Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-10-14
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 65310000: Electricity distribution | 65320000: Operation of electrical installations
Submission deadline: 2020-11-11
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: 81261130 — Technical Assistance for Design and Preparation of Tender Documents for Mini-grids in Ethiopia
The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has placed a strong emphasis on achieving universal electrification by 2025 throughout the last 15 years. The Universal Electrification Access Program (UEAP) was an initiative launched by the Government in 2005 that enabled extension of the national grid to 6 000 towns and villages (up from the initial 667 connected towns). In spite of UEAP's success, the country's electrification rate remained at 20 %, for which the National Electrification Program (NEP) was launched in 2017 with the aim to shift the electrification approach from infrastructure development to service delivery via off-grid solutions. NEP is expected to electrify 35 % of the population through 9 million connections via, among others, the deployment of up to 700 mini-grids. Over 3 years, in close collaboration with the main Ethiopian Government partner, the Ministry of Water Irrigation and Energy, MoWIE, and in line with the National Electrification Plan, NEP2, the development project ‘Energising Development’ (EnDev) financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooporation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) will identify, develop, procure and install up to 10 mini-grids in Ethiopia and develop a conducive cooperative framework for massive upscaling. Within this framework, the project is seeking technical assistance for design and preparation of tender documents for procurement of up to 10 mini-grids to develop and showcase an Ethiopian model for cooperative managed and operated mini-grids. The assignment will be cofunded by EU.
The presently tendered assignment covers a first phases from February 2021 to June 2021. As an option, a second phase will follow in July 2021, dependant on the order commission of the ultimate party BMZ.
The overall objective is to install up to 10 mini-grids for Ethiopia with an equal spread in Tigray, Amhara, Oromia and the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region, SNNPR. The size of the mini-grids should reach 100 kWp installed capacity on average. There should be an all weather road and the sites must have a potential to develop productive use of energy (for economic sustainability).
From a starting point of view, each mini-grid should supply a number of productive users, (anchor loads and social institutions), and domestic customers with tier 3 electricity. The anchor, businesses and community, ABC, model.
Sites are currently being shortlisted by a working group of the GIZ/EnDev and the regional energy bureaus.
On each site, the GIZ/EnDev and the local government partners will establish working groups for dialog, cooperative formation, solve issues on right of way, development of productive use of energy and, etc. The consultant should, with due focus on the recommendations from the working groups, focus on the technical issues and solutions.
Parallel to the technical development of the mini-grids (described in this project), other consultants are developing a conducive framework for upscaling.
Tasks to be performed within the presenty tendered assignment will cover interventions and deliverables for technical development and design of up to 10 mini-grids from the inception phase, planning of own activities for implementation of the ToR, site visits, data collection for load forecast and design and lay out of the mini-grids, and technical documents like Bill of Quantity, BoQ and, etc. ready for the GIZ/EnDev to tender procurement and installation of the mini-grids (power plant, grid and indoor installations).
The projects are cost share projects. The GIZ/EnDev will fund and deliver the technical assistance and the power plants. The regional governments will fund and deliver the grids. The customers will pay for their own in-door installations, and the customers interests should be handled by the cooperative (and or the village working group and the regional government). The GIZ/EnDev and the regional governments will prepare their own documents needed for their own procurement procedures. It is expected that the procurement of the mini-grids will be tendered in lots for each of the four regions (Tigray, Amhara, Oromia and SNNPR).
— load forecast, design and lay out of (including GPS coordinates) grid, power plant and a moduled solutions for indoor installations, electricity meters and billing system;
— all technical documents required for the GIZ/EnDev to tender, procure and install the mini-grids (power plant, grid and indoor installations (including electricity meeters));
— draft a management, business and maintenance plan, including predicted costs, for the mini-grid (cost reflective and economic sustainable for more than 10 years);
— do a survey in each region to identify local companies able to perform third party maintenance on mini-grids
— capacity development of relevant governement staff on two step tender procedures enabling them to duplicate a transparent procurement process, and technical issues to consider.

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) Eligibility declaration subcontractors if applicable. 4) Association clause if applicable.