Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-02-09
Buyer: Department for International Development
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 75211200
Estimated value: 33000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-03-13
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: DFID's aim through this programme is to increase energy access in Mozambique through innovative private sector provision of, and investment in, off grid renewables, expanding market access of off-grid renewable energy products and related services to rural communities and businesses in Mozambique. The ultimate beneficiaries of this programme will be poor households and micro, small and medium enterprises in rural Mozambique. DFID intends to award a contract for an initial term of 6 years and 4 months with a maximum budget of 22.8m GBP (inclusive of VAT and all applicable Government taxes). DFID may extend the duration up to an additional 2 years with a maximum total contract value of 33m GBP (inclusive of VAT and all applicable taxes).
DFID will contract one supplier, or lead consortium member, who will be responsible for delivering the contract. The contract will consist of 2 phases (i) inception and (ii) implementation. The inception phase will last for 4 months; the implementation phase is planned to start immediately upon satisfactory completion of the inception phase and will last 60 months. The supplier will be directly responsible for the delivery of 4 main programme components.
This is the major component of BRILHO and involves providing start-up grants and loans, together with technical assistance, to new businesses, seeding innovation and supporting early stage market work.
This activity will utilise the comparative advantages of GoM support (most likely FUNAE and/or MITADER) and their relationships with rural communities to facilitate private sector engagement with potential consumers in an efficient and collaborative manner, including education of the benefits of clean off-grid energy solutions as well as practical instruction in the use of mobile money and PAYG systems.
BRILHO will support core market intelligence and will research a number of key complementary areas such as: improving the policy and regulatory environment; quality standards and control; and models and approaches that most impact on the poor, women and girls. This component will also look to strengthen Mozambique’s own capacity to deliver off-grid energy related research, including potential support to the solar and biomass labs at Eduardo Mondlane University.
This will involve working with the key GoM institutions responsible for off-grid energy to help deliver programme objectives over the next 6 years and after BRILHO has finished.
Bidders should note that under this negotiation procedure, the minimum requirements set out in the Terms of Reference (ICPN Volume 3) must be met in Stage 1 (as defined below) of your submission and must continue to be met in the final tender submision.
Suppliers should complete the Stage 1 tender documents and submit their initial tender by the closing date stipulated. DFID will assess the initial tender submission in accordance with the award criteria set out in the contract notice as more fully described in ICPN Volume 2.
If DFID, upon receipt of initial tenders, is able to identify the Potential Supplier which is the most economically advantageous and meets the Requirement and there is no requirement to negotiate on any terms, then it may proceed to identification and selection of a preferred supplier at that stage without further negotiation.
If on completion of the assessment DFID identifies a need to negotiate then it may proceed to do so and select a maximum of five Potential Suppliers to participate in Stage 2 — Negotiation. The Potential Suppliers moving to stage 2 will have met the Requirement and be the highest scoring Potential Suppliers based on the assessment of the initial tender and all Potential Suppliers who score lower will be notified at this stage that their tender will not be taken further.
DFID will invite those Potential Suppliers who are successful at Stage 2 to take part in negotiation meetings. In advance of the meeting, DFID will provide an agenda which will set out points for discussion, including the areas of the Initial Tender which have not fully satisfied the award criteria.
DFID reserves the right to hold multiple rounds of negotiation and reduce the number of tenders to be negotiated at the following round by applying the award criteria published.
STAGE 3 – DFID will notify the remaining tenderers its intent to close the negotiation phase and will ask for Final Tenders to be submitted. On receipt of the final tenders, bids will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria set out in ICPN Volume 2 and a preferred supplier will be identified. Once a preferred supplier is selected there will be no further opportunity for parties to negotiate.
Potential Suppliers should note that DFID reserve the right to accept the initial tender and conclude the process at stage 1. Potential Suppliers must therefore submit their best Tenders at the outset.
The contract will be awarded for 64 months. There will be an option to extend the contract by up to a further 24 months. The value advertised for this requirement includes any potential extension budget covering this additional 24 months..


Award value: 33000000