Under the Indo German Bilateral Development Cooperation, the focal areas currently are:

• Energy;
• Environment and Management of Natural Resources; and
• Sustainable Urban Development

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, and GIZ India are jointly implementing the “Sustainable Urban Development - Smart Cities” (SUD-SC) project. The project supports the National Ministry and the State Governments (Odisha, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala) in the policy formulation on housing for all, basic services, planning framework, and monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also supports the three select Smart Cities (Bhubaneswar, Coimbatore, and Kochi) in implementing concepts of integrated spatial urban development planning.

SUD-SC aims at making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable in the context of rapid urbanization in India. The SDG indicators provides advisory guidance to policy-making to various ministries, is coordination activities pertaining to 2030 Agenda. MoHUA, for instance, has been assigned the coordination for all matters pertaining to SDG 11. The Ministry supports several Centrally Sponsored Schemes related to urban development and housing, which pertains to Goal 11.In order to deepen the knowledge base with respect to SDG in the context of urban missions such as the Smart Cities, AMRUT, Swachh Bharat, NULM, Housing for ALL and HRIDAY, a project is commissioned to map such schemes and results, with respect to the goals, indicators and targets set forth by the SDGs.

In this context, GIZ plans to engage a competent research, training and advocacy institute to provide technical and strategic advisory for Urban Missions in India in SUD-SC’s partner states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Odisha.

The detailed documentation with regards to this call for proposals includes:

• Terms of Reference for the Assignment
• Grid for Assessing the Eligibility of Firms
• Technical Evaluation Grid
• Bidding Conditions
• General Terms & Conditions of Contracts

Timeline

Posting date: 19^th September, 2019
Deadline to receive queries: 26^th September, 2019
Clarifications to the queries: 1^st October, 2019

Deadline for submission of proposal: 9^th October, 2019, by 17.30hrs

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.