Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-04-04
Buyer: 81314609-Consultancy services for the project Strong Water Utilities in Jordan
Region: DEA22
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 71800000 | 79000000
Submission deadline: 2025-05-06

Technical requirements: Please refer to the exclusion criteria §§ 123 and 124 GWB (see tender documents, form Self-declaration of eligibility by tenderers).
According to Article 160, Section 3 of the German Act Against Restraint of Competition (GWB), application for review is not permissible insofar as
1. the applicant has identified the claimed infringement of the procurement rules before submitting the application for review and has not submitted a complaint to the contracting authority 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 procurement rules that are evident in the tender notice are not submitted to the contracting authority at the latest by the expiry of the deadline for the application or by the deadline for the submission of bids, specified in the tender notice.
3. complaints of infringements of procurement rules that first become evident in the tender documents are not submitted to the contracting authority at the latest by the expiry of the deadline for application or by the deadline for the submission of bids,
4. more than 15 calendar days have expired since receipt of notification from the contracting authority 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.
Chronic water scarcity is one of the key obstacles to Jordan"s development. Efforts to reform the supply situation in recent years have been outweighed by the effects of a growing population and high demand. This rapid population growth, along with agricultural expansion and the impacts of global climate change, have increased the pressure on Jordan"s scarce water resources, which have been heavily overused for years. The effects of climate change will significantly reduce the available water resources over the next 20 years (15% by 2040). Also, energy costs for the water sector have increased with the costs of operation reaching more than 50 per cent of the water sector bill in 2021.
In the new Jordanian Water Strategy (National Water Strategy 2023 - 2040), measures have been formulated for more efficient management of water resources. Water Authority of Jordan (WAJ), and Water Utilities (WU) now have binding targets for reducing energy costs and water losses (2% per year). 
The main objective of the Strong Water Utilities (SWU) project is to improve Jordanian water sector main actors" capacity to reduce water losses and energy consumption as well as wastewater management and rural drinking water supply.
The SWU aims also to establish processes for reducing water losses by coordinating tasks across responsible units and providing expert advice for standardized operations in WUs. This includes setting up integrated data management tools (for example Technical Asset Management). Also, institutionalize Energy Management System (EnMS) within WUs by improving the skills of professionals and managers within established energy units, continuing identification of measures for energy efficiency, and expanding EnMS (Horizontally by covering more facilities and different facility types, and vertically by anchoring processes in water sector).
Additionally, the SWU supports the improvement of wastewater treatment plants operation to be more effective in alignment of operations with the Technical Sustainable Management (TSM) standard.  The SWU empowers women's groups in rural areas in Jordan to negotiate concrete measures with WUs to improve the water supply in their villages and support their implementation, helping them communicate their needs and develop community-specific solutions. 
Consequently, the economic efficiency of water utilities and thus supply quality and safety in the sector are increased.
The relevant actors, i.e., the Ministry of Water and Irrigation (MWI), WAJ and WUs are strengthened in their respective roles and functions. 
The project includes four major fields of action:
1. Water loss reduction (non-revenue water)
2. Sustainable Energy Management (ISO 50001 EnMS)
3. Improving Wastewater treatment operation 
4. Empowering women in rural areas 
The project will help to mitigate climate change by directly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The project also supports in improving the operations of the water utilities and internal planning and implementation processes towards less water loss and higher energy efficiency. Furthermore, through effective data management tools, the water sector will be enabled to monitor and evaluate its performance for optimisation.
With significant investments in infrastructure already ongoing or upcoming, essential pre-requisites are in place for the measures of the project to lead to lasting improvements. The current focus is on the sustainable establishment of the EnMS in the sector, with tailor-made capacity development measures for the specialists and managers of the energy units in WAJ and WUs to consolidate what has been achieved. 
The introduction of digital tools supports the standardized and state-wide anchoring of NRW processes and energy management. Important prerequisites for the further improvement of the wastewater treatment plants operations at the technical level and replicating approaches to empower women from rural communities to participate in multi-stakeholder processes.
1) Declaration on the average annual turnover for the last 3 financial years (last-but-4 financial year can be included in case of tenders held within 6 months of end of last financial year): at least 2,000,000 EUR (two millions).

