Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-11-22
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 75211200
Submission deadline: 2017-12-21
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This assignment shall include specialised expertise in the area of grid integration of renewables for South African German Energy Programme - SAGEN 3.
Based on the South African Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Programme (REIPPPP), a significant amount of renewable energy (mainly wind and solar PV) has been connected to the South African power system. By now some 3,200 Megawatt of mainly wind and PV are already operational and more capacity is under construction. Although the procurement programme is currently on hold, it is expected that more generation capacity based on renewables will be connected to the grid in the future.
GIZ has been supporting the national power utility Eskom, the Regulator Nersa and the Department of Energy on various issues of grid integration over the past years. The support included advice on a wide range of topics related to grid connection, grid and system planning and grid and system operation. The support was provided as part of the South African German Energy Programme (SAGEN). For the next phase of SAGEN GIZ seeks a firm of consultants with specialised expertise in the area of grid integration of renewables. Support will be clustered in four specific work packages:
We therefore look for international experts incl. Team Leader for 420 person-days; national expert for 130 person-days and support staff for 40 person-days. Further details are described in the Terms of reference.
Within the framework of the basic project described in the terms of reference, GIZ reserves the right to award contracts for additional services of this type up to the amount of  800 000 EUR to the successful company in this procedure by means of a negotiated procedure without a prior call for competition, or to enter into a follow-on contract pursuant to the criteria listed in the TOR.
Mandatory grounds for exclusion as per section 123 GWB and optional as per section 124 GWB; evidence of commercial registry; declaration by consortium; average annual turnover for last 3 financial years / 800 000 EUR; number of employees at 31.12. of previous year: at least 10 persons.
At least 6 reference projects in the field ‘renewable energy GRID Integration’ and 6 reference in the region: ‘world’ in the last 3 years.
According to Article 160, Section 3 of the German Act Against Restraint of Competition, application for re-examination is not permissible insofar as 1. the applicant has identified the claimed infringement of the contract award regulations before submitting the application for re-examination and has not submitted a complaint to the commissioning party within a period of 10 calendar days; the expiry of the period pursuant to Article 134, Section 2 remains unaffected, 2. complaints of infringements of contract award regulations that are evident in the notice are not submitted to the commissioning party at the latest by the expiry of the deadline for the application specified in the notice or by the deadline for the submission of bids, 3. complaints of infringements of contract award regulations that first become evident in the tender documents are not submitted to the commissioning party at the latest by the expiry of the deadline for application or for the submission of bids, 4. more than 15 calendar days have elapsed after receipt of the notification from the commissioning party that it is unwilling to redress the complaint. Sentence 1 does not apply in the case of an application to determine the invalidity of the contract in accordance with Article 135, Section 1 (2). Article 134, Section 1, Sentence 2 remains unaffected.