Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-08-01
Buyer: KfW
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 79400000
Submission deadline: 2017-09-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: KfW intends to conclude a framework agreement with 3 economic operators to review and appraise KfW project documentation for compliance with the environmental and social standards set out in KfW's Sustainability Guidelines, current World Bank standards, and Equator Principles.
In addition to review and appraisal services, which comprise approx. 90 % of its requirement, KfW requires training of KfW project personnel (employees and external staff) as well as complex analysis and risk assessment of project environmental and social impacts. These services comprise approx. 10 percent of the requirement.
The duration of the individual assignments for review and appraisal is approx. 3 to 10 days each. The duration of single assignments for training and complex analysis and risk assessment will vary.
The assignments for review and appraisal will be awarded to the 3 contractors by means of a Cascade mechanism, the tasks for training and complex analysis by means of mini-competitions.
While the contract is governed by German law and the place of arbitration shall be Frankfurt upon Main (Germany), the contractors will occasionally need to visit the project sites abroad.
The sectoral and geographic variables of the individual assignments for review and appraisal services as well as for training of KfW's project personnel (employees and external staff), complex analysis and risk assessment of environmental and social impacts will vary considerably. KfW does not foresee any specific fields of specialisation. However, generally the requirements regarding both aforementioned kinds of single assignments are expected to arise in the following sectors:
Particularly complex single assignments will require specialised home-office support. To ensure the high quality of deliverables needed and effective coordination with the contractor's home office, KfW requires dedicated project management and quality assurance capabilities within the contractor's team.
Regardless of whether the individual assignments concern review and appraisal services or training, complex analysis and risk assessment of environmental and social impacts, they will as a rule all be carried out through desk review and occasional field missions to KfW project sites or visits to project partners.
(1) The candidate's Team Manager has a high level of general professional experience in performing services of the tendered kind:
(a) More than 8 years of experience in responsibly directing and managing international projects immediately related to environmental and social assessment or Management. Every 2 years of additional experience up to 17 years or more shall be rewarded.
(b) More than 5 years of project management experience in an environment characterized by a workflow consisting of multiple short-term assignments funded by development banks or Equator Principles Financial Institutions. Every 2 years of additional experience up to 14 years or more shall be rewarded.
(c) More than 5 years of experience in managing and supervising quality control measures with regard to environmental and social assessments funded by development banks or Equator Principles Financial Institutions. Every 2 years of additional experience up to 14 years or more shall be rewarded.
(2) The Team Manager has project references demonstrating that he is not only able to cover the following types of tasks once, but twice or three times:
e. Gap analysis of an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and an Environmental and Social Management Plan.
(3) One or both of the candidate's Environmental Experts has a high level of general professional experience in performing services of the tendered kind: