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German Financial
Co-operation with Namibia International Tender for the Services of a Consultant for the Pre-Feasibility Study |
NAMIBIA |
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International open bidding procedure with post-qualification for the consulting services required |
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At any time, KfW Development Bank either at its own initiative or in response to clarifications requested by an interested consultant may clarify this invitation. Updates and clarifications will ONLY be presented on this website and will be made available to all shortlisted consultants by this mean. For any clarifications and updates please consult this website regularly. |
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Contact for Inquiries |
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exception of the submission of the expression of interests - shall
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Please note that the deadline for inquiries was February 13th, 2018 at 24:00, CET.
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Tender Document |
Topic |
Inquiry |
Clarification |
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1 |
Terms of Reference (TOR) page 19 Conditions of Tender Annex C 2 |
Team Leader Requirements |
The annexed TOR notes stipulate that the Key
Expert 1 (Team Leader) has a minimum project experience requirement, which
requires at least three relevant RE projects/programs (under Task related
experience, pg 19) and at least three relevant energy project/programs in
SSA (under Regional Experience, pg 19).
The associated Tender Document (COT) then notes that the project related experience for the Team Leader is that each of the projects/programs provided as proof of experience have a minimum 1 year input (page 29). Is the correct interpretation of this 1 year input requirement that any project referenced by the proposed TL as task-related experience, and to meet the minimum 3 relevant RE project/programs, with less than 12MM of input will be disqualified from this minimum requirement? |
The TOR do NOT specify a minimum need of 12
expert months per RE project/programm. There is no minimum requirement for
expert-months for reference projects. However, the requested reference
projects/programs will be assessed as well on their relevance, significance
and size incl. the rendered expert-months.
The table Annex C2 serves as overview only. As
this is a short-term project, the No of projects with > 1 EXPERT MONTH of
input may be indicated. NO, neither the project references with less than 1 year, nor the corresponding proposal itself will be discarded. |
Feb 6th 2018 |
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Terms of Reference (TOR) page 19 Conditions of Tender Annex C 2 |
Team Leader Requirements | Does any minimum 12MM input requirement also all apply to the 3 relevant energy projects/programs in SSA? | NO, there is no minimum requirement for expert-months for projects in the SSA. | Feb 6th 2018 |
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Terms of Reference (TOR) page 19 Conditions of Tender Annex C 2 |
Team Leader Requirements | If the 1 year input requirement is applicable, is it possible to revisit or eliminate the 1 year input (12MM) requirement as it may eliminate many good candidates from the finance community that may not spend 1 full year (12 MM of input) on a single project? | There is NO minimum requirement for expert-months for reference projects. | Feb 6th 2018 |
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Terms of Reference (TOR) page 19 Conditions of Tender Annex C 2 |
Team Leader Requirements | Does the option of program (vs. project) imply that the minimum 1 year (12MM of input) requirement is acceptable for those programmatic activities with many subprojects, each subproject with less than 12MM input, and where the staff does have more than 1 year of input (12MM) in the overall program? Please clarify the definition of 'program'. |
There is NO minimum requirement for
expert-months for reference projects. Yes, it is NOT necessary that within a program, understood as a multi-sub-project activitiy, the sub-projects must meet any 12mm requirement, |
Feb 6th 2018 |
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Conditions of Tender Page 16 at GCT 2.01 |
Minimum turnover of bidder | The documents indicate a requirement for "an aggregated annual turnover of more than EUR 1 million.” question is whether this applies solely to the lead organisation or to the consortium members more broadly? | The aggregated average annual turnover of the bidder has to exceed the amount of EUR 1 million. In the case of consortium it would be the SUM of the turnover of the lead consultant plus that of all other partners with joint and several liability in the consortium that has to exceed this threshold, not the turnover of each and every individual member of the consortium. |
Feb 6th 2018 updated on Feb.9th |
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Terms of Reference page 18 and 19 |
Technical Expert as Team Leader | Is the Team Leader required to also be the Finance Expert, or can one of the other key staff also function as the Team Lead (i.e. Technical Expert)? Please also denote if the Team Leader as Finance Expert is also a preference. |
The preferred option is to have a financial
expert as team leader. A Technical Expert can be the Team Leader. However, in such a case the scoring in the evaluation would be lower Furthermore, this would NOT WAIVE the requirements for the financial expert. |
Feb 6th 2018 |
7 | Conditions of Tender page 16 | experience in “Bush encroachment and/or bush harvesting and/or productive use of bush harvest” through a key expert | In the COT the possibility is offered to demonstrate experience in “Bush encroachment and/or bush harvesting and/or productive use of bush harvest” through a key expert. Which format should be used for the reference, in case the experience of a key expert is used? | There is no strict format for that. However, it may be helpful to use table on page 25 "Project experience" to present the experience of the key expert. | Feb 13th 2018 |
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Conditions of Tender page 16
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Minimum requirement for experience. Validity of experiences of sub-contractor and key experts |
For other criteria, such as “Energy generation by harvested biomass combustion” or “Design of financial instruments for energy sector”, could the references of a subcontractor or key expert be added to those of the lead consultant? |
To fulfill the minimum criterium “Energy
generation by harvested biomass combustion” (second item under 5)
references of a subcontractor and/or key expert can be used. The necessary experience in the field of "Design of financial instruments for energy sector” (third item under 5) must be demonstrated by the bidder himself, i.e. the consultant and/or a fully liable partner of the bidder consortium. |
Feb 13th 2018 |
9 | Terms of Reference | Business Model and Financial Model |
Section 3.3 identifies the need to develop an
overarching business model, which seems to include all elements of the BTE
value chain, including: harvesting, social impacts, BTE fuel supply, and
power generation.
Section 3.3 later mentions 'BTE business models', implying more than one model. Sub-task 3.3.1 further describes the development of a business model but the focus is on the fuel supply stage and its components. Finally, the second goal in section 3.3.2 refers to a 'basic financial model'. Please clarify if these all refer to the same financial model or if various models need to be developed. Please also clarify if the model/s are at the national level (considering the whole value chain and sector), individual stages in the value chain, or the individual IPP/harvester level. |
As stated in the TOR, the overall business model
of future BTE is not yet clear at the moment and it is one of the objectives
of this feasibility study to develop "a general bush-to electricity business
and market model" (fuel supply AND power generation) in Phase B (See page 7
of the TOR). This is followed by very detailed descriptions of works and
tasks under 3.3. "Development of a BTE business model and identification of
potential investors". In this regards it may be helpful to distinguish between the "business model", which we understand as the overarching rationale and set of measures, transactions and regulations to make BTE viable as a business at all, and a computed "financial model", which calculates the financial aspects of such a model. Obviously, both – the business model AND the financial model are necessary for this task.
In this regard the requested basic financial
model (Fuel supply financial model) in section 3.3.2 for the BTE fuel supply
pipeline is only one of the necessary components of the chain of crucial
element of the overall business model of the future BTE, which however
includes as well BTE Transaction Structures (3.3.4) and the "Identification
and pre-assessment of BTE power plant pipeline" (3.3.3). |
Feb 16th, 2018 |
10 | Terms Of Reference | Required degree for legal expert | In Namibia, many practicing lawyers with relevant experience do not have a master level degree, as this is not required. Can this degree requirement be revisited, or is the preference in such situations that Key Expert 3 be an international legal expert with a master-level degree that will cooperate with a local lawyer without a master-level degree? |
The key expert in this field shall not have only
an undergraduate level degree, but at least a masters degree. Bidders are
free to choose their way to comply with this requirement.
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Feb 16th, 2018 |
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