81271719-Empowerment of the Nursing Sector's Labour Market Governance in Jordan

Kurze Beschreibung

Jordan's unemployment rate has increased significantly in recent years, and young people are particularly affected. More than a third of the country's youth are without work, and young women have by far the lowest economic participation in the region.
While Jordanian companies lack qualified skilled workers, the vocational and higher education institutions often focus rather on theory than practice. Most students and parents reject technical vocational education and training (TVET) as viable employment paths, preferring academic educations leading to university degrees.
In line with Jordan's HRD Strategy, GIZ on behalf of The German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has launched the flagship project ‘Labour Market Oriented Vocational Education, Higher Education and Training — MOVE-HET’ in 2017. The MOVE-HET Project has an overarching goal of aligning TVET and Higher Education programs with labour market needs to improve employability. BMZ's mandate includes supporting the Jordanian Ministry.
The MOVE-HET project supports and encourages the involvement of the private sector in TVET and Higher Education and supports the improvement of interactions and stakeholders on the political level (ministries and centralised institutions) as well as on the level of institutions. The project also addresses the tension between labour demand and labour supply through the matching of demand and supply by collecting and evaluating labour market data. This also supports the quantitative control of the option for Jordanian nurses to enter the German labour market. At the same time, MOVE-HET will support the compatibility of the education of Jordanian nurses with requirements of the respective German labour market.
With the addition of the healthcare sector to the MOVE-HET project, i the improvement of the data basis for the sector will be tackled. The objective is to serve the need for a better forecast of workforce, in the domestic labour market as well as internationally. It is to be considered that the Jordanian labour market can currently not absorb the nurses that are being qualified through university education, due to a lack of financial resources of the sector. Nevertheless, the lack of skilled workers currently prevents the achievement of SDG 3.8 (Universal Health Coverage): Only 2.3 doctors and 2.8 registered nurses per 1,000 inhabitants in Jordan (UHC target: 4.5). The infant mortality rate is 16.2 per 1 000 live births (in Germany it is 3.72 per 1 000 live births). Working conditions are difficult due to a high workload, and there is increasing evidence of overwork among nursing staff. Lack of employment prospects in the local health care system and difficult working conditions have led to a high emigration of Jordanian health care workers abroad.
That being said, there is a major lack of statistical data regarding the nursing labour market. With multiple governing bodies, councils and entities involved in shaping the nursing labour market, a clear data source highlighting the numbers of registered nurses in Jordan (both employed and unemployed) as well as figures of Jordanian nurses working abroad, and a geographic distribution of these assignments is heavily lacking. Thus, the MOVE-HET project will focus on two key areas of activity in the field of nursing:
— support the development of a Labour Market Information System (Platform) for the nursing sector with relevant partners;
— capacity development to employees of the relevant governing bodies.
These interventions will help empower the Jordanian counterparts to make informed decisions about the nursing labour market, thus guide student enrolment in nursing programs, adapt nursing programs, understand employment prospects in the labour market and inhibitors to that, and finally, regulate nursing emigration and make informed decisions on the migration of Jordanian nurses. The latter is a window the Jordanian government is very keen on exploring.

Beschreibung der Beschaffung

The contractor is responsible for the support of the development of a functioning Labour Market Information System (platform) in close cooperation with local agencies and local authorities. The contractor is furthermore responsible for the training of 250 ministry employees in the data collection and usage of the aforementioned platform, once developed.
In addition, the contractor shall support the improvement of inter-ministerial cooperation regarding the nursing sector and the to be created platform through the initiation of regular exchange formats and through the implementation of capacity development measures for employees of the relevant ministries to collect labour market data.
The main activities of the Contractor consist in the support of the development, administration and use of an online platform for forecasting and analysing the national labour market needs and the national supply of manpower in the health sector.
The platform is intended to entail relevant data of the national labour market in the health sector, specifically in nursing, to have it evaluated by experts and to make it available to the relevant stakeholders. Relevant stakeholders are the training institutions for nurses (universities and colleges), Ministry of Higher Education, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labour, as well as the Jordanian nursing council, and the Jordanian Nurses and Midwives Council, among others.
The contractor shall provide the following specific services in order to implement the terms of reference:
1) Improving inter-ministerial cooperation in order to adequately address needs by organising regular meetings between the governing and coordination bodies of the nursing sector;
2) Support to the development of a labour market information system (Platform) for forecasting and analysing the national labour market needs and the national supply of workers in the health sector. This includes:
(a) a technical and informational concept for data collection;
(b) the clarification of the requirements and conditions for data collection;
(c) identification and collection of data for the labour market information system with respect to the findings of the Labour Market Analysis for the nursing sector, which will be made available by GIZ;
(d) development and implementation of a procedure for the regular evaluation of the data collected by the system;
(e) creating and demand-driven amendment and management of an open pool of international and national experts, who will be used for data evaluation as short-term experts;
(f) management of the experts' assignments for data evaluation. This includes:
— the selection of the experts;
— the preparation of the experts;
— the planning and organisation of the experts;
— contract management with the experts;
(g) the complete implementation of the labour market information system;
(h) support in the maintenance and administration of the labour market information system for forecasting and analysing the national labour market needs and the national supply of healthcare workers locally, on site in Amman;
(i) preparing the system for handover to a stakeholder at national level (Ministry of Health or Ministry of Labour).
3) The preparation of a regular report (once a year), agreed between the ministries involved to analyse the needs and the absorption capacity of the local labour market;
4) The developer of the labour market information system must provide training to 250 ministry staff members (Ministry of Health or Ministry of Labour) on use of the platform. The staff members shall be trained on how to continuously collect data and process those via the platform. The contracted developer must create a comprehensive tutorial video and guiding document to accompany the platform.

Beschreibung der Verlängerungen

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.

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

1) Average annual turnover for the last 3 years (last-but-four financial year can be included in case of tenders held within 6 months of end of last financial year), at least: EUR 950 000.00;
2) Average number of employees and managers in the last 3 calendar years, at least 10 persons.

Liste und kurze Beschreibung der Auswahlkriterien

1) The technical assessment is only based on reference projects with a minimum commission value of EUR 200 000.00;
2) At least 2 reference projects in the technical field labour market governance and at least 1 reference projects in the region Jordan in the last 3 years.

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.

Kurze Beschreibung

Jordan's unemployment rate has increased significantly in recent years, and young people are particularly affected. More than a third of the country's youth are without work, and young women have by far the lowest economic participation in the region.
While Jordanian companies lack qualified skilled workers, the vocational and higher education institutions often focus rather on theory than practice. Most students and parents reject technical vocational education and training (TVET) as viable employment paths, preferring academic educations leading to university degrees.
In line with Jordan's HRD Strategy, GIZ on behalf of The German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has launched the flagship project "Labour Market Oriented Vocational Education, Higher Education and Training - MOVE-HET" in 2017. The MOVE-HET Project has an overarching goal of aligning TVET and Higher Education programs with labour market needs to improve employability. BMZ"s mandate includes supporting the Jordanian Ministry.
The MOVE-HET project supports and encourages the involvement of the private sector in TVET and Higher Education and supports the improvement of interactions and stakeholders on the political level (ministries and centralized institutions) as well as on the level of institutions. The project also addresses the tension between labour demand and labour supply through the matching of demand and supply by collecting and evaluating labour market data. This also supports the quantitative control of the option for Jordanian nurses to enter the German labour market. At the same time, MOVE-HET will support the compatibility of the education of Jordanian nurses with requirements of the respective German labour market.
With the addition of the healthcare sector to the MOVE-HET project, i the improvement of the data basis for the sector will be tackled. The objective is to serve the need for a better forecast of workforce, in the domestic labour market as well as internationally. It is to be considered that the Jordanian labour market can currently not absorb the nurses that are being qualified through university education, due to a lack of financial resources of the sector. Nevertheless, the lack of skilled workers currently prevents the achievement of SDG 3.8 (Universal Health Coverage): Only 2.3 doctors and 2.8 registered nurses per 1,000 inhabitants in Jordan (UHC target: 4.5). The infant mortality rate is 16.2 per 1000 live births (in Germany it is 3.72 per 1000 live births). Working conditions are difficult due to a high workload, and there is increasing evidence of overwork among nursing staff. Lack of employment prospects in the local health care system and difficult working conditions have led to a high emigration of Jordanian health care workers abroad.
That being said, there is a major lack of statistical data regarding the nursing labour market. With multiple governing bodies, councils and entities involved in shaping the nursing labour market, a clear data source highlighting the numbers of registered nurses in Jordan (both employed and unemployed) as well as figures of Jordanian nurses working abroad, and a geographic distribution of these assignments is heavily lacking. Thus, the MOVE-HET project will focus on two key areas of activity in the field of nursing:
- Support the development of a Labour Market Information System (Platform) for the nursing sector with relevant partners.
- Capacity development to employees of the relevant governing bodies
These interventions will help empower the Jordanian counterparts to make informed decisions about the nursing labour market, thus guide student enrolment in nursing programs, adapt nursing programs, understand employment prospects in the labour market and inhibitors to that, and finally, regulate nursing emigration and make informed decisions on the migration of Jordanian nurses. The latter is a window the Jordanian government is very keen on exploring.

