region.

2.1.4 General information

Additional information : Bekanntmachungs-ID: CXTRYY6Y11C4SA3R All communication takes place in English via communication tool in the project area of the procurement portal.

Legal basis :

Directive 2014/24/EU

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2.1.6 Grounds for exclusion

Analogous situation like bankruptcy under national law : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Bankruptcy : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Corruption : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Arrangement with creditors : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Participation in a criminal organisation : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Agreements with other economic operators aimed at distorting competition : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Breaching of obligations in the fields of environmental law : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Money laundering or terrorist financing : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Fraud : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Child labour and other forms of trafficking in human beings : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Insolvency : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Breaching of obligations in the fields of labour law : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Assets being administered by liquidator : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Guilty of misrepresentation, withheld information, unable to provide required documents and obtained confidential information of this procedure : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Conflict of interest due to its participation in the procurement procedure : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Direct or indirect involvement in the preparation of this procurement procedure : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Guilty of grave professional misconduct : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Early termination, damages or other comparable sanctions : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Breaching of obligations in the fields of social law : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Payment of social security contributions : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Business activities are suspended : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Payment of taxes : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Terrorist offences or offences linked to terrorist activities : Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

5. Lot

5.1 Lot technical ID : LOT-0001

Title : 81311589-Technical support for the implementation of the RECOTwin project

Description : The consulting firm shall provide long-term strategic project advice regarding thematic, political and processual aspects of the project as well as specific technical and process advise of short-term experts on defined tasks for the different project activities, in close coordination and communication with the project staff. The consulting firm shall provide expertise which can be deployed flexibly according to the specific requests from RECOTwin. Experts assigned will be required to work on assignments involving: 1. Policy analysis and advice (e.g. on LMP, TVET standard development). 2. Technical expertise (e.g. green, digital and economic transformation and the resulting skills and jobs implications, greening of TVET, active labour market measures, Labour Market Information Systems). 3. Transfer of experiences, expertise and conceptual know-how in the area of LMP and TVET as well as on topics relevant for a Just Twin Transition (e.g. on methodological concepts and instruments). 4. Multi-stakeholder engagement (e.g. within ASEAN and among AMS). Furthermore, short-term experts (STE) may be requested to contribute to capacity development of partner institutions and their staff (e.g. trainings, workshops, peer-to-peer exchange).

Internal identifier : 81311589

5.1.1 Purpose

Main nature of the contract : Services

Main classification ( cpv ): 80000000 Education and training services

Additional classification ( cpv ): 79000000 Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

5.1.2 Place of performance

Town : Vietnam

Postcode : 00000

Country : Vietnam

Anywhere in the given country

Additional information : The services are to be provided in ASEAN region.

5.1.3 Estimated duration

Duration : 30 Month

5.1.4 Renewal

Maximum renewals : 3

The buyer reserves the right for additional purchases from the contractor, as described here : GIZ can extend the framework agreement up to three times for a period of six months each.

5.1.6 General information

The names and professional qualifications of the staff assigned to perform the contract must be given : Tender requirement

Procurement Project not financed with EU Funds.

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) : yes

This procurement is also suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

Additional information : #Besonders geeignet für:selbst#

5.1.7 Strategic procurement

Aim of strategic procurement : Reduction of environmental impacts

Aim of strategic procurement : Fulfilment of social objectives

Approach to reducing environmental impacts : Climate change mitigation

Social objective promoted : Ethnic equality

Social objective promoted : Gender equality

5.1.9 Selection criteria

Criterion :

Type : Economic and financial standing

Name : Wirtschaftliche und finanzielle Leistungsfähigkeit

Description : 1) Declaration on the average annual turnover for the last 3 financial years (last-but-4 financial year can be included in case of tenders held within 6 months of end of last financial year): at least 2,000,000 EUR. 2) Declaration on the average number of employees and managers for the past three calendar years: at least 10 persons. The relevant form provided by GIZ is to be used.

