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Request for Proposal (RfP) for Hiring of Agency for Managing Facilitation
Centre for BEE’s Financing Schemes
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7 Forms for the Proposal ..........................................................................................................43
7.1 Form 1 : Letter Proforma ........................................................................................................43
7.2 Form 2 : Minimum Eligibility ...................................................................................................46
7.3 Form 3 : Prior Experience ......................................................................................................48
7.5 Form 4 : Approach for Project ................................................................................................51
7.6 Form 5: CVs of Proposed Team Members .............................................................................52
7.7 Form 6: Declaration Letter ......................................................................................................54
7.8 Form 7: Work plan (with timelines) .........................................................................................54
7.8 Form 8: Letter of Undertaking……………………………………………………………..….…… 55
7.9 Form 9: Integrity Pact………………………………………………………………………….….….57
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1. LETTER OF INVITATION
1.1. Advertisement
This Request for Proposal (RFP) document is for Request for Proposal
(RFP) for hiring of Agency for managing Facilitation Centre for BEE’s
Financing Schemes which is an initiative under the National Mission for
Enhanced Energy Efficiency (NMEEE).
Interested bidders may download the RFP document from the website
(www.beeindia.gov.in).The submission of the RfP document must be
accompanied with the payment of bid processing fee of Rs. 5000/-
(Rupees five thousand only).
Interested bidders may contact Ms. Vineeta Kanwal, Director, BEE for any
clarification.
Tel:(+91)-11-26766751
Email:vkanwal@beeindia.gov.in
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1.2. Critical Information
Availability of RFP
17th17
July 2023
Last date for receipt
of Queries
24th July 2023
Pre-bid meeting
27th July 2023 ; 11:00AM
(Date and Time)
Last date and time
for receipt of
16th August 2023; 03:00PM
Proposal
Time and Date of
Opening of Bids
16 th August 2023; 3:30 PM
Venue for Pre-Bid Conference Room, 4th Floor, Sewa Bhawan, R.K.
Puram, New Delhi -110066 India
meeting and opening
of Bids (please send your confirmation for attending this pre
bid meeting with contact details to Ms Richa, Project
Engineer- BEE (richa.10@beeindia.gov.in)
Contact Person for Ms. Vineeta Kanwal
queries Director ,
Bureau of Energy Efficiency
4th Floor, Sewa Bhawan,R.K. Puram, New Delhi -
110066
Tel:(+91)-11-26766806/813
Email: vkanwal@beeindia.gov.in
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Contact Person for Secretary
submission of Bureau of Energy Efficiency
Proposal 4th Floor, Sewa Bhavan,R.K. Puram, New Delhi -
110066
Tel:(+91)-11-26766700
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2. BACKGROUND INFORMATION
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12. Specify energy consumption standards for notified equipment and
appliance.
13. Prohibit manufacture, sale, purchase and import of notified
equipment and appliances not conforming to standards.
Realizing the growing challenge of climate change and its likely impacts
on the Indian economy, the Government of India (GOI) released the
National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) in June 2008, with
the objective of achieving a sustainable path of development that
simultaneously advances economic and environmental objectives.
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NMEEE puts in place four new initiatives to enhance energy efficiency
(figure2).
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improvements in energy efficiency in energy-intensive industries and
facilities through certification of energy savings that could be traded.
2. Ensuring adequate supply of energy-efficient products, goods, and
services. This is being done by creating a cadre of certified energy
professionals; promoting energy service companies (ESCOs),
standards, and labelling of end-use equipment and appliances; and
preparing structured programmes to leverage international financing
instruments including the Clean Development Mechanism (PEN
DRIVEM) to reduce transaction costs to attract private investment,
etc.
3. Creating and promoting the energy efficiency financing platform,
setting up Partial Risk Guarantee Fund for Energy Efficiency, and
developing innovative financial derivatives of performance contracts
and fiscal and tax incentives for investment in this sector.
4. Creating and adopting robust and credible monitoring and verification
protocols to capture energy savings from all energy-efficiency
activities in a transparent manner.
5. Taking necessary steps to overcome market failures by appropriate
regulatory and policy framework to support the measures mentioned
above.
