Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-05-17
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 75211200 | 79000000 | 90700000
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The CFF supports cities in developing countries and emerging economies to develop finance-ready sustainable, low carbon and climate-resilient infrastructure projects. Launched at COP21 in Paris, the ultimate objective of the CFF is to reduce emissions and increase climate resilience in cities by mobilising finance for city-level climate change action. Through its work, the CFF enables cities to play their part in delivering the objectives of the Paris Agreement; limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 GradC above pre-industrial levels. By championing projects that will simultaneously deliver significant development benefits, the CFF also helps cities to progress their implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the New Urban Agenda.
The purpose of this tender is to provide technical assistance to the global programme C40 Cities Finance Facility (CFF) which is jointly implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40). The German Federal Ministry for Economic Development and Cooperation (BMZ), the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are funding the CFF.
The CFF supports cities in developing countries and emerging economies to develop finance-ready sustainable, low carbon and climate-resilient infrastructure projects. Launched at COP21 in Paris, the ultimate objective of the CFF is to reduce emissions and increase climate resilience in cities by mobilising finance for city-level climate change action. Through its work, the CFF enables cities to play their part in delivering the objectives of the Paris Agreement; limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 GradC above pre-industrial levels. By championing projects that will simultaneously deliver significant development benefits, the CFF also helps cities to progress their implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the New Urban Agenda.
The CFF provides intensive technical assistance to city administrations to support the development of a transformative sustainable infrastructure project from feasibility through to financing. A key element of this process is capacity development of the city administrations to empower the city with the skills, expertise and capacities to mobilise and access a broad range of financing instruments for climate change. Finally, extensive knowledge dissemination enables other cities and urban development practitioners to learn from the experiences in the CFF-supported cities and to replicate similar projects successfully, realising significant reductions in Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions across the world, as well as to inform the work of development agencies and national and global policy-makers.
For the support to its partner cities in developing countries and emerging economies, GIZ seeks to set-up a Framework Agreement with up to 8 consultancy firms in the area of renewable energy/energy efficiency. The consulting firms within the Framework Agreement can then apply for consulting services to the individual partner cities (city contracts).
I. Provide technical assistance to develop the partner city's infrastructure project and to identify and access suitable financing options for the project;
II. Provide support in developing the partner city administration's capacity in the area of infrastructure planning, project preparation, finance and management;
In the light of the upcoming tendering of consulting services to the individual partner cities (city contracts) individual details on price bids cannot be published [see Section 39 (6) Ordinance on the Award of Public Contracts (VgV).]
According to Section 160, Paragraph 3 Sentence 1 Act against Restraint of Competition (Competition Act — GWB), application for the review proceeding is inadmissible if:
1) The applicant has identified the claimed infringement of the contract award regulations before submitting the application for the review proceeding and has not submitted a complaint to the contracting entity within a period of 10 calendar days; the expiry of the period pursuant to Section 134, Paragraph 2 GWB remains unaffected;
2) Complaints of infringements of contract award regulations that are evident in the notice are not submitted to the contracting entity at the latest by the expiry of the deadline for the application specified in the notice or by the deadline for the submission of bids;
3) Complaints of infringements of contract award regulations that 1st become evident in the tender documents are not submitted to the contracting entity at the latest by the expiry of the deadline for application or for the submission of bids,
4) More than 15 calendar days have expired since receipt of the notification from the contracting entity that it is unwilling to redress the complaint.


Winner: GFA Consulting Group GmbH
Number of bids: 14