Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-02-24
Buyer: European Investment Bank
Country: LU
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71241000
Submission deadline: 2016-03-29
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: EIB - Techno-economic advisor for the feasibility study of the Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Project in Namibia (LU-Luxembourg)
NamPower, the national power utility of Namibia, has embarked on feasibility studies with the aim to develop a CSP power station with storage in Namibia. The feasibility studies will continue on the basis of previous pre-feasibility studies. The CSP study is jointly financed by NamPower, GEF (as part of the CSP Transfer of Technology project launched by the Namibian Ministry of Mines and Energy) and the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative through the EU-Africa Infrastructure Trust Fund.
NamPower has requested the EIB to procure the Techno Economic Advisory Services from companies with experience and skills in the field of CSP.
The Assignment will be divided into two phases where the Tenderer will provide a common technical and financial proposal for Phase I and Phase II; but where Phase II will be considered as an option to the Phase I scope of services. It is estimated that Phase I would mobilize up to 30% of the whole assignment resources.
On conclusion of Phase I, the Client and Contracting Authority may exercise the option to award Phase II of the Assignment to the Consultant. The Client and the Contracting Authority also reserve the right to (i) not exercise the option to execute Phase II; and / or (ii) re-tender Phase II of the Assignment on a competitive basis; where neither the Client nor the Contracting Authority shall have any liability or obligation toward the Consultant in relation to the cancellation or termination of the Assignment.
The scope of services for the Techno-economic Advisor consists of a full and comprehensive Feasibility and Implementation Study, including a technology scoping report, economic analysis of existing technical options and input to EIA scoping (Phase I), and a detailed feasibility study (Phase II) containing the development of the chosen technical solution, technical studies and support to the procurement for specific studies, input to detailed EIA, elaboration of a risk analysis and a procurement plan, and development of a costs estimate and assessment of the project bankability.
The team should be composed of a Team Leader, a power plant engineer, CSP and PV technologies expert, a solar resource engineer and business analyst with experience in renewable energy. The core team will be supported by short-term experts whose qualifications should include electrical/mechanical/instrumentation and control engineers, water or hydrological engineers, structural/civil engineers, geologist, legal expert, risk management expert, multiple criteria decision making model expert, surveyor, procurement expert, financial expert, architect and documentation expert.
The Contracting Authority, in consultation with the Client, may, at its own discretion and subject to the availability of funding, extend the scope and duration of the project to cover complementary and/or additional services.
In case of complementary services, the extension shall be up to a maximum not exceeding 50% of the initial contract value. In case of additional services, such extension shall be up to a maximum not exceeding the length and value of the initial contract.
Participation is open to all interested legal and natural persons - participating either individually or in a grouping (consortium) of candidates, without nationality restrictions. Participation is also open to international organisations.
All eligible natural and legal persons (as per item 11 above) or groupings of such persons (consortia) may apply.
A consortium may be a permanent, legally-established grouping, or a grouping which has been constituted informally for a specific tender procedure. All members of a consortium (i.e., the leader and all other members) are jointly and severally liable to the Contracting Authority.
The participation of an ineligible natural or legal person (as per item 11) will result in the automatic exclusion of that person. In particular, if that ineligible person belongs to a consortium, the whole consortium will be excluded.
No more than one application can be submitted by a natural or legal person whatever the form of participation (as an individual legal entity or as leader or member of a consortium submitting an application). In the event that a natural or legal person submits more than one application, all applications in which that person has participated will be excluded.
The candidates may submit an application for one lot only, several lots or all of the lots, but only one application per lot. Contracts will be awarded lot by lot and each lot will form a separate contract. There are no restrictions as to the number of lots a tenderer may be awarded.