Eligibilidade dos Licitantes
THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
TANZANIA ELECTRIC SUPPLY COMPANY LIMITED
TENDER PA/001/ TR212/2025/2026/C/01
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR PROVISION OF CONSULTANCY SERVICES FOR SUPERVISION OF ENGINEERING, PROCUREMENT AND CONSTRUCTION (EPC) OF 100MWp SOLAR PV POWER PROJECT IN SHINYANGA AND ASSOCIATED MEDIUM VOLTAGE (MV) AND HIGH VOLTAGE (HV) SUBSTATIONS.
Expression of Interest
Date: 29th July, 2025
Introduction
The Government of the United Republic of Tanzania has received Financing from the Agence Française de Développement ("AFD"), and intends to use part of the funds thereof for payments for the Provision of Consultancy Services for detail Design review, Supervision, management, Testing and Commissioning of an additional 100MWp Solar PV capacity to Shinyanga Solar PV Project.
Short Description of the project
Tanzania Electric Supply Company Ltd (TANESCO) is planning to construct a 150 MWp solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in Shinyanga. This large-scale renewable energy development has been planned in two phases. The first phase, with a capacity of 50 MWp, has been successfully initiated, marking a significant milestone in the expansion of Tanzania’s renewable energy portfolio. Building on this progress, TANESCO is now moving forward with the second phase of the project, which will add an additional 100 MWp, bringing the total installed capacity to 150 MWp.
Objectives
The main objective of the required Supervision and Management Consultant (SMC) is to serve as advisor and provide technical assistance services to TANESCO and ensure successful implementation and timely delivery of 100MWp Shinyanga Solar PV Power Project and associated medium voltage (MV) and high voltage (HV) substations. The SMC will be responsible for Supervision and Management of the project implementation.
It is also anticipated that the Consultant will assist the Client team in providing technical assistance for implementation of all project pre-construction activities up to the commissioning of the facility and defect liability period.
Scope of Consultancy Services
The Consultant will be responsible of management and supervision of EPC Contractor. The consultant will:
i. Serve as Project Manager (or Owner’s Engineer) for the duration of the project,
ii. Review of Project Detailed Design, Construction Supervision, management, testing and Commissioning of additional 100MWp Solar PV project.
iii. Supervise and control the work during the construction phase,
iv. Be responsible for building the capacity and training of the TANESCO teams in charge of the project.
v. Assist in interpretation of contractual items, establishment of progress measurement threshold
vi. Validation of invoices in line with Lender eligible cost criteria before recommending for payment
vii. Preparation of monthly, Quarterly and Annual implementation progress reports
The Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (TANESCO) hereby invites consultants to show their interest in delivering the Services described above. Eligibility criteria to AFD’s financing are specified in sub-clause 1.3 of the “Procurement Guidelines for AFD-Financed Contract in Foreign Countries”, available online on AFD’s website www.afd.fr.
Interested Consultants must provide information evidencing that they are qualified and experienced to perform those Services. For that purpose, document evidence of recent and similar services shall be submitted.
If the consultant is a Joint venture (JV), the Expression of Interest shall include:
a copy of the JV Agreement entered into by all members.
Alternative, a letter of intent to execute a JV Agreement in the event of a successful proposal shall be signed by all members and submitted with the Expression of Interest, together with a copy of the proposed Agreement.
In the absence of this document, the other members will be considered as Subconsultants.
Among the submitted applications, TANESCO will shortlist a maximum of six (6) consultants, to whom the Request for Proposal to carry out the Services shall be sent.
TANESCO will take into account for the evaluation of the applications the following eligibility criteria over the last five (5) years:
A. Experience in Supervision and Management of at least two (2) contracts (or Owners Engineer contracts) each with a value of 1.5 Million Euro as a minimum in Solar PV project;
B. Experience in Project supervision and Management of at least two (2) similar project in the Region (Africa). Those two similar projects (B/) shall be different from the two projects above (A).
