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Publication date: 2nd October 2019
Submission date: 17th October 2019
Category: Consultancy
Country: Tanzania
Entity: The World Bank Group
Description: The Project aims to support sustainable access to drinking water in 165 Tanzanian villages. This will be achieved by replacing/retrofitting existing diesel-powered systems with climate-friendly PVP systems. The intervention is expected to significantly reduce O&M costs for the COWSOs, thus providing them with financial resources to lower the price of water to users and/or expand service to presently unserved communities. The objective of this consultancy is to contract an independent verification agent to carry out verification of the delivery of projects outputs and to recommend the disbursement of subsidy payments.
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Publication date: 30th September 2019
Submission date: 17th October 2019
Category: Consultancy
Country: Senegal
Entity: The World Bank Group
Description: IFC is working with the municipality of Dakar to review and assess possible street lighting options for the city, with the objective of identifying and supporting improvements and potential savings. Key deliverables of the assignment will include a review of the current system, an assessment of potential technological options, analysis of potential financial savings, recommendations on different business models and draft technical specifications to be included in future public lighting tenders.
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Publication date: 1st October 2019
Submission date: 15th October 2019
Category: Consultancy
Country: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Entity: African Union
Description: The African Union would like to engage the services of an Individual Consultant for Consultancy Services to Undertake Bioenergy Development Strategy and Investment Plan for Southern Africa Region. The African Union Commission invites interested and eligible bidders to submit technical and financial proposals for the assignment as per attached Terms of Reference (TORS).
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Publication date: 18th September 2019
Submission date: 14th October 2019
Category: Consultancy
Country: Kenya
Entity: Ministry of Energy
Description: The Kenya Off-grid solar access project for under served counties (K-OSAP), financed by the World Bank and implemented by the Ministry of Energy (MoE), Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) and Rural Electrification Authority ( REA), aims at providing a comprehensive suite of investments to provide electricity services to households, enterprises and community facilities and boreholes.
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Publication date: 23rd September 2019
Submission date: 12th October 2019
Category: Consultancy
Country: ZR - Democratic Republic of Congo
Entity: IFC - International Finance Corporation
Description: IFC is supporting a mini-grid distributed energy services company (DESCO) to conduct a commercial viability and feasibility assessment for at least two (2) mini-grids systems (focusing on solar photovoltaic and energy storage solutions) at two different possible sites in the DRC. The consulting firm should have extensive experience in off-grid electrification, with an emphasis on minigrids and DESCOs. The assessment will cover, amongst other areas, market demand, initial technical design and conceptual layout, financial assessment, and a preliminary environmental and social assessment
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Publication date: 18th September 2019
Submission date: 10th October 2019
Category: Consultancy
Country: Rwanda
Entity: Energy Utility Corporation Limited -EUCL
Description: The Government of Rwanda (GoR ) through the Ministry of Infrastructure (MININFRA) from 2014 has been implementing comprehensive reforms in the Energy Sector. These reforms have revolved around the institutional restructuring and governance arrangements that led to the former Energy, Water and Sanitation Authority (EWSA) that provided energy, water and sanitation services in Rwanda being the split into the Water and Sanitation Company (WASAC) and a holding energy group the Rwanda Energy Group (REG) with two affiliate companies: Energy Utility Corporation Sanitatn Ltd (EUCL) and Energy Development Corporation Limited (EDCL).
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Publication date: 22nd September 2019
Submission date: 8th October 2019
Category: Consultancy
Country: Malawi
Entity: IFC
Description: The International Finance Corporation (IFC), an investor and advisor in sustainable economic growth in emerging markets and member of the World Bank Group, is supporting a power utility (the Client) to implement the findings of an extensive loss reduction identification exercise. The objective of this assignment is to develop a road map for the implementation of loss reduction measures, including specific loss reduction targets, budgets and timelines.
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Publication date: 12th September 2019
Submission date: 3rd October 2019
Category: Consultancy
Country: Government of Rwanda
Entity: EDCL - Energy Development Corporation Limited
Description: The Consultant selected for shall ensure a professional, strong and high-quality supervision of construction works from the review of existing Project designs up to the completion of contract and its liability period.
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Publication date: 9th September 2019
Submission date: 27th September 2019
Category: Consultancy
Country: Uganda
Entity: The African Development Bank
Description: Earth Energy Limited (“EE”) is a renewable energy project developer that has received a grant from the African Development Bank (AfDB) toward the cost of completing the development of a 20MW Biomass Power Plant in Uganda (“Project”). The Project shall use locally produced biomass supplied by a network of small holder farmers engaged by the developer under REPARLE (Renewable Energy Powering Agriculture and Rural Livelihood Enhancement)
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Publication date: 21st August 2019
Submission date: 24th September 2019
Category: Consultancy
Country: Ghana
Entity: The World Bank Group
Description: The Government of the Republic of Ghana has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Ghana Energy SectorTransformation Initiative Project (GESTIP), and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consultingservices. The consulting services (“the Services”) include the determination of NEDCo’slong-term infrastructure development requirements over a 10-year planning horizon, and the development of Distribution Master Plan that outlines the investment requirements.
