Request for Expressions of Interest
(Consultant Service)
Country: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Project: Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP)’s Training Institute and Capacity Building Project
Assignment: Technical Assistance to Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP)’s Training Institute and Capacity Building Project
The Republic of Ethiopia has received a financing from Agence Française de Développement ("AFD"), and intends to use part of the funds thereof for payments under the following project :
Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP)’s Training Institute and Capacity Building Project
Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) is the Ethipiopian public utiliy responsible for the production and transmission of electricity in the country. Through a financing from AFD of 10MEUR, the project will intends to adress the issues of professionalization and reduction of gender inequalities in the Ethiopian electricity sector with the following sub-objectives :
- Build EEP's capacity to ensure effective, proactive and inclusive management of its human capital through the definition and implementation of a complete and comprehensive Competency-Based Human Resources Management System across all functions of EEP, devise an international standard competency model, adopt a standardized competency identification techniques, identify competencies for each jobs of EEP, submit a final draft of revised/improved/ approved/ developed competency framework (Complete competency dictionary, Competency matrix and proficiency levels, competency based job description) for all specified competencies. Prepare competency assessment guidelines for the implementation of competency based human resource management system.
- revitalize the company's internal continuous training system, in particular through the construction of a training center,
- Develop Curriculum and training materials for identified trainings & deliver training for core and support processes on specified training topics.
- to progressively open this new training system to other operational and academic players in the sector.
- Assist EEP in managing training center construction, training equipment procurement
The project will also have as a transversal objective the sustainable reduction of gender inequalities within EEP, resulting in improved working conditions for women within the company and an increase in the number of women trained for technical and managerial positions. The project will support partnerships with vocational training and higher education stakeholders to increase the number of women and girls in technical training courses in the energy sector.
Finally, by providing human resources with the skills needed to design, build and operate decarbonized infrastructure that is resilient to the effects of climate change, the project will be a lever for the country's energy transition.
The Services of the consultant shall consist of a long-term technical assistance (approx. 48 months) to support the project implementation through all its components: HR function development, gender action plan implementation, create partnership and business development, ant training centre development.
EEP hereby invites Applicants to show their interest in delivering the Services described above.
This Request for Expressions of Interest is open to:
X Consulting firms q Individual consultants

q NGOs X Joint Venture between NGO(s) and consulting firm(s)
Eligibility criteria to AFD financing are specified in sub-clause 1.3 of the "Procurement Guidelines for AFD Financed Contracts in Foreign Countries", available online on AFD’s website: http://www.afd.fr.
The Applicant shall submit only one application, either in its own name or as a member of a Joint Venture (JV). If an Applicant (including any JV member) submits or participates in more than one application, those applications shall be all rejected. However, the same Subconsultant may participate in several applications.
If the Applicant is a JV, the expression of interest shall include:
 a copy of the JV Agreement entered into by all members,or
 a letter of intent to execute a JV Agreement, signed by all members together with a copy of the Agreement proposal,
In the absence of this document, the other members will be considered as Subconsultants.
Experiences and qualifications of Subconsultants are not taken into account in the evaluation of the applications.
Interested Applicants must provide information evidencing that they are qualified and experienced to perform those Services. For that purpose, documented evidence of recent and similar services shall be submitted.
Determination of the similarity of the experiences will be based on:
 A firm that has completed 5 similar projects in the past 10 years
 The contracts size;
 The nature of the Services : technical assistance for vocational training and/or power sector projects ;
 Proven technical expertise : Project management, , gender equalities in private sector, change management, providing complex technical services for development projects financed by AFD (international donors), and coordinating multiple experts
 Proven experiences in developing training systems (curricula and course content development) for the energy sector and power production in particular, equipment definition, training centre management development and training of trainers
 Proven experiences in Human Resources function development, capacity building and setting up competency based human resource management system, familiarity on HR based competency development and system implimentation
 Previous experience in Ethiopia or in East Africa is preferable
The Client will also take into account for the evaluation of the applications the following items:
 Skills and availability of in-house technical back-up experts provided to the on-site experts;
 Local representatives/partners;
 Quality assurance procedures and certifications
Among the submitted applications, EEP will shortlist a maximum of six (6) Applicants, to whom the Request for Proposals to carry out the Services shall be sent.
