Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-07-24
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 75211200
Submission deadline: 2019-08-20
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The project supports local administrations to increase access to sustainable energy for urban populations and to implement local action to combat climate change and its impacts through 3 pillars.
With this tender, GIZ intends to contract a service provider to provide technical assistance to support project promoters in Sub-Saharan African countries to develop low-carbon, resilient infrastructure projects in cities.
The objective of this assignment is to provide advisory services to municipalities and project promoters for identified investment opportunities across CoM SSA's target countries in the project preparation stage to access finance.
To this end, this tender entails the following specific tasks that are delivered in the context of the CoM SSA Phase III:
— Task 1: initial clarification of the assignment: briefing on the assignment and clarification of key aspects, in particular through a physical meeting in Brussels.
— Task 2: input into project identification and selection: the contractor shall provide its expertise to make a selection of the projects, which are considered suitable for project support through the CoM Phase III project.
— Task 3: early window support: the experts shall provide coaching and advisory services into the viability of the project. The contractor shall assess the key factors together with the project developers that will determine the project type and financial vehicle.
— Task 4: late window support: provision of the support services at a later stage of project development. The support to projects shall be provided through coaching and advisory services with a particular view to taking the developer on a concrete pathway towards achieving bankability.
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 terms of reference.
2) Eligibility declaration that no grounds for exclusion in Section 123, 124 of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB) apply;
1) At least 7 reference projects in the technical field development of sustainable infrastructure projects in cities and at least 5 reference projects in the region Africa in the last 3 years;
2) The technical assessment is only based on reference projects with a minimum commission value of 300 000 EUR.
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;

Eligibility requirements: 1) Trading name and address, commercial register number; 2) Eligibility declaration that no grounds for exclusion in Section 123, 124 of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB) apply; 3) Eligibility declaration subcontractors if applicable; 4) Association clause if applicable.