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Brief description: The project will strengthen Sierra Leone"s podiatric referral care for communicable diseases by replacing an obsolete Ebola era temporary isolation structure at Ola During Children"s Hospital (ODCH) with a purpose built Paediatric Infectious Diseases/Isolation Unit (IDU). Embedded in BMZ/GIZ"s "Health System Strengthening and Epidemic Prevention - Phase II" and implemented with the Ministry of Health, the facility will expand and modernize inpatient capacity, enhance infection prevention and control (IPC), reduce nosocomial transmission, improve staff safety, and contribute to better clinical outcomes for children. The IDU supports national outbreak preparedness and response.

Scope of services: GIZ invites multidisciplinary General Planner Services to deliver a complete, coordinated, permit ready design and tender package for the IDU on an approx. 1,400 m2 plot adjacent to, yet clearly segregated from, the main ODCH compound.

Targeted outcome: A fully coordinated, permit cleared, tender ready design package for a modern pediatric IDU at ODCH that enables competitive construction procurement and strengthens IPC performance, safer pediatric care, and epidemic preparedness in Sierra Leone.

The assignment covers:
Architecture and overall design coordination, site planning, and integration with hospital support services.
- Structural engineering (concept to detailed design).
- Mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP).
- Comprehensive construction tender documentation: coordinated drawings, technical specifications, bills of quantities (BoQs), schedules, method notes, and compliance matrices, and support during the construction contract award process.
- Permitting support and authority coordination; facilitation of stakeholder workshops (e.g. kick off).

Facility concept and capacity: The pediatric IDU will provide up to 26 beds (around 20% of ODCH"s total bed capacity), integrating isolation wards, triage/treatment rooms, staff/support areas, technical rooms, logistics/storage zones, and safe circulation routes. External works include site development and an internal access road. The location enables segregation for infection control while maintaining functional links to essential services.

Design requirements:
- Compliance with applicable Sierra Leone regulations and international healthcare standards (IPC, ventilation/air changes and pressure regimes, fire/life safety, healthcare electrical safety).
- Safe functional zoning and flows minimizing cross infection risks.
- Bioclimatic, context appropriate design for Freetown"s dry and rainy seasons, prioritizing passive measures where feasible and robust, maintainable systems.
- Sustainable, reliable energy solutions with critical redundancies to ensure continuity of care.
- Consideration of durable, locally available materials meeting quality standards.
- Full interface planning for medical and technical equipment.

Deliverables:
- Basic evaluation and preliminary design (site/massing, functional layouts, discipline concepts, initial schedule and cost estimate).
- Schematic design for architecture/structure/MEP with design reports, diagrams, updated cost/schedule.
- Detailed design and construction documents suitable for competitive tendering: coordinated drawings (typically 1:20-1:50), specifications, BoQs, contract ready documentation, and a confidential overall cost estimate.
- Permit application packages and support to secure approvals prior to tender launch.

Implementation period and inputs: Design and tender documentation are expected from July to late November 2026. Only design services are included under this tender; subsequent construction procurement will be conducted via separate competitive procedures. Existing land survey, geotechnical investigations, and a feasibility study will be provided to shortlisted tenderers.

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.

All communication takes place in English via communication tool in the project area of the procurement portal.