C. Experience in Supervision and Management of at least one (1) similar contract (or Owners Engineer contract) financed by an international donor (World Bank, African Development Bank, European Investment Bank, AFD, KfW, etc.)
A successful consultant will be selected by eligibility criteria, establishment of the short-list and the selection procedure shall be in accordance with the Agence Française de Développement ("AFD") “Rules and Procedures for the use of Consultants” which is available on the AFD’s website at http://www.afd.fr.
Place, Date and Time of Submission
Expression of interest must be submitted to the address below no later than 21st August, 2025 at 10:30 hours East African Time to:
TANESCO Ubungo
TANESCO Umeme Park Building, 3rd Floor, Room No. 305,
Dar es Salaam, P.O Box 9024, Dar es Salaam,
From 09.00 – 12.30 hours and 14.00 – 16.30 hours local time on Mondays to Fridays inclusive except on public holidays.
The envelope shall be clearly marked:
“TENDER NO. TR212/2025/2026/C/01 PROVISION OF CONSULTANCY SERVICES FOR SUPERVISION OF ENGINEERING, PROCUREMENT AND CONSTRUCTION (EPC) OF 100MWp SOLAR PV POWER PROJECT IN SHINYANGA AND ASSOCIATED MEDIUM VOLTAGE (MV) AND HIGH VOLTAGE (HV) SUBSTATIONS.
Interested consultants may obtain further information from:
The Secretary Tender Board, TANESCO, Umeme Park Building, Ubungo, Ground Floor, Tender Room, P.O Box 9024, Dar es Salaam,
Tel: 255 (22) 2451145/2452172,
Fax: 255 (22) 2451145/2452172,
Email: sec.tenderboard@tanesco.co.tz
During office hours from 09.00 – 12.30 hours and 14.00 – 16.30hours local time on Mondays to Fridays inclusive except on public holidays.
Application must be submitted with a Statement of Integrity, Eligibility and Social and Environmental Responsibility signed and unaltered appended to the Request for Expression of Interest.
MANAGING DIRECTOR
TANZANIA ELECTRIC SUPPLY COMPANY LIMITED
Appendix to The Request for Expressions of Interest
(To be sumitted with the application, signed and unaltered)
Statement of Integrity, Eligibility and Environmental and Social Responsibility
Reference name of the Bid/Proposal/Contract signed (the “Contract”)
To: (the “Contracting Authority”)
1. We recognize and accept that Agence Française de Développement (“AFD”) only finances the projects of the Contracting Authority subject to its own conditions, as set out in the Financing Agreement that directly or indirectly binds it to the Contracting Authority. The Contracting Authority retains exclusive responsibility for the preparation and implementation of the procurement process and performance of the Contract. Consequently, no legal exists between AFD and our company, our joint venture, and our subcontractors. The Contracting Authority may also mean the Client, Employer or Purchaser, as the case may be, for the procurement of works, goods, plants, equipment, consulting services , or non-consulting services.
2. We hereby certify that neither we, nor any person acting on our behalf, nor any of the members of our joint venture, nor any of our subcontractors, are in any of the following situations:
2.1 Being bankrupt, wound up or ceasing our activities, having our activities administered by the courts, having entered into receivership, or being in any analogous situation arising from any similar procedure;
2.2 Having been, within the past five years, subject to a final administrative sanction, a final conviction issued by a competent authority, or any other non-court resolution having notably an extinctive effect on public action, either (i) in the country where we are constituted, (ii) in the country of performance of the Contract, (iii) in the context of the procurement or performance of an AFD-financed Contract, (iv) pronounced by a European Union institution, or (v) pronounced by a competent authority in France, for:
a) Prohibited Practices, as defined in Article 6.1 below, or for any other offence committed in the context of the procurement or performance of a Contract (in the event of such sanction, conviction or non-court resolution, we may attach additional information to this Statement of Integrity, such as a compliance program, showing that we (or the person acting on our behalf, the member of our joint venture, or our subcontractor) consider that this sanction, judgement or non-court resolution is not relevant in the context of the Contract, where applicable);
b) Participation in a criminal organization, terrorist offences or offences related to terrorist activities, child labor, or other offences related to human trafficking;
c) Having created an entity in a different jurisdiction (i) with the the intention of avoiding tax or social obligations, or any other legal obligation applicable in the jurisdiction of its registered office, central administration or principal place of business, or (ii) for being an entity created with the intention of avoiding such obligations;
2.3 Having been subject within the past five years to a Contract termination fully settled against us for significant or persistent breach of our contractual obligations during the performance of the Contract, unless this termination was challenged and dispute resolution is still pending or has not confirmed a full settlement against us;
2.4 Having been declared ineligible by one of the multilateral development banks signatories to the Mutual Recognition Agreement of 9 April 2010 (in the event of such ineligibility, we may attach additional information to this Statement of Integrity showing that we consider that such ineligibility is not relevant in the context of the Contract, where applicable);
2.5 Not having fulfilled our fiscal obligations relating to the payments of our taxes or social contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of our country of incorporation or of the country of the Contracting Authority;
2.6 Having created falsified documents or committed misrepresentation when providing the information requested by the Contracting Authority in the context of the procurement and award process for this Contract.
3. We hereby certify that neither we, nor any party acting on our behalf , nor any members of our joint venture, , , nor any of our subcontractors, nor any of our direct or indirect shareholders, nor any of our subsidiaries acting with our knowledge or consent:
a. Are directly or indirectly subject to, controlled by a person or an entity subject to, or acting in the name or on behalf of a person or entity subject to individual sanctions measures adopted by the United Nations, the European Union and/or France;
b. Are directly or indirectly subject to, controlled by a person or an entity subject to, or acting in the name or on behalf of a person or entity subject to sectoral sanctions measures adopted by the United Nations, the European Union and/or France;
c. Are ineligible for the implementation of the Project owing to any other international sanctions measures pronounced by the United Nations, the European Union or France.
4. We hereby certify that neither we, nor any party acting on our behalf,2 nor any of the members of our joint venture, nor any of our subcontractors, are [nor have been (in the case of refinancing for a Contract already awarded)] in any of the following situations of conflict of interest:
4.1 Being a shareholder controlling the Contracting Authority or a subsidiary controlled by the Contracting Authority, unless the resulting conflict of interest has been brought to the attention of AFD and resolved to its satisfaction.
4.2 Having business or family relations with a member of the Contracting Authority’s services involved in the procurement process or the supervision of the resulting Contract, unless the resulting conflict of interest has been brought to the attention of AFD and resolved to its satisfaction;
4.3 Controlling or being controlled by another applicant, bidder or consultant, or being under common with another applicant, bidder or consultant, receiving subsidies from another applicant, bidder or consultant, or granting subsidies to another applicant, bidder or consultant, directly or indirectly, having the same legal representative as another applicant, bidder or consultant, maintaining direct or indirect contacts with another applicant, bidder or consultant allowing us to (i) have given and/or give access to information contained in our respective applications, bids or proposals likely to distort competition (ii) influence them, or (iii) influence the decisions of the Contracting Authority;
4.4 Being engaged for a consulting services mission which, by its nature, is or may be in conflict with the mission envisaged for the Contracting Authority;
4.5 Having prepared ourselves, being or having been associated with a natural or legal person who has prepared, specifications, terms of reference or other documents that have been used for the procurement process in question, and that contain provisions likely to favor an application, bid or proposal;
4.6 Having or having had access to, having prepared ourselves, being or having been associated with a natural or legal person who has or has had access to or prepared, specifications, plans, calculations, studies, or other documents that have not been communicated to all the applicants, bidders or consultants in the context of the present procurement procedure, and which thereby confer us an unfair competitive advantage;
4.7 In the case of a procurement procedure for works, plants, equipment or goods, having been selected ourselves or proposed to be selected (or any of our subsidiary companies having been or being proposed to be selected) to carry out supervision or inspection of the services in the context of this Contract.
