Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2021-10-15
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71314000: Energy and related services | 71314300: Energy-efficiency consultancy services | 75211200 | 90714200
Estimated value: 363000 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has been supporting the Indian government for many years on issues relating to the sustainable use of energy. Within this context, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) is implementing the project "Energy Efficiency in Industry and Data".
To implement parts of this project GIZ is looking for a consulting firm to provide the following services:
- Energy audits, data collection/analysis and technology baseline in up to 150 plants of secondary steel sector
- Development of energy and water saving potential scenarios for different subsectors of secondary steel sector and roadmaps for implementation of measures
The tender is divided into two lots (other lot: transaction no: 82272297). Implementation is planned for the period from November 2021 to May 2023.
The Federal Republic of Germany and the Government of the Republic of India have agreed to jointly promote the "Indo-German Energy Programme" (IGEN) with the aim to promote energy efficiency/conservation, renewable energy, access to energy, etc. and in turn improve the environment/climate protection. The Energy Efficiency component of the IGEN (IGEN-EE) works in collaboration with the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), Ministry of Power for the implementation of the Energy Conservation Act (EC Act, 2001), focusing on energy efficiency and conservation.
A new project "Energy Efficiency in Industry and Data" is being commissioned by BMZ Germany. The main objectives of the project are:
- Capacity building of selected State Designated Agencies (SDAs) to promote energy efficiency in plants under the secondary steel sector, that are not covered in the PAT scheme
- Providing Non-PAT secondary steel and pulp and paper plants with access to information on key energy efficiency processes and technologies
- Institutionalization of peer-to-peer learning among SDAs and Non-PAT secondary steel and pulp and paper industry clusters
- National Energy Efficiency dialogue for secondary steel and pulp and paper sector between policy makers, research institutions and business associations.
The central instrument for increasing energy efficiency in industrial sector is the Perform Achieve and Trade (PAT) program, which, based on the Indian Energy Conservation Act, 2001, combines binding plant-specific reduction targets with a market-oriented emission trading mechanism, covering 13 sectors and the largest 1073 designated consumers. However, this successful approach does not include smaller industrial enterprises and the nearly 1 million registered small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in India.
India is currently the second largest producer of crude steel and the largest producer of sponge iron/direct reduced iron. The PAT program covers about 70% of the total installed production capacity of steel in India which is around 7% of the total number of steel plants. This means 93% of the plants accounting for around 30% of the capacity are not covered by the PAT program.
The availability of energy performance indicators for key processes and technologies in India outside the PAT program is limited and insufficient for effective policy making. Banks are reluctant to grant loans to non-PAT industries because they cannot adequately assess the risks of project financing due to the lack of data. Especially smaller companies that do not participate in emissions trading lack the knowledge about the latest available energy-efficient technologies and the capacity to assess their effectiveness and profitability in order to make investment decisions. Thus, there is a lacuna in the availability of accurate process benchmarks for these smaller industries in the secondary steel sector. Moreover, a baseline of energy consumption details for these smaller industries at the start of the project is required to analyse improvements in their energy efficiency performance at the end of the project.
GIZ is looking for a consulting firm to provide the following services within the scope of this project:


Winner: PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd. (India)
Award value: 363000
Number of bids: 4