81270864-Scaling up of DfS Methodology for Multipliers

Kurze Beschreibung

Tasks to be performed by the contractor
The contractor supports the project ‘Improvement of labour-, social- and environment standards in the Pakistani textile industry’ (TextILES) with eight work packages.
The project supports selected producers in the Fashion Industry in Punjab (textile, garments, leathers, shoes, sports, and other subsectors) with capacity development measures to link improvements in the area of labour standards with progresses in production processes, and, by this, to indirectly contribute to sustainable growth.
Textile companies in Pakistan were struggling to achieve the commitment and involvements of workers and managers to improve and maintain sustainability. The problem was reliance on audit approach instead of owning the process which affects sustainability.
This is where GIZ brought a methodology with the name of ‘Dialogue for Sustainability’ (hereafter referred as DfS). DfS is a methodology based on change management approach, jointly developed by GIZ and its partners. DfS at heart is a ‘dialogue’ methodology developed to bring positive change in organizations. It is a self-help methodology leading to a solution, created by the process owners themselves. The idea of DfS is to create an environment of effective dialogue where top management, middle management and workers can collectively work towards a sustainable solution to the organizational problems.
The implementation of DfS methodology since 2014, at pilot scale in textile and garment industries of Punjab, has received overwhelming results which has been acknowledged by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Till date GIZ has implemented this methodology at around 50 partner textile industries of Punjab. Focus has now shifted towards institutionalization of DfS methodology at a broader level.
As part of institutionalization of DfS, TextILES project of GIZ seeks to develop the capacities of multiple consulting and training partner organizations to deliver commercial services to the private sector. These organizations, known as ‘multipliers’, will use the DfS methodology to play the role of service providers (just like GIZ). The goal of this activity is to develop training modules, trainings on these modules and marketing material for multipliers. These 12 new modules on different topics will standardize the DfS methodology and serve as guidelines and a knowledge product for GIZ's DfS methodology.

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Contract description
The textile and garment industry, with its large clusters in the Punjab, is Pakistan's most important manufacturing sector. In 2017 it accounted for about 60 % of export earnings and 8.5 % of GDP and its share of industrial labour force was around 40 %. In addition, there is the production of leather, leather garments and footwear, other branches of the fashion industry. In the garment industry there is little control over compliance with the already weak environmental legislation. To enable more resource-efficient production processes, sustainable management of water and energy resources and the recycling of textile waste, high investments are required in some cases. The working conditions in the sector are dominated by poor workplace safety, low wages, as well as a lack of co-determination at company level and a lack of dialogue between trade unions, employers' associations, and state institutions.
The German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has commissioned the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH with the project ‘Improvement of Labour and Environmental Standards in Pakistan's Textile Industry’ (TextILES), specifically for Pakistan.
The project supports private sector actors (selected producers in the Fashion Industry in Punjab (textile, garments, leathers, shoes, sports, and other subsectors), promoting and facilitating dialogue and exchange among multiple stakeholders, knowledge sharing and mutual learning from strategic to executions levels, with capacity development measures to link improvements in the area of labour standards with progresses in production processes, and, by this, to indirectly contribute to sustainable growth.
The implementing partner of the project is the Federal Ministry of Commerce (MoCom), Government of Pakistan.
TextILES has three main outputs. In Output 1, cooperation between public and private sector groups of actors and cooperation within these groups will be improved to promote social, ecological, and economic sustainability in production in the textile and fashion industry. Assumption is that cooperation between the private and public sector is recognised by all stakeholders as a means of promoting sustainable production.
The measures in Output 2 aim to strengthen the capacities of state actors responsible for compliance with labour and environmental legislation in the industry. Assumption is that the role of state actors in shaping conducive framework conditions beyond subsidies and at the same time in consistently monitoring compliance with legal requirements (e.g. labour rights) is acknowledged.
The objective of Output 3 is to increase the supply of business services to strengthen sustainable production. This includes consultancy services for the adaptation of business models, for the development of innovative products, for the introduction of new technologies and for change management along social, ecological, and economic criteria. Assumption is that investments in such change processes are worthwhile from a business perspective and that companies have access to appropriate financing instruments. This tender document is focusing on Output 3 only.
In the light of national and international laws and regulations, the audit approach has proven to be in-effective with regard to achievement of sustainable development in social, environment and economic goals. Similarly, companies in Pakistan were struggling to achieve the commitment and involvements of workers and managers to improve and maintain sustainability. The problem was reliance on audit approach instead of owning the process which affects sustainability.
This is where GIZ brought a methodology with the name of ‘Dialogue for Sustainability’ (hereafter referred as DfS). DfS is a methodology based on change management approach, jointly developed by GIZ and its partners. DfS at heart is a ‘dialogue’ methodology developed to bring positive change in organizations. It is a self-help methodology leading to a solution, created by the process owners themselves. The idea of DfS is to create an environment of effective dialogue where top management, middle management and workers can collectively work towards a sustainable solution to the organizational problems.
The implementation of DfS methodology since 2014, at pilot scale in textile and garment industries of Punjab, has received overwhelming results which has been acknowledged by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Till date GIZ has implemented this methodology at around 50 partner textile industries of Punjab. Focus has now shifted towards institutionalization of DfS methodology at a broader level.
As part of institutionalization of DfS, TextILES project of GIZ seeks to develop the capacities of multiple consulting and training partner organizations to deliver commercial services to the private sector. These multiplier organizations, currently 9 organizations, will use the DfS methodology as service providers.
The goal of this activity is to support the multipliers with the development of 12 training modules including several materials, followed by trainings on these modules. These modules will standardize the DfS methodology and support the multipliers in not only distributing the concept of DfS but also help them market DfS as a business model.

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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.

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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.

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The offer must be made using the forms provided by GIZ:
1) Trading name and address, beneficial owner(s), commercial register number, bank account, tax number, VAT identification number, brief company profile and contact in event of queries.
2) Extract from the commercial register or equivalent evidence/proof. (not older than 6 months).
3) Self-declaration that no grounds for exclusion in Section 123, 124 of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB) apply.
4) Self-declaration that no fine of at least two thousand five hundred euros has been imposed for noncompliance as specified in Section 21 of the German Minimum Wage Act (MiLoG).
5) If a candidate/tenderer wishes to use the capacities of another company for the execution of the contract, he must prove by submitting a declaration of commitment that the corresponding capacities are available to him for the execution of the contract or are provided by this subcontractor.
6) 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.
7) Order form for registration of a creditor (in case of bidding consortium for all members of the consortium and the bidding consortium itself)

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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.
3) Evidence of creditworthiness may be requested from the bidder/bidding consortium who are to be awarded the contract after submission of the bid. The date of the evidence of creditworthiness should then not be older than three months.

1) Average annual turnover for the last three financial years: at least EUR 600 000 (six hundred thousand).
2) Number of employees as at 31.12 of the previous year: at least 5 persons.

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It is necessary to provide two references in the technical field ‘Business development projects’ and one reference in Southern Asia, each of them in the last 3 years.

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1) The technical assessment is only based on reference projects with a minimum commission value of EUR 50 000 (fifty thousand) EUR.
2) The minimum requirements foreseen at least two reference projects in the technical field ‘Business development projects’ and one reference project must be in Southern Asia, each of the reference projects must be in the last 3 years.

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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.

Kurze Beschreibung

Tasks to be performed by the contractor
The contractor supports the project "Improvement of labour-, social- and environment standards in the Pakistani textile industry" (TextILES) with eight work packages.
The project supports selected producers in the Fashion Industry in Punjab (textile, garments, leathers, shoes, sports, and other subsectors) with capacity development measures to link improvements in the area of labour standards with progresses in production processes, and, by this, to indirectly contribute to sustainable growth.
Textile companies in Pakistan were struggling to achieve the commitment and involvements of workers and managers to improve and maintain sustainability. The problem was reliance on audit approach instead of owning the process which affects sustainability.
This is where GIZ brought a methodology with the name of "Dialogue for Sustainability" (hereafter referred as DfS). DfS is a methodology based on change management approach, jointly developed by GIZ and its partners. DfS at heart is a "dialogue" methodology developed to bring positive change in organizations. It is a self-help methodology leading to a solution, created by the process owners themselves. The idea of DfS is to create an environment of effective dialogue where top management, middle management and workers can collectively work towards a sustainable solution to the organizational problems.
The implementation of DfS methodology since 2014, at pilot scale in textile and garment industries of Punjab, has received overwhelming results which has been acknowledged by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation & Development (BMZ). Till date GIZ has implemented this methodology at around 50 partner textile industries of Punjab. Focus has now shifted towards institutionalization of DfS methodology at a broader level.
As part of institutionalization of DfS, TextILES project of GIZ seeks to develop the capacities of multiple consulting and training partner organizations to deliver commercial services to the private sector. These organizations, known as "multipliers", will use the DfS methodology to play the role of service providers (just like GIZ). The goal of this activity is to develop training modules, trainings on these modules and marketing material for multipliers. These 12 new modules on different topics will standardize the DfS methodology and serve as guidelines and a knowledge product for GIZ"s DfS methodology.

