Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-05-11
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 79400000 | 79410000 | 79420000 | 79996000 | 79998000
Submission deadline: 2021-06-08
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The GET.invest Finance Readiness Support (FSR) — herein referred to as ‘the Assignment’ — will provide direct one-to-one advisory and coaching support to access finance for earlier-stage (i.e. pre-series A) local decentral renewable energy enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in its pilot phase.
GET.invest seeks to empower a currently underserved segment of local market players by providing free access to top tier advisory and coaching services in the market. These local players are critical for the long-term sustainability of the sector. They present opportunities for venture partnerships with other players and they generate jobs at the local level and contribute to overall economic growth.
Access to finance remains a major challenge for the majority of earlier-stage enterprises. Financiers continue to launch innovated solutions around catalytic financing but the enterprises require considerable support to become ready for such investments - whether debt or equity.
Issues around understanding and speaking the investor terminology, understanding how and if to scale and when, financial management and capital expenditure planning, human resource management, operations optimisation, customer management, etc. are some of the areas where support is needed.
In its first pilot, the GET.invest FSR will serve all business models offering electricity access or cooking solutions based on renewable energy in addition to models around productive use of renewable energy (i.e., solar irrigation, solar cool chains, etc). It is also possible to support business models in ‘adjacent sectors’ such as mobility (i.e., electric motorbikes).
This tender concerns setting up a framework contract with up to eight consulting firms fully focused on coaching and advisory services towards access to finance for enterprises in SSA, with demonstrated experience in supporting small-scale, decentralised renewable energy businesses pre-series A access finance.
Through the framework agreement, GET.invest would be able to scale up its services and leverage the deep market knowledge of the resulting poor members.
This assignment concerns providing coaching and advisory to early-stage (pre series A), local decentral renewable energy enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa as a starting pilot by GET.invest.
The services will be deployed through a framework agreement, which will assemble specialist consultancy companies in a scalable contractual agreement with GET.invest (GIZ). This tender process hence will establish a ‘pool’ of a number of qualified consultancies that will be drawn upon by GET.invest to deploy services under the GET.invest Finance Readiness Support.
This will allow GET.invest to provide financial resources to the pool members to deploy their services
(a) advisory to existing pipeline: pool members (i.e., winning bidders) provide advisory services to clients (i.e., enterprises), subject to an agreed upon approval process during the inception phase;
(b) origination/deal sourcing of additional pipeline: pool members carry out various deal sourcing activities to identify new clients to benefit from the advisory services advisory services to be provided cover a broad area of expertise from financial to operational management and ultimately leads to a successful acceptance by a financier for their intake.
Therefore, having an active and broad network of financiers is critical to the successful delivery of expected results of this assignment (i.e., business/project proposal accepted for a financier's intake).
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.


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.