81244165 — Coopération Technique (CT) avec L'Autorité du Bassin du Niger (ABN)

Kurze Beschreibung

The objective of the overall project is ‘NBA steering and advisory services related to the sustainable development of transboundary water resources in the Niger Basin are improved’. The Niger Basin Authority (NBA) was created to ensure an equitable distribution of the water resources of the Niger River, to promote cooperation among riparian States and to facilitate integrated development of water resources throughout the catchment area. GIZ's role in this program is to provide organizational and technical support to strengthen NBA's steering and advisory capacities for the sustainable development of transboundary water resources in the Niger Basin.

Beschreibung der Beschaffung

The services provided by the consultant will address NBA's legal framework (Water Charter), NBA's technical planning and monitoring capacities (technical planning, monitoring and evaluation) as well as its financial programming capacities (financial programming):
Water Charter:
The Water Charter is a binding interstate convention governed by international law, which defines the principles of institutional and legal cooperation around the waters of the Niger River Basin. It provides for the preparation of five implementation annexes defining environmental protection obligations (1), operational and coordinated management of dams (2), notification procedures for planned measures (3), cost-benefit sharing (4) and the legal status of common infrastructure or infrastructure of common interest (5). The Charter was adopted by the 8th Summit of Heads of State and Government held on 30.4.2008 in Niamey-Niger. Since its entry into force on 19.7.2010, 3 annexes (1, 3 and 4) out of the 5 planned have been adopted.
The Water Charter defines the Common Infrastructure and Infrastructure of Common Interest as respectively ‘a work for which the Member States of the Niger Basin Authority have decided by a legal act that it is their common and indivisible property’ and ‘a work having an interest for 2 or more Member States of the Niger Basin Authority and for which they have by common agreement decided on coordinated management’.
The consultant's task will be the participatory (together with the representatives of Member Countries) elaboration of a draft for Annex 5 (legal status) in line with the orientations set by Annex 4 (economic model of cost-benefit sharing).
Technical planning, monitoring and evaluation:
The NBA Operational Plan is now the main tool for technical programming of the NBA in the sense of joint planning for the management and development of the basin's water resources. In concrete terms, it covers infrastructure projects in Member States with a cross-border impact on the availability or quality of water resources. A planning, monitoring and evaluation manual was developed to capitalize on NBA's experiences in technical and financial programming. It now serves as a reference document for updating the operational plan and monitoring its implementation. The consultant's objective will be to operationalize this tool (both at the executive secretariat and at country level) and translate it into a computerized version using the MS Project software.
To this end, particular importance is attached to improving cooperation between the Executive Secretariat and Member Countries' National Focal Structures.
Financial programming:
The financial component of NBA programming has been enhanced since 2016 using a Programme Budget by Objective (BPO) approach. The BPO is a budgetary programme approach tool, which follows the idea of results-based management. The triennial planning is updated every year. Its gliding nature gives it a role as a regulator and adjuster of forecasts and achievements. It allows the analysis of resources and their allocation, according to the priorities expressed in NBA's strategic and operational plans.
The consultant will provide support in order to facilitate the further operationalization of the tool, based on the orientations given by the planning, monitoring and evaluation manual.
As part of the ‘financial programming’, the consultant will also support the NBA's Administrative and Financial Directorate with regard to the adaptation of accounting systems to the program approach.

Objektive Kriterien für die Auswahl der begrenzten Anzahl von Bewerbern

1) Technical experience:
— Transboundary Water Management 20 %,
— Regional Infrastructure Development 15 %,
— design and operationalization of sectoral or regional planning and monitoring systems 20 %,
— elaboration of legal framework documents and/or implementation tools 15 %.
2) Regional experience in the Region Western Africa 10 %.
3) Experience of development projects (ODA-financed) 10 %.

Liste und kurze Beschreibung der Bedingungen

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.

Liste und kurze Beschreibung der Auswahlkriterien

1) At least x reference projects in the technical field xxx and at least x reference projects in the region xxx in the last 3 years.
2) The technical assessment is only based on reference projects with a minimum commission value of xx EUR.

Bedingungen für die Teilnahme (technische und berufliche Fähigkeiten)

1) At least 2 reference projects in the technical field Transboundary Resources Management and at least 2 reference projects in the region Western Africa in the last 3 years.
2) The technical assessment is only based on reference projects with a minimum commission value of 100 000 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.