81309961-AWARE Expert Pool for human rights and gender equality with technical expertise, especially for advice to organs of the African Union

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Since 2004, GIZ has been a reliable and trusted partner of the African Union (AU) to enhance inclusive growth and sustainable development on the African continent in line with the AU"s Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want. With more than 200 staff, GIZ African Union cooperates with the AU Commission (AUC), as well as AU Organs, including the Human Rights Organs and specialized institutions and agencies, such as the Development Agency AUDA-NEPAD, at continental, regional and national level in more than 35 member states. Key areas of engagement include Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention, Governance and Migration, Sustainable Economic Growth and Employment, as well as Health and Social Development. The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) commissioned GIZ to implement a project on "Promotion of Human Rights and Women"s Empowerment in Africa (AWARE)". Through a gender-transformative and human rights-based approach, the Project aims to support the AU, it"s specialized agencies, and continental civil society, including women"s organisations/networks in the implementation of measures that promote human rights and gender equality and women's empowerment in Africa. The Project is implemented within the broader context of AU-German Government Development Cooperation in collaboration with partners including the AU Human Rights Organs and the African Union Commission (AUC) Women Gender and Youth Directorate (WGYD), as well as the Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security (PAPS). The AWARE Project aims to improve the ability of the AU, its Member States, and other actors to implement continental commitments on human rights and gender equality. Therefore, it is using the 3Rs approach - rights, resources, and representation - to support human rights and women"s empowerment across Africa, in collaboration with the AU and its affiliates. It involves: - enhancing women"s and girls" access to continental human rights redress mechanisms by improving the ability of women"s networks to promote and protect women"s rights, - supporting the implementation of AU initiatives for financial and economic inclusion, specifically aiming to improve women"s access to financial resources and - promoting increased participation of women in political and economic decision-making processes. The AWARE Project in part provides technical assistance to partners, including availing advisory and thematic expert services. To facilitate the implementation of its objectives, the Project seeks to create an Expert Pool to, among others, provide consultancy services to partners within the context of the Project outputs and indicators.

Deadline

Die Frist für den Eingang der Angebote war 2024-09-17. Die Ausschreibung wurde veröffentlicht am 2024-08-15.

Wer?

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Wie?

Wo?

• Köln › Bonn, Kreisfreie Stadt

Geschichte der Beschaffung

Datum	Dokument
2024-08-15	Auftragsbekanntmachung
2024-08-22	Auftragsbekanntmachung
2024-09-03	Auftragsbekanntmachung

Auftragsbekanntmachung (2024-08-15)
Objekt
Umfang der Beschaffung
Titel: 81309961-AWARE Expert Pool for human rights and gender equality with technical expertise, especially for advice to organs of the African Union
Referenznummer: 81309961
Kurze Beschreibung:

Kurze Beschreibung

Since 2004, GIZ has been a reliable and trusted partner of the African Union (AU) to enhance inclusive growth and sustainable development on the African continent in line with the AU"s Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want. With more than 200 staff, GIZ African Union cooperates with the AU Commission (AUC), as well as AU Organs, including the Human Rights Organs and specialized institutions and agencies, such as the Development Agency AUDA-NEPAD, at continental, regional and national level in more than 35 member states. Key areas of engagement include Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention, Governance and Migration, Sustainable Economic Growth and Employment, as well as Health and Social Development.

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) commissioned GIZ to implement a project on "Promotion of Human Rights and Women"s Empowerment in Africa (AWARE)". Through a gender-transformative and human rights-based approach, the Project aims to support the AU, it"s specialized agencies, and continental civil society, including women"s organisations/networks in the implementation of measures that promote human rights and gender equality and women's empowerment in Africa. The Project is implemented within the broader context of AU-German Government Development Cooperation in collaboration with partners including the AU Human Rights Organs and the African Union Commission (AUC) Women Gender and Youth Directorate (WGYD), as well as the Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security (PAPS).

