AFFORDABLE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.
TENDER REFERENCE NO: 83462027
Name of Project: Promoting Rural Development in Northern Uganda II-PRUDEV
Background
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a public-beneft German company with worldwide operations in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development. GIZ Uganda through PRUDEVI invites bids from competent and eligible firms to provide consultancy services for Strengthening supply and quality of affordable Business Development services in Northern Uganda as per Terms of reference attached to this email.

Eligibility criteria
The following information and documents will be required during evaluation on pass fail basis and non-compliant bids will be eliminated.
Registered powers of attorney authorizing signatory representative of the firm to sign biastenders on behalf of the firm.

Interested bidders should submit their bids/offers electronically by 10" May 2024 at 4.00pm (EAT) to UGQuotation@giz.de indicating in the subject the tender reference number "83462027- Strengthening supply and quality of affordable Business Development services in Northern Uganda".
Failure to indicate the tender reference number in the subject may disqualify your offer directly as it may fail to be received in the tender box.
Late submissions will not be accepted!

Current and valid Income Tax Clearance Certificate addressed to GIZ Valid Trading License
• Bid validity period of 120 working days.
• Bids submitted with GIZ staff or other GIZ emails in copy shall be rejected.
• Other requirements are provided in the eligibility assessment grid.
• Experience required.
• See terms of reference
• Key Staff required for the assignment.

See terms of reference
Request for Bidding/Tendering Documents and detailed terms of reference.
Interested and eligible bidders shall obtain detailed bidding tendering documents in soft copy form only. Kindly submit your request for bidding/ tender documents by email to.
Procurement-giz-uganda@giz.de starting from 09 April 2024 the date of first publication of this tender by indicating in the subject tender reference number "83462027- Strengthening supply and quality of affordable Business Development services in Northern Uganda".

Request for clarifications on bidding documents/specification/term and condition of the tender.

All requests for clarifications to this tendering process shall be shared in writing and should be addressed to GIZ Uganda via email Procurement-giz-uganda@giz.de at least 5days prior to the bid submission deadline. Please indicate in the subject tender reference number "83462027- Strengthening supply and quality of affordable Business Development services in Northern Uganda".
Bids/Offers Submission Deadline date and time.

Only bids submitted to UG_Quotation@giz.de are acceptable.
You should have offers in PDF and zip folders. Do not encrypt offers since they may be incompatible with GIZ software.

Two separate emails should be used one submitting technical proposal offer and second email submitting Financial Proposal Offer.

Only file transfer https://filetransfer.giz.de/ for submission of documents exceeding the default mail size of 30 MB should be used or use three separate emails one submitting the eligibility documents, a second one submitting the technical proposal offer and third email submitting Financial Proposal/Offer. Please provide password for your submission before the deadline and reference the tender number for which the password applies. Failure to provide the password will lead to automatic disqualification of your offer.

Financial offer should strictly be in Uganda shillings currency using the Bid sheet template provided.

Failure to follow the above instruction may lead your offer to be encrypted and rejected.
GIZ remains with full rights to cancel this process at any stage without informing providers and at no cost refund to the providers who participate in this tender process