5. If we are a state-owned entity or a public enterprise, to participate in a competitive procurement process, we certify that we have legal and financial autonomy and that we operate under commercial laws and regulations.
6. In the context of the procurement and performance of the Contract:
6.1 Neither we, nor any party acting on our behalf,2 nor any members of our joint venture, nor any of our subcontractors, have committed or shall commit a Prohibited Practice as defined in the document entitled “AFD Group’s Policy to Prevent and Combat Prohibited Practices” available on AFD’s Website.
6.2 Neither we, nor or any party acting on our behalf,2 nor any members of our joint venture, nor any of our subcontractors, shall acquire or provide [have acquired or provided (in the case of refinancing for a Contract already awarded)] in sectors subject to an embargo by the United Nations, the European Union or France.
7. We hereby undertake to, and we undertake to ensure that any party acting on our behalf,2 any members of our joint venture, and any of our subcontractors undertake to:
7.1 Comply with the environmental standards recognized by the international community, including the international conventions for the protection of the environment and, in particular, take all reasonable steps to avoid or limit negative effects on vegetation, biodiversity, soils, groundwater and surface water, and on persons and property resulting from pollution, noise, vibration, traffic and other effects resulting from our activities, in accordance with the laws and regulations applicable in the country of performance of the Contract.
7.2 Implement measures to mitigate environmental and social risks when they are indicated in the environmental and social management plan provided by the Contracting Authority, and ensure that the emissions, surface discharge and effluents produced by our activities respect the limits, specifications or requirements applicable to the Contract.
7.3 Respect the rights of workers related to wages, working hours, rest periods and vacations, overtime, minimum age, regular payments, compensation and benefits, in accordance with the standards recognized by the international community, including the fundamental conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO), in accordance with the laws and regulations applicable in the country of performance of the Contract; indicate these elements in a document annexed to the employment contracts of our employees and made available to the Contracting Authority; and respect and facilitate the rights of workers to organize themselves and set up a complaints management mechanism for direct or indirect workers.
7.4 Implement practices for non-discrimination and equal opportunities, and ensure the prohibition of child labor and forced labor.
7.5 Keep a record for each member of the local staff recording the hours worked by each person, the type of work, the wages paid and the training undertaken, and ensure that these records are available at all times to be inspected by the Contracting Authority and the authorized representatives of the government, in accordance with the laws and regulations applicable to the protection of personal data in the country of performance of the Contract.
8. We, any party acting on our behalf,2 the members of our joint venture, our subcontractors, our direct or indirect shareholders, and our subsidiaries, authorize AFD to conduct investigations and, in particular, inspect the documents and accounting records relating to the procurement and performance of the Contract, including, but not limited to, our internal processes and rules related to the respect of international sanctions pronounced by the United Nations, the European Union and/or France, and to have them verified auditors appointed by AFD.
9. We declare that we have paid, or that we shall pay, the commissions, benefits, fees, gratuities or charges relating to the procurement procedure or the performance of the Contract to the following third party/parties (for example, an intermediary/agent)(*):
Name of beneficiary Contact details Purpose Amount (indicate the currency)
_________________ _________________ _________________ ________________
_________________ _________________ _________________ ________________
_________________ _________________ _________________ ________________
(*): If no amount has been paid or is to be paid, indicate “None”.
10. We undertake to promptly inform the Contracting Authority, which shall inform AFD, of any change of circumstance regarding the sections above, including in case of any sanctions or embargo measures adopted by the United Nations, the European Union and/or France, after we have signed the present Statement.
Name: In the capacity of:
Duly empowered to sign in the name and on behalf of:
Signature:
Dated: