Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2023-01-16
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 71313000: Environmental engineering consultancy services | 71314300: Energy-efficiency consultancy services | 73200000 | 73220000 | 75110000
Estimated value: 699960 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Bolivia has significant renewable energy (RE) sources. The development of these energies has shown that in the short term, it is possible to displace representative quantities of the national electricity demand and, therefore, the consumption of fossil fuels. In the medium term, the country could increase the generation capacity of the national electricity system and could even form part of the export potential; and in a long time, they will be a critical factor in significantly reducing the country's dependence on fossil fuels and guaranteeing the country's energy independence and security.
In RE, efforts are needed mainly to strengthen the sector's institutional and technical capacities. Only with a consolidated institutional framework will it be possible to create the legal bases, and plan and implement concrete projects to develop these RE sources in the country. On the other hand, technical capacities must be considered from an approach that allows for improving the projects' operational and management conditions and in previous stages for planning and attracting financial resources to make developing an expanding project portfolio feasible.
As far as EE is concerned, it is still necessary to develop local capacities in the area. Implementing measures to promote the rational use of energy and the socialisation of local experiences as replicable and scalable case studies with quantified impacts, such as electric mobility, promote cleaner and more efficient technologies.
This can mitigate hydrocarbon subsidies, increase efficient domestic electricity consumption, electrify public transport and reduce air pollution.
Developing effective and locally adapted strategies to increase EE through measures such as electric mobility is often limited by insufficient capacities. Relevant EE-related data from the electricity sector is primarily collected non-systematically and therefore only used to a limited extent for policy formulation. Hence, policy and planning strategies are not sufficiently fact-based. Inter-institutional coordination should be supported, primarily in the promotion of electric mobility.
The strategic processes and plans of the electricity sector are designed based on short and medium-term schemes. However, no planning processes and long-term goals guarantee the sector's social, economic, or environmental sustainability.
The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) subsequently commissioned GIZ to implement the "Renewable Energy Programme" (PEERR). PEERR started its activities in April 2019 and will probably end in June 2024. The objective of PEERR is "Conditions for the expansion of grid-based renewables and increased energy efficiency are improved".
GIZ intends to contract a service provider to continue the implementation of outputs 3, 4 and 5 of the programme. The objective of Output 3 is to create the institutional and technical bases that will contribute to adopting concrete actions to promote and implement EE in the country. Output 4 seeks to improve the supply of training and technical education. To this end, specialised installers for PV installations will be trained to promote decentralised generation focusing on the needs of the current regulation. Output 5 is to contribute to introducing electric mobility in Bolivia to promote cleaner and more efficient technologies, mitigate hydrocarbon subsidies, increase efficient domestic electricity consumption, electrify public transport and reduce air pollution.
This assignment contributes to PEERR"s overall objective to improve the conditions for expanding grid-connected renewable energies (RE) and increased energy efficiency (EE). The contractor should build on previous measures, use experience, and create synergies with other development cooperation (DC) efforts.
The objective is to create the institutional and technical bases that will contribute to adopting concrete actions to promote and implement EE in the country. Technical assistance will be provided to the Vice-Ministry of Electricity and Alternative Energies (VMEEA) and will focus on promoting and developing EE. The knowledge acquired by the professionals will be transferred to the different levels of the institutional structure through courses, workshops, training and work tools. The contractor provides technical assistance to the VMEEA and other relevant actors in developing studies of national scope and impact-focused on qualitative changes in specifically agreed sectors.
- Organisational advice to the VMEEA on implementing the national EE strategy (e.g. organisational structure, staff development, operational planning, processes and workflows).
- Advice to the VMEEA on implementing the EE programme in public buildings (e.g., quality assurance of energy audits, monitoring and evaluation system, analysis of funding possibilities).
- Analysis of EE potential in 2 priority sectors with recommendations on efficiency improvement measures, prioritisation and support, and financing mechanisms
Because RE and EE are emerging topics in the local context, there is a considerable limitation in the number of specialised local staff. The objective is to improve the supply of training and technical education. To this end, specialised installers will be trained to promote decentralised generation focusing on the needs of the current regulation (D.S. 4477) in coordination with the VMEEA and local vocational-technical training centres.
- Advise educational institutions (e.g. universities, technical schools) on adapting the different training programmes to the needs of the RE/EE sector and the Bolivian labour market, considering gender aspects.


Winner: IP Consult, Institut für Projektplanung GmbH
Award value: 699960
Number of bids: 1