Public procurement notice: Additional Information
Published: 2022-01-31
Buyer: KfW Bankengruppe
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 79400000
Submission deadline: 2022-02-08
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at https://ausschreibungen.kfw.de/evergabe.bieter/api/external/deeplink/subproject/b6d8b1a4-38e1-4a1d-b4b1-e9fa814db447
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at https://ausschreibungen.kfw.de/evergabe.bieter/api/external/deeplink/subproject/77c5b956-cb18-4804-bf7b-8ec50163c806
Enough sufficiently qualified experts of the core team responsible for the execution of the contract, namely:
•	For the role of Environmental Expert: at least 2 experts meeting the minimum requirements (see below)
Master’s Degree or a degree of equivalent level in studies with immediate relevance to the conduct of environmental and social assessments, such as:
•	Quality management skills: critical requirement assessment, expectations management, and problem-solving
- Minimum general professional experience in dealing with tasks or in performing services of the tendered kind:
•	At least 5 years of experience in responsibly directing and managing international projects immediately related to environmental and social assessment or management and due diligence.
•	At least 2 years of project management experience gained in an environment characterised by a workflow with a high ratio of short-term environmental and social expert assignments within the project or program.
•	At least 3 years of experience in managing and supervising quality control measures with regards to environmental and social impact assessments funded by development banks or Equator Principles Financial Institutions (such as World Bank, ADB, AfDB, IDB, AFD, KfW, IFC, DEG, FMO, CDC, Proparco and similar development banks or Equator Principles Financial Institutions, see www.equator–principles.com), Financial Intermediaries or Public Sector Partners and Institutions
The Team Coordinator must, as a minimum requirement, have experience in providing services of the tendered kind in the past by executing reference projects comparable to this assignment for other purchasers. These project references must satisfy all following minimum requirements:
3.	At least one reference must demonstrate experience with the World Bank Environmental and Social Standards and at least one reference must demonstrate experience with the IFC Performance Standards.
4.	Each project reference must be completed after 2014. The project references must involve at least 10 working days of expert’s input.
5.	Through the required minimum amount of 5 personal project references, the Team Coordinator must demonstrate experience in dealing with each of the following tasks at least once in the role of project manager, showing his or her ability of covering the task. The 5 reference projects must together demonstrate the expert’s experience regarding the following:
b.	Gap analysis of an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment with an Environmental and Social Action Plan.