Beschreibung der Beschaffung

Contract Description
The textile and garment industry, with its large clusters in the Punjab, is Pakistan's most important manufacturing sector. In 2017 it accounted for about 60% of export earnings and 8.5% of GDP and its share of industrial labour force was around 40%. In addition, there is the production of leather, leather garments and footwear, other branches of the fashion industry. In the garment industry there is little control over compliance with the already weak environmental legislation. To enable more resource-efficient production processes, sustainable management of water and energy resources and the recycling of textile waste, high investments are required in some cases. The working conditions in the sector are dominated by poor workplace safety, low wages, as well as a lack of co-determination at company level and a lack of dialogue between trade unions, employers" associations, and state institutions.
The German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has commissioned the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH with the project "Improvement of Labour and Environmental Standards in Pakistan"s Textile Industry" (TextILES), specifically for Pakistan.
The project supports private sector actors (selected producers in the Fashion Industry in Punjab (textile, garments, leathers, shoes, sports, and other subsectors), promoting and facilitating dialogue and exchange among multiple stakeholders, knowledge sharing and mutual learning from strategic to executions levels, with capacity development measures to link improvements in the area of labour standards with progresses in production processes, and, by this, to indirectly contribute to sustainable growth.
The implementing partner of the project is the Federal Ministry of Commerce (MoCom), Government of Pakistan.
TextILES has three main outputs. In Output 1, cooperation between public and private sector groups of actors and cooperation within these groups will be improved to promote social, ecological, and economic sustainability in production in the textile and fashion industry. Assumption is that cooperation between the private and public sector is recognised by all stakeholders as a means of promoting sustainable production.
The measures in Output 2 aim to strengthen the capacities of state actors responsible for compliance with labour and environmental legislation in the industry. Assumption is that the role of state actors in shaping conducive framework conditions beyond subsidies and at the same time in consistently monitoring compliance with legal requirements (e.g. labour rights) is acknowledged.
The objective of Output 3 is to increase the supply of business services to strengthen sustainable production. This includes consultancy services for the adaptation of business models, for the development of innovative products, for the introduction of new technologies and for change management along social, ecological, and economic criteria. Assumption is that investments in such change processes are worthwhile from a business perspective and that companies have access to appropriate financing instruments. This tender document is focusing on Output 3 only.
In the light of national and international laws and regulations, the audit approach has proven to be in-effective with regard to achievement of sustainable development in social, environment and economic goals. Similarly, companies in Pakistan were struggling to achieve the commitment and involvements of workers and managers to improve and maintain sustainability. The problem was reliance on audit approach instead of owning the process which affects sustainability.
This is where GIZ brought a methodology with the name of "Dialogue for Sustainability" (hereafter referred as DfS). DfS is a methodology based on change management approach, jointly developed by GIZ and its partners. DfS at heart is a "dialogue" methodology developed to bring positive change in organizations. It is a self-help methodology leading to a solution, created by the process owners themselves. The idea of DfS is to create an environment of effective dialogue where top management, middle management and workers can collectively work towards a sustainable solution to the organizational problems.
The implementation of DfS methodology since 2014, at pilot scale in textile and garment industries of Punjab, has received overwhelming results which has been acknowledged by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation & Development (BMZ). Till date GIZ has implemented this methodology at around 50 partner textile industries of Punjab. Focus has now shifted towards institutionalization of DfS methodology at a broader level.
As part of institutionalization of DfS, TextILES project of GIZ seeks to develop the capacities of multiple consulting and training partner organizations to deliver commercial services to the private sector. These multiplier organizations, currently 9 organizations, will use the DfS methodology as service providers.
The goal of this activity is to support the multipliers with the development of 12 training modules including several materials, followed by trainings on these modules. These modules will standardize the DfS methodology and support the multipliers in not only distributing the concept of DfS but also help them market DfS as a business model.

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.