AFR RI-3A Tanzania-Zambia Transmission Interconnector

                                   REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

                                 (CONSULTING SERVICES – FIRMS SELECTION)

Name of Project: Tanzania-Zambia Transmission Interconnector Project (P163752),

                                Grant No.: D350                                      

Assignment Title: Consultancy Services for the Design of the EAPP Power Market

Reference No. : ET-EAPP-186205-CS-CQS

The Eastern Africa Power Pool (EAPP) has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Tanzania-Zambia Transmission Interconnector Project and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services. The consulting services (the Services”) include the provision of Consultancy Services for the Design of the EAPP Power Market.

Objective of the Assignment

The objective of the assignment is to develop a design for the EAPP power market that provides the framework for drafting the legal text of the market rules, codes, procedures and agreements in future. The consultancy covers a market for all 11 member countries of EAPP as well as potential market integration with countries within the Southern Africa Power Pool (SAPP). Consideration for integration should also be made for prospective EAPP members (South Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia).  

This assignment is part of broader assignment intended to implement an EAPP-wide power market, with all necessary software, hardware, rules and agreements in place. The broader assignment has been split into three phases.

• Phase 1 – Design of the EAPP power market. Phase 1 has the objective of providing a conceptual design of the power market for the EAPP region, including aspects such as a Day Ahead Market compatible with the SAPP, an Intra-Day Market, a forward market, balancing market, cash out (imbalance settlement), and market(s) for ancillary services. This Phase will include identification of the aspects of the market that EAPP should centrally organise and those that it should not. The scope of these terms of reference is limited to Phase 1.

• Phase 2 – Drafting of Rules for the EAPP centrally organised power market consistent with the design identified in Phase 1. Phase 2 has the objective of drafting the detailed legal text for EAPP’s centrally organised power market, comprising the market rules and preparing required agreements including those to accede to the market, and supporting the EAPP in managing Phase 3.

• Phase 3 – Implementation of the EAPP centrally organised power market. Phase 3 has the objective of developing and implementing the power market, including developing and delivering the trading platform, software, hardware, other systems and operating procedures in line with the market rules, testing and implementing the systems and taking the market live.

Scope of Work

1. The EAPP aims at building on the progress made so far by assessing the recent market study report (2014) and obtain clear design and actions to be taken to start a power market. Therefore, the consultant should as a first task begin by reviewing and evaluating the recent market study report and the experience with the shadow market to understand implications for implementing a competitive power market in the EAPP region.

2. The second component is to identify different options for the market design (including phasing) for the EAPP power market, including which aspects of the power market should be centrally organized by EAPP and which should be left for each country to organize or not be organized (left to bilateral trade).

3. The third component is the assessment of pros and cons of the different design options and to arrive at a recommendation for the high-level design option appropriate for the EAPP, including any phasing. While facilitating the selection of the market design, the Consultant should aim for a market design by balancing the benefits of simplicity against those from a more efficient albeit more complex design. For the selected/recommended market design option, the Consultant will develop a detailed roadmap and implementation timetable for the power market.

The expected commencement date for the assignment is October 2020. The total input of the assignment is six (6) months. The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment can be found at http://eappool.org/tenders-and-rfps/.

The Eastern Africa Power Pool now invites eligible consulting firms (“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services. The short-listing criteria are:

1.  Core Business (Areas of Expertise);

2. Years in Business;

3. Experience similar Assignments. For each project performed, the consultant shall provide the name and contact address of the client (office and e-mail address, and telephone number), date(s) of execution, name(s) of lead and associate firms, contract amount, and financing sources.; and

4. Technical and Managerial Capability.

Key Experts will not be evaluated at the short-listing stage.

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III, paragraphs,3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” July 2016, revised November 2017 and August 2018 (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest. Consultants may associate with other firms to enhance their qualifications but should indicate clearly whether the association is in the form of a joint venture and/or a sub consultancy. In the case of a joint venture, all the partners in the joint venture shall be jointly and severally liable for the entire contract, if selected.

A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Consultant’s Qualifications based Selection (CQS) method set out in the Procurement Regulations.

Further information can be obtained from Eastern Africa Power Pool,                                      E- mail:  eapp@eappool.org, and copy to ckilangi@eappool.org.               

Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form to the address below (in person, or by courier, or by e-mail) on or before September 2, 2020, at 15:00 hours – East Africa Time. Expressions of Interest should be clearly marked – “EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR CONSULTANCY SERVICES FOR THE DESIGN OF THE EAPP POWER MARKET, REF. NO.: “ET-EAPP-186205-CS-CQS”.

Eastern Africa Power Pool, House 059, Wereda 02, Bole Sub City, P.O. Box 100644, Addis-Ababa (Ethiopia), Tel: +251 11 667 1669 | +25111 667 1670 | +251 942213012, E-mail: consultancy@eappool.org.                     

                                                           SECRETARY GENERAL

                                                EASTERN AFRICA POWER POOL