Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-07-01
Buyer: European Investment Bank
Country: LU
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71356200
Submission deadline: 2016-08-01
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: EIB - Technical assistance for the implementation of the Lebanon Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Finance Facility (LEEREFF) (LU-Luxembourg)
• Assist the Lebanese authorities and in particular the Banque du Liban, financial intermediaries and final beneficiaries to invest in Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy projects, spreading knowledge and know-how about these sectors;
• Support and enable the Lebanese authorities and in particular the Banque du Liban to efficiently manage LEEREFF and potential similar complementary Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy projects or programmes (through capacity building and support to the PIU).
This Technical Assistance will contribute to capacity building and awareness raising on the need for Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy projects in Lebanon.
The specific objectives of this TA operation are to develop, improve the capacity of and provide support to:
• raise awareness in the Lebanese society on financial, economic and environmental benefits resulting from implementation of EE&RE projects; and
• prepare and structure Sub-Projects in line with the requirements of the Financial Intermediaries, Bank of Lebanon (the Promoter), European Investment Bank and Agence Française de Développement.
The Contracting Authority may, at its own discretion and subject to the availability of funding, extend the scope and duration of the project to cover complementary and/or additional services.
In case of complementary services, the extension shall be up to a maximum not exceeding 50% of the initial contract value. In case of additional services, such extension shall be up to a maximum not exceeding the length and value of the initial contract.
Participation is open to all interested legal and natural persons - participating either individually or in a grouping (consortium) of candidates, without nationality restrictions. Participation is also open to international organisations.
All eligible natural and legal persons (as per item 11 above) or groupings of such persons (consortia) may apply.
A consortium may be a permanent, legally-established grouping, or a grouping which has been constituted informally for a specific tender procedure. All members of a consortium (i.e., the leader and all other members) are jointly and severally liable to the Contracting Authority.
The participation of an ineligible natural or legal person (as per item 11) will result in the automatic exclusion of that person. In particular, if that ineligible person belongs to a consortium, the whole consortium will be excluded.
No more than one application can be submitted by a natural or legal person whatever the form of participation (as an individual legal entity or as leader or member of a consortium submitting an application). In the event that a natural or legal person submits more than one application, all applications in which that person has participated will be excluded.
Any tenders received from tenderers comprising firms other than those mentioned in the short-listed application forms will be excluded from this restricted tender procedure. Short-listed candidates may not form alliances or subcontract to each other for the contract in question.