The AWARE Project aims to improve the ability of the AU, its Member States, and other actors to implement continental commitments on human rights and gender equality. Therefore, it is using the 3Rs approach - rights, resources, and representation - to support human rights and women"s empowerment across Africa, in collaboration with the AU and its affiliates. It involves:

- enhancing women"s and girls" access to continental human rights redress mechanisms by improving the ability of women"s networks to promote and protect women"s rights,

- supporting the implementation of AU initiatives for financial and economic inclusion, specifically aiming to improve women"s access to financial resources and

- promoting increased participation of women in political and economic decision-making processes.

The AWARE Project in part provides technical assistance to partners, including availing advisory and thematic expert services. To facilitate the implementation of its objectives, the Project seeks to create an Expert Pool to, among others, provide consultancy services to partners within the context of the Project outputs and indicators.

Art des Vertrags: Dienstleistungen
Produkte/Dienstleistungen: Beratungsdienste 📦
Beschreibung
Interne Kennung: 81309961
Beschreibung der Beschaffung:

The Expert Pool will serve as a database of experts to support the implementation of the AWARE Project. Specifically, the expert will assist in providing support services in the fields of human rights and gender equality to the project partners, in an effort to implement continental commitments on the protection and promotion of human rights and on gender equality and women"s empowerment. The expert pool will provide services that address both institutional and programmatic priorities of project partners. Due to the very broad landscape of partners, it was decided to make use of an expert pool as a support mode of delivery for partners. An expert pool will allow for more targets, efficient and responsive support to the requests of the various partners. The GIZ-AU AWARE Project includes interventions that implement continental policies and allow citizens to benefit from them. The project design is guided by Agenda 2063, and several policies and protocols addressing issues relevant to underserves communities in our societies such as women, youth, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and the elderly. Broader continental initiatives such as the Women & Youth Financial and Economic Inclusion Initiative (WYFEI), along with smaller more targeted measures are supported in support of both citizens/CSOs and the "duty bearers" i.e. the institutions and agencies that have the mandate to implement the policies. A Contractor is required to provide technical assistance in 3 key areas of support, namely access to rights, access to resources and access to representation. Within these areas, the expertise range from human rights, women and youth"s empowerment, women & youth"s political and economic representation, organizational development, strategy development, facilitation of processes. A team of experts shall be provided by the Contractor with expertise in the areas identified above. Detailed information on the profiles can be found in the tender documents: Output 1 "The capacities of the AU and other actors to protect and promote women"s rights in Africa are strengthened". Output 2 "The capacities of the relevant AU actors to improve women"s access to economic resources are strengthened". Output 3 "Women"s equal participation in economic and political decision-making processes at continental, regional and national levels is strengthened". Close collaboration with project partners as well as coordination with the GIZ project team in Addis Ababa will be required. The Contractor may be a single firm or a consortium of various consulting firms. The involvement of consulting firms from African countries within subcontracting or joint venture arrangements will be permitted. The estimated duration of the contract is 19 months from the contract award (anticipated late November 2024).

Beschreibung der Beschaffung

The Expert Pool will serve as a database of experts to support the implementation of the AWARE Project. Specifically, the expert will assist in providing support services in the fields of human rights and gender equality to the project partners, in an effort to implement continental commitments on the protection and promotion of human rights and on gender equality and women"s empowerment. The expert pool will provide services that address both institutional and programmatic priorities of project partners.

Due to the very broad landscape of partners, it was decided to make use of an expert pool as a support mode of delivery for partners. An expert pool will allow for more targets, efficient and responsive support to the requests of the various partners.

The GIZ-AU AWARE Project includes interventions that implement continental policies and allow citizens to benefit from them. The project design is guided by Agenda 2063, and several policies and protocols addressing issues relevant to underserves communities in our societies such as women, youth, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and the elderly. Broader continental initiatives such as the Women & Youth Financial and Economic Inclusion Initiative (WYFEI), along with smaller more targeted measures are supported in support of both citizens/CSOs and the "duty bearers" i.e. the institutions and agencies that have the mandate to implement the policies.

A Contractor is required to provide technical assistance in 3 key areas of support, namely access to rights, access to resources and access to representation. Within these areas, the expertise range from human rights, women and youth"s empowerment, women & youth"s political and economic representation, organizational development, strategy development, facilitation of processes.

