81285353 - Support to economic reforms and sustainable economic development in regions of Uzbekistan

Kurze Beschreibung

The GIZ project "Support to Economic Reforms and Sustainable Economic Development in Regions of Uzbekistan ", aims at strengthening the local economy with a focus on Ferghana Valley and Karakalpakstan. The project is working in the agri-food and tourism sectors, enhancing the skills of relevant actors at meso and macro levels and improving the dialogue between private and public institutions. In the tourism sector, using international experience and proven approaches, the project intends to continue to promote the tourism potential of the "low-profile" regions, build the capacity of tourism service providers, increase the service quality and diversify tourism offers. A special focus will be on handicraft development as a cross-cutting sector closely linked to tourism. The main goal is to create opportunities for further employment and income generation through increasing the tourists flow and enhancing capacities of service providers.

Beschreibung der Beschaffung

Tourism in Uzbekistan is considered as one of the strategic sectors of national economy, capable solving in long term perspective different social and economic challenges including creation of new job places. Starting from 2017 a number of significant reforms have been carried out including simplification of visa and registration procedures to create better conditions for tourism development and contributed to the increased number of tourists.
Although, the overall situation is positive and progress is evident, many challenges and constraints are observed including insufficient diversification of tourism products and services, low quality of services, weak promotion and marketing, undeveloped infrastructure and transportation. Among these challenges, uneven development of tourism in different regions has special relevance. The major attention and resources, including finances and professional human resources, are still focused on high profile regions, i.e., Bukhara, Samarkand and Khiva. At the same time, it is a favorable time to reverse the trend as the Uzbek government is highlighting and making changes to promote and create better conditions for tourism development for the entire country but specially for less promoted and developed regions such as regions of Ferghana Valley.
Ferghana Valley is the most densely populated part of Uzbekistan consisting of Andijan, Namangan and Ferghana regions. Currently, the destination of Ferghana Valley is promoted as a part of tours to Uzbekistan but only selected locations such as Kokand, Rishtan and Margilan. The heritage of folk crafts and craft traditions is the most well-known and most popular segment of the tourist product of Fergana Valley, which is included in most of the "classic" tours to this area. Most big tour operators include the trip to Ferghana Valley as a part of general tour to Uzbekistan which minimize the number of overnights and in most cases, tourists stay only in the Ferghana region. Bordering with Kyrgyzstan the region offers an advantage to develop cross-border tourism and increase the number of tourists coming to Ferghana Valley.
Tourism capacity of the Ferghana Valley is not used to the full extent. The region has a high potential in different tourism-segments and offers a great opportunity to be developed as a single unique destination. Seizing this opportunity would require solving different challenges. Besides the challenges posed by an inadequate infrastructure and transportation in the region, the development of the tourism becomes complicated due to insufficient number of tourism service providers with high quality services and diversified tour products, insufficient number of local professional guides and ineffective promotion.
Other challenges hindering the development of the destination are: (1) communication gap between the state administration of tourism and tourism private sector and (2) competition between three regions of the Ferghana Valley which generates segmented, isolated and uncoordinated efforts. The situation is compounded by a lack of qualified specialists working both in the public and private tourism sectors. The absence of meso-level organizations working in the tourism sector in Ferghana Valley is also impeding the development of Ferghana Valley as a unique tourism destination.
Therefore, the project intends to support tourism development in Ferghana Valley through implementing activities focused on promotion of the destination, building and strengthen the capacities of tourism sector stakeholders, diversification of tourism products, development of the handicraft sector as a tourism cross cutting sector with highest potential for income generation and job creation. When it comes to diversification of tourism products there is a potential to connect tourism action in Ferghana Valley with development of the agricultural value chains which is another project intervention area. Particularly, rural tourism along with community-based tourism could be complemented through activities planned by the project in the agricultural sector.

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 excerpt.
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. Declaration on the average annual turnover for the last 3 financial years (last-but-four financial year can be included in case of tenders held within 6 months of end of last financial year);
2. Declaration on the average number of employees and managers in the last three calendar years.

1. Average annual turnover for the last three years at least 500.000,00 EUR.
2. Average number of employees and managers in the last three calendar years at least 7 persons.

Bedingungen für die Teilnahme (technische und berufliche Fähigkeiten)

1. At least 3 reference projects in the technical field "tourism and rural development" and at least 1 reference project in CIS countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan or Uzbekistan) in the last 3 years.
2. The technical assessment is only based on reference projects with a minimum commission value of 100.000,00 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.