Building and managing a mentor and expert network for African start-ups scaling innovations for the agriculture and food sector

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

GIZ implements the project "Scaling digital agriculture innovations through start-ups" (SAIS) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The purpose of SAIS is to increase the investor readiness of selected African start-ups in the food- and agTech sector that are about to scale. For this purpose, the project provides tailor-made company development measures (e. g. improving business models, product development, financial management) through an Investment Readiness Programme (IRP) and facilitates access to investment opportunities.
In that regard, the contractor shall mainly build and manage a network of short-term experts (including contracting) that can be selected by the start-ups supported through the programme; manage the community and provide an online-platform to run the community from the 2nd year.

Deadline

Die Frist für den Eingang der Angebote war 2022-11-08. Die Ausschreibung wurde veröffentlicht am 2022-10-07.

Anbieter

Die folgenden Lieferanten werden in Vergabeentscheidungen oder anderen Beschaffungsunterlagen erwähnt:

• CEFE International GmbH

Wer?

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Wie?

• Allgemeine Managementberatung › Beratungsdienste im Bereich Wirtschaftsförderung

Wo?

• Darmstadt › Main-Taunus-Kreis

Geschichte der Beschaffung

Datum	Dokument
2022-10-07	Auftragsbekanntmachung
2023-04-26	Bekanntmachung über vergebene Aufträge

Auftragsbekanntmachung (2022-10-07)
Objekt
Umfang der Beschaffung
Titel: Beratungsdienste im Bereich Wirtschaftsförderung
Referenznummer: 81288568
Kurze Beschreibung:

GIZ implements the project "Scaling digital agriculture innovations through start-ups" (SAIS) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The purpose of SAIS is to increase the investor readiness of selected African start-ups in the food- and agTech sector that are about to scale. For this purpose, the project provides tailor-made company development measures (e. g. improving business models, product development, financial management) through an Investment Readiness Programme (IRP) and facilitates access to investment opportunities. In that regard, the contractor shall mainly build and manage a network of short-term experts (including contracting) that can be selected by the start-ups supported through the programme; manage the community and provide an online-platform to run the community from the 2nd year.

Metadaten der Bekanntmachung
Originalsprache: Englisch 🗣️
Dokumenttyp: Auftragsbekanntmachung
Art des Auftrags: Dienstleistungen
Verordnung: Europäische Union, mit GPA-Beteiligung
Gemeinsames Vokabular für öffentliche Aufträge (CPV)
Code: Beratungsdienste im Bereich Wirtschaftsförderung 📦
Ort der Leistung
NUTS-Region: Main-Taunus-Kreis 🏙️

Verfahren
Verfahrensart: Verhandlungsverfahren
Angebotsart: Angebot für alle Lose
Vergabekriterien
Wirtschaftlichstes Angebot

Öffentlicher Auftraggeber
Identität
Land: Deutschland 🇩🇪
Art des öffentlichen Auftraggebers: Sonstiges
Name des öffentlichen Auftraggebers: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Postanschrift: Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1 - 5
Postleitzahl: 65760
Postort: Eschborn
Kontakt
Internetadresse: https://www.giz.de 🌏
E-Mail: giz.ausschreibungen@fgvw.de 📧
Telefon: +49 697191890-12 📞
URL der Dokumente: https://ausschreibungen.giz.de/Satellite/notice/CXTRYY6YUXH/documents 🌏
URL der Teilnahme: https://ausschreibungen.giz.de/Satellite/notice/CXTRYY6YUXH 🌏

Referenz
Daten
Absendedatum: 2022-10-07 📅
Einreichungsfrist: 2022-11-08 📅
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2022-10-12 📅
Kennungen
Bekanntmachungsnummer: 2022/S 197-559708
ABl. S-Ausgabe: 197
Zusätzliche Informationen

The communication takes place exclusively via the project area of the portal. Bekanntmachungs-ID: CXTRYY6YUXH

Objekt
Umfang der Beschaffung
Kurze Beschreibung:

In that regard, the contractor shall mainly build and manage a network of short-term experts (including contracting) that can be selected by the start-ups supported through the programme; manage the community and provide an online-platform to run the community from the 2nd year.

