BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

SCALING-UP INVESTMENT IN LOW-CARBON PUBLIC BUILDINGS PROJECT

BiH10/00103203

Assignment Title: Project design and promotional activities

Reference No.: UNDP/GCF-BiH10/00103203-RFP-CQ-CS-24-7-RS

The Ministry of Spatial Planning, Construction and Ecology Republic of Srpska has received a grant from the Green Climate Fund through United Nations Development Program. The project objective is to scale-up investment in low-carbon public buildings via design and implementation of the National Framework for Low-Carbon investment in public buildings, comprising an integrated package of policy, regulatory, technological, informational, financial and managerial solutions designed to address country-specific risks and barriers to invest.

The project will provide technical assistance (TA) to public and private sector stakeholders at municipal, cantonal, entity and national level in BiH to help address non-financial barriers, and will facilitate implementation of the National Investment Framework for Low-Carbon Public Buildings, including the required investment support to improve risk-return profiles and to bring prospective low-carbon building projects to financial close.

The Ministry of Spatial Planning, Construction and Ecology of Republic of Srpska now invites eligible consulting firms (“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing combined services which will include preparation of technical specifications for boilers rooms in public buildings, analysis of energy characteristics of public buildings, detailed energy audits for public buildings and promotional activities. Interested Consultants shall provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services.

The main qualification criteria are: at least five (5) contracts for preparation of detailed design that include EE measures in buildings in the past five (5) years; the company would need to possess necessary professional licenses for detailed design services and detailed energy audits in accordance with the requirements of Republic of Srpska legislative and regulatory framework, as and when the conditions have been fulfilled; at least three (3) contracts in preparation of detailed energy audits in the past three (3) years with minimum ten (10) energy audits for public buildings; other qualification criteria that are necessary to be fulfilled for performance of the tasks described in the ToR. The reference list should contain information about the clients, assignment descriptions of relevant projects, value of the contracts and period of execution supported, and as available, signed memoranda of satisfactory performance by the beneficiary at the time of the assignment.

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III. Governance, paragraphs, 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers: Procurement in Investment Project Financing Goods, Works, Non-Consulting and Consulting Services (dated July 2016, revised November 2017, July 2018, November 2020 and September 2023), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest. A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Consultant’s Qualifications Based Selection method set out in the aforesaid Procurement Regulations.

Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours from 09:00 to 15:00 hours. Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form to the address below (in person, by post/courier or email) by 14th February 2025 until 14:00 hours CEST.

For more information please see the Terms of Reference for this assignment posted on the website www.beep.rs.ba

The Ministry of Spatial Planning, Construction and Ecology Republic of Srpska

Kralja Alfonsa XIII broj 18 (prizemlje), Project Implementation Team, 78000 Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

E-mail: beep1@mgr.vladars.rs 

Ref. 15.05-360-16-443/24

31st December 2024

Detailed Terms of Reference for procurement number UNDP/GCF-BiH10/00103203-RFP-CQ-CS-24-7-RS – Consulting services „Project design and promotional activities” can be downloaded here.