The Expressions of Interest must be submitted to the address below in person or by mail or by e-mail until December 2, 2022, At 4:00 PM Local Time
The address (es) referred to above is (are):
Ethiopian Electric Power Procurement Office
Mr. Kefyalew Mergiya, Procurement Director
Kirkos Sub-city, Woreda 06, House Number 180/181, Mexico K Kare Center 1st Floor, Room No.01
Tel: +251115580597/0781
E-mail: kmergiya@yahoo.com,
Mr. HussenAdem, Project Procurement Manager
Kirkos Sub-city, Woreda 06, House Number 180/181, Mexico K Kare Center 1st Floor, Room No.01.
Tel: +251115580781/+2519113821657
E-mail: hussenadem377@gmail.com
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Interested Applicants may obtain further information at the address above during office hours: 8:00 Am to 5:00 PM (Local time Addis Ababa) Monday to Friday.

































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 of the bid or proposal (the "Contract")
To: (the "Contracting Authority")

1. We recognise and accept that Agence Française de Développement ("AFD") only finances projects of the Contracting Authority subject to its own conditions which are set out in the Financing Agreement which benefits directly or indirectly to the Contracting Authority. As a matter of consequence, no legal relationship exists between AFD and our company, our joint venture or our suppliers, contractors, subcontractors, consultants or subconsultants. The Contracting Authority retains exclusive responsibility for the preparation and implementation of the procurement process and performance of the contract. The Contracting Authority means the Purchaser, the Employer, the Client, as the case may be, for the procurement of goods, works, plants, consulting services or non-consulting services.
2. We hereby certify that neither we nor any other member of our joint venture or any of our suppliers, contractors, subcontractors, consultants or subconsultants 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, reorganisation or being in any analogous situation arising from any similar procedure;
2.2 Having been:
a) convicted, within the past five years by a court decision, which has the force of res judicata in the country where the Contract is implemented, of fraud, corruption or of any other offense committed during a procurement process or performance of a contract (in the event of such conviction, you may attach to this Statement of Integrity supporting information showing that this conviction is not relevant in the context of this Contract);
b) subject to an administrative sanction within the past five years by the European Union or by the competent authorities of the country where we are constituted, for fraud, corruption or for any other offense committed during a procurement process or performance of a contract (in the event of such sanction, you may attach to this Statement of Integrity supporting information showing that this sanction is not relevant in the context of this Contract);
c) convicted, within the past five years by a court decision, which has the force of res judicata, of fraud, corruption or of any other offense committed during the procurement process or performance of an AFD-financed contract;
2.3 Being listed for financial sanctions by the United Nations, the European Union and/or France for the purposes of fight-against-terrorist financing or threat to international peace and security;
2.4 Having been subject within the past five years to a contract termination fully settled against us for significant or persistent failure to comply with our contractual obligations during contract performance, unless this termination was challenged and dispute resolution is still pending or has not confirmed a full settlement against us;
2.5 Not having fulfilled our fiscal obligations regarding payments of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of either the country where we are constituted or the Contracting Authority's country;
2.6 Being subject to an exclusion decision of the World Bank and being listed on the website http://www.worldbank.org/debarr (in the event of such exclusion, you may attach to this Statement of Integrity supporting information showing that this exclusion is not relevant in the context of this Contract);
2.7 Having created false documents or committed misrepresentation in documentation requested by the Contracting Authority as part of the procurement process of this Contract.
