Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-09-30
Buyer: 81316582-Technical assistance to enhance trade effluent management practices in Lusaka
Country: ZM
Region: DEA22
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71800000 | 85312320 | 90713100
Estimated value:  EUR
Submission deadline: 2027-02-28
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: 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,
4. more than 15 calendar days have expired since receipt of notification from the contracting authority that it is unwilling to redress the complaint.
Sentence 1 does not apply in the case of an application to determine the invalidity of the contract in accordance with Article 135, Section 1 (2). Article 134, Section 1, Sentence 2 remains unaffected.
GIZ has been commissioned to implement the project Nexus Energy and Water Program for Zambia (NEWZA) previously called "Strengthening Institutions for Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation Services in Zambia (SIWAS)" on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). NEWZA is a multi-donor action jointly co-financed by the European Union, BMZ and UNICEF. However, the trade effluent activities under NEWZA are funded only by BMZ as part of the German Development Cooperation program.

Based on activities in the previous project phase, SIWAS, now called GIZ-NEWZA includes interventions for improved management of industrial wastewater in Lusaka. The focus is to provide technical assistance to Lusaka Water Supply and Sanitation Company (LWSC) and other stakeholders to strengthen their capacities in trade effluent monitoring, regulation, and enforcement. This is to ensure that adequate measures will be in place to safeguard wastewater treatment plants from trade effluent discharged into public sewers. Interventions are closely linked to the investment project "Ecological Urban Development Lusaka", which is implemented through the German Development B
ank KfW, through which two wastewater treatment plants for Lusaka are being financed under the Lusaka Sanitation Program. 

A Contractor is required to provide technical assistance to enhance trade effluent management practices in Lusaka. A team of experts with national and international experience shall be provided by the Contractor for this purpose. Services of the Contractor include capacity development measures to strengthen the capacities of LWSC and other key stakeholders to ensure the long-term functionality of the wastewater treatment plants by minimising to acceptable levels and/or avoiding the influence of substances from trade effluent that impair treatment processes and cause structural damage. Services of the Contractor shall be delivered in close collaboration project partners and in coordination with the GIZ project team in Zambia.
To determine the most economical bidder, the total number of points achieved is entered by the awarding authority according to the technical assessment. Only tenders with a technical score of over 500 points are evaluated. Technical bids with fewer points are rejected as technically ineligible.
GIZ has been commissioned to implement the project Nexus Energy and Water Program for Zambia (NEWZA) previously called "Strengthening Institutions for Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation Services in Zambia (SIWAS)" on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). NEWZA is a multi-donor action jointly co-financed by the European Union, BMZ and UNICEF. However, the trade effluent activities under NEWZA are funded only by BMZ as part of the German Development Cooperation program.

Based on activities in the previous project phase, the GIZ-NEWZA project previously called SIWAS includes interventions for improved management of industrial wastewater in Lusaka. The focus is to provide technical assistance to Lusaka Water Supply and Sanitation Company (LWSC) and other stakeholders to strengthen their capacities in trade effluent monitoring, regulation, and enforcement. This is to ensure that adequate measures will be in place to safeguard wastewater treatment plants from trade effluent discharged into public sewers. Interventions are closely linked to the investment project "Ecological Urban Development Lusaka", which is implemented through the German development bank KfW, through which two wastewater treatment plants for Lusaka are being financed under the Lusaka Sanitation Program. 

A Contractor is required to provide technical assistance to enhance trade effluent management practices in Lusaka. Tasks of the Contractor are divided into the following work packages:

(1) Establishment of the Database for Trade Effluent Monitoring / Indirect Discharge Monitoring

(2) Identification of the most critical industries

(3) Design of discharge points and implementation of sampling methodologies

(4) Implementation of a comprehensive Analytical Quality and Assurance system

(5) Finalisation of the Trade Effluent Standards, Regulations and Review of the Guidelines for Discharge of Trade Effluent into Public Sewer System

A team of experts shall be provided by the Contractor for this purpose. This shall include (1) a team leader and industrial wastewater management specialist with international profile, (2) an industrial wastewater management specialist and deputy team leader with national profile, (3) a short-term expert for analytical quality assurance with international profile, and (4) a short-term expert pool with international or regional profiles. Close collaboration with project partners as well as coordination with the GIZ project team in Zambia will be required.

The Contractor may be a single firm or a consortium of various consulting firms. The involvement of consulting firms from Zambia within subcontracting or joint venture arrangements will be permitted.

The estimated duration of the contract is 18 months from the contract award (anticipated in August 2025).
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.


Winner: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Award value: 506970
Number of bids: 4