GIZ Lebanon’s staff members work in several distinct projects (plus a country office) and implement a wide range of development cooperation activities throughout Lebanon in the water, education, civil society promotion, urban development and employment promotion and technical vocational training sectors. GIZ Lebanon implements alongside Lebanese governmental, civil society and non-governmental partners, with work and travel concentrated in Greater Beirut, but occurring in all of Lebanon’s governorates.
Lebanon’s overall security situation is fragile and prone to sudden, nation-wide crises and emergencies. In 2006, the country experienced a month-long war with Israel, which led to the evacuation of tens of thousands of foreigners from the country (including the expatriate GIZ staff then working in the country), and, in 2008, Lebanon saw weeks-long sectarian conflict, which paralyzed Beirut and temporarily stopped GIZ’s work in the capital. The factors that caused these crises remain present in Lebanon and can be triggered again to generate new emergencies, both acute and short-term or country-wide and prolonged. GIZ Lebanon works in this context and in 2017-2018 grew in its number of foreign and national staff and office locations. This growth is expected to continue in 2021-2022. However, GIZ Lebanon has limited capacity to respond to a major crisis. Given the elevated risk of a nation-wide crisis occurring in Lebanon (relative to other countries where GIZ works), as well as the changing nature of GIZ Lebanon’s disposition and composition, the GIZ Lebanon security risk management advisors (SRMAs) assessed it to be necessary to procure the services of a private security company to fill primarily logistical capacity gaps and provide expertise in crisis response.
GIZ Lebanon has a thoroughly developed system of staff accountability and maintains up-to-date staff lists with contact information for all GIZ Lebanon employees (national and expatriate). This information includes precise residential address and location information (longitude and latitude). GIZ Lebanon has already implemented an emergency communications plan and is in regular contact with the German Embassy in Lebanon. GIZ Lebanon’s SRMAs furthermore regularly monitor the overall security situation in Lebanon and the broader Levantine Middle East for the purposes of predictive analysis and assessment of the likelihood of a particular crisis occurring. Initial crisis response planning has been conducted and initial plans have been drafted, to include identified assembly points, as well as thresholds for colleagues sheltering in place or hibernating at their residences. Field safe havens have also been identified to support colleagues during field visits.
What is missing from GIZ Lebanon’s crisis response planning is the logistical capacity to implement any planned or hasty relocation or evacuation. This primarily comes down to vehicles, drivers and equipment to communicate between vehicles (to coordinate movement). This gap in GIZ’s capacity to implement crisis response planning is why the services of a private security company are assessed as necessary. GIZ Lebanon therefore seeks the below general services to provide support in crisis response, prioritized in four broad categories as:
The services provided by the private security company do not include the actual evacuation of expatriate staff members from Lebanese territory (whether by land, sea or air). The German Embassy (and the embassies of non-German expatriate staff members) is the institution responsible for the evacuation of GIZ Lebanon expatriate employees and their family members. The private security company will primarily assist GIZ Lebanon in the movement of colleagues between offices and residences to an assembly point(s) and, as a final step, from the assembly point(s) to the embassies’ (or GIZ’s) evacuation points.
GIZ Lebanon does not require other services commonly provided by private security companies, such as guarding or security incident reporting.
The requirements for a private security company to provide in extremis support to GIZ Lebanon are divided below into specific contractual commitments, tasks or actions taken and specific deliverables provided to GIZ Lebanon.
All private security companies responding to these terms of reference must:
The duration of this contract will be for two years from the date of signature, with a review of services conducted at the end of the first six months to assess GIZ Lebanon’s satisfaction with the service provider. Any renewal of the contract will be based upon the assessment of services provided over the duration of the initial contract.
For the duration of the contract, the private security company’s assigned GIZ case manager must be available to meet with the GIZ Lebanon SRMAs on a no less than monthly basis to review and update crisis response planning as required (and more frequently, depending on the situation). This schedule of meetings will be determined at a later time between the SRMAs and the private security company case manager. The case manager or an assigned and identified deputy must be reachable 24/7.
When new information that would alter the details of a relocation plan are gathered by the GIZ Lebanon SRMAs (such as the departure or arrival of new expatriate staff), this will be communicated immediately to the private security company’s assigned GIZ case manager and a meeting will be scheduled to update crisis response planning appropriately.
The applicant shall submit the Expression of Interest (EoI) to [email protected] [1] accompanied by copies of all the required information and documents listed below:
-Company name and contact details (Office adresses, emails, telephone ..)
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[1] mailto:[email protected]