Beschreibung der Beschaffung
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) is a German federal enterprise in international cooperation for sustainable development. We work for our clients and together with our partners on more than 1,500 ongoing projects in around 120 countries. GIZ employs over 20,000 people worldwide. Of these, more than 4,000 work in Germany.
The promotion and dissemination of digitisation is a development policy goal in its own right, which the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is pursuing in a special way together with its partners. On behalf of the BMZ, GIZ is implementing a lot of different digital solutions in various sectoral and global projects united in the department GloBe. In addition to the BMZ Digital Transformation Centres operating worldwide, these include a wide range of projects. In line with the needs and potentials of the partners, these projects support local capacities to shape the digital transformation themselves.
With this tender we look for a team of Experts in the area of: Cloud and data infrastructure.
The goal of this tender is to provide cloud and data infrastructure expertise to GIZ projects. The specific services can range from general advice on the preparation of studies to concrete support in technical implementation.
The consultant will need to deliver detailed analyses, policy proposal and work together with GIZ staff in providing advisory services to national governments and private stakeholders in all matters related cloud and infrastructure. With its expertise, the consultant is required to support in achieving the objective of creating local economic value from data in partner countries and supporting the data sovereignty of the countries.
The following services will be provided by the consultant:
- Performing studies and analysis
- Mapping the data infrastructure ecosystem in partner countries and making analyses of the data infrastructure market
- Performing studies and legislative analysis
- Present a list of priority sectors and countries that GIZ should engage budling data infrastructure
- Provide policy advice
- Providing expertise and supporting the process of developing national and regional data infrastructure strategies
- Presenting policy recommendations on how to foster data sovereignty
- Develop national and regional data governance models
- Developing project proposals
- Develop concept notes and case studies on data infrastructures
- Develop project proposals for implementation in partner countries
- Support for the management of external service providers
- Support for the implementation of tenders
- Commissioning and controlling
- Design thinking workshops, strategic capacity building
- Review and update or co-draft open data and data sharing strategies
- Capacity-building seminars on specific subsectors and focus areas
- Assist in the preparation and facilitation of high-level events