6. Efforts of the government to create a market for energy efficiency
need to be supplemented with appropriate fiscal instruments, which
must be designed to address the following objectives.
7. Reassuring lenders by providing a guarantee for performance
contracts.
8. Providing a venture capital fund from the Government to provide
equity for energy-efficiency projects.
9. Promoting leadership in the public sector on energy efficiency.
10. Promoting energy efficiency in public procurement based on life
cycle cost analysis.
11. Promoting regulatory incentives to state utilities through electricity
regulatory commissions for DSM projects.
12. Offering concessions on taxes and duties to attract investment.
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2.3.1. Energy Efficiency Financing Facility (EEFF):-
BEE institutionalized a dedicated financing facility with the support of
PFC and IREDA. The eligible borrowers like PAT and Non-PAT
industries, Municipal Corporations, Energy Service Companies, Small
Medium Enterprises (SMEs) can avail the financing benefit under
EEFF. BEE has setup the Facilitation Centre for promoting energy
efficiency financing. In this project, IT platform h a s been developed
for mobilizing the EE financing in the country. This will ensure the
online financing activity wherein beneficiaries and borrowers shall be
on boarded. Facilitation Centre is seeking the willingness forms from
different beneficiaries to avail financing for implementing energy
efficiency projects. Ministry of Power has designated Power Finance
Corporation as Nodal Agency for promotion of Energy Efficiency
Financing in the country. In this regard, it is working closely with
Bureau of Energy Efficiency in developing the scheme that will
accelerate the uptake of energy efficiency investment in the county.
PFC has also set up Energy Efficiency (EE) Cell to promote energy
efficiency financing across the country.
Facilitation Centre
BEE has set up a facilitation centre with aim to encourage and upscale
Energy Efficiency Financing in the country. Till date, BEE’s facilitation
centre has received 240 plus willingness forms for EE project financing
from Pan-India in the past months from various categories.
Based upon the availability of technical details, the Facilitation centre has
evaluated these projects and till date recommended more than 140
numbers of projects for EE financing to 26 registered financial institutions.
The online platform of BEE’s facilitation centre can be accessed at
https://www.adeetie.beeindia.gov.in/. Details of the eco-system of BEE’s
facilitation centre IT portal are placed under Annexure A.
BEE has constituted a technical committee in July 2022 which is headed
by DDG-BEE and there are total 13 members. Till July 2023 BEE has
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approved list of 166 EE technologies. This list is also available on the
online platform of BEE’s facilitation centre.
The main functions of the Facilitation Centre are:
a. To seek willingness forms from large industries /DCs under the
PAT Scheme of BEE, MSMEs, Commercial and Institutional
buildings, Municipalities, Corporations, and Commercial
establishments to apply for financing for investment in EE
measures.
b. To spread awareness on BEE’s financing schemes among various
stakeholders, preparing the list of Energy Efficient(EE)
technologies
c. To mobilize EE financing in the country through various financial
institutions. 26 FIs have already joined the online Facilitation
centre.
d. To track the EE financing across the country
e. To disseminate the list of energy efficient technologies for financing. (BEE has
released list of 166 EE technologies for financing).
Main achievements are given below:
Till July 2023 following achievements are made under BEE’s
Facilitation Centre:
a. More than 240 Willingness Forms received with project cost of more than
3000 crores.
b. More than 145 technical evaluation reports have been prepared and
submitted to FIs for financing.
c. BEE’s Facilitation Centre has provided support in financing of 9 projects
having total loan amount of more than Rs. 691 crore
d. Till date 26 Banks/NBFCs/ Public Financial Institutions are registered with
BEE’s Facilitation centre.
e. 17 Workshops have been organized with the support of SDAs which
witnessed more than 1800 Participants from Large Industries, MSMEs,
OEMS, ESCOs, Accredited Energy Auditors, BEE’s certified energy
managers/ auditors and financial institutions.
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3. Project Proposed:
The Bureau of Energy Efficiency proposes to hire experienced agency for managing the
Facilitation Centre for BEE’s Financing Schemes. This will promote and spread the awareness
of BEE’s financing schemes among various stakeholders.
