CCapability-led route

10038671-Development of Digital Decision Support Tool for Climate Resilience and Disaster Preparedness

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Deadline
21 Aug 2026, 12:00
Value
Maximum contract value EUR 216,000 excluding taxes
Region
India; New Delhi with pilots in Bihar and Rajasthan
Reviewed
16 Aug 2026
Portfolio verdict

Capability-led route

Do not bid as a standalone prime. The engineering fit is strong, but the authority requires an average of 15 employees/managers and two recent EUR 50,000 government-digital-tool references including one Asian reference; neither is evidenced. The EUR 216,000 ceiling must also absorb 290 fixed expert days, hosting, workshops, travel-related cost heads and a CERT-In audit, making a qualified Indian partner and disciplined commercial model mandatory.

Recommended actionDo not bid standalone. Pursue only with a qualified Indian/government-programme partner that can evidence the 15-person average and required recent Asian public-programme references, and only if EUR 216,000 can cover 290 fixed expert days, hosting, travel, workshops and CERT-In security audit.

What the opportunity means

Build, integrate, pilot, validate and hand over an open-source AI/GIS decision-support tool that ranks vulnerable rural geographies and recommends permissible resilience works under India's VB-G RAM G programme.

Portfolio thesis

Strong core competency fit across Mimir-style geospatial decision intelligence, evidence workflows, APIs, open-source delivery and secure cloud; formal qualification and India delivery evidence are unresolved.

Qualification reality

Mimir and the portfolio demonstrate GIS, evidence and decision-platform engineering, but no existing Digital David product is a ready-made Indian climate-resilience/government-planning system; the bid is further conditional on formal India references and a 15-person organisation gate.

Portfolio evidence

Products and reusable delivery strengths

Products

MimirUroborosPerspectify

Competencies

GIS and geospatial analyticsAI decision supportdata integration and APIsopen-source platform engineeringsecure cloud and observability

Decision gates

Eligibility and delivery gates

  • Company matchPartially met
    Company identity and register details
    MustRequired

    Digital David AG and its registered office are verified, but the qualification pack does not contain the tender-ready self-declaration and current register evidence.

  • Company matchUnknown
    Exclusion declarations
    MustRequired

    Sections 123/124 GWB and section 22 LkSG declarations are required; no completed tender-specific declarations are present.

  • Company matchPartially met
    Average annual turnover
    MustRequired

    The gate is EUR 200,000 over three completed years. Verified 2024 and 2025 turnover each exceeds the threshold, but 2023 is missing, so the three-year result is not inferred.

  • Company matchUnknown
    Average organisation size
    MustRequired

    At least 15 employees and managers averaged over three calendar years are required. No headcount evidence exists and personnel expense is not used as a proxy.

  • Company matchUnknown
    Government digital-tool references
    MustRequired

    At least two projects from the last three years, each worth at least EUR 50,000, must cover development/deployment of digital tools with government schemes/programmes; portfolio descriptions do not prove buyer, value and recency.

  • Company matchUnknown
    Asian regional reference
    MustRequired

    At least one qualifying Asian reference from the last three years is mandatory; none is verified in the evidence pack.

  • Company matchUnknown
    Named six-profile expert team
    DeliveryNot required

    Expert evidence is deferred; degrees, years of experience, languages, India/government-system experience and availability are not inferred.

  • Company matchUnknown
    India-approved hosting and CERT-In audit
    DeliveryNot required

    No named India-approved hosting provider or CERT-In-empanelled audit partner with commitment is evidenced.

  • Company matchPartially met
    Open-source GIS/AI implementation
    DeliveryNot required

    Mimir and the portfolio demonstrate GIS, data and AI platform capability, but not the exact Indian-government integration and handover environment.

Official clarifications · selected by AI relevance

Relevant bidder questions

  1. Q1Will the completed scoping outputs be shared at tender stage, and which parts are fixed?
    Buyer answer

    They will be shared only after contracting. The scope will evolve with the ministry and may be refined, but GIZ does not expect a complete overhaul.

    Portfolio impact

    Bid architecture and effort must be priced without the actual scoping pack; include an explicit validation/refinement phase and contingency.

  2. Q2Who provides datasets and secures approvals for restricted data?
    Buyer answer

    MoRD will provide or facilitate access; permissions remain with MoRD, and the ministry steering committee will steer the assignment with GIZ facilitating.

    Portfolio impact

    Data acquisition is an authority dependency, but the delivery plan must still accommodate approval latency and steering governance.

  3. Q4Is live write-back to Yuktdhara mandatory during the pilot?
    Buyer answer

    It may be explored if approvals arrive. Otherwise sandbox/staging integration or an export hand-off is acceptable; authorised officials retain final decision authority.

    Portfolio impact

    A credible non-production integration path is permitted, reducing dependency on live government APIs while preserving auditability and human approval.

  4. Q6Is Month 2 October rather than September, and when does the schedule start?
    Buyer answer

    Yes. Month 2 should be October, but all months are counted from contract signing and shift accordingly.

    Portfolio impact

    Plan milestones relative to award/signature, not the erroneous fixed dates in the ToR.

