81313233-Assistance Technique à Invest for Jobs : conseil et appui au secteur privé dans la région de Matam

Kurze Beschreibung

Invest for Jobs: the Special Initiative on Training and Job Creation

Under the Invest for Jobs brand, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has put together a package of measures to support German, European and African companies engaging in Africa. The programme offers comprehensive advice, contacts and financial support through its implementing organisations to overcome investment barriers. The development objectives are to team up with companies to create up to 100,000 jobs and 30,000 apprenticeships and to improve working conditions in its partner countries. Programmes are currently in place in the Special Initiative"s eight partner countries: Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Morocco, Rwanda, Senegal and Tunisia.

What does Invest for Jobs focus on?
Teaming up with companies to remove barriers to investment: We work with companies to overcome possible barriers to investment in our partner countries. If there are specific barriers to investment or trade - for example a local shortage of skilled labour, insufficient capacity within the local supply industry or poor infrastructure - we examine how they can be mitigated to pave the way for investment. In addition, we promote cooperation between German, European and African businesses. The overarching goal of all these efforts is always to create sustainable employment.

Promoting small and medium-sized enterprises: SMEs are a driver of job creation on the African continent. In order to enhance the competitiveness of SMEs in Africa, we support them in implementing their investments, identify investors and in tapping into new markets. At the same time, we promote collaboration between European (particularly German) and African SMEs, for example to strengthen cooperation and supply structures and to internationalise value chains.

Investing in up-and-coming clusters and industries: We specifically promote attractive business locations and growth industries that promise long-term success in the partner countries, including industrial estates and business parks. These include the automotive and aviation sector in Tunisia, the textiles industry and the agricultural sector in Ethiopia, and the agriculture & ICT sector in Senegal, although our support is not limited to these industries.

How may the salt industry sector play a role?
The agriculture production and processing sectors hold potentials for job creation, together with other industries that Invest for Jobs Sénégal already identified. Only a few have operators have reached industrial scales or even targeted a market however the Programme identified private operators with significant potential as key partners in boosting job creation in the sector.

In this context, GIZ is seeking to commission a Contractor to contribute to the objectives of Key Per-formance Indicators of the Programme. The Contractor will be responsible to ensure that the sectors' transformation allows for and do create 400 new decent jobs (KPI 1), improve working conditions of 300 existing employees (KPI2), provide vocational training to 300 employees of the targeted partners (KPI3), improve the situation of 20 SMEs (KPI4). The Contractor is expected to provide experts with relevant professional experience.

Beschreibung der Beschaffung

The objective of Invest for Jobs in Sénégal is to increase the employment among African and European enterprises opperating in Senegal.
The region of Matam holds a potential for job creation. Only a few companies have reached industrial scales and the Programme identified private operators and training institutes as key partners in boosting economic growth and thus job creation in the sector. There are 3 key areas of progress that were preidentified: understanding of the market, addressing the quality requirements as demanded by the market, private sector led training, management of quality & workers safety.
The Contractor will be responsible to ensure that the sector's transformation allows for and do create 400 new decent jobs (KPI 1), improve working conditions of 300 existing employees (KPI2), provide vocational training to 300 employees of the targeted partners (KPI3), im-prove the situation of 20 SMEs (KPI4).
This contract aims at providing key ressources that are direly missing in the sector. The Contractor will seek being a center piece of the dialogue among private companies, industrial processors, medium & large scale farmers, public & semi-public stakeholders. As part of this Contract the Contractor will be in charge of formulating, enforcing and supervising Local Grant Agreements. As included in the required services, the Contractor will seek all possible funding opportunities in order to address the sector's needs in terms of equipment's, infrastructure and other investments this Contract cannot cover. The GIZ team of Invest for Jobs Senegal will support that effort. Once identified, the process of drafting, formulating, and finalizing the required documentation to access these funds will be under the Contractors mandate.
The following main tasks shall then be:

Work Package (WP) N°1 : initial overview.
In this first phase, the contractor will seek to develop its understanding of both the mandate and the economic context and players by focusing its approach on market demand. This will involve: (i) an analysis of the support programmes and structures already in place, (ii) a documentary analysis of economic sectors, (iii) an assessment of the development potential around promising sectors.
The contractor will then start to build up a network of potential beneficiary companies, project promoters and external investors from the diaspora, among others. The aim will also be to ensure that the value proposition of this project and Invest for Jobs is clearly understood. With the support of the Invest for Jobs team, the contractor will ensure that the regional support structures and stakeholders involved in setting up the programme adhere to the beneficiary pre-selection process (companies, training providers/operators and foreign investors).

Work Package (WP) N°2 : training & capacity building. In the context of Invest for Jobs, the training of existing employees must meet a demand from the company, which anticipates growth in turnover and therefore needs more professional staff. In the light of the planning carried out under WP 1, the contractor is to carry out the following activities: (i) select the training providers/operators; (ii) develop concept of "school fields"; (iii) inclusive development and implementation of training guidelines; (iv) Strengthen the technical and operational capacity of training operators so that they are able to adopt new curricula and implement them rapidly.

Work Package (WP) N°3: strategic management & private investments.
The goal of this third work package is to achieve tangible results in improving competitiveness via enhanced management capacities and investment channeling. These activities contribute to the achievement of the special initiative's Key Performance Indicator 4 (KPI 4). The Contractor will :
- Strengthen the governance bodies of the 20 companies, while refocusing them on profitable core businesses;
- Set up an accounting system within the 20 companies to enable technical and financial monitoring of activities by local structures;
- Develop tools to improve the visibility of income and expenditure;
- Support the production of monthly accounts and financial statements (annual or campaign) to enable comparisons and decisions to be made;
- Support the investment projects of 20 project owners in the Matam region, in connection with the water-agriculture/livestock-energy nexus;
- Explore the possibilities of new market segments and, if necessary, develop a marketing plan to penetrate them on a long-term basis;
- Support the development of new business models or models adapted to the reality of the markets (or segments) identified with the companies, and carry out stress tests on the projected operating accounts;
- Establish contact with financial institutions.

Work Package (WP) N°4: Implementation of a quality and safety management system
For some companies, adopting a quality approach will mean mastering the technical aspects of production processes and acquiring infrastructure and equipment that are more efficient and better adapted to local conditions, as well as complying with the standards required by the target markets. It may therefore be necessary to :
- Clarify and then raise awareness among stakeholders of the quality requirements that underpin the various existing trade flows and market segments, and define specifications that take into account the current and future needs of the market (wholesalers, exporters, agrifood manufacturers, distribution chain, etc.);
- Provide the expertise and coaching needed to adopt good practices and eliminate non-compliance with the required specifications;
- Build the capacities of the target groups in terms of quality, hygiene and safety;
- Raising awareness of the use of appropriate equipment; support the group purchase of this equipment;
- Strengthen the capacities of companies according to the specific needs expressed in relation to the production process

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: EUR 1,500,000.00
2. Average number of employees and managers in the last three calendar years, at least 10 persons

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)

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 EUR 500,000.00
2. At least 3 reference projects in the technical field private sectorpromotion in the last 3 years
3. And at least 2 reference projects in the technical field rural employment in the last 3 years
4. Of which at least 2 reference projects in the region Western Africa in the last 3 years

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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.