The Detailed ToR for managing the Facilitation Centre is given below:
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of
companies/projects
8 Legal expert LLB or LLM 1 5 years
9 IT Official Graduation with diploma 1 5years
(IT official shall or certificate course in
sit in BEE’s computer science or
office for full programming
project
duration)
10 Taxation expert CA/ CS/ CFA/ 1 5years
MBA(Finance)
ii. The agency has to submit an annual Fiscal incentives proposal (Direct
and Indirect tax proposal) to BEE after taking inputs from various
stakeholders like Star labeled products manufacturers, MSMEs,
Buildings, large industries, etc.
iv. To assist BEE in managing the existing technical committee and that shall
finalize list of the EE Technologies on regular basis. These members
will be from Industry Experts/Labs/Research Institutions or any other
organizations. This committee will meet every month for updating the
EE list that will be uploaded and shared to various FIs. Facilitation
Centre will prepare and carry out the other related activities such as
coordinating with committee members, organizing monthly meetings,
preparing Agenda & minutes of meetings, giving presentations to
relevant stakeholders with findings and parameters defined in clause
(iii) above.
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v. Facilitation Centre will receive the willingness forms from potential borrowers.
It will recommend to BEE & FIs whether the proposal/measures may be
considered as Energy efficiency loan/project or not through Technical
Evaluation Reports for each of the willingness forms.
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viii. Agency have to develop the mobile app for BEE’s facilitation centre,
so user can also access the BEE’s facilitation centre site from their
phones and submit willingness forms and Technical details form.
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xi. Annually this Agency h a s to print and send 100 printed brochures of
facilitation centre to BEE (no. of printed brochures for BEE may increase
according to BEE requirements), at least 10 copies of banners and 50
copies of printed brochures to each registered Financial Institution, at least
1 banner and 50 copies of printed brochures to each SDA, and each
industries association get soft copy of brochures compendium of EE
financing schemes and advertisement material of FC (Numbers of
banners and brochures may vary according to BEEs requirement).
xiii. Monthly meetings with the whole team shall take place physically in
BEE’s office which should be led by the Team leader. The agency
also has to conduct weekly meetings on VC (team members may be
called physically if required for weekly meeting) with presence of at
least 75% of team members. Thus, it is mandatory that the whole
project team should be based in of New Delhi. However, BEE may call
for a meeting with all team members on the notice of 2-3 days, where
team leader has to be present with at least 75% of team members.
Banking expert and Business development official need to visit BEE
every week in coordination with the BEE’s project team. In case of
failure to conduct these meetings, BEE may issue a show cause
notice to the Agency.
xiv. The annual marketing plan along with the work plan for first year shall
be submitted to BEE in this Proposal itself. BEE shall take final
decision in accepting the marketing plan.
xv. The Agency shall also prepare DPRs of at least 25 MSMEs and 25
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large industries in each year (For industries who have submitted
willingness forms on BEE’s Facilitation centre).
xvi. For preparing DPRs agency need to physically visit the site with one
technical expert and one financial expert. Thus, they should have
sufficient number of technical experts in their team, and if required
sector experts may be hired by PEA on project basis. Information to
be covered in DPR is placed in Annexure B.
xvii. Facilitation Centre team (3-4 members) shall visit all SDAs once in a
year for handholding of SDAs and stakeholders to identify new EE
projects and for their awareness about online BEE’s facilitation
centre. The travel cost shall be reimbursed by BEE on the bas is of
actual expense. Air travel (economy class tickets), train travel (second
class AC tickets) and local conveyance shall be covered under
reimbursement.
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2. Quarter 1 (First year) 10%
a. Organizing monthly TC meeting 3 months from date
and uploading the approved list of of signing of
EE technologies on BEE’s website contract
and IT portal of facilitation centre.
Admin support to BEE in
preparing and circulating the
agenda, minutes and coordinating
with TC members. Recommend at
least 30 new energy efficiency
technologies in each quarter.
b. Marketing:
i. Organize 10 Webinar (agency
need to provide 4-5 softcopy of
photos/ pictures in social media
content after each webinar)
ii. Organize at least 2 physical
workshop
iii. Provide advertisement to
BEE for newspapers
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iv. Provide at least 20 social
media content for promoting
energy efficiency financing.
v. Publish advertisements in at
least 5 Magazines
c. Weekly and monthly progress
report
d. Receive 35 new willingness forms
on BEE’s facilitation centre.
e. 35 new technical evaluation
reports to be forwarded to BEE
and Financial institutions
f. Quarterly news letter on BEE’s
financing initiatives and green
climate financing in India
g. Success story (report) on EE
projects financed and willingness
forms received in each quarter.
h. Tax incentive for Energy efficient
appliances and technologies.
