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COMPETITION TYPE: 

Open tender for local energy expert/consultant

DETAIL DESCRIPTION: 

GIZ is looking to hire a local energy expert (from now on referred to as “contractor”) to support the international experts in the development of the needs assessment. The contractor is required to support the international experts by (i) providing sector expertise (in form of an introductory presentation on 14th April), (ii) participate in the meetings during the in-country visit and (iii) provide secondary research on needs basis, especially for sources that are only available in Armenian language.

Details are presented in the attached ToR.

CONTEXT.
The project “Sustainable Energy for climate resilient municipality development in Armenia (SE4Resilience)”, implemented by GIZ and financed by the “Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)” with co-financing by the “European Union (EU)” is aiming to leverage the potentials of renewable energy and energy efficiency in rural municipalities of Armenia. For this, GIZ is collaborating with the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure (MTAI). The project is working on both national level for the improvement of the technical and regulatory framework for renewable energy and energy efficiency as well as on regional level through measures at the selected municipalities Tavush, Shirak, Gegharkunik and Syunik.

ELIGIBILITY FOR APPLICATION:
The envisaged type of agreement with potential consultant is a service contract for implementation of the assignments as per the ToR.
Attached find Assessment grid and contract general terms.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES: 

Your bid, comprising the technical offer (CVs of involved experts etc.) and the financial offer (signed document, including the number of working days of each expert) must be clearly marked as such, and submitted as two separate emails. Please send your bid to *************@***.** with the following subject line:

- For technical offer with the subject line:B2501SE4Resilience Technical Offer 
- For financial offer with the subject line: B2501SE4Resilience Financial Offer 

All documents must be submitted in PDF format. Please do not put any other recipient in copy.

The technical offer must always be separate from the financial offer. Technical and Financial offers should be submitted in Armenian/English languages.

Financial offer
The proposal package is to be submitted in AMD.
The payment will be done in local currency. Please present offer without VAT. (GIZ works with 0 VAT). Please take this into consideration while preparing your offer. The Tax Identification Number of GIZ is: 02898241.

Evaluation of Offer
GIZ will evaluate the technical and price information in the received bids (see Assessment Grid).
After the technical evaluation, only the price offers of bids with more than 500 points will be opened and evaluated. Technical offers below 500 points will be considered as technical not acceptable. The technical offer has a weighting of T: 70%, the price offer F: 30%.

The final result is an overall ranking, headed by the most cost-effective bid. Contract negotiations will be initiated on the basis of this overall ranking.
In case you have questions, they will be answered if they are received at the latest 1 working day before the deadline.
Questions must be raised in writing by email to ********.*******@***.** with the following subject line: B2501SE4Resilience

If you are interested in performing this work, please submit a bid till 8 April 2025, 12:00am.

Please clearly mention in your application letter that you learned of this announcement through Career Center and mention the URL of its website - www.careercenter.am. Thanks.

ATTACHMENTS:

ToR - B2501SE4Resilience_ToR_Local .pdf Assessment Grid - B2501SE4Resilience Assessment Grid.pdf General Terms in English - AVB local, March 2024 EN (1).pdf Announcement Text - Open tender announcement text (1).docx Code of Conduct - giz2023-en-code-of-conduct-for-contractors-of-giz.pdf