The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is the world’s biggest organisation dedicated to international exchange among students and academics and to the internationalisation of German universities.

The International DAAD Academy, the DAAD’s training and development unit, are looking to appoint a single contractor to deliver face-to-face intensive English courses for teachers at academic institutions in Germany teaching courses in English in an English-speaking country in Europe and have asked the British Council to share the tender documents with suitable organisations in the UK.

The tender is for a Framework Agreement for intensive language courses for teaching through the medium of English for up to 150 participants per year, including a programme of cultural and regional studies.

Courses at two levels are to be offered by the Contractor:

  1.  Beginners: aimed at participants who have a very sound B2 level of proficiency and have not previously taught any or only very few courses in English
  2. Advanced/higher: aimed at participants who already have a very good level (C2) of proficiency in English, serving to refresh, deepen and expand existing knowledge.

The course venue must be a university town or a university must be located in the immediate vicinity of the course venue (max. 30 km), which is accessible by public transport.

The value of this contract is up to €200,000 net.

Further information is available from tendering documents on the German Federal Tendering Platform, where the documents are available in German and English: https://www.evergabe-online.de/tenderdocuments.html?0&id=403515

(Please note you can change the language of the site to English in the top left of the page to make it more accessible.)

Submissions for this tender can be made in German or English.

Deadline: 24 August, 12 noon German time

Submission to be made directly to the DAAD through the following link: https://www.evergabe-online.de/tenderdocuments.html?0&id=403515 (Click on “Subscribe” in the upper right corner) (Please note that the British Council will not be able to accept submissions) Any questions regarding the award documents must be submitted by 14 August 2021 at the latest to and exclusively via the federal government communication platform (see Chapter 8 of the Application Conditions). Questions asked later do not need to be answered. Questions received in time will be answered by 18 August 2021 at the latest.