10058031-International Contract for Scaling Zero-Emission Trucking through a EUR38.5 Million Risk-Sharing and Investment Platform for India

✓GIZ Tender 10058031 – Services for Zero‑Emission Trucking Risk‑Sharing Facility in India

✓The input text concerns a public invitation to tender by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, governed by German law and GIZ’s General Terms and Conditions, to procure consultancy services for an “International Contract for Scaling Zero‑Emission Trucking through a €38.5 Million Risk‑Sharing and Investment Platform for India.” The place of supply for VAT purposes is explicitly India (GIZ India permanent establishment in New Delhi), while the contracting authority and applicable law are in Germany.

✓Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran, North Korea, Palestinian territories, Russia, occupied regions of Ukraine, Syria) and non‑covered third countries outside the EU and WTO GPA.

✓Such as described in the invitation letter and application requirements, bidders must submit via the GIZ eProcurement platform: (i) a completed self‑declaration of eligibility (for each legal entity in a consortium, including any capacity‑providing entities) with grounds‑for‑exclusion statements, turnover and staff information, and up to 10 reference projects; (ii) annexes including a recent commercial/companies register extract (not older than six months) for each legal person; (iii) a technical bid in a separate PDF (max. 10 pages plus CVs) structured according to the ToR and technical assessment grid, and CVs in EU format (max. 4 pages each); and (iv) a financial bid in euros using the prescribed price schedule, following the specified inputs (expert days, travel, workshops, operating costs, CO₂ compensation, etc.).

✓Where applicable, a signed consortium declaration must be attached.

✓Minimum economic capacity includes an average net annual turnover of at least EUR 150,000 over the last three financial years and at least 5 employees/managers on average.

✓Technical eligibility is demonstrated through reference projects in electric mobility financing / transport decarbonisation / credit and risk‑financing mechanisms in transport, with a minimum contract value of EUR 80,000 and at least one reference in Asia within the last three years; failure to meet these minima leads to exclusion.

✓The contract term in the draft runs from 20 Nov 2026 to 31 Dec 2027, with services commencing 20 Nov 2026.

✓Such as explained in the application requirements and assessment grid, award criteria follow a best‑value approach: only bids achieving at least 500 points in the technical evaluation are financially evaluated.

✓According to the invitation letter, the technical bid is weighted at 70% and the financial bid at 30%; fixed budget items (e.g. earmarked CO₂ compensation) are excluded from the financial scoring.

✓The technical assessment grid details weighted sub‑criteria for the methodology (strategy, cooperation, steering, learning/innovation, project management, personnel assignment plan) and for each proposed expert (qualifications, professional, regional and ODA experience, leadership, language), plus the contractor’s backstopping concept and expert pools.

❓No mandatory site visit is described, and questions or clarifications are channelled via the eProcurement platform (no separate explicit “question deadline” appears beyond the general submission deadline).