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6. Quarter 1(second year) 15 months from 10% of
a. Organizing monthly TC meeting date of signing of administrati
and uploading the approved list of contract
EE technologies on BEE’s ve cost +
website and IT portal of (No. of
facilitation centre. Admin support DPRs x
to BEE in preparing and
Cost of
circulating the agenda, minutes
and coordinating with TC each DPR)
members. Recommend at least 30
new energy efficiency
technologies in each quarter.
b. Marketing:
i. Organize 10 Webinar (agency
need to provide 4-5 softcopy of
photos/ pictures in social media
content after each webinar)
ii. Organize at least 2 physical
workshop
iii. Provide advertisement to
BEE for newspapers
iv. Provide at least 20 social
media content for promoting
energy efficiency financing.
Publish advertisements in at
least 5 Magazines. Provide
2 videos.
c. Weekly and monthly progress
report
d. Receive 50 new willingness forms
on BEE’s facilitation centre.
e. 50 new technical evaluation
reports to be forwarded to BEE
and Financial institutions
f. Quarterly news letter on BEE’s
financing initiatives and green
climate financing in India
g. Success story (report) on EE
projects financed and willingness
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forms received in each quarter.
h. Tax incentive for Energy efficient
appliances and technologies.
i. Submit 15 DPRs to BEE
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and Financial institutions
f. Quarterly news letter on BEE’s
financing initiatives and green
climate financing in India
g. Success story (report) on EE
projects financed and willingness
forms received in each quarter.
h. Tax incentive for Energy efficient
appliances and technologies.
i. Submit 15 DPRs to BEE
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report
d. Receive 50 new willingness forms
on BEE’s facilitation centre.
e. 50 new technical evaluation
reports to be forwarded to BEE
and Financial institutions
f. Quarterly news letter on BEE’s
financing initiatives and green
climate financing in India
g. Success story (report) on EE
projects financed and willingness
forms received in each quarter.
h. Tax incentive for Energy efficient
appliances and technologies.
i. Submit 20 DPRs to BEE
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content for promoting energy
efficiency financing. Publish
advertisements in at least 5
Magazines
c. Monthly progress report
d. Receive 50 new willingness
forms on BEE’s facilitation
centre.
e. 50 new technical evaluation
reports to be forwarded to BEE
and Financial institutions
f. Quarterly news letter on BEE’s
financing initiatives and green
climate financing in India
g. Success story (report) on EE
projects financed and willingness
forms received in each quarter.
h. Tax incentive for Energy efficient
appliances and technologies.
i. Annual Report of Facilitation
centre activities.
j. Final report of Facilitation Centre
activities (for two years)
Lump sum fees has to be quoted by the agency for the complete project
(except DPR cost). Fees should be inclusive of all expense (excluding
taxes).
An EMD of Rs. 200,000 (Rupees Two Lakh only) is to be deposited by the bidder
through NEFT/RTGS. Details are mentioned at Annexure-I. Transaction reference
copy should be enclosed in bid document and submit at bureau on or before of
closing time. Bids received without EMD will be rejected. MSMEs are exempted to
pay this fees.
c. Fails to furnish the performance security within the specified period for
the due performance of the contract, or Fails or refuses to accept /
execute the contract
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marked as ENVELOPE-A and ENVELOPE-B.
ENVELOPE-A should contain all the information as mentioned in the section
5.13 (Form 1 to Form 9along with bid processing fee)ENVELOPE-B should
contain the price bid for providing the services as per scope of work.
Each document in the two envelopes of Proposal should be a complete document and
should be bound as a volume separately.
Each of the document should be page numbered and appropriately flagged and contain the
list of contents with page numbers. Different copies must be bound separately. The
deficiency in documentation may result in the rejection of the Proposal.
The soft copy of the Proposal should be submitted, in the pen drive separate
for each document and placed in appropriate envelope.
