s an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations, the federally owned Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH supports the German Government in achieving its development-policy objectives. It provides viable, forward-looking solutions for political, economic, ecological and social development in a globalised world. GIZ promotes complex reforms and change processes. Its corporate objective is to improve people’s living conditions on a sustainable basis.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, is announcing as following:

Call for expressions of interest

The project ‘Support to EU-Integration Reform Processes in Kosovo’, financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and co-funded by the European Union, aims to strengthen Kosovo’s public administration to implement EU-related reforms, focusing on harmonized policy implementation, administrative enforcement, access to justice, environmental governance, and administrative burden reduction.

Kosovo, as a potential EU candidate country, is working to align its policies and regulations with EU standards. One key area is the implementation of state aid regulations that are consistent with EU guidelines. The existing sublegal act on horizontal state aid needs to be reviewed and updated to ensure compliance with these standards. This is crucial for fostering a fair competitive environment and attracting investments.

To ensure effective implementation and alignment with EU State Aid legislation, GIZ is seeking an expert to provide technical assistance in reviewing and updating a crucial sublegal act concerning horizontal state aid. This initiative aligns with the project’s objective of improving the prerequisites for aligning policy implementation with the SAA, thus promoting sustainable economic development in Kosovo.

The contractor is expected to provide technical assistance for the review and update of the State Aid Secondary Legislation, incorporating the latest EU guidelines and ensuring their alignment with EU standards.

The checklist below provides further information about the conditions and expectations of the GIZ project. Based on responses to this call expression of interest, GIZ will pre-qualify consultants that in turn will receive a Request for Information (RFI) to submit their offers with detailed specifications. Response to the RFI does not necessarily imply that the consultant will receive the GIZ's “Request to review the State Aid Secondary Legislation’’.

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

1) Consultant should submit at least two (2) references that prove experience in providing similar services, such as:

a. One (1) reference in supporting regulatory processes or reforms (preferably on state aid regulation).

b. One (1) reference in providing technical assistance in legal reforms.

Interested consultants are invited to submit expression of interest in English language.

The deadline for submitting the application is 30.01.2025 until 15:00h via email at: procurement.kosovo@giz.de , titled/labelled as 83481276 - State Aid Regulations Expert.

Please note that:

• Expression of interest and documents must be submitted in pdf format.
• The size of emails for quotation is limited to 20 MB. In case the quotations exceed the maximum data size, quotation documents must be sent via filetransfer.giz.de , please provide the password!
• You should use the reference number 83481276, otherwise we cannot consider your offer

After the evaluation of received expressions of interest, the chosen companies will be contacted and invited to take part in the tender. GIZ shall not bear any costs and expenses incurred by any bidder during the tender procedure and shall retain right to accept or refuse completely any offer, annul, or repeat the procedure at any time before the execution of a contract, holding at the same time no liability towards the bidders, and shall have no responsibility to provide reasons for such decision. The tender dossier will be sent only to short listed service providers.