Overview : Mauritius is heavily reliant on fossil fuels to power its economy. The Government of Mauritius (GoM) has prepared an Action Plan for the Energy Strategy 2011 - 2025 for the energy sector so as to address the sustained increase in energy prices and GHG emissions. The GoM recognizes energy efficiency and energy conservation as proven means to deal with the energy and environmental challenges lying ahead, so as to be able to promote sustainable development.
In line with the strategy of the Government of Mauritius(GoM), the UNDP-supported, GEF-financed project on ‘Removal of Barriers to Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation in Buildings’ is being implemented with the overall goal to sustainably reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This project intends to overcome barriers to energy efficiency and energy conservation in buildings, and to reinforce the development of a market approach for improving energy efficiency in both existing and future new buildings. The main achievements of the project up to now are as follows:
1. an Energy Efficiency Act;
2. setting up of an Energy Efficiency Management Office under the aegis of the Ministry of Energy & Public Utilities;
3. a Building Control Act;
4. development of an energy audit software tool MBEAT;
5. drafting of an Energy Efficiency Building Code and Energy Efficiency Building Regulations.
The Ministry of Energy and Public Utilities (Energy Efficiency Management Office) now intends to hire a suitable team of Consultants to assist the EEMO in Energy Audit Management and to develop an Energy Efficiency Building Code Compliance Scheme.
UNDP Mauritius will be the agency responsible for overseeing the effective and timely completion of the project. This assignment is being financed with a grant received by the GoM from AOSIS/SIDSDOCK, with the assistance of UNDP.
The main beneficiaries of this project are the Energy Efficiency Management Office (EEMO) and the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, National Development Unit, Land Transport and Shipping (MPI, NDU, LT&S).
The TOR comprises of two lots as follows:
1. Lot 1 - Consultancy services to assist the Energy Efficiency Management Office in Energy Audit Management; and,
2. Lot 2 - Consultancy services to develop an Energy Efficiency Building Code Compliance Scheme
The bidders should take into consideration that the two softwares under Lot 1 and Lot 2 are inter-related and the successful bidder/s should ensure that the softwares are consistent.
Bidders should submit proposals for each Lot separately. A Combined Scoring Method, using the 70%-30% distribution for technical and financial proposals for each Lot would be applied. The technical evaluation for Lot 1 would be carried out as per table 2 and that for Lot 2 would be carried out as per table 3. In order to determine the lowest priced offer for Financial evaluation purposes for Lot 1, the proposals containing either option 1 or option 2 for the Software Development in section 2.2.2 would be put on an equal footing by using the formula provided in Table 4. Based on the technical and financial evaluations, contracts for each of Lot 1 and Lot 2 may be awarded to two different bidders.
22 additional supporting documents related to this RFP are accessible on the Country Office Website on
http://www.mu.undp.org/content/mauritius_and_seychelles/en/home/operations/procurement/
Deadline for Submission: 12 December 2014 at 16:00hrs (Local Time)
Additional Documents pertaining to Clarifications/Queries/ have been added (26 Nov 2014).
Second set of clarifications have been added (Doc 29) dated 1 Dec 2014.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 29 DECEMBER 2014 AT 16:00HRS (LOCAL TIME) |