Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-06-02
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 71314000: Energy and related services | 73000000 | 79411100
Submission deadline: 2023-06-30
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: 81296132-Consultant pool to provide strategic and operational support to the South African power sector reform
The overall objective of this assignment is to submit 6 recommendations on the implementation of power sector reform in South Africa to the actors responsible for managing and shaping it. In order to do so, standing pools of short-term experts (STEs) will be made available to provide rapidly mobilized energy, methodological and process advice to achieve reform impacts at national and municipal level. All activities will be informed by requests from our partners and guided by a steering group.
The contractor shall provide two pools of experts which can be deployed flexibly according to the specific requests from the steering group. Experts assigned to the pools will be required to work supporting on assignments involving: 1) policy analysis and advice (e.g., the energy transition and provisions to increase private sector participation); 2) legal and regulatory advice; 3) the development of potential future roles and strategies for different stakeholders within the power sector and 4) transfer of experience, expertise and conceptual know-how (e.g. on methodological concepts and instruments) to project partners and beneficiaries. Furthermore, STEs will be requested to contribute to capacity development of partner institutions and individuals (e.g., trainings, workshops, peer-to-peer exchange).
Focal Area 1 consists of activities pertaining to the unbundling of the national utility, Eskom. The contractor"s role may include providing recommendations on the unbundling from a policy, legal and regulatory perspective, with specific emphasis on provisions to ensure the independence of the Transmission entity. Additional support to the functionalization of the Market Operator and Central Purchasing Agency function within the Transmission entity.
Focal Area 2 consists of the design of measures to promote private sector participation in the electricity industry. The contractor"s role may include recommendations on market design, transition mechanisms and other mechanisms to increase private sector participation such as net billing and feed-in tariff schemes.
Focal Area 3 consists of activities pertaining to the distribution sector. The contractor"s role may include providing recommendations on the optimal role, structure and business models for an electricity distributor in a modern liberalized industry. This area will also incapsulate activities relating to municipal pricing, including the assessment of municipal cost of supply studies.
Focal Area 4 consists of activities pertaining to support of the further development of the legal and regulatory frameworks within the industry. This may include legislation such as the Electricity Regulation Act (ERA) and Electricity Pricing Policy (EPP) and regulatory provisions on, for example, the unbundling of tariffs and the requirements for the provision of non-discriminatory grid access.
The tasks to be carried out by the various experts and Team leader are anticipated to be 655 expert days for execution of the individual assignments. A sufficient travel budget will be made available and is to be considered by the bidders as part of their bid. The contract period during which the services described are to be provided is from contract award until 30.11.2024. The number of expert days corresponds to the working days.
The South African-German Energy Program (SAGEN), funded by the German government and implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in collaboration with the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE), Eskom and the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) is the counterpart to this project. The overall objective of this assignment is to submit six recommendations on the implementation of power sector reform in South Africa to the actors responsible for managing and shaping it. This will include at least four recommendations on the development of an effective power market or the unbundling of the national power utility Eskom and at least two related to the future organization of the municipal power supply. In order to provide these recommendations, standing pools of short-term experts (STEs) will be made available by the contractor to provide rapidly mobilized energy, methodological and process advice to achieve reform impacts at national and municipal level. This will be done under a framework contract concluded between the contractor and GIZ-SAGEN.
All activities under the contract will be informed by requests from our partners and guided by a steering group. GIZ-SAGEN, in collaboration with our partners, will provide a standardized request document to the contractor, at which point the contractor will submit a technical proposal outlining the content, work structure and personnel concept. Once the proposal is agreed upon, experts from either of the two pools (national and international) will be deployed to complete the individual assignments.
Experts assigned to the pools will be required to work on assignments involving: 1) policy analysis and advice (e.g., the energy transition and provisions to increase private sector participation); 2) legal and regulatory advice; 3) the development of potential future roles and strategies for different stakeholders within the power sector and 4) transfer of experience, expertise and conceptual know-how (e.g. on methodological concepts and instruments) to project partners and beneficiaries. Furthermore, short term experts will be requested to contribute to capacity development of partner institutions and individuals (e.g., trainings, workshops, peer-to-peer exchange).
Focal Area 1 consists of activities pertaining to the unbundling of the national utility, Eskom. The contractor"s role may include providing recommendations on the unbundling from a policy, legal and regulatory perspective, with specific emphasis on provisions to ensure the independence of the Transmission entity. Additional support to the functionalization of the Market Operator and Central Purchasing Agency function within the Transmission entity.
Focal Area 2 consists of the design of measures to promote private sector participation in the electricity industry. The contractor"s role may include recommendations on market design, transition mechanisms and other mechanisms to increase private sector participation such as net billing and feed-in tariff schemes.
Focal Area 3 consists of activities pertaining to the distribution sector. The contractor"s role may include providing recommendations on the optimal role, structure and business models for an electricity distributor in a modern liberalized industry. This area will also incapsulate activities relating to municipal pricing, including the assessment of municipal cost of supply studies.
Focal Area 4 consists of activities pertaining to support of the further development of the legal and regulatory frameworks within the industry. This may include legislation such as the Electricity Regulation Act (ERA) and Electricity Pricing Policy (EPP) and regulatory provisions on, for example, the unbundling of tariffs and the requirements for the provision of non-discriminatory grid access.

Eligibility requirements: 1. Self-declaration: name of company and address, tax ID, registration and commercial register number or equivalent register in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of origin. 2. No grounds for exclusion pursuant to § 123, § 124 GWB, § 22 LkSG 3. No grounds for exclusion EU-Russia 4. Declaration of bidding consortium and/or declaration of subcontractors (if applicable)