GTK - Geological Expert Services - 2020-2024 (DPS); Expert Services for Developing Governance Framework in National Geological Database (NGD) in Saudi Arabia 2021 – 2023

With this procurement GTK seeks expertise required in defining and developing suitable governance policies and principles to operate and manage NGD. This call for tenders concerns individual project.

The Contracting Authority invited tenders for Geological Expert Services in accordance with this call for tenders and it attachments. This call for tenders concerns individual project. This service description falls under the category “Capacity building services” in the Dynamic Purchasing System (“DPS”) agreement. The Dynamic Purchasing System will be valid until 7.6.2024, unless it is suspended earlier. Procurement Agreements shall be concluded before the end of Dynamic Purchasing System. Procurement Agreements may be valid two (2) years after the end of Dynamic Purchasing System. GTK expects the service provider to provide a complete team, one of being a team leader and 2 other team members. The team leader should be at the key expert level and others at expert level in the area within the scope. Duration of the work is estimated to be 8 person months and the timeframe for the work is Q4/2021 – Q4/2022. The work will be focused to the beginning, but there will be tasks for the whole period.

Estimated value of the contract with options 246 006,00 Euro (VAT 0 %) The use of options will be decided separately. In this procurement the competition was first arranged as a restricted procedure via Dynamic Purchasing System. The contract notice was published on the Cloudia contract notice portal on 19.10.2021. The deadline for the tenders was 12.11.2021 16:00 (UTC +02:00). There were no tenders received by the set time limit. Nevertheless, Beak Consultants GmbH had expressed their interest on call for tenders by providing a signed NDC agreement. Therefore, direct procurement was commenced with BeakConsultants GmbH. No essential changes have been conducted in the terms and conditions of the original call for tenders.

In this procurement the competition was first arranged as a restricted procedure via Dynamic Purchasing System. The contract notice was published on 19.10.2021. The deadline was 12.11.2021 16:00. No tenders received by the set time limit. Beak Consultants GmbH had expressed their interest by providing a signed Non-Disclosure Commitment. Therefore, direct procurement was commenced with them.