Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-06-16
Buyer: SOPC (Suez Oil Processing Company)
Country: EG
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45255000 | 71314300: Energy-efficiency consultancy services | 72224000: Project management consultancy services
Submission deadline: 2018-07-06

Technical requirements: Invitation for Expressions of Interest – Consultant for the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) – Suez Oil Processing Company (SOPC) Egypt
Project Description: The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the “EBRD” or the “Bank”) intends to provide a sovereign loan up to USD 200 mln to the Arab Republic of Egypt to be on-lent to the Egyptian General Petroleum Company (“EGPC”) and its subsidiary Suez Oil Processing Company (“SOPC” or the “Company”). The project entails energy efficiency investments in Suez Oil Processing Company SOPC fully consistent with the Green Economy Transition (“GET”) approach and other refurbishments and installations to improve its operational performance, environmental footprint and utilisation rate. This will help to partly address some of the country’s inability to meet local demand for middle distillates which have had to be imported over the past 10 years.
c) implementation of an Energy Efficiency Investment Programme (“EEIP”) designed with the assistance of the Bank to help SOPC improve its overall performance and cost competitiveness, and
d) engagement of a consultant to the Project Implementation Unit (“PIU”), in order to ensure full consistency with the Bank’s Procurement Policies and Rules for public sector projects (PP&R) and loan requirements (i.e. the subject matter of this procurement notice), and assist SOPC in achieving projects completion successfully and in timely manner within the estimated durations.
c— support during the procurement process (to be conducted as open tenders in accordance with EBRD’s Procurement Policies and Rules),
f— assistance to the company in planning, monitoring and reporting on the environmental and social action plan,
Status of the selection process: interested firms or group of firms are hereby invited to submit expressions of interest.
Assignment expected start date and duration: the assignment is expected to start during Q3 2018 and have an estimated overall duration of approximately 3 years (36 months) to cover the completion of the project.
Input estimate of the assignment: the estimated input of the key experts will be 234 man-months; Subject to availability of funding, satisfactory performance of the selected consultant and specific needs of the company, the assignment may be extended beyond the current scope and duration.
The consultant must determine whether any indirect taxes /VAT are chargeable on the proposed services and state the basis for such determination in the response to the notice. If any indirect taxes /VAT are payable, the client will have to pay indirect taxes /VAT element to the services directly to the consultant(s) unless otherwise agreed.
Funding source: it is expected that the assignment will be funded by an international donor. Please note that selection and contracting will be subject to the availability of funding.
Consultant profile: corporate services are required. The consultant will be a firm or a group of firms with previous project experience related to energy efficiency investments of similar nature and scale.
The consultant is expected to possess appropriate previous experience in similar projects and supporting clients throughout the entire procurement process, which includes preparation of tender documents, tender evaluation reports and finalisation of contracts. In addition, the consultant is expected to demonstrate adequate experience in site supervision of the construction contracts in order to provide relevant support to the client for a successful project implementation. The consultant should demonstrate sufficient project management, planning and implementation knowledge based on good practice principles to lead the expert team and to advise the client managing the project accordingly, to ensure the success of the project.
Appropriate procurement experience to include tender preparation under EBRD’s procurement rules or those of another international financial institution (“IFI”) is a crucial previous project experience that is required. Previous experience in North Africa /Middle East, and/or Egypt would be beneficial.
The cnonsultant is also expected to have appropriate previous project experience in supporting clients during similar projects starting from the construction phase through to the final acceptance of the project.