Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-03-21
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 75211200
Submission deadline: 2019-04-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The primary objective of the assignment is to develop variations of the Integrated Utility Service (IUS) model for different energy market types within the Caribbean. The IUS Model has been developed to be implemented in phases. The next step (phase 3) is the regional rollout of the model.
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(c) pilot programmes, for the variations of the IUS within barbados and 3 additional Cariforum countries (Belize, Guyana and one other).
2) The building of capacity within the key stakeholder organizations, through technical and other assistance, within the pilot jurisdictions. In particular, the assistance should endow the various organisations, especially electric utilities and (where required) regulators, with the capability to function optimally and participate effectively within the administration and implementation of the IUS; and
3) The design and development of the requirements for enabling regional institution(s) to provide back-stopping to national implementation of the IUS model, thereby supporting sustainability and regional upscaling.
In particular, the activity is expected to generate an investment pipeline and financing options for each country.
GIZ may optionally commission contract amendments and/or increases based on the criteria in the tender documents to the successful bidder of this tender. For details, please see the terms of reference.
2) Eligibility declaration that no grounds for exclusion in Section 123, 124 of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB) apply;
1) At least 3 reference projects in the technical ESCO market and at least 3 reference projects in the region Caribbean in the last 3 years;
2) The technical assessment is only based on reference projects with a minimum commission value of 35 000 EUR.
Communication/questions can only be submitted using GIZ's eProcurement Tender Platform for the award of contracts
According to Article 160, Section 3 of the German Act Against Restraint of Competition (GWB), application for review is not permissible insofar as:
1) The applicant has identified the claimed infringement of the procurement rules before submitting the application for review and has not submitted a complaint to the Contracting Authority within a period of 10 calendar days; the expiry of the period pursuant to Article 134, Section 2 remains unaffected,
2) Complaints of infringements of procurement rules that are evident in the tender notice are not submitted to the Contracting Authority at the latest by the expiry of the deadline for the application or by the deadline for the submission of bids, specified in the tender notice;
3) Complaints of infringements of procurement rules that first become evident in the tender documents are not submitted to the Contracting Authority at the latest by the expiry of the deadline for application or by the deadline for the submission of bids,

Eligibility requirements: 1) Trading name and address, commercial register number; 2) Eligibility declaration that no grounds for exclusion in Section 123, 124 of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB) apply; 3) Eligibility declaration subcontractors if applicable; 4) Association clause if applicable.