  5. Q7How long must contractor hosting/support run, and does support continue after government migration?
    Buyer answer

    Contractor hosting is required through the project period until government handover. The government has a migration environment, but the final arrangement will be decided during delivery.

    Portfolio impact

    Hosting and post-pilot support remain commercially under-specified; price the stated minimum and treat migration/handover timing as a material risk.

  6. Q9Must the bidder procure an independent security audit and include it in price?
    Buyer answer

    Yes. The audit must be performed by a CERT-In-empanelled auditor and submitted before deployment; its cost belongs in the financial bid.

    Portfolio impact

    A named Indian security-audit partner and cost must fit inside the EUR 216,000 ceiling.

  7. Q10Are model accuracy, explainability and validation thresholds predefined?
    Buyer answer

    No fixed numerical thresholds exist yet; the MoRD steering committee will set benchmarks.

    Portfolio impact

    The technical concept should propose transparent evaluation and acceptance governance without promising unavailable numerical targets.

  8. Q11May bidders add non-key engineering, DevOps, security or backstopping resources beyond the 290 expert days?
    Buyer answer

    Yes, at the bidder's own cost without changing the expert-day quantities, mapped to a technical head.

    Portfolio impact

    Any hidden engineering capacity comes directly out of margin; avoid underestimating integration, DevOps and UI work.

  9. Q13Is EUR 216,000 the ceiling for all fees and cost heads?
    Buyer answer

    Yes. It is the maximum contract value for all budget heads, excluding taxes.

    Portfolio impact

    This is the decisive commercial gate for 290 expert days plus hosting, workshops, travel-related costs and audit.

  10. Q15How are payment/schedule effects handled when government data, API or approvals delay delivery?
    Buyer answer

    Alternative strategies are expected; as a technical-cooperation project, the partner is expected to work within the timelines.

    Portfolio impact

    The answer offers no clear relief mechanism, so dependency risk must be absorbed through sequencing, fallback integrations and tight contractual assumptions.

Interpreted scope

Delivery shape

  • Build a Composite Impact Score combining climate/disaster risk, socio-economic vulnerability, adaptive capacity and infrastructure deficits to rank Gram Panchayats, Blocks and Districts.
  • Build an AI-enabled gap-analysis and recommendation engine that estimates the type and quantity of permissible VB-G RAM G resilience works.
  • Integrate Yuktdhara, Bhuvan, NREGASoft, VB-NRIS, PM Gati Shakti and other climate, disaster and rural-infrastructure data through REST, JSON/XML and OGC services.
  • Deliver responsive dashboards, reporting, role-based access, multilingual web access and support for at least 5,000 concurrent users.
  • Use open-source technology to the maximum extent; transfer source code, configuration and deployment scripts to MoRD and its technical partners.
  • Provide secure contractor-managed hosting, monitoring, backup and disaster recovery through development, testing, integration and pilots, then migrate to NIC or another government-designated environment.
  • Run pilots in six districts, validate models and recommendations, train national/state/district users, document the system and provide operational support.
  • Include an independent CERT-In-empanelled security audit before deployment.

Bid package

Required submissions

  • Completed self-declaration of eligibility and all applicable annexes.
  • Financial bid using the supplied price schedule.
  • English technical-methodological concept following the ToR structure, 10-15 pages.
  • English EU-format CV for every proposed expert, maximum four pages each.
  • Consortium declaration where applicable.
  • Full electronic tender in English through the DTVP bid function; no email or alternate channel.

Commercial reading

Contract and pricing terms

  • Maximum contract value is EUR 216,000 excluding taxes and applies to all budget heads.
  • The price schedule fixes 290 expert days; additional backstopping/resources are allowed only at the bidder's own cost and must map to a technical head.
  • No negotiations will occur. The bid is binding through 30 September 2026.
  • Contractor prices hosting until handover and an independent CERT-In-empanelled audit before deployment.
  • Delays from data/API/government approvals remain a delivery risk; the Q&A expects alternative strategies and work within the timetable rather than promising automatic compensation.
  • Source code, configurations, deployment scripts, databases and documentation must be transferred for government handover/migration.

Evidence trail

Sources and bidder information

Authoritative GIZ communication area checked 16 August 2026 at 22:09 CEST. One catalogue dated 14 August 2026 contains 15 answered bidder questions and is contractually part of the tender documents; ten decision-relevant answers are retained below. Questions closed 12 August 2026 at 23:59.

Official GIZ notice ↗Authoritative notice, deadline, buyer, process and electronic submission surface.Official procurement documents ↗Complete package including ToR, forms, price schedule, scoring grid, EVB-IT terms and AI clauses.Official bidder communication ↗Authoritative 14 August Q&A catalogue and future amendments.Feedbax discovery ↗Aggregator used only to resolve the official GIZ/DTVP procedure.

Package reviewed 16 Aug 2026, 22:09

Research files

Documents used for this evaluation

ZIPComplete procurement package ↓Direct authoritative package checked 16 August 2026.ZIP containing PDFBidder questions and answers ↓Direct authoritative Q&A catalogue published 14 August 2026; 15 answers.