Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-08-16
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 09330000: Solar energy | 71313000: Environmental engineering consultancy services | 71314300: Energy-efficiency consultancy services | 73220000 | 79411100
Submission deadline: 2023-09-12
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Govt of India has set for itself an ambitious target of achieving carbon neutrality by the year 2070. As per estimates, India will need 1689 GW of solar capacity by 2050 & 5630 GW of solar capacity by 2070 to achieve this target. However there lie 2 major challenges in achieving these targets.
- Presently, the major contributors for solar PV installation across India are ground mounted and rooftop projects. These conventional methods of solar PV adoption rely heavily on land utilization and can only address the target potential partially.
- Additionally, land use for energy generation is increasingly facing competition from other social economic usages directly affecting natural habitat and ecosystems. There is also a growing concern with regards to the scarcity of utilizable land, allocated for solar projects.
This necessitates the need for exploring new innovative technology solutions for solar PV projects in India. Thus, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) in cooperation with GIZ is supporting the promotion of land-neutral and dual use New & Innovative Solar Applications (NISA) across India. With MNRE, GIZ has shortlisted the following 6 New and Innovative Solar PV applications for further proliferation -
Apart from these seven applications, other technologies like PVT, vertical solar installations, solar tracking structures, green hydrogen, green mobility etc. are also developing and emerging as promising technologies for the future. There is a need for capacity building of various stakeholders including inistries, DISCOMs, nodal agencies, research institutes, govt. departments etc., and the solar sector for accelerated adoption of NISA.
Under the ambit of Indo-German Energy Programme, GIZ, on behalf of BMZ is supporting MNRE with a new project titled "New & Innovative Solar Areas (INSolar)". Under this project, GIZ is exploring potential of NISA across India, along with focus on policy support, R&D collaborations, solar atlas, support to solar cities and creating marketing instruments for further adoption of NISA.
Therefore, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is seeking a contractor to implement the project "Trainings in new and Innovative Solar applications" which is part of the project "New & Innovative Solar Areas (INSolar)". In this context, GIZ is seeking to commission a contractor to provide a range of specialised capacity building services expertise with focus on New Innovative Solar Areas relating to four packages of services: (1) Capacity building workshops, (2) National level study tours, (3) Conferences and Panel Discussions, and (4) E-Learning platform development.
Therefore, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is seeking a contractor to implement the project "Trainings in new and Innovative Solar applica-tions" which is part of the project "New & Innovative Solar Areas (INSolar)". Under IN-Solar project, GIZ is exploring potential of New Innovative Solar Applications (NISA) across India, along with focus on policy support, R&D collaborations, solar atlas, support to solar cities and creating marketing instruments for further adoption of NISA.
In this context, GIZ is seeking to commission a contractor to provide a range of specialised capacity building services expertise with focus on New Innovative Solar Areas. The major activities under this assignment shall be implemented across but not limited to the following Indian states:
The Contractor shall develop and finalise course content in English, including slides/ pages covering a topic with pictures, illustrations, animations, examples, videos etc. on applications such as Agri PV, Floating PV, Canal top PV, Building Integrated PV - BIPV, Urban PV, Rail PV, Road PV, PVT, Vertical Solar installa-tions, solar structures, and Solar recycling etc.
The contractor shall be responsible for the complete implementation of the face-to-face workshops for the different stakeholders as listed above.
The objective of this WP is to expose Indian stakeholders to the solutions developed nationally with respect to NISA including field visits to pilot projects, medium and large scale projects and have interactive sessions with experts on NISA benefits, challenges, opportunities, finan-cials, business models and expert recommendations. The contractor is required to plan, or-ganise (including travel arrangements for all stakeholder involved except for GIZ staff) and conduct domestic field visits for a group (max 5-10) of Indian stakeholders (regulators, utility managers, etc.) consisting of meetings with relevant industry experts. In total 8 (Eight) such visits have to be conducted, Each field visit shall comprise of max. 2 days excluding travel time.
The objective of WP 3 is to catalyse and motivate discussions between energy sector industry leaders and policy makers with regards to experience, exposure, potentials, problems and solutions, policies, regulations, upcoming technologies, and other perspectives for expansion of NISA. The contractor is required to participate in at least 3 events on the national level (like Renewables Expo India (REI), Solar congress etc.) and 3 events on state level (like Vibrant Gujarat etc.) and organise 10 panel discussion sessions for stakeholders. The contractor is also required to prepare and present the solutions developed internationally with respect to policies, regulations, learnings, pilot demonstrations and executed projects in order to support the expansion of NISA as well as improve the understanding of the challenges that come with it.
Under WP 4 the contractor shall manage update and conduct capacity building courses on the moodle based e-learning platform developed by GIZ for MNRE called "Solar Pathshala". Also, GIZ has developed a free digital learning platform called "Atingi" where participants are offered tailored learning from more than 300 courses to provide participants with essential career skills, life skills and vocational training. In addition, the contractor shall digitalise and finalise courses including MCQ examination and reference material links on NISA technolo-gies for which the content is developed under WP1 and as provided by trainers and conduct online trainings.
GIZ may optionally commission contract amendments and/or increases based on the criteria in the tender documents to the successful bidder of this tender. For details, please see the terms of reference.

Eligibility requirements: 1) Name and address of the company, legal form, registered office (country), owners and controlling parties, commercial register number/dirstrict court, bank account, tax number, VAT identification number, brief company profile and contact in event of queries. 2) Extract from the commercial register or equivalent evidence/proof (not older than six months). 3) Self-declaration that no grounds for exclusion in Section 123, 124 of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB), section 22 of the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG) and EU-Russian sanctions apply. 4) If a candidate/tenderer wishes to use the capacities of another company for the execution of the contract or to prove his/her eligibility, she/he must prove by submitting a declaration of commitment that the corresponding capacities are available to him/her for the execution of the contract and a declaration of commitment and a declaration that no grounds for exclusion pursuant to Section 123 GWB and/or Section 124 GWB apply to them must be submitted (in the case to prove the elegibility, this declaration must be submitted already with the request to participate). 5) In the case of participation as a bidding consortium: tenderers must appoint a leading member and authorise this member to represent the group and to receive payments with discharging effect also for the other members. A corresponding agreement, signed by all members, must be attached to the application for participation. For this purpose, the form provided by GIZ must be used.