Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-06-03
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71314000: Energy and related services
Submission deadline: 2020-07-13
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: GET.invest is a European programme that aims at mobilising investments in decentralised renewable energy projects. It supports private sector business and project developers, financiers and regulators in building sustainable energy markets. In doing so, it contributes directly to the interlinked development (SDG) as well as climate change objectives (Paris Agenda).
It was launched in early 2019, building on its predecessor, the Africa-EU Renewable Energy Cooperation Programme (RECP). With an extended geographical focus beyond the African continent, GET.invest delivers by mobilising the private sector and by building a pipeline of viable investment projects.
The programme works closely with a broad range of partners, in particular industry associations and cooperates with numerous related initiatives in the space of international cooperation on decentralised renewable energy.
GET.invest is hosted on the multi-donor platform GET.pro, implemented by GIZ and supported by the European Union, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Austria.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 32 + 36 53113 Bonn Africa.
A key service of GET.invest is its direct support to renewable energy project developers in partner countries towards enhancing their project documentation. To this end, the GET.invest Finance Catalyst provides advisory and coaching to developers of renewable energy projects.
The upcoming GET.invest project documentation development service complements this by supporting projects under advisory by the GET.invest Finance Catalyst through the development of documents and studies. The service, in close coordination with the developer and the advisors of the GET.invest finance catalyst, produces critical studies such as environmental and social impact assessments and other documents that are critical for the successful acquisition of financing for the project, in such cases where GET.invest support is additional and required.
The contractor is responsible for the development of documents/studies in Phase 1 with the option of extension as mentioned in the terms of reference.
Important elements of the measures put out to tender can be continued within the framework of a follow-on measure.
Due to the nature of GET.invest as a highly modular platform, intentionally designed for scaling up, it is possible that this may lead to an increase of the budget by multiples of the initial volume of the contract. This is highly likely at the point of tendering.
However, since neither of the extensions are already contracted, nor the exact scope is known at this point, it is impossible to reflect them already in the terms of reference.
An extension of the contract duration in line with the above extension in overall assignments of up to 36 additional months is deemed realistic.
Type and scope: at the time of the tender, GET.invest is commissioned with a certain budget, part of which is allocated to the tender. It is likely that once additional contributions are contracted, additional funds may come available for the services as part of this contract. Therefore, it is likely that the volume of this contract will be expanded during the course of the contract period.
An expansion from the currently foreseen eleven project documentation development assignments to a total of 23 assignments (12 additional) is deemed possible.
This would directly translate into an increase in the required staffing resources. The exact composition is unknown at this point, but in this scenario, it would approximately mirror the provisions of these ToR.

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.