A team of experts shall be provided by the Contractor with expertise in the areas identified above. Detailed information on the profiles can be found in the tender documents: Output 1 "The capacities of the AU and other actors to protect and promote women"s rights in Africa are strengthened". Output 2 "The capacities of the relevant AU actors to improve women"s access to economic resources are strengthened". Output 3 "Women"s equal participation in economic and political decision-making processes at continental, regional and national levels is strengthened".

Close collaboration with project partners as well as coordination with the GIZ project team in Addis Ababa will be required.

The Contractor may be a single firm or a consortium of various consulting firms. The involvement of consulting firms from African countries within subcontracting or joint venture arrangements will be permitted.

The estimated duration of the contract is 19 months from the contract award (anticipated late November 2024).

Zusätzliche Informationen:

The tender is also suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). For technical reasons, "no" was selected above.

Zusätzliche Produkte/Dienstleistungen: Beratung in Sachen Chancengleichheit 📦
Postleitzahl: 00000
Stadt: Äthiopien
Land: Äthiopien 🇪🇹
Dauer: 19 Monate
Maximale Verlängerungen: 2
Weitere Informationen zur Verlängerung:

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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Titel
Los-Identifikationsnummer: LOT-0001

Verfahren
Art des Verfahrens
Offenes Verfahren ✅
Rechtsgrundlage: Richtlinie 2014/24/EU
Administrative Informationen
Frist für den Eingang von Angeboten oder Teilnahmeanträgen: 2024-09-17 12:00:00 📅
Bedingungen für die Öffnung der Angebote: 2024-09-17 12:00:00 📅
Sprachen, in denen Angebote oder Teilnahmeanträge eingereicht werden können: Englisch 🗣️
Mindestzeitraum, in dem der Bieter das Angebot aufrechterhalten muss: 104 Tage
Bedingungen für die Einreichung eines Angebots
Die Bieter können mehrere Angebote einreichen
Eröffnungstermin: 2024-09-17 12:00:00 📅
Elektronische Rechnungsstellung: Erforderlich
Die elektronische Bestellung wird verwendet ✅
Elektronische Zahlung wird verwendet ✅
Frist für die Anforderung zusätzlicher Informationen: 2024-09-06 23:59:00 📅
Zusätzliche Informationen:

GIZ asks the applicant or bidder to submit, complete or correct documents, within the framework laid down by law.

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Rechtliche, wirtschaftliche, finanzielle und technische Informationen
Wirtschaftliche und finanzielle Leistungsfähigkeit
Liste und kurze Beschreibung der Auswahlkriterien:

Wirtschaftliche und finanzielle Leistungsfähigkeit: 1. Average annual turnover for the last three 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: 700,000.00 EUR 2. Average number of employees and managers in the last three calendar years, at least 10 persons

Bedingungen für die Teilnahme
Liste und kurze Beschreibung der Bedingungen:

Eignung zur Berufsausübung: 1. Self-declaration: name of company and address, tax ID, registration and commercial register number or equivalent register in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of origin. 2. No grounds for exclusion pursuant to § 123, § 124 GWB, § 22 LkSG 3. Declaration of bidding consortium and/or declaration of subcontractors (if applicable)

Technische und berufliche Fähigkeiten
Liste und kurze Beschreibung der Auswahlkriterien:

Technische und berufliche Leistungsfähigkeit: 1. The technical assessment is only based on reference projects with a minimum commission value of 150,000.00 EUR. 2. At least 3 reference projects in the technical field "Human Rights and/or Gender Equality", of which at least 2 reference projects in Africa in the last 3 years

Bedingungen für den Vertrag
Bedingungen für die Vertragserfüllung:

The execution conditions result from the information given in the contract notice and the tender documents.

