The ongoing digitalization is gradually affecting all areas of life in society. Cities and municipalities must and want to face digital change and make targeted use of the associated opportunities and potentials. Municipalities are faced in particular with the challenge of strategically shaping digitalization in terms of sustainable, holistic and integrated urban development, and with a focus on the common good. The Hessian state capital of Wiesbaden (LHW) will also implement a central program management “Smart City Wiesbaden” in this context — supported by financial contributions from the Hessian Ministry of Digital Strategy and Development, among other things.
In this context, the Hessian state capital of Wiesbaden would like to ensure targeted implementation through external management/control and specialist advice.
At the same time, services for participation and communication in the context of citizen science are being advertised for the Smart City project “Wiesbaden goes Smart”.
The subject of the call for tenders is management and control services and technical advice for the targeted implementation of the Smart City project “Wiesbaden goes Smart”. In addition, qualified support services for technological implementation of individual use cases are expected if required.
The term “smart city” subsumes holistic development projects that are intended to create targeted user-oriented added value for people directly on site in a municipality, in particular by using citizen science and information technology potentials.
Social, economic and technological innovations are taken into account, among other things, in order to gradually make cities more attractive, efficient, greener and socially inclusive.
Since January 2021, LHW has developed a concept “Smart City — Wiesbaden goes Smart” in a broad participation process with stakeholders from the Wiesbaden municipal society. It contains the essential requirements of the various target and interest groups in Wiesbaden for a smart city (see appendix Management Summary). Eight so-called “impact areas” were jointly identified (people, traffic & mobility, energy, health, education & culture, buildings, urban and business) and guidelines were developed in each case, which must be taken into account in an action-oriented and targeted manner under the premise of public value orientation.
With a grant notice from July 2021, the project receives funding from state funds from the “Strong Home Hesse II” program.
Overall, it is a highly iterative and agile process that must also ensure a comprehensive transfer of experience, knowledge (about technology, organization, processes and market events) and technologies to non-funded municipalities.
The selected bidders will receive further information about the project, including from the funding application, after signing a confidentiality agreement.
By conducting a competitive dialogue across Europe in accordance with §18 VgV, concepts (approaches and necessary service components) are sought in order to achieve the project goals defined by LHW in the best possible way with the specified order budget of 420,000 euros net.
In the first step, suitable bidders are selected and invited to participate in the dialogue.
The selected dialogue participants are first asked to create and present a concept to achieve the stated goals.
In dialogue, the optimal approach to the task and the necessary service components are developed together with the client. The dialogue can comprise several phases.
The client reserves the right to reduce the number of proposed solutions based on the specified award criteria and to end the dialogue with bidders whose proposals are not effective.
At the end of the dialogue phase, the remaining bidders will be asked to submit a bid based on the solutions defined in the dialogue phase.
Project period: mid-2022 to the end of 2023
After the order has been placed, processing must be started immediately.
The client does not foresee any payments or bonuses to the participants in the dialogue. There will be no reimbursement of costs/expenses for the preparation of the participation requests, the solution proposals/project drafts or tenders and for participation in the award procedure.
Service providers have already been involved in the topic when applying for funding. They are free to apply for this procedure.