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Service Contract

CONFIDENTIAL

between

hereinafter referred to as ‘the Contractor’ -

and

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1 - 5 65760 Eschborn

Federal Republic of Germany

hereinafter referred to as ‘GIZ’ -

the following contract is herewith concluded.

Communication details (must be quoted in all correspondence and invoices) Tender number: 10047257 Contract number: project number G-012571-002 Internal order: 12571010000

Unit responsible for the budget Organisational unit: Responsible officer: E-Mail-Adresse Bearbeiter*in

Procurement and Contracting Organisational unit: E290 Responsible officer: Prabhjot Kaur-Fortanz / prabhjot.kaur@giz.de

Financial processing of the contract Advance payments & service entry sheets (LERF) fin.processing_DE@giz.de Invoices to: invoice_DE@giz.de

Form 41-91-53-en

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Terms of Reference

The Contractor undertakes to perform the services/achieve the results listed in the Terms

of Reference (Annex 1).

Contract Term and Assignment of Experts or the Consultant

The contract shall run from 01.11.2026 to 31.12.2028.

The Contractor shall deploy the experts listed in the price schedule (Annex 2) in

accordance with Section 2.1 of the General terms and conditions of contract for supplying

services and works on behalf of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (“General Terms and Conditions of Contract”) .

The expected periods of assignment and/or the period during which services are to be

provided are set out in the Terms of Reference (Annex 1).

Procurement of Materials and Equipment

Not applicable –

Reports/Appraisals

In accordance with the currently valid version of the General Terms and Conditions of

Contract, the final report shall be submitted to GIZ no later than 31.12.2028.

Remuneration and place of supply for VAT purposes

5.1 A total remuneration of up to EUR

shall be agreed for the services to be performed by the Contractor.

The corresponding individual rates and bases for settlement are listed in the price

schedule (Annex 2). Settlement will be based on time statements pursuant to

Section 3.7.3 of the General Terms and Conditions of Contract.

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5.2 Place of supply for VAT purposes

The Contractor provides services to the GIZ country office in Bosnia and Herzegovina

complete physical address of the country office to the permanent establishment of GIZ

brief project title from Esprit in complete physical address of the project. In accordance

with Section 3a, Paragraph 2, Sentence 2 of the German VAT Act (Umsatzsteuergesetz –

UStG), the place of supply for VAT purposes is therefore in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Payments

The remuneration agreed in Section 5 of this contract shall be paid as follows:

6.1 Advance payment

The advance payment shall be made after submission of a written request for advance

payment. The advance payment may not be requested more than 15 days after the end of

the calendar month in which the contractually agreed works were commenced. The works

must be commenced 30 days at the latest after the start of the contract (Section 2). GIZ

shall be informed in writing of the day on which works commence.

Advance payment EUR

This advance payment shall be offset in equal parts (in two instalments) against the

penultimate interim invoice and the final invoice of the contract.

6.2 Settlements and interim invoices

The Contractor shall submit an interim invoice to GIZ for services actually provided every

three months after the start of the contract (see Section 2). No further interim settlements

may be applied for outside these intervals. In addition to the final invoice, no more than 9

interim invoices are expected to be submitted for this contract.

General Terms and Conditions of Contract

7.1 The Terms and Conditions with all annexes shall constitute a component of this contract.

The Contractor hereby declares that it is familiar with the General Terms and Conditions

of Contract.

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7.2 The annexes specified in Section 9 of this contract shall constitute components of this

contract.

7.3 In addition to Section 1.9 of the General Terms and Conditions of Contract, the Contractor

shall ensure that all publicity, communications and/or visibility measures comply with

Section 8 of the General Conditions for PA Grant or Delegation Agreement or Section 7 of

the General Conditions for Contribution Agreement.

7.4 Special notes on invoicing requirements

Since the services under this contract are to be provided for several GIZ projects, all

submitted costs must be allocated to a project number in line with the user-pays principle.

The project number must be stated for each item in the contract both in the time record

(column Activity/Content of works/Output) and the invoice form (column ‘Explanation’).

Projects for which services are provided under the scope of the contract shall be listed in

the Terms of Reference, stating their 12-digit project number in each case.

If travel expenses in accordance with Section 3.6 of the General Terms and Conditions of

Contract have been simultaneously incurred by several projects, all the relevant projects

and the percentage breakdown must be listed.

Copies

This contract is sent electronically.

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Annexes (The following annexes all apply (in the order listed) to the implementation

of the contract):

Terms of reference
Price schedule (final financial bid from the Contractor dated )
Technical bid dated
Current version of General Terms and Conditions of Contract (can be downloaded

from https://www.giz.de/en/partner/contractor/services-construction-work#downloads)

Consortial declaration if agreed

Eschborn, Date:

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Full first and last name, Full first and last name, Company name or full first and

function, OU function, OU last name

Division Procurement and Division Procurement and Contractor Contracting Contracting

10047257 Contract draft.pdf

Service Contract