Criterion :

Type : Other

Name : Sonstiges

Description : 1) Name and address of the company, legal form, registered office (country), owners and controlling parties, commercial register number/dirstrict court, bank account, tax number, VAT identification number, brief company profile and contact in event of queries. 2) Self-declaration that no grounds for exclusion in Section 123, 124 of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB), section 22 of the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG) and EU-Russian sanctions as well as that in the last three years no custodial sentence of more than three years or a fine of more than 90 daily rates or a fine of more than two thousand five hundred euros, which resulted in an entry in the Competition Register, been imposed for noncompliance as specified in section 124 (2) of the German Act against Restraints on Competition (GWB) apply. 3) If a candidate/tenderer wishes to use the capacities of another company for the execution of the contract or to prove his/her eligibility, she/he must prove by submitting a declaration of commitment that the corresponding capacities are available to him/her for the execution of the contract and a declaration that no grounds for exclusion pursuant to Section 123 GWB and/or Section 124 GWB apply to them must be submitted. For the purpose for eligibility through reliance upon the capacities of other entities, please use the form provided by GIZ. 4) In the case of participation as a bidding consortium: tenderers must appoint a leading member and authorise this member to represent the group and to receive payments with discharging effect also for the other members. A corresponding agreement, signed by all members, must be attached to the application for participation. For this purpose, the form provided by GIZ must be used. The relevant form provided by GIZ is to be used.

Criterion :

Type : Suitability to pursue the professional activity

Name : Eignung zur Berufsausübung

Description : 1) Extract from the commercial register or equivalent evidence/proof in English or German (not older than six months).

Criterion :

Type : Technical and professional ability

Name : Technische und berufliche Leistungsfähigkeit

Description : It is necessary to provide (1) at least five reference projects in the following technical field: (i) of TVET (3 reference projects) and (ii) of Labour Market Policy (2 reference projects) (2) thereof at least three reference projects in: in South-Eastern Asia in the above-mentioned field (TVET and/or Labour Market Policy). Each of the reference projects must be in the last three years with a minimum commission value of at least 100,000 EUR. The relevant countries for South-Eastern Asia are in the eligibility grid. The relevant form provided by GIZ is to be used.

5.1.11 Procurement documents

Languages in which the procurement documents are officially available : English

Deadline for requesting additional information : 05/12/2024 23:59 +01:00

Address of the procurement documents : https://ausschreibungen.giz.de/Satellite/notice/CXTRYY6Y11C4SA3R/documents

Ad hoc communication channel :

URL : https://ausschreibungen.giz.de/Satellite/notice/CXTRYY6Y11C4SA3R

5.1.12 Terms of procurement

Terms of submission :

Electronic submission : Required

Address for submission : https://ausschreibungen.giz.de/Satellite/notice/CXTRYY6Y11C4SA3R

Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted : English

Electronic catalogue : Not allowed

Variants : Not allowed

Tenderers may submit more than one tender : Not allowed

Description of the financial guarantee : An advance payment guarantee may be required

Deadline for receipt of tenders : 16/12/2024 12:00 +01:00

Deadline until which the tender must remain valid : 105 Day

Information that can be supplemented after the submission deadline :

At the discretion of the buyer, all missing tenderer-related documents may be submitted later.

Additional information : GIZ asks the applicant or bidder to submit, complete or correct documents, within the framework laid down by law.

Information about public opening :

Opening date : 16/12/2024 12:01 +01:00

Terms of contract :

The execution of the contract must be performed within the framework of sheltered employment programmes : No

Conditions relating to the performance of the contract : The execution conditions result from the information given in the contract notice and the tender documents.

Electronic invoicing : Required

Electronic ordering will be used : yes

Electronic payment will be used : yes

Information about review deadlines : 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.

5.1.15 Techniques

Framework agreement :

Framework agreement, without reopening of competition

Maximum number of participants : 1

Information about the dynamic purchasing system :

No dynamic purchase system

Electronic auction : no

5.1.16 Further information, mediation and review

Telephone : +49228996100

Roles of this organisation :

TED eSender

10. Change

Version of the previous notice to be changed : 09a75f81-3870-4389-b48b-0af6b4665b5b-01

Main reason for change : Information now available

Description : Extension of the submission deadline.

10.1 Change

Section identifier : PROCEDURE

Description of changes : Extension of the submission deadline.

11. Notice information

11.1 Notice information

Notice identifier/version : be606933-8343-4fae-984c-c95fb2178679 - 01

Form type : Competition

Notice type : Contract or concession notice – standard regime

Notice dispatch date : 15/11/2024 13:13 +01:00

Languages in which this notice is officially available : English

11.2 Publication information

Notice publication number : 00701402-2024

OJ S issue number : 224/2024

Publication date : 18/11/2024