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Call For Proposals

ՄԱՆՐԱՄԱՍՆ ՆԿԱՐԱԳՐՈւԹՅՈւՆ : 

GIZ intends to award a contract to a local company for Review/update of sub-legislative acts in the area of municipal service in the scope of Integrated Municipal Development project. The detailed Terms of Reference (ToR) of the assignment and the relevant Annexes are attached to this Call for Proposals.
If you are awarded the contract, you are not excluded from bidding for the implementation of the following project phase. However, a prerequisite for participation in a subsequent tender is that you do not benefit from your involvement in the previous contract and that the equal treatment of all bidders is ensured.

Context
The “Integrated Municipal Development in Armenia” (IMD) project aims to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness, and citizen-orientation of local self-governments. By advising and supporting partner organizations, the project seeks to improve the framework for local development while closely collaborating with selected municipalities known as transformation partners. These efforts focus on implementing reforms to enhance service quality and accessibility, foster local economic growth, optimise local self-governance, and empower citizens in municipal decision-making. Throughout the project duration from April 2024 to March 2027, success stories and lessons learned from transformation partners will be shared through various exchange platforms, ensuring the replication of successful models for integrated municipal development across Armenian local self-governments.
The projected is implemented by GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and in partnership with the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure (MTAI).

Background
As part of its efforts towards strengthening the Armenian municipalities to become viable structures after consolidation in the framework of the Territorial and Administrative Reform (TARA), since 2016 GIZ has supported the MTAI and consolidated multi-settlement municipalities to establish improved municipal service with the emphasis on national training systems and enhancement of capacities of municipal servants.
Capitalising on results achieved over the period of 2016-2023, the MTAI and GIZ agree to further streamlining the sub-legislative framework regulating the legal operations and activities and functionality of the municipal servants in response to the current needs thereof. Among the areas supported by GIZ in the past are the establishment of the Human Resources (HR) Working Group for review of the National Training System (NTS) of municipal servants, the development of the Concept of NTS for municipal servants, the design of the Training Needs Assessment (TNA) methodology and its implementation in the consolidated municipalities, the design and implementation of training courses for staff secretaries of municipal administrations (the positions responsible for HR Management and training) to implement the TNA further and on sustainable and methodologically enhanced manner, and a comparative analysis of civil and municipal service legislation. The latter encompasses understandably the national level legislation, which requires review and reconciliation of one tier lower sub-legislative framework in order for the MTAI and municipalities to fully discharge their legally stipulated functions, duties and responsibilities.
Against this background, the overall objective of the assignment is to further the reforms in the municipal service in general, and secure modern, simplified and rationalised legislative framework for the municipal service as one of the cornerstones of local self-government in particular, as well as reconciliation and approximation of the Armenian legislation to the principles of good governance. This assignment should, inter alia, provide recommendations for further improvement and enhancement of the inherent aspects of municipal service and the legislation regulating the sphere in question. These recommendations shall be incorporated into 14 sub-legislative acts to be revised in the framework of this assignment.
This assignment shall be implemented in close collaboration with the Department of Territorial Administration of the MTAI, which is responsible for handling the municipal service and NTS, including staffing, staff-lists, organigrams and functional settings of the local self-government bodies in particular, and the MTAI being the state authorised government agency for the sphere. Another key actor, in addition to GIZ, is the MTAI Department of Local Self- Government Policy.

Tasks to be performed by the contractor
The contractor is responsible for providing the following services:

Task 1: Desk review of the relevant legislation
The Contractor conducts a desk review of all relevant documents, including public service legislation (consisting of civil and municipal service laws) and sub-legislative framework, as well as holds meetings and consultations with the respective officials and responsible officers of the MTAI and selected municipalities, predominantly chief secretaries in order to approach the Task from the standpoint of reconciliating the actual needs with good practices. Among the documents to be scrutinised is the Concept Paper on National Training System for the municipal servants designed and submitted to the MTAI with the support of GIZ and its provisions that are very relevant to a number of acts to be reviewed in the framework of this assignment. As a result, the Contractor develops a plan of action for implementation of this Task 2 as set out further. The list of sub-legislative acts is annexed to these Terms of Reference (ToR) as Appendix 1.

Task 2: Review and redrafting of the 14 sub-legislative acts
The Contractor undertakes a review of the 14 sub-legislative acts and designs recommendations on improving implementation modalities with a focus on efficiency, effectiveness and inclusivity. This Task requires extensive exchange with the MTAI Departments of Territorial Administration and the LSG Policy under the guidance of the respective deputy ministers.

Task 3: Presentation of the revised drafts to the MTAI and GIZ
The contractor will make a presentation to the MTAI and GIZ on the results of the assignment in order to obtain final comments and recommendations of the parties for incorporation into the drafts and/or the report.

Any further task arising during the implementation of the assignment needs prior agreement between the Contractor and GIZ.

ԴԻՄԵԼՈւ ԿԱՐԳԸ : 

If you are interested in performing this work, please submit a bid in accordance with the GIZ bidding conditions described below till 15 August 2024, 17:00 (date of receipt at GIZ). Proposals received after the deadline will not be considered.

Your bid shall be submitted electronically.

Electronical offer
Your bid, comprising the technical offer (company’s background, relevant experience, CVs of involved experts, rough concept with a workplan and timetable, etc.) and the price offer (signed document, calculation based on expert days must be clearly marked as such, and submitted as two separate emails. The technical offer should be in English language. Please send your bid to: ************@***.**  with the following subject line: 

For technical offer with the subject line: 83470535 Technical Offer 
For financial offer with the subject line: 83470535 Financial Offer 

All documents must be submitted in PDF format. Please do not put any other recipient in copy.

Price offer
The payment will be done in local currency.
Tax and customs privileges shall apply to this procurement. Please take this into consideration while preparing your company’s offer.
The Tax Identification Number of GIZ is 02898241


Procedural questions
Please address any commercial, technical and procedural questions at an early stage. Questions will be answered if they are received at the latest two working days before the closing of the tender. Questions must be raised in writing by email only to:
Mrs. Liana Nikoghosyan
email: *****.***********@***.**
Non-compliance may result if your bid is not being considered.

Evaluation of Offer
GIZ will evaluate the technical and price information in the received bids (see Annex).
After the technical evaluation, only the price offers of bids with more than 500 points will be opened and evaluated. Technical offers below 500 points will be considered as technical not acceptable. The technical offer has a weighting of T: 70%, the price offer F: 30%.

The final result is an overall ranking, headed by the most cost-effective bid. Contract negotiations will be initiated on the basis of this overall ranking.

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ԿԻՑ ՓԱՍՏԱԹՂԹԵՐ:

83470535Assessment Grid.pdf - Assessment Grid 83470535GeneralTermsOfContractARM.pdf - Contract in Armenian 83470535GeneralTermsOfContractENG.pdf - Contract in English 83470535CallforProposals.docx - Call for Proposals 83470535ToR.docx - ToR