2) Declaration on the average number of employees and managers for the past three calendar years: at least 20 persons.

The relevant form provided by GIZ is to be used.
A. Further eligibilty criteria  

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) 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 as well as that in the last three years no custodial sentence of more than three years or a fine of more than 90 daily rates or a fine of more than two thousand five hundred euros, which resulted in an entry in the Competition Register, been imposed for noncompliance as specified in section 124 (2) of the German Act against Restraints on Competition (GWB) apply.   

3) 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 that no grounds for exclusion pursuant to Section 123 GWB and/or Section 124 GWB apply to them must be submitted. For the purpose for eligibility through reliance upon the capacities of other entities, please use the form provided by GIZ.

4) 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.

The relevant form provided by GIZ is to be used.  

If more than 5 requests to participate are submitted, a selection on the basis of the follwoing criteria will be made and tenders only from the 5 candidates with the highest scores will invited. We reserve the right to cancel the procurement procedure if we receive fewer than 3 requests to participate. The selction criteria are as follows (see also the eligibility grid):

B. Selection criteria (weighted criteria according to the eligibilty assessment grid):  

I. Technical experience

 1. Consultancy in Non-Revenue Water: 20 %        
 2. Consultancy in Energy Management in Water Sector: 20 %      
 3. Consultancy in Technical Asset Management: 10 %      
 4. Consultancy in Wastewater Management and Operation: 10 %      
 5. Consultancy in Industrial Wastewater Management: 10 %       


II. Regional experience

MENA Region: 20 %

III. Experience of development projects (ODA-financed)

Experience of development projects (at least 50% ODA-financed): 10 %

Eligibility requirements: 1) Declaration on the average annual turnover for the last 3 financial years (last-but-4 financial year can be included in case of tenders held within 6 months of end of last financial year): at least 2,000,000 EUR (two millions).

2) Declaration on the average number of employees and managers for the past three calendar years: at least 20 persons.

The relevant form provided by GIZ is to be used.
other
A. Further eligibilty criteria  

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) 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 as well as that in the last three years no custodial sentence of more than three years or a fine of more than 90 daily rates or a fine of more than two thousand five hundred euros, which resulted in an entry in the Competition Register, been imposed for noncompliance as specified in section 124 (2) of the German Act against Restraints on Competition (GWB) apply.   

3) 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 that no grounds for exclusion pursuant to Section 123 GWB and/or Section 124 GWB apply to them must be submitted. For the purpose for eligibility through reliance upon the capacities of other entities, please use the form provided by GIZ.

4) 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.

The relevant form provided by GIZ is to be used.  

If more than 5 requests to participate are submitted, a selection on the basis of the follwoing criteria will be made and tenders only from the 5 candidates with the highest scores will invited. We reserve the right to cancel the procurement procedure if we receive fewer than 3 requests to participate. The selction criteria are as follows (see also the eligibility grid):

B. Selection criteria (weighted criteria according to the eligibilty assessment grid):  

I. Technical experience

 1. Consultancy in Non-Revenue Water: 20 %        
 2. Consultancy in Energy Management in Water Sector: 20 %      
 3. Consultancy in Technical Asset Management: 10 %      
 4. Consultancy in Wastewater Management and Operation: 10 %      
 5. Consultancy in Industrial Wastewater Management: 10 %       


II. Regional experience

MENA Region: 20 %

III. Experience of development projects (ODA-financed)

Experience of development projects (at least 50% ODA-financed): 10 %
1) Extract from the commercial register or equivalent evidence/proof in English or German (not older than six months).
It is necessary to provide

(1) at least four reference projects in the technical field: 

"a) one project in Capacity Development in Non-Revenue Water 
b) one project in Energy Management in the Water Sector, and 
c) two projects in Wastewater Management";

(2) and at least two reference projects in the MENA-Region, thereof at least one must be in the above mentioned fields a), b) and/or c).

Each of the reference projects must be in the last 60 months (deadline: date of publication of invitation to tender) with a minimum commission value of at least 250,000 EUR.

The relevant countries are listed in the tender documents.

The relevant form provided by GIZ is to be used.
An advance payment guarantee may be required.
GIZ asks the applicant or bidder to submit, complete or correct documents, within the framework laid down by law.