Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2021-09-10
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 09000000 | 42100000 | 51542100 | 71314000: Energy and related services
Estimated value: 610160 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Nigeria Energy Support Programme (NESP) is co-funded by the European Union and the German Government - BMZ - and implemented by GIZ in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Power (FMP). It aims at enabling and fostering investments in the fields of renewable energy and energy efficiency.
More generally, NESP supports activities to reach selected SDGs in Nigeria, particularly SDG 7 on increasing energy access, renewable energy and energy efficiency, and SDG 13 on Climate Change as well as the Paris Agreement.
During NESP I (2013-2017), the Programme, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Environment (FMEnv) and Niger State Government launched the Clean Cooking Intervention which aimed to provide 100 rice parboiling groups with access to improved institutional cookstoves.
During NESP II (2017-2022), the Programme, in collaboration with the FMEnv, launched a scheme called Nigerian Institutional Clean Cookstove Acceleration Scheme (NICCAS). The objective of the NICCAS is to facilitate the development of a viable/ bankable business model for institutional clean cookstoves in conjunction with the private sector.
NESP II was launched in 2017 and was initially scheduled to last until the end of 2020. However, it has now been extended until the end of 2022.
The NESP II Extension will aim to support dissemination of 5,000 clean cookstoves, notably LPG-based clean cookstoves, for productive use of energy (PUE) as well as for household use, thereby resulting in, at least, 3,000 tCO2e of savings per annum by November 2022 (The full list of outcomes and outputs for this assignment has been included in the ToR).
1. Enabling Framework: Under this WP, the Contractor is required to support NESP in advising its Public Partners in the development of an enabling framework which would include development of specific regulations and or incentives on clean cooking.
2. Business Development: Under this WP, the Contractor is required to support NESP in providing advice (covering legal, technical and financial aspects) to companies (selected through an open competitive process) on the development and implementation of viable business models for clean cooking projects.
3. Access to Finance: Under this WP, the Contractor is required to support NESP in providing advice to investors on risk assessment and development of financial products for clean cooking projects.
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 in a comparable extent 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 under section 7 and the contract.
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.


Winner: GFA Consulting Group GmbH
Award value: 610160
Number of bids: 4