81244979-Trade-related Private Sector Support and Engagement in Cambodia

Kurze Beschreibung

The ARISE Plus Cambodia project aims to support greater connectivity and economic integration between Cambodia and the rest of ASEAN through implementing the AEC Blueprint 2025 and strengthening institutional capacity. It will consolidate and enhance the results achieved with past and ongoing EU trade-related technical assistance. The project has 3 components:
1) Trade facilitation and standards;
2) Institutional and human capacities development for the formulation and implementation of trade-related policies;
3) Enhancement of private sector engagement, notably SMEs, and better preparedness for AEC's seamless, single economic space. ARISE Plus Cambodia is co-financed by the European Union (EU) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) with a duration from January 2019 through June 2023. This tender regards implementation of component 3, as components 1 and 2 are implemented directly by GIZ.

Beschreibung der Beschaffung

This tender concerns the implementation of Component 3 of the abovementioned project ARISE Plus Cambodia ‘Enhancing Private Sector Engagement’. Within this component, the contractor is expected to deliver 3 workstreams:
3.1) SME export development: the project will enable SMEs to take advantage of the facilitated trade environment. The contractor will individually support selected SMEs, preferably from rural and semi-urban areas, in making use of export potentials, including as supplier to exporting companies (‘backward linkages’) located domestically or across borders. The contractor will develop criteria for the selection of beneficiary SMEs, which may refer to business characteristics, to particular sectors or products, regions within Cambodia, a focus on particular target overseas markets, categories of support required, etc. The contractor will select SMEs accordingly and assist them in moving up the value chain and meeting export standards. This is likely to include individual support measures, such as market research/intelligence, match-making, certification, assistance with border procedures, improved adherence to quality standards or other targeted assistance;
3.2) Trade information: the project will improve the access of SMEs to demand-oriented trade information with a focus on ASEAN markets. The contractor will build on government (and development partner) efforts to educate the private sector about trade-related policies and procedures, ‘going the last mile’ to ensure that communication materials are not only appropriate to the needs of current (and potential) SME traders but also that this information actually reaches the target audience. The contractor will support business associations and other business service providers to offer trade-related information to SMEs in user-friendly formats. The contractor will support government partners in the development of these materials, and the contractor will produce and distribute them (using partner networks and resources whenever possible). Topics may include SPS and technical barriers to trade requirements, quality infrastructure and relevant private standards, export and import procedures, including EU and in particular ASEAN certificate of origin, self-registration, etc. The contractor will raise awareness about available tools such as the National Trade Repository in Cambodia. Target-specific information, especially for women-led/women-owned enterprises, will be provided whenever feasible and appropriate;
3.3) Trade advocacy: the contractor will strengthen the advocacy capacities of business associations in Cambodia, particularly those representing SMEs or other private sector actors currently underrepresented in trade. Working in tandem with existing and planned public-private dialogue (PPD) mechanisms, the contractor will support access for SME business associations to these PPD mechanisms as well as develop capacities of these associations to fully participate in the mechanisms. The contractor will support associations in learning about trade policy and relevant governance mechanisms; in defining a common position on priority trade topics based on inputs from their members; and in voicing these positions in the appropriate public-private dialogue structure. As such, direct project beneficiaries may include the Cambodian Chamber of Commerce, the Cambodian Freight Forwarders Association, the Cambodia Women Entrepreneurs Association, the Young Entrepreneurs Association and other SME associations, including sectoral associations.
The contractor will deliver the above activities in a 36 month period from contract signing, using a mix of 3 full-time staff based in Phnom Penh and various short-term experts.

Beschreibung der Optionen

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 terms of reference.

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

At least 2 reference projects in the technical field of SME export development and or out of which at least 2 reference projects in the region South-Eastern Asia, implemented (or in the course of implementation) within the last 3 years.
The technical assessment is only based on reference projects with a minimum commission of 250 000 EUR.

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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.