Tender Notice For Engaging an Implementation Partner For Piloting Clean Cooking Energy Access Programme in Sundarban of West Bengal

The Access to Energy Programme under the Indo-German Energy Programme (IGEN-Access) is a bilateral technical co-operation measure between the Federal Ministry for Economic Co- operation and Development (BMZ), Germany and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India. The project aims at improving the sector environment for inclusive rural energy enterprises. The IGEN-Access project is currently being implemented in four states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and North Eastern states. The programme will be implemented over a period of three years (March 2015 – March 2019). BMZ has commissioned GIZ with the implementation of the project. GIZ is a federal enterprise based in Eschborn and Bonn, Germany.

GIZ under the IGEN-Access programme, India plans to support the Panchayat and Rural Development Department (P&RD) of Government of West Bengal to pilot a clean cooking energy access program in Sundarban region of West Bengal. Focus will be placed on market based approach, so as to develop a methodology to create up-scaled rural livelihood opportunity. For this, GIZ proposes to engage a local implementation partner in order to support local community and P&RD to achieve the following objectives:

1. A detailed analysis of demand and market for clean cooking energy solutions in the selected geographies of Sundarbans
2. Awareness and demand generation on clean cooking energy solutions
3. Capacity development of six (06) Sanghas (i.e. SHG federations) for sales and service of clean cooking solutions
4. Knowledge consolidation /exchange to facilitate scale-up program design

The detailed documentation with regards to this call for proposals includes –

• Terms of Reference for the Assignment
• Technical Evaluation Grid
• Grid for assessing the eligibility of consulting firms
• Bidding Conditions
• General Terms & Conditions of Contracts

Timeline
Deadline to receive queries	: 8th June, 2018
Clarifications to the queries	: 12th June, 2018
The deadline for submission of proposal is	: 20th June, 2018 by 17.30hrs

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GIZ reserves the right to cancel/modify this tender and /or reject a bid document including subsequently a technical and financial proposal, without assigning any reasons.