Beschreibung der Beschaffung
Short-term expert pool for project ‘Promoting Trade in West Africa’ (WATIP II).
The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the strengthening of the Ecowas common market and the integration of the West African region into the international economic and trading systems. This is done by 3 interventions, which form the 3 Components of WATIP II:
1) Trade facilitation measures improved and more efficiently implemented: support the development of regional policies and instruments related to facilitating the implementation of the Ecowas Customs Code at national levels and to further enhancing the implementation of the Ecowas Trade Liberalisation Scheme (ETLS);
2) More efficient movement of goods along selected corridors: support to the establishment of an interconnectivity system that allows for the automated transmission of customs data and data of other border agencies so as to facilitate the movement along selected trade corridors;
3) Barriers for women and small-scale trader reduced: strengthening the role and awareness of the private sector and civil society in regional and national dialogues on trade facilitation.
The contractor is responsible for providing the following main areas of services (work packages):
1) Provision of conceptual, strategic and planning advice to the WATIP II management team as well as to selected implementation partners, including application of selected capacity works tools;
2) Technical assessments, studies and surveys falling into the scope of the programme;
3) Programme-relevant capacity assessments, workshops, trainings, and coaching in all 3 Components for the action's beneficiaries;
4) Quality assurance of outputs delivered, administrative support to planning and organizing missions and support to the programme's communication and visibility actions.
The detailed mission schedules related to these work packages will be defined based on the needs of the project and in close consultation with the project's team leader and heads of components.
The number of total days of all work packages is 1 640 of which 1 094 work days need to be served in the Ecowas region. The contract is tentatively scheduled to start on 1.12.2019 and shall end by 31.7.2022. The cost of the tender is estimated to be 1 500 000 EUR. The possibility of a contract extension exists.
Objectives for the bidder:
— the contractor is responsible for selecting, preparing, training and steering the experts (international and national, short and long term) assigned to perform the advisory tasks,
— the contractor makes available equipment and supplies (consumables) and assumes the associated operating and administrative costs,
— the contractor manages costs and expenditures, accounting processes and invoicing in line with the requirements of GIZ,
— in derogation from GIZ AVB (2018), the contractor contributes to project progress reviews and concluding reports instead of submitting its own reports.
The structure of the bid must correspond to the structure of the terms of reference. The bid is drawn up in English language. The technical-methodological concept of the offer must not exceed 10 pages, excluding CVs and annexes.
The CVs of the personnel proposed in accordance with Chapter 4 of the ToR must be submitted using the EU format and shall not exceed 3 pages. The CVs must clearly show the position and job the proposed person held in the reference project and for how long.
The qualifications of the proposed experts for the short-term expert pools must be presented in a summary table for each pool.
Moreover, the bidder needs to provide a statement of availability for each CV submitted.