3. We hereby certify that neither we, nor any of the members of our joint venture or any of our suppliers, contractors, subcontractors, consultants or subconsultants are in any of the following situations of conflict of interest:
3.1 Being an affiliate controlled by the Contracting Authority or a shareholder controlling the Contracting Authority, unless the stemming conflict of interest has been brought to the attention of AFD and resolved to its satisfaction;
3.2 Having a business or family relationship with a Contracting Authority's staff involved in the procurement process or the supervision of the resulting Contract, unless the stemming conflict of interest has been brought to the attention of AFD and resolved to its satisfaction;
3.3 Being controlled by or controlling another bidder or consultant, or being under common control with another bidder or consultant, or receiving from or granting subsidies directly or indirectly to another bidder or consultant, having the same legal representative as another bidder or consultant, maintaining direct or indirect contacts with another bidder or consultant which allows us to have or give access to information contained in the respective applications, bids or proposals, influencing them or influencing decisions of the Contracting Authority;
3.4 Being engaged in a consulting services activity, which, by its nature, may be in conflict with the assignments that we would carry out for the Contracting Authority;
3.5 In the case of procurement of goods, works or plants:
a) Having prepared or having been associated with a consultant who prepared specifications, drawings, calculations and other documentation to be used in the procurement process of this Contract;
b) Having been recruited (or being proposed to be recruited) ourselves or any of our affiliates, to carry out works supervision or inspection for this Contract.
4. If we are a state-owned entity, and to compete in a procurement process, we certify that we have legal and financial autonomy and that we operate under commercial laws and regulations.
5. We undertake to bring to the attention of the Contracting Authority, which will inform AFD, any change in situation with regard to points 2 to 4 here above.
6. In the context of the procurement process and performance of the corresponding contract:
6.1 We have not and we will not engage in any dishonest conduct (act or omission) deliberately indented to deceive others, to intentionally conceal items, to violate or vitiate someone's consent, to make them circumvent legal or regulatory requirements and/or to violate their internal rules in order to obtain illegitimate profit;
6.2 We have not and we will not engage in any dishonest conduct (act or omission) contrary to our legal or regulatory obligations or our internal rules in order to obtain illegitimate profit;
6.3 We have not promised, offered or given and we will not promise, offer or give, directly or indirectly to (i) any Person who holds a legislative, executive, administrative or judicial mandate within the State of the Contracting Authority regardless of whether that Person was nominated or elected, regardless of the permanent or temporary, paid or unpaid nature of the position and regardless of the hierarchical level the Person occupies, (ii) any other Person who performs a public function, including for a State institution or a State owned company, or who provides a public service, or (iii) any other person defined as a Public Officer by the national laws of the Contracting Authority’s country, an undue advantage of any kind, for himself or for another Person or entity, for such Public Officer to act or refrain from acting in his official capacity;
6.4 We have not promised, offered or given and we will not promise, offer or give, directly or indirectly to any Person who occupies an executive position in a private sector entity or works for such an entity, regardless of the nature of his/her capacity, any undue advantage of any kind, for himself or another Person or entity for such Person to perform or refrain from performing any act in breach of its legal, contractual or professional obligations;
6.5 We have not and we will not engage in any practice likely to influence the contract award process to the detriment of the Contracting Authority and, in particular, in any anti competitive practice having for object or for effect to prevent, restrict or distort competition, namely by limiting access to the market or the free exercise of competition by other undertakings;
6.6 Neither we nor any of the members of our joint venture or any of our suppliers, contractors, subcontractors, consultants or subconsultants shall acquire or supply any equipment nor operate in any sectors under an embargo of the United Nations, the European Union or France;
6.7 We commit ourselves to comply with and ensure that all of our suppliers, contractors, subcontractors, consultants or subconsultants comply with international environmental and labour standards, consistent with laws and regulations applicable in the country of implementation of the Contract, including the fundamental conventions of the International LabourOrganisation (ILO) and international environmental treaties. Moreover, we shall implement environmental and social risks mitigation measures when specified in the environmental and social commitment plan (ESCP) provided by the Contracting Authority.
7. We, as well as members of our joint venture and our suppliers, contractors, subcontractors, consultants or subconsultantsauthorise AFD to inspect accounts, records and other documents relating to the procurement process and performance of the contract and to have them audited by auditors appointed by AFD.

Name: In the capacity of:
Duly empowered to sign in the name and on behalf of :
Signature:
Dated: