Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-07-21
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71313000: Environmental engineering consultancy services | 75211200 | 79411100 | 90713000
Submission deadline: 2023-08-17
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: EU Fund

Technical requirements: 81298137-Development of tools, instruments and project concepts to leverage climate finance to scale up renewables and energy efficiency in Côte d'Ivoire
Within the German development cooperation with Côte d"Ivoire, ProFERE is the flagship technical cooperation project in the priority cooperation area Climate and Energy, Just Transition. The project complements the engagement of the German financial cooperation agency, KfW, to support the Ivorian government in implementing its reforms in the fields of renewable energy and energy efficiency (RE/EE).
After three years of successful implementation (2019-2022), the project"s scope widened from aiming to increase the number of professionals with technical and managerial knowledge specialized in RE/EE to promote strategies and actions that contribute to market development and employment promotion in these fields. Mandated to implement the project for another three years, the GIZ works to develop institutional, financial and human capacities to support Côte d"Ivoire to achieve its National Determined Contributions (NDCs). The project is fully integrated into the country"s sector policy and implemented in cooperation with the Ministry of Energy. Other institutional partners include the Ministry of Technical Education, Vocational Training and Apprenticeship, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development.
Output 1 aims to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Ministry of Energy and government affiliated agencies to promote RE/EE. This includes the capacity to develop RE/EE promotion schemes that may be (co-)financed by international climate funds and improve the legal and regulatory framework if needed.
Output 2 aims to improve the range of advisory and training services related to RE/EE offered by private sector associations to their members. The project works with both demand as well as supply side associations to create long-term demand for high-quality products and services.
Output 3 supports activities aimed at strengthening the capacity of the Ministry of Energy to monitor the degree of implementation of energy-related measures outlined in the NDCs. For this purpose, the development of an MRV (monitoring, reporting and verification) system is supported.
Output 4 works to strengthen professional training in the field of RE/EE and increase the number of specialized professionals on the ground. New qualification offers are being developed and anchored in the Ivorian education system to meet the current and future demand of skilled workforce.
The service described in the Terms of Reference is tendered by Output 1 and relates to the development of financing instruments and project concept notes to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency in Côte d"Ivoire. ProFERE is engaging a contractor to assist the project in its mission to advise the Ministry of Energy, other ministries, and government-affiliated agencies in the development of financing instruments to co-finance RE/EE projects through the national financing facility FONAME established for this purpose. Additionally, the contractor will support the project in the process of further developing project ideas into project concept notes that can be submitted to international climate funds, such as GCF, GEF, FFEM and the Mitigation Action Facility (formerly NAMA Facility) to promote RE/EE in Côte d"Ivoire.
By the end of the assignment, the managing bodies of FONAME are supposed to dispose of a minimum of four additional instruments, on top of the manual of procedures which is counted as one. Examples of instruments may be funding regulations and selection criteria tailored to specific measures/technologies co-financed through FONAME or communication material. To define the type of instruments that are to be developed, the contractor is expected to conduct a thorough analysis of FONAME, its managing bodies as well as its areas of interest at the beginning of the assignment.
In parallel, the contractor is mandated to (further) develop at least two project ideas into project concept notes that hold the potential to be selected by international climate funds to promote green energy projects in Côte d"Ivoire. Before the start of the contract, ProFERE will collect project ideas within the framework of a reflection process with national stakeholders. The contractor is assigned the task to further develop two project ideas in accordance with the general assessment criteria of the climate funds that are targeted. Examples of such criteria are, ambition (potential for transformational change, financial ambition or mitigation potential), feasibility (project rationale, design) and eligibility of the proposed implementing organization(s).
(2) Advising the managing bodies of FONAME in the development of instruments to co-finance RE/EE projects
(3) Development of two project ideas into project concept to leverage finance to promote RE/EE in Côte d"Ivoire
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.
2. Eligibility declaration that no grounds for exclusion in Section 123, 124 of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB) apply.

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. Self-declaration EU-Russia sanctions 4. Self-declaration sec. 22 LkSG 3. Eligibility declaration subcontractors if applicable. 4. Association clause if applicable.