81320724-Technical Assistance and Training for Demand Side Energy Consuming Enterprises and Energy Auditing Professionals

The Promotion of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Programme, PREEEP
The BMZ PREEEP Commission, is one of seven commissions under the Energy and Climate programme in Uganda and is financed by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
PREEEP is implemented by GIZ on behalf of German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in cooperation with the Ugandan Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (MEMD). PREEEP aims at improving the contribution of selected public and private actors to the implementation of market development and decentralization strategies in the fields of Renewable Energy (RE) and Energy Efficiency (EE) in Uganda through four key outputs that include Capacity development, Skills and Market development, Decentralisation and Policy.

PREEEP through the Skills and Market Development output aims to strengthen state and private actors in their role as drivers of Market Development for Renewable Energy (RE) and Energy Efficiency (EE) in Uganda. The impact assumption is that the gradual reduction of market barriers for RE/EE such as access to financing, lack of skilled labour, poor product and installation quality will positively influence the investment climate in the Ugandan energy sector and thus increase the willingness of public and private-sector investors to invest in climate-, environment- and resource-friendly energy solutions.

Under this output, the project works with demand side energy consuming enterprises such as the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to support them towards identifying and adopting of energy efficiency measures as well as developing bankable proposals for accessing finance to invest in RE/EE technologies. Additionally, the financing value chain from the supply side is also strengthened to unlock financing capital for investment into RE/EE bankable projects by the demand side consuming enterprises. This value chain includes the financing institutions, project financiers, energy auditors, sector associations among others.

The outcome indicator for the output is "For 30 applications from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or public and private organisations are assured of financing from financial institutions". This requires developing a credible pipeline of SMEs achieved through training and technical assistance while also strengthening the support system for the SMEs such as energy auditing professionals as well as standardization of processes to improve lobbying approaches for RE/EE finance.

The Promotion of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Programme (PREEEP) through its Skills and Market development component aims to strengthen state and private actors in their role as drivers of Market Development for Renewable Energy (RE)and Energy Efficiency (EE) in Uganda. The contractor is required to support players such as Energy Auditing Professionals, demand side energy consuming enterprises and energy managers. The support shall be in the form of training and technical assistance for access to finance as well as standardization for improving the quality of work.

Through this tender, blended training shall be extended to demand side energy consuming enterprises to enable adopt energy management practices while ensuring business development growth. Operators and owners of SMEs will be trained on energy management practices and business development related aspects. The trainings are to be tailored from a baseline and needs assessment focusing on training needs and potential energy management practices that can be adopted in an SME cluster approach. Follow on support includes technical assistance inform energy audits to enable selected SMEs (through a criterion developed by GIZ PREEEP) access existing financing in the sector including PREEEP catalytic partial grant supporting implementation RE/EE measures.

Further training shall be extended to energy managers from industry regarding Energy Management systems (EnMs) with reference to the ISO 50001 standard. The energy managers will be able to learn approaches for adopting EnMs to build capacity towards compliance towards any future regulatory requirements.

To improve the standardization of energy audits, promote quality of audit reports in the sector, practical training shall be extended to energy auditing professionals to skill them towards developing investment grade energy audit reports. Technical assistance shall be provided in form of the development of a customized reporting framework that includes template(s) / structures and data analysis tool(s) to improve reporting and be able to develop comprehensive reports that can be used by demand side energy-consuming enterprises to seek for financing as well meet any regulatory requirements.

Based on this background, GIZ PREEEP would therefore like to hire the services of a contractor to implement the different market development interventions and work packages. The contract shall coordinate with national experts to consolidate knowledge transfer and provide effectiveness of the project targeted objectives

All communication takes place in English via communication tool in the project area of the procurement portal.