81235799-(Master Course on Managing Peace and Security in Africa)

Kurze Beschreibung

Project to support the African Union (AU) in the area of training, research and policy dialogue on peace and security through the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Support to the project component on education programmes and training courses offered by the IPSS. Support to further developing and implementing the Executive Master Programme in Managing Peace and Security in Africa (MPSA), including teaching and evaluation.

Beschreibung der Beschaffung

To further develop and to effectively implement the instruments of the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA), the AU puts great emphasis on the development of human capacities of institutions within the APSA. Yet, staff of the African Union Commission (AUC), Regional Economic Communities (RECs) as well as state and civil society organisations in AU member states (MS) often lack applicable knowledge and capacities in the area of peace and security. Against this background, in 2010 the AU founded the Africa Peace and Security Programme (APSP) as a joint project with the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) at Addis Ababa University in January 2010. The programme provides post-graduate training, political advisory services and political dialogue in the thematic field of the APSA.
However, despite significant progress made over the years, the post-graduate programmes of the IPSS could not keep up with the growing complexity and dynamic developments of African conflicts and the different instruments to resolve them. For example, the reappraisal of new politically relevant topics such as migration, mediation and gender could not meet the requirements of the MPSA and other upcoming formats of post-graduate trainings. However, to date the institutional and staff capacities of the IPSS are not yet sufficient to further develop the training programmes sustainably.
The Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH supports the IPSS through its project “Support to the African Union on capacity building and training, applied research and policy dialogue in the area of peace and security” over a period of 3 years (July 2018 to June 2021). The GIZ project aims at strengthening the “IPSS” institutional capacities as the AUs premier think tank in the area of training, research and policy dialogue for African peace and security issues.
In view of the abovementioned challenges the IPSS faces with regard to its educational programmes, one of the components of the GIZ project aims at adapting the existing trainings to better reflect changes in the African conflict landscape and, hence, better suit the needs of staff employed by the AUC, RECs, MS and civil society organizations. This includes further developing the Executive Master Programme in Managing Peace and Security in Africa (MPSA) and other training formats (short courses). With the start of a new GIZ project phase in July 2018, the IPSS has requested the support for the development and implementation of the MPSA and other trainings courses and their evaluation.
The tender addresses 3 key intervention areas:
1) Research, curricula development and teaching: research developments in the field of peace and security in Africa and build those into the curriculum to ensure the contents of the MPSA course are up-to-date. Facilitate sessions with MPSA-participants employing current pedagogic methodologies that enhance learning and mutual exchange of ideas. Contribute to the full development of MPSA-modules and conduct periodic review of these modules;
2) Contribute to project management: design, prepare and implement the MPSA-course and related events (e.g. workshops, meeetings) and provide advice on the design and development of new executive training courses. Institute measures to plan and manage international, regional and local short-term experts in consultation with the APSP Director. Establish a monitoring system and advise on how to write and review project reports. The consultancy will support the call for application for the MPSA, the selection of participants and the marketing and advocacy of the course;
3) Support the external evaluation of the MPSA: contribute to the development of the evaluation scoop and methodology and the selection of the consultants. Provide quality control for implementation and provide feedbacks on project reports, including the final project report.

Objektive Kriterien für die Auswahl der begrenzten Anzahl von Bewerbern

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.
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.

Liste und kurze Beschreibung der Bedingungen

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

Liste und kurze Beschreibung der Auswahlkriterien

1) Declaration on the average annual turnover for the last 3 financial years (last-but-4 financial year can be included in case of invitation to tender held within 6 months of end of last financial year).
2) Declaration on the number of employees as at 31.12 of the previous year.

Bedingungen für die Teilnahme (technische und berufliche Fähigkeiten)

1) At least 5 reference projects in the technical field “Peace and security teaching field” and at least 3 reference projects in the region Africa in the last 3 years.
2) The technical assessment is only based on reference projects with a minimum commission value of 50 000 EUR.

Genaue Informationen über Fristen für Überprüfungsverfahren

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.