With currently around 750 employees, ekom21 - Kommunales Gebietsrechenzentrum Hessen (ekom21) is the central IT service provider for the Hessian administrations and their partners for comprehensive administrative digitization. With their product portfolio and services, the specialist departments of ekom21 support the administrations in the efficient fulfillment of tasks and thus comprehensively consolidate the digitization of administration.

In the next few years, ekom21 - KGRZ Hessen expects a further increased need for consultations in connection with digitization in Hesse's municipalities. Against this background, ekom21 would like to procure consulting services on the market. The aim of the consulting services is to advise the Hessian municipalities (and, if necessary, municipal associations) and on digitization as well as to initiate or accelerate the implementation of the digital transformation. In addition, ekom21 needs consulting services in the field of process design, process analysis, document management and technology-based changes and innovations in urban areas (Smart City and Smart Region) in order to concretely implement the requirements of the municipalities.

Against this background, ekom21 would like to procure various support services on the market on a framework agreement basis. The required support services consist of different subject-specific requirements, operational or advisory, as well as different qualification levels of the persons to be deployed ("support staff" or "support staff") and essentially concern the following fields of activity and qualification levels (service category):

-Lot 1 IT Project Management

-Los 2 IT-Prozessberatung

-Los 3 IT-Beratung Smart City Use Cases

In addition to ekom21, beneficiaries are the members of the association, the districts, cities, municipalities, administrative communities and special-purpose associations in the federal state of Hesse and in each case including their legally independent and dependent institutions and associations and other forms of cooperation.

Lot 1 IT project management: In this service category, senior and junior project management and support staff are to be procured in the project office.

The requirements for the profile of the consultants are listed in the tender documents (terms of reference).

Over the standard period of the framework agreement (see Section II.2.7) of the notice), the contracting authority estimates a purchase quantity (maximum quantity) of 24,000 person-days. The estimated total value is based on the experience of recent years, including estimated additional requirements.

More details can be found in the tender documents.

Lot 2 IT process consulting: In this service category, support staff for process consulting (process analysis, process design and process rollouts) are to be procured.

The requirements for the profile of the consultants are listed in the tender documents (terms of reference).

Over the standard period of the framework agreement (see Section II.2.7) of the notice), the contracting authority estimates a purchase quantity (maximum quantity) of 16,000 person-days. The estimated total value is based on the experience of recent years, including estimated additional requirements.

More details can be found in the tender documents.

Lot 3 IT Consulting Smart City Use Cases: In this service category, support staff for consulting services in Smart City Use Cases are to be procured.

The requirements for the profile of the consultants are listed in the tender documents (terms of reference).

For the standard period of the framework agreement (see Section II.2.7) of the notice), the contracting authority estimates a purchase quantity (maximum quantity) of 6,000 person-days. The estimated total value is based on the experience of recent years, including estimated additional requirements.

More details can be found in the tender documents.