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Publication date: 28th August 2019
Submission date: 18th September 2019
Category: Consultancy
Country: Mozambique
Entity: The Republic of Mozambique
Description: The Republic of Mozambique has received financing from the African Development Bank to ward the cost of the Enabling Large Scale Gas and Power Investments in Mozambique Technical Assistance (ESLGAPI) to improve the enabling environment for investments in the country’s promising Power sector. The Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy (MIREME), intends to apply part of the funds to contract consultancy services to undertake the Review, Update and Completion of Mozambique’s Power Grid Codes.
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Publication date: 10th September 2019
Submission date: 17th September 2019
Category: Consultancy
Country: Zimbabwe
Entity: The World Bank Group
Description: The overall objective of this assignment is to strengthen the Government of Zimbabwes tariff setting capacity and ultimately raise the financial viability of the electricity sector.
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Publication date: 4th August 2019
Submission date: 16th September 2019
Category: Consultancy
Country: West Africa
Entity: The West African Power Pool(WAPP)
Description: The West African Pow er Pool(WAPP) Secretariat, a Specialized Institution of the Economic Community of West A frican States(ECOWAS), headquartered in Cotonou, Republic of Benin, has received a Grant from the World Bank and intends to ap ply part ofthe proceeds for consulting services for the Feasibility Study and the PreparationofBidding Documents of the 330 kV WAPP Nigeria – Benin – Togo – Ghana - Côte d’Ivoire Double Circuit Median Interconnection Project.
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Publication date: 4th August 2019
Submission date: 16th September 2019
Category: Consultancy
Country: West Africa
Entity: The West African Power Pool (WAPP)
Description: The West African PowerPool (WAPP) Secretariat, a Sp ecialized Institution of the Economic Community of WestAfrican States (ECOWAS), headquartered in Cotonou, Republic of Benin, has re ceived a Grant from the World Bank and intends toapply part of the proceeds for consulting services for a Line Rou te and Environmental and Social Impact Assessment(ESIA) Study of the 330 kV WAPP Nigeria – Benin – Togo – Ghana -Côte d’Ivoire Double Circuit MedianInterconnection Project.
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Publication date: 31st August 2019
Submission date: 16th September 2019
Category: Consultancy
Country: Uganda
Entity: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Description: The Pro Mini-grids projects is co-financed by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) under the German Climate Technology Initiative (DKTI) and the government of Uganda. The Project is implemented by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development MEND, Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) and Deutsche Gesellschafr für International Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.
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Publication date: 6th September 2019
Submission date: 16th September 2019
Category: Consultancy
Country: Countries have not yet been selected
Entity: The World Bank Group
Description: The overall objective of the project is to create a government guidance toolkit, which helps countries to develop an enabling policy and regulatory framework for the PAYG sector. The phase 1 objective is to develop an initial toolkit.
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Publication date: 22nd August 2019
Submission date: 5th September 2019
Category: Consultancy
Country: Ethiopia
Entity: The World Bank Group
Description: In relation to Scaling Solar Ethiopia Round 2, IFC intends to hire a firm to provide reliable on-site measured solar resource data for a number of sites in Ethiopia for a period of 1 year. The firm is to install, manage and maintain solar resource measurement stations at these sites in order to provide bankable solar resource data in line with details to be provided in the terms of reference.
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Publication date: 21st August 2019
Submission date: 2nd September 2019
Category: Consultancy
Country: Midrand, Johannesburg
Entity: Development Bank of Southern Africa
Description: This RFP is an invitation for person(s) to submit a proposal(s) for the provision of the services as set out in the Specification contained in this RFP. Accordingly, this RFP must not be construed, interpreted, or relied upon, whether expressly or implicitly, as an offer capable of acceptance by any person(s), or as creating any form of contractual, promissory or other rights.
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Publication date: 18th August 2019
Category: Consultancy
Country: Mozambique
Entity: Islamic Development Bank
Description: Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) has received financing in the amount of USD 99,7 million (ninety nine million and seven hundred thousand United States Dollars) equivalent from the Islamic Development Bank toward the cost of the Temane Transmission Project (TTP) for Regional Transmission Development Project (Phase 1), and it intends to apply part of the proceeds to payments for goods, works, related services and consulting services to be procured under this project.
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Publication date: 26th July 2019
Submission date: 27th August 2019
Category: Consultancy
Country: Kenya
Entity: The World Bank
Description: The KenyaOff-grid solar access project for underserved counties (K-OSAP), financed by the World Bank and implemented by the Ministry of Energy (MoE), Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) and Rural Electrification Authority ( REA) , aims at providing a comprehensive suite of investments to provide electricity services to households, enterprises and community facilities,boreholes, with pragmatic business models to attract private sector investment, sustainable services, know-howand efficiencies.
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