Germany – Tax consultancy services – Offenes Verfahren zur Beschaffung einer externen Steuerberatung für das Zentrum für Safe Sport e.V. (ZfSS)

With the Centre for Safe Sport (ZfSS), an independent institution for the prevention, intervention and processing of interpersonal violence in German sport is being established in Kassel for the first time. As a central nationwide body, the ZfSS is to promote safe and non-violent sport and strengthen effective protection structures in German sport. The task of the ZfSS is to investigate and sanction incidents of psychological, physical and sexualised violence in elite sport – even below the threshold of criminality – independently of existing sports structures and on the basis of uniform procedural standards. This offer will be gradually extended to other areas of organised sport. In addition, the ZfSS is to bundle tasks in the areas of prevention, intervention and processing in the future, develop standards and certifications for Safe Sport and strengthen the cooperation of relevant actors from sport, science, politics and civil society. The ZfSS was established on the basis of a joint decision by the federal government and the Länder as a non-profit association in July 2026 and is currently being set up before it will commence operations in mid-2027 and be able to investigate the first cases. With the inflow of the first funds and the occurrence of the first finance- and tax-relevant tasks from October 2026, the services described in the performance description (tender document B1) are to be awarded to an external service provider. The contract begins with the award of the contract (expected end of October 2026) and ends after 24 months, without the need for termination (basic contract period). The contracting authority has the right to extend the contract twice by 12 months each time (extension option), so that the contract has a maximum duration of 48 months. The contracting authority must exercise the extension option in good time, but at the latest three months before the expiry of the respective contract period by e-mail (in text form). There is no entitlement of the contractor to the exercise of one or more extension options.