Call for Expression of Interest: Digital Identity Wallet Procurement Documentation — North Macedonia

GIZ North Macedonia (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) has published a Call for Expression of Interest for consultancy services. The selected provider will prepare procurement-ready tender documentation for the development and implementation of a National Digital Identity Wallet in North Macedonia. This is a preparatory assignment. The contractor does not build the wallet. It drafts the documents that will later be used to procure the wallet's development and implementation. The available source does not name a separate beneficiary or end user, such as a ministry or national agency.

The only source available is a short Facebook post by GIZ North Macedonia, dated 30 September (no year given). The post links to the full call on giz.de (https://www.giz.de/en/call-expressions-interest-provision-services-preparation-procurement-ready-tender-documentation). It says the full call, the eligibility requirements and the application details are published there. That page was not provided. The available material therefore does not give the following:

• the detailed scope of work and deliverables;
• any standards the wallet documentation must follow, such as the EUDI Wallet framework, ARF, eIDAS 2.0, OpenID4VC, SD-JWT or mdoc;
• contract value, duration or options;
• the Q&A deadline or start date;
• the evaluation method.

The procedure is a Call for Expression of Interest, which is typically the first stage of a GIZ selection. Later stages may involve a request for proposals to shortlisted applicants, but the source does not confirm this.

The stated deadline is 06.10.2026, read as 6 October 2026 in European date format. The submission channel and the language of the application are described only on the linked GIZ page.

No later notices, clarifications or Q&A answers are available. Requirements and award criteria will be known once the full call text on giz.de is obtained. For now the requirement and award-criteria lists are left empty rather than guessed.