Good Governance in Zimbabwe"s local authorities is impeded by numerous challenges such as limited financial resources, inadequate service delivery and limited digitalisation, a lack of transparency, and corruption. Local councillors do not hold the public administration to account and fall short in voicing the population"s needs. Out-dated customer data bases and land registers undermine the basis for levying rates and taxes.

The "Good Governance in Local Authorities" project aims at enhancing the efficiency, effectiveness, and inclusivity of its partner local authorities in the provision of services. The project focusses on four main areas of support - (1) service delivery, (2) public financial management (3) support to councillors, (4) gender equality and inclusion. Furthermore transparency, accountability, enhanced citizen participation and digitalization will be mainstreamed across the four outputs.

The project is jointly co-financed by the European Union (EU), the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The duration of the project is scheduled from March 2025 to June 2029.

Concrete activities are agreed with each LA based on their individual needs and plans. In support of the selected LAs, a variety of capacity-building methods are used: on-the-job learning, training courses, exchange workshops and visits, facilitated discussions, and peer learning. ICT and digitalization are supported as a cross-cutting issue. Capacity development targets both the administration and the councillors, with the latter also receiving basic training on the technical topics of the support areas.

The contractor is responsible for providing the following work packages and for achieving the corresponding milestones:

Work package 1: Contract Management and Administration of short-term expert (STE) pool

The contractor is responsible for the contract management and for ensuring the coherence and complementarity of the contractor"s services with other services delivered by the project at local and national level. This includes the responsibility for checking the use of funds and financial planning in consultation with the officer responsible for the commission at GIZ/

Further the contractor is responsible for selecting, preparing, training and steering consulting services (short term national and international experts) and trainings in the following subject areas:
- Engineering (particularly water and waste management) and IT
- Local economic development and public financial management,
- Support to councillors, Human Rights and gender.

In addition, the contractor is responsible for monitoring of and reporting on these services.

The consulting services need to be accessed flexibly and as needed within the duration of the contract.

Work package 2: Event Coordination
The contractor is responsible for the organisation, coordination, and payment of required venues and / or catering for trainings and workshops.

The services to be delivered by the contractor will be based on individual requests by the GGLA project specified during the duration of the contract. To ensure flexibility, the contractor is expected to adjust their work plan and to react with additional short-term consultants based on what is emerging through the course of the assignment in consultation with GIZ.

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.
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.

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

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