Tasks to be performed by contractors

The contractor is responsible for hosting a network of mentors and experts on an online platform in close dialogue and under the oversight of SAIS for two successive cohorts of start-ups, namely the ones starting in 2023 and 2024. There is an opportunity to extend this support for two additional cohorts of start-ups to 2025 and 2026 and to broaden the support to more start-ups and to another focus. This includes the following main tasks: ?

1. Contracting and managing of a community and acceleration online platform:?

The bidder will manage an already contracted IT solution for the hosting of the Mentor and Expert Network (MEN) in the first year and will contract and manage it or another similar alternative in the second year of this contract (and additional years, if option is applied). The online platform is the main instrument for managing the community of SAIS, which includes start-up founders and their leadership teams, SAIS team members, experts and mentors as well as other potential partners. The platform serves as a connector between the different actors. Experts and mentors describe their expertise here, founders review their profiles and reach out to them. Moreover, the platform is used to document the agreed company development measures and track progress. In addition, start-ups can also rate the services of the experts and mentors.

The bidder is responsible for closing agreements with the experts. Therefore, he may but is not obliged to make use of the experts already listed on the platform. Furthermore, the bidder will add new experts to the network.

2. Sourcing, contracting and payment of (short-term) experts and mentors

Sourcing in this context means, that the contractor identifies relevant experts and mentors based on the needs of the start-ups as documented in the development plans. There is already an existing pool of experts and mentors the bidder can make use of, but he will also source new experts on a needs basis every time there is a demand for an expertise which cannot be covered by the current experts or where the bidder choses to source a new expert.

Contracting entails the closing of a legal agreement with each expert which includes a standard daily rate and a free orientation call.

Mentors on the platform agree to offer their services without a monetary compensation.

Payment therefore only applies to (short-term) experts once they have delivered the agreed work packages under the condition that the start-ups confirm that they have done so. Work progress should be tracked on the virtual platform used. The contractor is responsible for the payment of the experts according to the respective agreement and number of hours they have worked.?

3. Coordination and the provision of additional business development services ("ASP") and equipment

The contractor is expected to contract additional external service providers for identified growth areas of the individual start-ups (for instance for legal advice, marketing, product refinement, financial management, cash flow optimization, or developer or coding capacities). These tasks will have to be sourced out to third parties. In addition, the contractor will buy equipment for the start-ups.

4. Community management for all the registered members on the platform

The contractor will professionally and proactively manage the community for all members on the platform which means catering to the needs of the different user groups (i. e. start-up founders, leadership team, SAIS team, expert, mentors and other partners). This includes but is not limited to moderating discussions, answering to questions or requests of members, connecting members based on common interests or specific needs, doing regular calls among user groups for peer exchange, and so on.

Dauer: 24 Monate
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:

Ort der Leistung
Hauptstandort oder Erfüllungsort:

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 32 + 36 53113 Bonn Services are to provided in PAN-African as well.

Rechtliche, wirtschaftliche, finanzielle und technische Informationen
Bedingungen für die Teilnahme
Befähigung zur Berufsausübung:

The application 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 six months).

3) Self-declaration that no grounds for exclusion in Section 123, 124 of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB) and EU-Russian sanctions apply.

4) 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.

5) If subcontractors are to be used, a declaration of commitment and a declaration that no grounds for exclusion pursuant to Section 123 GWB and/or Section 124 GWB apply to them must be submitted.

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.

Wirtschaftliche und finanzielle Leistungsfähigkeit:

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 average number of employees and managers for the past three calendar years.

Mindeststandards:

1) Average annual turnover for the last 3 financial years: at least 400,000 EUR.

2) Average number of employees and managers for the past three calendar years: at least 8 persons.

Technische und berufliche Fähigkeiten:

It is necessary to provide minimum 2 reference projects in the technical field "Building and Managing of a network/community" and at least 1 reference projects must be in Africa, each of them in the last three years with a minimum commission value of at least 50,000 EUR.

