German federal development-cooperation implementing agency. Acts as commissioning party (Auftraggeber) in public procurement below the EU threshold, per its General Terms and Conditions of Contract for Supplying Services and Work (AVB).
Known involvement with SINE
- Commissioning party for Tender 10036847 — Data Governance in Agricultural Value Chains (2026), under the SAFE project. Contact on this tender: Isabel Paul, Contract Manager, E290 Contract Management (isabel.paul@giz.de).
Waste-sector programmes — the fragmentation measurement ⟨added 2026-11-06⟩
POLYPROBLEM Report 06 (page) interviews GIZ staff on digital tools in waste collection and carries the one hard measurement of app fragmentation anywhere in this wiki: more than twenty collection apps in Indonesia alone, each with its own data model and user base. GIZ also appears there as a user of the Waste Flow Diagram method for estimating leakage where no measured data exist.
⟨Inference: this is the development-cooperation mirror of the data-space business-model problem — donor funding will finance twenty pilots but no shared layer, because the shared layer has no single commissioning party. Same shape as the bootstrapping problem, with the donor in the anchor-tenant slot and no plan for what happens when the programme ends.⟩
Procurement mechanics observed (this tender)
- Public invitation to tender — no negotiations; tender binding until binding-period expiry.
- Technical bid weighted 70%, financial bid 30%; ≥500 points in technical assessment required before financial evaluation.
- Standard backstopping package (service-delivery control, adaptation management, information flow, personnel responsibility, process-oriented steering, administrative conclusion) must be priced into contractor fee schedules per AVB Section 3.1 — not billed separately.
- Runs a voluntary “Guide for Practicing Corporate Sustainability” (GPS) for contractors; participation doesn’t affect award decisions.
- Sustainability policy: contractors should favour low-emission travel and offset flight CO₂ against a recognised certificate standard.
Sources
- 10036847-TOR
- 10036847-Cover Letter
- POLYPROBLEM 06 Der Circularity Code — the waste-sector section above