Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-06-01
Buyer: Federal Department of Foreign Affairs FDA, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Global Programme Climate Change and Environment
Country: CH
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 98300000
Submission deadline: 2018-08-08
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: India — Integration of Renewable Energy in Buildings in India — A component under the BEEP Project (2018-2023)
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has been supporting the “Indo-Swiss Building Energy Efficiency Project (BEEP)” since 2011. Currently, BEEP focuses on increasing energy efficiency of buildings and has demonstrated that 30-45 % energy savings through various efficiency measures can be reached at minimal extra costs. Through this call for tenders, SDC is selecting an agency to carry out the implementation of an additional component under BEEP, focusing on the “Integration of Renewable Energy in Buildings”. The broad objective of this new component is to design, showcase and monitor 2-3 renewable energy technologies suitable to the Indian context and applicable for multi-storey buildings. It also aims to develop local skills for up-scaling and capacity building of stakeholders. The duration of this project component will be 3 years and is planned to start on 15.9.2018 and last until 14.9.2021 with an optional prolongation until 2023.
In accordance with PPO Art. 8 para. 1d, the contracting authority safeguards the confidential character of all information provided by the bidder. The information to be published after the award of the mandate and the information to be disclosed in the framework of the PPA Art. 23 para. 2 and 3 remain subject to reservation.
Terms of business: General Terms and Conditions of business (GTC) of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) for mandates (Type A for employed persons and Type B for legal persons and institutions). These General Conditions of Business (GTC) shall be deemed accepted by the contractor on submission of the offer.
Basic procedural principles: The contracting authority awards public contracts for services provided in Switzerland only to bidders who ensure compliance with the health and safety regulations and employment conditions for employees, as well as equal pay for women and men. If the service is provided outside Switzerland, the participant must ensure at least compliance with the International Labour Organization’s fundamental conventions in accordance with Annex 2a PPO. The self-declaration form “Compliance with working conditions, workplace health and safety regulations and requirement of equal pay for men and women: Declaration by the supplier” has to be signed and is to be submitted with the participant application.
Additional information: The contracting authority reserves the right to award subsequent mandates to the successful bidder of this tender procedure if a change of bidder is not possible for economic or technical reasons, or would cause significant difficulties or incur disproportionate costs for the contracting authority.
Procedures for appeal:the tender proceeds in accordance with Section 3 of the Federal Ordinance on Public Procurement (PPO). There is no right of appeal.
Deadline / Remarks: Bids contain all documentation in accordance with Section 5 Structure and content of the bid and are to be submitted in a sealed envelope as follows:
Remarks (Desired deadline for questions in written form). No information is given by telephone. Any questions must be addressed by the 8.6.2018 in the forum space on www.simap.ch in anonymised form (i.e. without disclosing any information that could reveal the identity of the questioner). Questions submitted late cannot be answered. The answers are published on SIMAP by the 19.6.2018. Bidders are themselves responsible for downloading the answers from SIMAP and for taking them into consideration in the preparation of their bids.
National reference publication: Simap of 31.5.2018, doc. 1022621. Desired deadline for questions in written form: 8.6.2018.
Conditions for obtaining the tendering documentation: The documentation on the public call to tender for the project mentioned can be down-loaded from the platform www.simap.ch under: Running procedures, Confederation, Invitations to tender. In order to do so, you first have to register in the mentioned pro-ject. You will then be able to log in and use the password that you will have been sent by e-mail to download the documentation desired.