Countries: Regional (Albania / Kosovo / Serbia)

Project Executing Agencies (PEA) / Employers:

1.

Albanian Development Guarantee Foundation

Rr. “Abdi Toptani”

Torre Drini, Kati 9, Nr. 93

Tirana

Albania

2.

Kosovo Credit Guarantee Fund

Njazi Alishani No. 5

1000 Pristina

Republic of Kosovo

3.

Serbian Entrepreneurship Foundation

Vladimira Popovica Street No. 6

Belgrade, New Belgrade

Serbia

Deadline of Submission of Proposals: August 8 th , 2025 (2 pm CET)

E-procurement through Exficon only

Project: EU-KfW Western Balkans Guarantee – Supporting Entrepreneurs’ and MSMEs’; Resilience

Project No: 510000047 (ADGF), 510000054 (KEMPLOYER),

515001011 (SEF)

Tender: International Competitive Bidding (ICB):

Tender for Consulting Services: “Project ImplementationConsultant »

KfW Procurement ID: 512668

Postqualification / Fixed Budget Selection

Project measures: The overarching objective of the EU’s Western Balkans Guarantee is to support sustainable

socio-economic development and regional integration, particularly boosting the region’s competitiveness and job

creation. Specifically, the Project aims at responding to the challenges outlined above at different levels through

the following intervention logic:

• The main output of the Project will be to provide risk-sharing to credit guarantee funds (CGF or Employers) in

        the Western Balkans, specifically in Albania, Kosovo and Serbia.

• The CGFs in turn, provide risk-sharing to their partner financial institutions (PFIs) to promote PFIs’ 
• capacity and willingness to unlock financing for economically viable MSMEs.

• This will generate impact at the level of the MSMEs by enhancing access to formal financing for short term liquidity

        and investments, thereby supporting their response to Covid-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Thanks to the

        Project’s impact, MSMEs will be able to contribute to economic recovery by maintaining & creating jobs and income

To receive the Postqualification documentation, please contact Tender Agent (Rene Meyer) under [email protected] .

Procurement framework: This ICB tender for Consulting

Services is subject to KfW´s „Guidelines for the Procurement of Consulting Services, Works, Plant, Goods and 

Non-Consulting Services in Financial Cooperation with Partner Countries” (2019, 3 rd update 2024 / available on www.kfw-entwicklungsbank.de) .

Requested Consultant Services: The Consultant is expected to conduct the following main tasks:

•  Supporting the Employers by drafting workplans required by the EU

•  Validating and countersigning “Counter-Guarantee Notifications” when a Employer plans to include a

         guarantee provided to a PFI under the EU Guarantee Ex-ante screening claims by PFIs under the EU Guarantee

         to ensure only eligible losses are included in disbursement requests by the Employers to KfW;

•  Supporting each Employers by compiling Progress Reports

         as including data tables and formulating concise

          summaries based on information provided by Employers;

•  Supporting each Employer by compiling a final report
•  Supporting the Employers by compiling the Financial Reporting to the EU;

•  Communication and Visibility (C&V) Activities on the Project