Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-08-17
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 75211200 | 79411100
Submission deadline: 2017-09-14
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: 81215440-Supporting the decentralization of off-grid renewable energy services delivery in one province of Nepal.
Nepal is in fundamentally transforming its governmental structure towards a decentralized service delivery, as laid out in the new constitution of 2015. As part of this transformation it is envisioned that many of the tasks, responsibilities, and authorities surrounding off-grid energy and energy from biomass are decentralized to the local and the provicial level. The Renewable Energy for Rural Areas (RERA) Programme, with the assistance of the consultancy firm, will support the off-grid energy sector in Nepal in this transformation. The focus of the work of the consultancy firm will lie on supporting government institutions, but also includes the private sector and civil society organisations to a lesser extent. The work of the consultancy firm will mainly circle around the support to the Nepalese energy agency (Alternative Energy Promotion Centre) in operationalizing one newly established provincial office, as well as supporting the newly elected local governments in this province.
This work will focus on capacity development and Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) to enable the provincial AEPC office, as well as the local governments to effectively perform their tasks of promoting and delivering off-grid energy. However, with the view of supporting the decentralization of off-grid renewable energy services delivery in one province of Nepal, also other topics like energy planning, demand creation and productive use of energy will be touched by the work of the consultancy firm.
2) Eligibility of the candidates. This will be evaluated according to the eligibility assessment grid. Criteria are: annual turnover, number of employees, reference projects and technical experience in thematic areas.
3) Should more than 5 bidders be eligible, the bids will be evaluated according to the technical assessment grid and according to the following criteria and set percentage Points. For the comparative evaluation we use the references and declarations submitted by the bidders:
1) declaration on the Commercial Register, if the applicant or the member of the consortium is registered;
2) declaration on the personal situation of the applicant or the member of the consortium, consisting of:
a) declaration on the absence of the mandatory grounds of exclusion as per section 123 Act against Restraints of Competition (Competition Act — GWB) or on the remedial actions and the measures;
b) declaration on the absence of the optional grounds of exclusion as per section 124 GWB or on there medial actions and the measures.
(1) declaration on the average annual turnover (net) of the applicant or the member of the consortium for the last three financial years,
Declaration on the reference projects of the applicant or the member of the consortium in the last 3 years in the technical field ‘Rural Energy / Energy Access and Local Governance’ and in the region Southern Asia with a minimum commission value of EUR 150 000  (net). There are particular to provide the informations to the project title, the client, the period, the contract value in EUR and the country.
(1) An application is only possible using the required documents provided by the contracting authority(compareI.3) of this notice ‘communication’ ). The documents must be completed in English. Form less applications will not be considered. The documents must be submitted together in triplicate, on time and sealed.
(2) Consortia must already apply as consortia. The subsequent formation of a consortium is not possible.Consortia have to provide the required information for every member. They have to mark this Information accordingly, designate a lead partner and authorise this member to represent the consortium and receive payments for all members in discharge of the liability for the contracting authority. A formal agreement to this effect must be signed by each member of the consortium and attached to the request to participate.
(3) The contracting authority reserve the right to cancel the contract award procedure, if they receive fewer than 3 requests to participate.
According to section 160, para. 3, sentence 1 of the Act against Restraint of Competition (Competition Act—GWB), application for the review proceeding is inadmissible if:

Eligibility requirements: 1) declaration on the Commercial Register, if the applicant or the member of the consortium is registered; 2) declaration on the personal situation of the applicant or the member of the consortium, consisting of: a) declaration on the absence of the mandatory grounds of exclusion as per section 123 Act against Restraints of Competition (Competition Act — GWB) or on the remedial actions and the measures; b) declaration on the absence of the optional grounds of exclusion as per section 124 GWB or on there medial actions and the measures.