Bedingungen für die Teilnahme
Ausschlussgrund:

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Kinderarbeit und andere Formen des Menschenhandels

Konkurs

Korruption

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Vergleichsverfahren

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Verstoß gegen sozialrechtliche Verpflichtungen

Verstoß gegen umweltrechtliche Verpflichtungen

Verwaltung der Vermögenswerte durch einen Insolvenzverwalter

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Zahlung der Sozialversicherungsbeiträge

Zahlungsunfähigkeit

Beschreibung der Ausschlussgründe: Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB

Öffentlicher Auftraggeber
Name und Adressen
Name: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Nationale Registrierungsnummer: 993-80072-52
Postanschrift: Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1 - 5
Postleitzahl: 65760
Postort: Eschborn
Region: Main-Taunus-Kreis 🏙️
Land: Deutschland 🇩🇪
E-Mail: olena.dudko@giz.de 📧
Telefon: +49 6196794670 📞
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URL des Beschaffungsinstruments: https://ausschreibungen.giz.de/Satellite/notice/CXTRYY6Y18GE1R6H 🌏
Sprache des Beschaffungsdokuments: Englisch 🗣️
Elektronische Einreichung: Erforderlich
Gültigkeitsdauer des Angebots: 104 Tage
Maximale Verlängerungen: 2

Ergänzende Informationen
Zusätzliche Informationen

Bekanntmachungs-ID: CXTRYY6Y18GE1R6H All communication takes place in English via communication tool in the project area of the procurement portal.

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Postort: Bonn
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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.

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Bekanntmachungsangaben
Bevorzugtes Datum der Veröffentlichung: 2024-08-15+02:00 📅
Quelle: OJS 2024/S 160-496177 (2024-08-15)

Auftragsbekanntmachung (2024-08-22)
Verfahren
Administrative Informationen
Frist für den Eingang von Angeboten oder Teilnahmeanträgen: 2024-09-24 12:00:00 📅
Bedingungen für die Öffnung der Angebote: 2024-09-24 12:00:00 📅
Mindestzeitraum, in dem der Bieter das Angebot aufrechterhalten muss: 113 Tage
Bedingungen für die Einreichung eines Angebots
Eröffnungstermin: 2024-09-24 12:00:00 📅

Öffentlicher Auftraggeber
Kommunikation
Gültigkeitsdauer des Angebots: 113 Tage

Ergänzende Informationen
Bekanntmachungsangaben
Bevorzugtes Datum der Veröffentlichung: 2024-08-22+02:00 📅

Änderungen
Zu berichtigender Text in der ursprünglichen Bekanntmachung
Nummer des Abschnitts: PROCEDURE
Neuer Wert
Text:

In Section 5.1.12 on the TED EU platform, the deadline for receipt of tenders must be extended and changed for: 24/09/2024 12:00:00 (UTC +2)

Zu berichtigender Text in der ursprünglichen Bekanntmachung
Änderung der Auftragsunterlagen am ✅
Datum der Änderung der Auftragsunterlagen: 2024-08-22 📅
Andere zusätzliche Informationen

As the response to the bidder's question as of 21.08.2024, submission deadline was extended till 24.09.2024. The changes were clarified and approved by the project.

Hauptgrund für die Änderung: Aktualisierte Informationen
Angaben zu Änderungen
Fassung der zu ändernden vorigen Bekanntmachung: 7c9c61fe-801b-4201-880c-d3395044ee5c-01
Quelle: OJS 2024/S 165-509777 (2024-08-22)

Auftragsbekanntmachung (2024-09-03)

Ergänzende Informationen
Bekanntmachungsangaben
Bevorzugtes Datum der Veröffentlichung: 2024-09-03+02:00 📅

Änderungen
Zu berichtigender Text in der ursprünglichen Bekanntmachung
Nummer des Abschnitts: PROCEDURE
Neuer Wert
Text:

In Section 5.1.11, the document "81309961-05-Self-declaration of eligibility" has been replaced to be available for the download under the link.

Zu berichtigender Text in der ursprünglichen Bekanntmachung
Änderung der Auftragsunterlagen am ✅
Datum der Änderung der Auftragsunterlagen: 2024-09-03 📅
Andere zusätzliche Informationen

The incorrect version of "81309961-05-Self-declaration of eligibility" was uploaded and had to be replaced to be identical with the document "81309961-06-Grid for assessing eligibility"

Hauptgrund für die Änderung: Korrektur – Beschaffer
Angaben zu Änderungen
Fassung der zu ändernden vorigen Bekanntmachung: b19ebea1-8cd2-49fa-9c75-f892aafb0fcf-01
Quelle: OJS 2024/S 172-530267 (2024-09-03)

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