Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-08-31
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ GmbH)
Country: DE
Region: Not specified
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 75211200
Submission deadline: 2016-09-30
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: 81204498 Supporting Institutional Structures to promote Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in the Caribbean Region (REETA).
The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has commissioned GIZ to implement the overall project. The Caribbean countries are heavily dependent on fossil fuels for energy production. At the same time, regional and national players in the area of Renewable and Energy Efficiency are still not in the position to comply with the political, organizational and technical demands of a growing market. The final target group for the REETA interventions are the people of the Caribbean as it is intended to reduce their energy cost and dependency on fossil fuels, which leads to improved living conditions. Within this assignment, the GIZ needs support by a Firm of Consultants, which is able to provide regional and international short-term experts for different sectors to support the CARICOM Energy Unit as well as Caribbean Development Bank and other national development and commercial banks or financial institutions.
GIZ needs support by a Firm of Consultants, which is able to provide regional and international short-term experts for different sectors to support the CARICOM Energy Unit as well as CDB and other national development and commercial banks or financial institutions. The provided consulting service will be demand orientated, depending on the support the GIZ's project partner's need. Through the short term missions, the experts should contribute to an institutional and personal development of the target group. The main task for the pools of short term experts will be the development of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects and strategies in the CARICOM member countries. In some sectors are very good qualified and experienced regional experts available, while other sectors are weaker on this. The pools of short term experts should comprise regional and international experts. Based on request missions of international experts should include participation from the region. This partnering exercise will create regional knowledge and expertise and will allow a sustainable and practice-orientated knowledge transfer to strengthening regional owner ship.
According to Article 160, Section 3 of the German Act Against Restraint of Competition, application for re-examination is not permissible insofar as:
1. The applicant has identified the claimed infringement of the contract award regulations before submitting the application for re-examination and has not submitted a complaint to the commissioning party 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 contract award regulations that are evident in the notice are not submitted to the commissioning party at the latest by the expiry of the deadline for the application specified in the notice or by the deadline for the submission of bids;
3. Complaints of infringements of contract award regulations that 1st become evident in the tender documents are not submitted to the commissioning party at the latest by the expiry of the deadline for application or for the submission of bids;
4. More than 15 calendar days have elapsed after receipt of the notification from the commissioning party 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.