Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-05-12
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Region: Not specified
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 75211200
Submission deadline: 2017-06-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The present contract is supposed to support the Ministry of Energy in Madagascar in the evaluation and validation of the technical and financial feasibility studies as well as in the process of negotiating power purchase agreements between the state-owned utility Jirama and the private operators for the 4 hydro power stations.
Madagascar‘s low electrification rate of about 15 % limits the social and economic development oft he country. Service delivery in the education, health and communication sector are extremely restricted. Economic activities cannot be run on a continuous and sustainable basis because of limited and unreliable electricity supply. However, the country's potential in renewable energy resources is very high. Only about 2 % of Madagascar’s total hydropower potential of 7,800 MW is currently being deployed. Since 2015, the Government of Madagascar is treating improvements in the energy sector as high priority. The political will to develop the renewable energy potential in order to increase electricity supply is very high. The ambitious aims for scaling-up the power supply in the country are to be reached in cooperation with the private sector on the basis of concession models. However, neither the juridical and administrative framework conditions, nor the capacities of the public and private actors are sufficient in order to implement this ambitious energy transition independently. Therefore, the project supports the Ministry of Water, Energy and Petroleum and its subordinated agencies (Agency for Rural Electrification ADER and Electricity Regulatory Authority ORE) with the further development and implementation of the country's energy policy and institutional and legislative framework, among others for the integration of renewable energy resources into the main electricity grid, run by the state-owned utility Jirama. According to estimations made by Jirama, electricity demand will increase by 8 % per year up to 2030. Therefore, in order to reach the ambitious goal of serving 70 % of the overall population with reliable electricity by 2030, an additional generation capacity of 460 MW up to 2020 and 700 MW up to 2030 are needed.
It is against this background that, in 2015, the Government of Madagascar founded the “Programme Hydroélectriques Prioritaires” (PHP). PHP prioritizes the development of 5 hydro power sites as well as 13 hybrid sites (hydropower combined with PV and/or biomass). In late 2015, the Ministry of Energy published a tender for the development of 4 hydro power sites (42-300 MW) on the basis of IPP and EPC contracts and signed provisional adjudications with 4 consortia of private companies for the development of detailed feasibility studies and plans for the realization of the projects at hand.
The present contract is supposed to support the Ministry of Energy in the evaluation and validation of the technical and financial feasibility studies as well as in the process of negotiating power purchase agreements between Jirama and the private operators for the 4 hydro power stations. It is the aim of the consultancy to strengthen the capacities of the Ministry of Energy and its subordinated bodies ADER and ORE in supervising and steering privately operated energy supply projects from project development stage up to signing IPP contracts and negotiating power purchase agreements.
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.