Public service concessions for receiving visa applications in Southern Africa (lot 1) and Southern Asia (lot 2)

The Service Provider is operating Visa Application Centers in the region “Southern Africa (Botswana, Namibia, South Africa)” and “Southern Asia (India, Bangladesh, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Bhutan)”. The Service Provider operates at least one Visa Application Center in each of the following cities: Cape Town, Centurion, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth, Gaborone, Windhuk (lot 1 / Southern Africa) as well as Colombo, Jaffna, Kandy, Malé (possibly no continuous presence needed), Dhaka, New Delhi, Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Jaipur, Gurgaon, Ahmedabad, Cochin, Panjim, Hyderabad, Puducherry, Pune, Trivandrum, Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore/Tamil, Nadu, Kalkutta, Mumbai, Thimpu (lot 2 / Southern Asia). Additional locations can be offered with the tender documents in stage 2 of the tender process. It is possible that more visa application centers in the region are opened. The specified locations have processed a total of 206,174 Schengen visa application and 31,385 national visa applications in 2017.