Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-11-20
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 71318000: Lighting engineering services
Estimated value: 1608617 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development supports the Jordanian government in its efforts to enhance nexus cooperation between water and energy sectors to improve their financial performance and to allow the implementation of more renewable energy projects in the water sector through the project ‘Renewable Energies in the Water Sector’, implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The current phase runs from 10/2017 to 10/2021.
GIZ is seeking to procure the services of a contractor to prepare bankable feasibility study, a business model and tenders documents of pumped storage project. The scope of work for the contractor is structured in six work packages:
The Jordanian water and energy sectors are facing problems that can be mostly solved through joint planning and coordination. While the energy sector suffers from grid instability and power curtailments from renewable energy resources, the water sector is facing financial difficulties resulted from high energy bill. The Jordanian population has been growing at high rate for years, and its demand for water and wastewater services is also increasing rapidly. Many Jordanian consumers are geographically distant from water resources, and the challenging hydrogeology and topography contribute to the water sector's high energy consumption. In fact, the water sector is Jordan's single largest energy consumer, accounting for around 15 % of total energy consumption. For this reason, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) supports the Jordanian government in its efforts to enhance water energy nexus cooperation towards joint planning of the important sectors through the project ‘Renewable Energies in the Water Sector (REW)’, implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The first phase of REW runs from November 2017 to October 2021. This project is part of the German development program ‘Management of water resources in Jordan’.
The module objective of the project is ‘The conditions for increased implementation of renewable energy in the water sector are improved’. The project operates across the country. Its core lies in embedding a systematic nexus dialogue between water and energy sectors to reduce deficits in both sectors and to support the implementation of new renewable energy projects within the water sector.
This tender involves the supply and management of consultancy services to the GIZ operated REW project in Jordan. The services will be delivered by short- and long-term experts in form of technical and administrative services related to pumped storage project in Jordan. The objectives of this assignment are:
2) To develop possible viable business model alternatives to share benefits of the project by water and energy sector;
The assignment will be carried out between 1 December 2020 and 31 October 2021 with a total of 484 person days for two technical long-term experts (including one team leader) and 822 person days for two pools of technical experts.
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 special terms and conditions.
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.


Winner: ILF Consulting Engineers Austria GmbH
Award value: 1608617
Number of bids: 4