81272488 — Improvement and Modernisation of Technology Capacities within Industries and Service Providers

Project description: The project ‘Private Sector Development and Innovation’ (PSI) aims to improve the conditions for innovation in the Egyptian manufacturing sector. The project consists of four outputs: 1) Strengthen cooperation between public agencies and business associations and institutions to promote innovation; 2) Establish new and improved services for product and process innovations in the market; 3) Improve cooperation between enterprises towards integration into national and international supply chains; 4) Develop innovative financial services for the formal and informal sectors. This assignment contributes to outputs 2 and 3. The lead agency is the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI). MTI is mandated with industrial (Munufacturing-based) development and international trade relations. It develops national economic policies and strategies and carries out active business promotion via a set of agencies (see below). (http://www.mti.gov.eg/). Scope of the assignment: The overall objective of this assignment is to implement essential parts of outputs 2 and 3. The objective of the contract is the improvement and modernisation of technology capacities within involved industries and service providers required for the innovation/modernisation process. The contractor provides a deep dive into modern and future-oriented technologies for selected manufacturing industries. At the same time, the contractor needs to strengthen the current financial and managerial capacities of the involved industries and service providers. The contractor will supply 3 main work packages which are tightly connected and intertwined. In the context of the project and the programme environment (Private Sector Development) will focus on the industrial/manufacturing sector, which is supposed to provide employment opportunities (the perspective of international support, e.g.: BMZ) and is of growing interest of the national and international business world participating in the growing national market and Eygpt integration into global/regional supply chain (the business perspective). The assignment will focus on selected manufacturing industries (sub-sectors). Support to these industries is not expected to be rolled out simultaneously but rather iteratively. For instance, the first industry likely to be addressed is food processing (as an entry point to the private sector and the assignment), to be expanded to chemical processing and mechanical and plant engineering (see section 1 of the TOR for background information on these sectors in Egypt). All contact and entry points to the industries will be organised and provided by the project.