What the opportunity means
Technically steer, converge, extend and roll out AU-DOHP, RePan, HUSIKA and the Malawi Analytics Platform, including data integration, multilingual speech, training, support and open-source governance.
BConditional product route
Weiterentwicklung und Skalierung von Open-Source-One-Health-Plattformen in Afrika
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
- Deadline
- 03 Sept 2026, 12:00
- Value
- 1,350 call-off FKT + EUR 192,500 travel budget
- Region
- Eschborn; Kenya; Djibouti; Malawi; wider AU and IGAD rollout
- Reviewed
- 16 Aug 2026
Portfolio verdict
Conditional product route
Do not pursue as a standalone prime. The engineering and product fit is strong, but participation requires EUR 900,000 average annual revenue, ten staff, three recent EUR 400,000 Data Mesh references and two recent EUR 400,000 Africa references. A credible route exists only through a qualified prime or consortium that already clears those gates.
Recommended actionDo not bid alone. Join only behind a qualified development-cooperation or African health prime that already supplies the mandatory Data Mesh and Africa references and can field the full expert team.
Portfolio thesis
Strong fit across data platforms, research analytics, multilingual speech, observability and enablement; the incumbent stack also matches Python/Django, React/Next.js, Keycloak, Airflow, MinIO, Druid and Superset capabilities.
Qualification reality
The portfolio fits the open-source data-platform, analytics, multilingual AI and enablement scope, but the applicant must clear EUR 900,000 average revenue, ten staff and multiple recent EUR 400,000 Data Mesh and Africa references.
Portfolio evidence
Products and reusable delivery strengths
Products
Competencies
Decision gates
Eligibility and delivery gates
- Company matchPartially metCompany identity and registry evidence
Digital David AG's legal identity and registered office are verified, but the pack does not contain the required current commercial-register extract for submission.
- Company matchUnknownExclusion and sanctions declarations
The participation request requires declarations covering §§ 123/124 GWB, § 22 LkSG and Russia sanctions; no completed tender-specific declarations are in the evidence pack.
- Company matchUnknownAverage annual revenue
The gate is at least EUR 900,000 net averaged across three completed financial years. Verified turnover is EUR 754,500 for 2024 and EUR 874,992.76 for 2025, averaging EUR 814,746.38 across two years; 2023 is missing, so failure is not inferred.
- Company matchUnknownOrganisation size
The gate is at least ten employees and managers averaged across three calendar years. The profile contains no headcount evidence, and personnel expense is not used as a proxy.
- Company matchPartially metThree Data Mesh references
The portfolio demonstrates data, evidence-platform and integration capability, but does not establish three Data Mesh exchange-platform projects each worth at least EUR 400,000 net within the last 36 months.
- Company matchUnknownTwo Africa references
No evidence verifies two African projects each worth at least EUR 400,000 net within the last 36 months; portfolio descriptions do not establish geography, value and recency.
- Company matchUnknownEligibility lending
Reliance on consortium members or subcontractors is permitted through the prescribed declaration, but no named partner with source evidence and commitment exists; this is not met_with_partner.
- Company matchPartially metSelection ranking
General technical capability is demonstrated, but verified Africa experience and development-cooperation references with at least 50% ODA financing are absent. Ranking is 50% technical, 30% Africa and 20% development-cooperation experience.
- Company matchUnknownFull expert team
Named-expert and CV evidence is explicitly deferred; team availability, headcount and qualifications are not inferred from personnel expense or portfolio descriptions.
- Company matchUnknownTeam-lead profile
The deferred expert pack provides no evidence for the required degree, ten years of relevant delivery, incumbent-stack experience, leadership tenure or African development-cooperation experience.
- Company matchPartially metProduction and demo infrastructure
Secure cloud, DevSecOps and platform-operation capability is demonstrated, but no qualification evidence verifies the specified development, test and demo environments or GPU capacity.
Official clarifications · selected by AI relevance
Relevant bidder questions
- Q1Is a pre-bid meeting or clarification session planned before proposals are submitted?Buyer answer
No pre-bid meeting is planned. Questions must be submitted through the procurement-platform communication tool.
Portfolio impactThere is no live clarification route; submit unresolved scope, evidence and consortium questions through the portal before 24 August at 23:59.
- Q2Is participation restricted to German companies, or may African companies also apply?Buyer answer
The tender is not limited to German companies. Any interested company may request participation if it satisfies the published eligibility criteria.
Portfolio impactAn international prime or consortium route is permitted, but this does not waive the turnover, headcount or reference gates.
Interpreted scope
Delivery shape
- Provide continuous technical project leadership, coordination, quality management, risk tracking, monitoring and reporting across GIZ and partner organisations.
- Assess and converge AU-DOHP, RePan, HUSIKA and MAP toward a reusable Data-Mesh reference architecture with data contracts, catalogues, interoperability and governance.
- Analyse requirements, model new One Health and RMNCH use cases, integrate and harmonise data sources, and build analytics, dashboards and evidence workflows.
- Develop and operate the supporting full-stack, data-engineering and DevSecOps layers, including APIs, ETL, orchestration, BI, IAM, monitoring and release automation.
- Extend HUSIKA with AI speech for African languages, dialects and regional variants and integrate warnings and community feedback with the health-data platforms.
- Roll out and adapt the platforms for AU-IBAR, IGAD, PHIM, Cameroon, Malawi, Togo and further countries or regions, including local hosting and operating-model guidance.
- Train administrators, developers and users; provide help-desk, hypercare, documentation, coaching and operational enablement so partner teams can take over.
- Publish compatible code and materials as open source, manage contribution and community processes, and return project work to the shared ecosystem.
Bid package
Required submissions
- Participation request and completed self-declaration covering company details, revenue, headcount, exclusion grounds and sanctions compliance.
- Current commercial-register extract, no more than six months old, for every relevant consortium member.
- Up to ten clearly mapped reference projects showing value, dates, Data Mesh scope, Africa delivery and ODA financing.
- Consortium declaration and eligibility-lending declaration where applicable; references of relied-on subcontractors are not accepted without the latter.
- Only after invitation: completed price workbook, a technical methodology capped at 12 pages and Europass CVs capped at four pages per expert.
- The technical offer may be German or English; the invitation letter asks for the participation request in German, so the consortium should resolve that discrepancy through the portal before submission.
Commercial reading
Contract and pricing terms
- The initial call-off estimate is 1,350 FKT with no minimum purchase commitment; only commissioned and delivered services are paid.
- The team lead is a 355-FKT continuous service. Other initial volumes are 200 FKT for the IT architect, 80 for strategy and governance, 130 for senior full-stack, 500 for developers, 250 for data specialists and 190 for business analysis.
- Production systems remain partner-hosted. The contractor prices 24 months of development, test and demo infrastructure and up to 2,400 optional GPU hours.
- A fixed EUR 192,500 travel budget and EUR 4,324 carbon-compensation budget are reimbursed under the stated evidence rules and excluded from price weighting where fixed.
- Call-offs require at least 14 days notice and are agreed individually in writing; named bid personnel remain binding for delivery.
- The framework may be extended to 48 months. Options can add up to EUR 660,000 to continuous, travel and hosting positions and another 1,620 call-off FKT.
- New software is to be delivered under compatible open-source licensing; editable documentation and training materials are intended for CC BY-SA 4.0 publication.
Evidence trail
Sources and bidder information
Authoritative GIZ communication catalogue checked 16 August 2026 at 16:40 CEST. Cumulative version 2 dated 13 August contains exactly two answered bidder questions; no later authority message was present. Clarification questions close 24 August 2026 at 23:59.
Official GIZ procurement portal ↗Authoritative notice, deadlines, documents, bidder messages and electronic submission surface.Official procurement documents ↗Participation forms, 70-page specification, architecture annexes, price workbook, scoring matrices and contracts.Official bidder communications ↗Current GIZ answers and future amendments; version 2 was checked on 16 August 2026.IT-Ausschreibung listing ↗Secondary discovery listing that resolved the buyer and official source.RePan source repository ↗MIT-licensed incumbent referenced by the official specification.
Package reviewed 16 Aug 2026, 17:03
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