Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-06-12
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 71318000: Lighting engineering services
Submission deadline: 2020-07-14
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The German Federal Ministry for economic cooperation and development supports the Jordanian government in its efforts to enhance nexus cooperation between water and energy sectors to improve their financial performance and to allow the implementation of more renewable energy projects in the water sector through the project ‘Renewable Energies in the Water Sector’, implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The current phase runs from 10/2017 to 10/2021.
GIZ is seeking to procure the services of a contractor to prepare bankable feasibility study, a business model and tenders documents of pumped storage project. The scope of work for the contractor is structured in six work packages:
The Jordanian water and energy sectors are facing problems that can be mostly solved through joint planning and coordination. While the energy sector suffers from grid instability and power curtailments from renewable energy resources, the water sector is facing financial difficulties resulted from high energy bill. The Jordanian population has been growing at high rate for years, and its demand for water and wastewater services is also increasing rapidly. Many Jordanian consumers are geographically distant from water resources, and the challenging hydrogeology and topography contribute to the water sector's high energy consumption. In fact, the water sector is Jordan's single largest energy consumer, accounting for around 15 % of total energy consumption. For this reason, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) supports the Jordanian government in its efforts to enhance water energy nexus cooperation towards joint planning of the important sectors through the project ‘Renewable Energies in the Water Sector (REW)’, implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The first phase of REW runs from November 2017 to October 2021. This project is part of the German development program ‘Management of water resources in Jordan’.
The module objective of the project is ‘The conditions for increased implementation of renewable energy in the water sector are improved’. The project operates across the country. Its core lies in embedding a systematic nexus dialogue between water and energy sectors to reduce deficits in both sectors and to support the implementation of new renewable energy projects within the water sector.
This tender involves the supply and management of consultancy services to the GIZ operated REW project in Jordan. The services will be delivered by short- and long-term experts in form of technical and administrative services related to pumped storage project in Jordan. The objectives of this assignment are:
2) To develop possible viable business model alternatives to share benefits of the project by water and energy sector;
The assignment will be carried out between 1 December 2020 and 31 October 2021 with a total of 484 person days for two technical long-term experts (including one team leader) and 822 person days for two pools of technical experts.
GIZ is entitled to extend the period for fulfilment of the original contract by unilaterally notifying the contractor. For details, please see the special terms and conditions.
The assignment will only be entrusted to companies with the required expertise and capacity (eligible companies), which meet the criteria listed in the document ‘Request to participate and Eligibility declaration by applicants (Call for competition)’, and which are not excluded under the terms of Sections 123 or 124 of the German Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB), or who can prove restoration of their integrity in line with Section 125 of the same act.
If there is a previously announced limit to the number of applicants, an assessment will be carried out according to the relevant evaluation scale included in the tender documents.
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 special terms and conditions.
2) Eligibility declaration that no grounds for exclusion in Section 123, 124 of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB) apply.
1) Declaration on the average annual turnover for the last 3 financial years (last-but-four financial year can be included in case of invitation to tender held within 6 months of end of last financial year).
It is necessary to provide references in the technical field ‘operation and management support to water utilities’ with a minimum commission value of EUR 300 000.00.
1) At least 5 reference projects in the technical field ‘feasibility assessments of hydro power plants’ and at least 5 reference project in the region ‘World’ in the last 3 years.

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.