CONSULTANCY ON TECHNICAL CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT IN AUTOMOTIVE MECHATRONICS

GIZ TENDER AUGUST 2021 

CONSULTANCY ON TECHNICAL CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT IN AUTOMOTIVE MECHATRONICS FOR
TRAINERS FROM NAIROBI TECHNICAL TRAINING INSTITUTE

The Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit [GIZ] GmbH is implementing Technical cooperation measures on behalf of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The German Government supports the TVET reform process of the Kenyan Government. During the government to government negotiations held in August 2016, the Kenyan and the German Governments agreed to establish the “Promotion of Youth Employment” Project and as a new priority area of German Development Cooperation. The objective of the project is to boost youth employment by offering industry-oriented, high quality technical and vocational training in close cooperation with the private sector.

Given the importance of high-quality technical and vocational training programs in overcoming youth unemployment, Germany is supporting both in the framework of Technical and Financial Cooperation, as the new focal area of German Development Cooperation with Kenya. It is planned to upgrade 7 public TVET institutions to industry-specific Centers of Excellence for cooperative training. Through the German Technical Cooperation, GIZ will focus on establishing the pre-conditions for the successful implementation of cooperative training models which include, capacity of trainers and management, industry-TTI collaboration frameworks, legal framework conditions and establishing digital training formats.

The assignment’s objective is to develop the capacity of trainers from Nairobi Technical Training Institute on the technical aspects in Automotive Mechatronics to enable them to effectively implement the school part of the Automotive Mechatronics level 6 curriculum.

Interested consultant must have technical capacity in the field of Automotive Mechatronics, have a fully equipped practical training workshop in the same field and have prior experience in conducting ToTs in the same field or carrying out apprenticeship programmes on the same.

Interested consultants must provide verifiable proof of qualifications and experience in similar/related services. The tenderer is also requested to provide a summary assessment of the team proposed and must specify their positions, tasks and qualifications for each expert. More details are provided in the Terms of Reference.

Send a blank email between 26.08.2021 – 02.09.2021 expressing your interest with tender reference ‘83378362’ in the subject line to: – [KEJnquiry@giz.de]. You will receive tender documents with further information from 27.08.2021 – 03.09.2021

Kindly submit your signed/stamped complete proposals as specified in the tender documents in Hard Copies and a digital copy saved in a Flash/Thumb drive in PDF format. Submission should be in two separate envelopes clearly marked financial and technical with reference number ‘83378362’ to the address below

GIZ Office Nairobi
Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer
Internationale Zusammenarbeit [GIZ] GmbH
P.O.Box 41607 00100 Nairobi
SBM Bank Building, Riverside Drive
Nairobi – Kenya

Failure to address correctly will lead to disqualification.

Deadline for Submission: 17.09.2021 @ 1500hrs (East African time]

Bidders are not allowed to contact or discuss any aspect of the tender with GIZ personnel before closing of the tender as it will lead to automatic disqualification. All queries should be raised and addressed to KE_Inquiry@giz.de