Mindeststandards:

1) The technical assessment is only based on reference projects with a minimum commission value of EUR 50,000 (fifty thousand Euro) in the last three years.

2) The minimum requirements forsee at least 2 reference projects in the technical field "Building and Managing of a network/community" and at least 1 reference project must be in Africa, each of them in the last three years with a minimum commission value of at least EUR 50,000 (fifty thousand Euro).

Verfahren
Rechtsgrundlage: 32014L0024
Mindestzahl der Bewerber: 3
Höchstzahl der Bewerber: 5
Objektive Kriterien für die Auswahl der begrenzten Anzahl von Bewerbern:

If more than five candidates/associations are considered suitable, only the five candidates/associations ranked in the top five according to the following selection criteria will be invited to submit a tender. The other candidates/associations will not be invited to submit a tender. This selection will be made under all eligible participants based on the following criteria:

I. Technical experience:

1. Building and management of 2 online communities (weighting 20%)

2. Management of 2 contracts with focus on contract management with international partners (weighting 20%)

3. Two years of experience in start-up mentoring & start-up support (weighting 20%)

4. Design and execution of 5 online trainings for start-ups (weighting 10%)

II. Regional experience:

Regional experience Africa (weighting 20%)

III. Experience of development projects (ODA-financed):

Experience of development projects (at least 50 % ODA-financed) (weighting 10%)

Zeitpunkt des Eingangs der Angebote: 12:00
Datum der Absendung der Aufforderungen: 2022-11-28 📅
Sprachen, in denen Angebote oder Teilnahmeanträge eingereicht werden können: Englisch 🗣️

Öffentlicher Auftraggeber
Identität
Andere Art des öffentlichen Auftraggebers: Legal person governed by private law (gemeinnützige GmbH) wholly owned by the Federal Republic of Germany
Kontakt
Kontaktperson: Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner mbB Rechtsanwälte
Dokumente URL: https://ausschreibungen.giz.de/Satellite/notice/CXTRYY6YUXH/documents 🌏

Referenz
Zusätzliche Informationen

The communication takes place exclusively via the project area of the portal.

Bekanntmachungs-ID: CXTRYY6YUXH

Ergänzende Informationen
Körper überprüfen
Name: Die Vergabekammern des Bundes
Postanschrift: Villemombler Straße 76
Postort: Bonn
Postleitzahl: 53123
Land: Deutschland 🇩🇪
Telefon: +49 2289499-0 📞
E-Mail: vk@bundeskartellamt.bund.de 📧
Fax: +49 2289499-163 📠
Internetadresse: https://www.bundeskartellamt.de 🌏
Informationen zu Fristen für Nachprüfungsverfahren:

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.

Quelle: OJS 2022/S 197-559708 (2022-10-07)

Bekanntmachung über vergebene Aufträge (2023-04-26)
Objekt
Umfang der Beschaffung
Gesamtwert des Auftrags: 762 942 EUR 💰
Metadaten der Bekanntmachung
Dokumenttyp: Bekanntmachung über vergebene Aufträge

Verfahren
Angebotsart: Entfällt

Referenz
Daten
Absendedatum: 2023-04-26 📅
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2023-04-28 📅
Kennungen
Bekanntmachungsnummer: 2023/S 084-259607
Verweist auf Bekanntmachung: 2022/S 197-559708
ABl. S-Ausgabe: 84
Zusätzliche Informationen
Bekanntmachungs-ID: CXTRYY6Y85C

Verfahren
Vergabekriterien
Qualitätskriterium (Bezeichnung): Technical Assessment
Qualitätskriterium (Gewichtung): 70
Preis (Gewichtung): 30.00

Auftragsvergabe
Datum des Vertragsabschlusses: 2023-04-25 📅
Name: CEFE International GmbH
Postort: Cologne
Land: Deutschland 🇩🇪
Köln, Kreisfreie Stadt 🏙️
Gesamtwert des Auftrags: 762 942 EUR 💰
Informationen über Ausschreibungen
Anzahl der eingegangenen Angebote: 5
Quelle: OJS 2023/S 084-259607 (2023-04-26)

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