About the bid

Assignment description

The Digital Investment Facility (DIF) is a European technical assistance initiative supporting green and secure digital infrastructure across Africa. In partnership with the EU Commission, GIZ, and HAUS, DIF works to improve the bankability of projects such as data centres, IXPs, and digital backbone infrastructure. This procurement supports Result 3.1.1 of the DIF Results Framework (“Capacity building for DIF key stakeholders”) and aims to strengthen DIF’s presence at AfricaCom 2025 in Cape Town (11–13 November 2025) and at a second major industry event in Q2 2026. The selected service provider will design and deliver all activities described below in close collaboration with the DIF team. The objective is to deliver an integrated event experience during AfricaCom • A high-level roundtable on Day 0 of the events • A Catapult Accelerator pitch session for selected projects under DIF technical assistance. HAUS Finnish Institute of Public Management Ltd (“the Client”) is seeking an esteemed service provider with wide experience and proven expertise in catapult type of accelerator programs in Africa to carry out the accelerator program. Excellent networks in African digital infrastructure domain is a prerequisite for successful execution of the service provision. HAUS reserves the right to amend this document and the information contained herein. A detailed description on the tender is depicted in Annex 1 DIF Terms of Reference Catapult Accelerator Program.Main features of the procedureProcurement procedure is carried out according to the open procedure stated in the section 32 of the Finnish Act on Public Procurement and Concession Contracts (1397/2016). In an open procedure, all interested parties may review the tender materials and submit their tenders. The procurement procedure will progress in the following steps: 1. Opening of the tenders 2. Verifying the suitability of the tenderer. The tenderer that do not fulfill the suitability criteria, will be excluded from the tendering process. 3. Verifying that the tenders fulfill the requirements of the Call for Tenders; the tenders that do not fulfill the requirements will be excluded from the tendering process. 4. Selecting one Tenderer based on the comparison results 5. Verifying the supporting documents and references about the suitability of the winner. 6. Contract award decision and notification. 7. Concluding and signing the Contract with the selected Service Provider.

Contact information

Contact name

Juha Miettinen

Contact phone

+358 447877028

Contact email

dgprocument@haus.fi

Address

Yliopistonkatu 5, 5.krs, 00100 Helsinki

• Technical proposal

  90%

  Description

  Technical proposal 90%

• Budget breakdown

  10%

  Description

  Budget breakdown 10%

• Certificate of registration

  Description

  Must be a legally registered entity eligible to enter into a contract with HAUS Finnish Institute of Public Management Ltd.

  Documentation Requirement

  Do not generate any comments inside the json block. Do not generate any control token (such as \n and \t) at any places. If a user requests multiple JSON, always return a single parseable JSON array. Do not include any extra text outside of the JSON string.

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