German Development Cooperation
German Technical Cooperation TENDER NOTICE
INNOVATION PROMOTION IN MSMEs

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises, Government of India are jointly implementing the Indo German bilateral cooperation project of ‘Innovation Promotion in MSME”. The project aims to strengthen the innovation system by systematically fostering cooperation between industry, academia & government and thereby improving the innovation capacity and sustainability of MSMEs.

One of the intervention areas of the project is to advice and support various field institutions of the Ministry of MSME to introduce and improve delivery of various innovation-enabling services. As a part of the MSME INNO project, office of DC MSME and GIZ has agreed to work on IPR facilitation centre – supported under NMCP IPR Scheme. It is desired to support setting up of 3 new IPFC and help them become operational in a way that these IPFCs acts as a “model” for other centres already operational under the schemes. Along with setting up of these 3 new centers it is also planned to facilitate a systematic assessment and review of existing IPFCs on efficacy of their functioning and corresponding benefits to MSMEs.

GIZ invites bid from experienced Indian firms to provide services for Support for Standardization, Strengthening and Setting up of model IPRFC for MSMEs”. Interested firms are requested to visit www.tendernews.com or and download the detailed RFP.

Last date for submission of bid is 1730 hours; 6 th September, 2016.

GIZ reserves the right to cancel/modify this tender and / or reject a bid document including subsequently a technical and financial proposal, without assigning any reasons.

Timeline

  Deadline to receive queries         : 26th Aug’ 2016
  Clarifications to the queries        : 29th Aug’ 2016
  Deadline for submission of bids : 6th September 2016 by 17:30 hrs