For more than 60 years, GIZ has been working jointly with partners in India for sustainable economic, ecological, and social development. The Government of India has launched numerous initiatives to address the country"s challenges, and GIZ is contributing to some of the most significant ones.

Various bilateral and develoPPP projects have been undertaken by GIZ in vocational education and training (VET). These programmes work closely with stakeholders, such as state and central government bodies/ministries, donor organisations, private sector partners, not-for-profit organisations.

Since 2019, the monitoring tool "Digital Skills Monitor" was used by GIZ India VET components. The tool will phase out in 2025. To have a permanent set-up to support and monitor the ongoing VET-related activities of all projects within the GIZ India country portfolio, a new web-based monitoring tool is required.

A web-based monitoring tool for the VET activities implemented by GIZ India on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is the subject-matter of this tender. It is supposed to technically support the reporting process and enable the management and aggregation of results in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) system. The tool should be based on existing, proven software that has already demonstrated its effectiveness and usability.

The monitoring tool should support the following needs to a maximum extent:
i. indicator-based monitoring of GIZ India"s BMZ results matrices and for organising indicators according to such logframe structures. It must be able to include and process different types of indicators, including disaggregation according to their definition
ii. separating and connecting data tables in a relational data base
iii. flexible analysis of interlinked data
iv. processes to enter and edit data
v. processes for a quality control of newly entered data
vi. present data in dashboards, including options to visualise data
vii. export data for further processing and analysis
viii. select and export data for reporting by choosing specific variables and data sets from various tables
ix. user management system that allows for assigning users to different data sets
x. open to flexible adaptations to future arising needs (due to, e.g., changes in indicators or data collection, additional requirements for data analysis or reporting)
xi. accessible web-based, worldwide, also with low-bandwidth internet connection, with a high level of reliability and data security
xii. hosted and maintained by the provider with a high level of reliability and data security. The technical setup (including server location) and the processes need to be compliant with EU GDPR and GIZ requirements regarding data protection and IT security.
xiii. service level agreements

Runtime: 60 months
Expert days in total: 201,5 incl. Option

Remote work; no travels required.

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.

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.
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