Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2024-05-21
Region: DEA22
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 75211200 | 79411100
Estimated value: 993812.79 EUR
Submission deadline: 2025-11-30

Technical requirements: Zwingende bzw. fakultative Ausschlussgründe nach §§ 123 bis 126 GWB
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.
The project "Sector Coupling and Green Economy in Brazil" is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, in partnership with the Brazilian Federal Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME). The project goal is: "The urban transport and industrial sectors of the Brazilian economy are more climate-neutral, environmentally friendly and socially just". As a part of that project, this contract focuses on assessing the technical, economic, and environmental potential for vehicle fleet electrification in five Brazilian cities. The contract involves evaluating suitable technologies for these cities, analyzing environmental impacts, assessing economic implications, creating digital measures, and implementing a standardized method that is scalable to multiple cities.

Brazil has today one of the electricity grids with the largest share of renewable energy sources in the world. In 2023, renewables accounted for 93.1% of all electricity generated in the country and the forecast is that the share of renewables in the energy mix will continue to increase, especially wind, biomass, and photovoltaic energy.
However, energy-related emissions in Brazil have increased sharply over the past 20 years, especially in sectors such transport (+53%). In the transport segment, only 21.5% of energy comes from renewable sources, despite Brazil being a country with availability of biomass-based fuels (especially ethanol).
According to data from the Energy Research Company (EPE), industry represents today one of the largest segments of energy consumption in the Brazilian economy. The Institute of Energy and Environment (IEMA) attributes almost 70% of annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fossil fuel consumption in Brazil (513 Mt CO2-eq) to the transport (196 Mt CO2-eq). Direct electrification with renewable energy makes it possible to reduce emissions in transport, the share of urban transport (buses, urban cleaning and urban logistics) is about 34 Mt CO2-eq.
Objective
The project seeks to contribute to making transport in Brazil more climate neutral and environmentally friendly.
Methodology
In the wake of the 2015 Conference in Paris (COP 21), Brazil announced that it will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 43% by 2030, compared to 2005. To achieve this, in addition to the increased use of renewable energy, energy efficiency should be increased by 10%.
Therefore, the coupling of the main energy-consuming sectors, with the generation of renewable electricity offers an immense potential for decarbonization in Brazil. An effort that is in line with the goal set by the country to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 and that can contribute to transforming Brazil into one of the greenest and most competitive economies globally.
In this sense, the project Sector Coupling and Green Economy seeks to work together with federal ministries, companies, and research institutes to foster direct electrification in transport to replace fossil energy sources. The project will work with 5 Brazilian municipalities, 2 of which in the Northeast, to provide technical and specialized advisory in the context of urban decarbonization strategies, for example, on topics such as electrification of public transport, urban services and urban logistics and the development of digital tools to improve service quality. In addition, the project will seek political articulation with the corresponding ministries and with research institutions relevant to the elaboration and dissemination of concepts of socially just and gender-equitable electrification in the transport sector.
Furthermore, the project will seek articulation with business associations and research institutions for the development of electrification concepts based on the needs of associated companies, as well as concepts for the dissemination of direct electrification to other regions and other Brazilian industries.
Impact
The opportunities and potential of direct electrification have not yet been systematized or disseminated. Through the Sector Coupling and Green Economy project, the expectation is an increase in the interest for fostering direct electrification and related technologies that contribute to decrease emissions in urban transport. In this way, urban transport will be able to play a more active role in the energy transition.
Regarding the direct impact, it is expected that the project will contribute to reducing annual greenhouse gas emissions by at least 10,000 tons of CO2-eq in 5 municipalities through the use of at least 30 zero-emission vehicles.
1. Average annual turnover for the last three years (last-but-four financial year can be included in case of tenders held within 6 months of end of last financial year), at least: 1.500.000 EUR
2. Average number of employees and managers in the last three calendar years, at least 15 persons
A technical ranking on the basis of the assessment criteria listed below will be used to obtain the named number of 5 tenderers that will be requested to submit a tender. This will be applied in cases where more than 5 requests to participate that meet the above minimum requirements for tenderer eligibility have been received.
More than the required number of references may be provided but the number of 10 references should not be exceeded. If you are participating in the procedure as part of a candidate/bidding consortium, please note that the total number of references for all members of the consortium combined should not exceed 10. 
Only references that have the required minimum commission value of EUR 250.000,00 will be assessed.
Only references that have started and/or finished in the last three years will be assessed. If a reference project satisfies both the minimum criteria and the weighted criteria, it will be counted for both assessments.
Only reference projects will be assessed if the reference project description clearly explains why the reference meets the required technical eligibility criterion and makes it possible to clearly assign the reference to a required eligibility criterion (see Table 2 column 9).
The maximum number of points that can be achieved per weighted criterion is 10 points.

A selection will be made under all eligible participants based on the following criteria:

 1. Feasibility studies of Urban Mobility projects with use of e-buses      20%
 2. Information Technology experience related to urban mobility projects    10%  
 3. Just Transition analyses in projects related to urban infrastructures and urban mobility services     10% 
 4. Finance and Economic analysis of Urban Mobility projects      5%
 5. Legal / Institucional feasibility studies of Urban Mobility projects      5%
 6. Regional experience in Brazil      30%
 7. Experience of development projects (at least 50% ODA-financed)     20%

Eligibility requirements: other


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