Beschreibung der Beschaffung

The contractor is responsible for the support of the development of a functioning Labour Market Information System (platform) in close cooperation with local agencies and local authorities. The contractor is furthermore responsible for the training of 250 ministry employees in the data collection and usage of the aforementioned platform, once developed.
In addition, the Contractor shall support the improvement of inter-ministerial cooperation regarding the nursing sector and the to be created platform through the initiation of regular exchange formats and through the implementation of capacity development measures for employees of the relevant ministries to collect labour market data.
The main activities of the Contractor consist in the support of the development, administration and use of an online platform for forecasting and analyzing the national labour market needs and the national supply of manpower in the health sector.
The platform is intended to entail relevant data of the national labour market in the health sector, specifically in nursing, to have it evaluated by experts and to make it available to the relevant stakeholders. Relevant stakeholders are the training institutions for nurses (universities and colleges), Ministry of Higher Education, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labour, as well as the Jordanian nursing council, and the Jordanian Nurses and Midwives Council, among others.
The Contractor shall provide the following specific services in order to implement the Terms of Reference:
1. Improving inter-ministerial cooperation in order to adequately address needs by organising regular meetings between the governing and coordination bodies of the nursing sector.
2. Support to the development of a labour market information system (Platform) for forecasting and analysing the national labour market needs and the national supply of workers in the health sector. This includes:
a. A technical and informational concept for data collection
b. The clarification of the requirements and conditions for data collection
c. Identification and collection of data for the labour market information system with respect to the findings of the Labour Market Analysis for the nursing sector, which will be made available by GIZ
d. Development and implementation of a procedure for the regular evaluation of the data collected by the system
e. Creating and demand-driven amendment and management of an open pool of international and national experts, who will be used for data evaluation as short-term experts.
f. Management of the experts' assignments for data evaluation. This includes:
- The selection of the experts
- The preparation of the experts
- The planning and organization of the experts
- Contract management with the experts
g. The complete implementation of the labour market information system
h. Support in the maintenance and administration of the labour market information system for forecasting and analysing the national labour market needs and the national supply of healthcare workers locally, on site in Amman.
i. Preparing the system for handover to a stakeholder at national level (Ministry of Health or Ministry of Labour).
3. The preparation of a regular report (once a year), agreed between the ministries involved to analyse the needs and the absorption capacity of the local labour market.
4. The developer of the labour market information system must provide training to 250 ministry staff members (Ministry of Health or Ministry of Labour) on use of the platform. The staff members shall be trained on how to continuously collect data and process those via the platform. The contracted developer must create a comprehensive tutorial video and guiding document to accompany the platform.

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.