The pen drive must be duly signed by the consultant using a “Permanent Pen/Marker” and
should bear the name of the Agency.
The sealed covers should be super scribed with the wordings “Request for Proposal (RFP)
for Hiring of Agency for managing the Facilitation Centre for BEE’s Financing Schemes”.
The sealed cover should also indicate clearly the name, address and
telephone number of agency to enable the proposal to be returned
unopened in case it is declared "Late".
Agency must ensure that the information furnished by him/her in respective pen drive is
identical to that submitted by him/her in the original paper document. In case of any
discrepancy observed in the contents of the pen drive and original paper documents, the
information furnished on original paper document will prevail over the soft copy.
Agency shall bear all costs associated with the preparation and submission
of its Proposal, including cost of presentation for the purposes of
clarification of the Proposal, if so desired by the
Purchaser. BEE will in no case be responsible or liable for those costs,
regardless of the conduct or outcome of the tendering
process.
Bidding agency should not have any conflict of interest with the work that is
needed to be undertaken.
5.7. Disclaimer
BEE and/or its officers, employees disclaim all liability from any loss or
damage, whether foreseeable or not, suffered by any person acting on or
refraining from acting because of any information including statements,
information, forecasts, estimates or projections contained in this document
or conduct ancillary to it whether or not the loss or damage arises in
connection with any omission, negligence, default, lack of care or
misrepresentation on the part of BEE and/or any of its officers, employees.
The "Agency as used in the Proposal shall mean the one who has signed the Bid
document forms. The authorized signatory should be the duly Authorized Representative
of the Agency, for which a certificate of authority will be submitted. All certificates and
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documents (including any clarifications sought and any subsequent
correspondences) received hereby, shall, as far as possible, be furnished
and signed by the Authorized Representative.
Agency who wants to receive BEE's response to queries should give their
contact details to BEE. The Agency should send their contact details in
writing at the BEE's contact address indicated in Para 1.2 of this
document.
5.10. Queries on the RFP
Agency requiring any clarification on this document may send a query in writing at the
BEE's contact address indicated in Para 1.2 of this document. BEE’s response (including
an explanation of the query but without identifying the source of inquiry) to all the queries,
received not later than the dates prescribed by the BEE in Para 1.2 of this document, will
be made available on the website and sent to all consultants who have given their contact
details. BEE may also hold a pre-bid meeting if needed to give clarifications and invitation
of the same will be sent to the consultants who have given their contact details.
At any time prior to the last date for receipt of Proposals, BEE, may, for any
reason, whether at its own initiative or in response to a clarification
requested by a prospective Agency, modify the RFP by an amendment. In
order to provide prospective Agency reasonable time in which to take the
amendment into account in preparing their Proposals, BEE may, at its
discretion, extend the last date for the receipt of Proposals and/or make
other changes in the requirements set out in the Invitation for Proposals.
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6. SELECTION PROCESS
The Agency interested in being considered for this project must fulfil
the following criteria:
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VI. Should not be involved in any major litigation that may have an
impact of affecting or compromising the delivery of services as
required under this contract.
VII. Should not be blacklisted by any Central/ State Government /
Public Sector undertaking.
VIII. All supporting documentary evidence aforementioned above.
IX. Experience of Consortium Partner including parent company
may be stated only of the relevant Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) is submitted. After issuance of work
order to the selected agency, this MoU needs to be registered/
notarized as agreement within 30 days of dated of issuance of
work order.
X. Any other additional information that the interested firm
believes is relevant to expressing their interest in and
commitment to the Project.
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6.3. Technical Evaluation
The number of points to be given under each of the evaluation criteria is:
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The Bidder should take enough care to submit all the information
sought by the Authority in the desired formats. The Proposals are
liable to be rejected if information is not provided in the desired
formats. The Technical Proposals will be evaluated out of 50
marks.
Financial bids of those bidders shall be opened who scored 35 marks and above
(i.e. 70% and above) in technical evaluation. Final Evaluation shall be based upon
QCBS (Quality Cost Basis Selection) in which there will be 70:30 ratio for technical
and financial score respectively. Proposals are ranked according to their combined
technical and financial scores using the above ratios. The bidder with the highest
score (H1) shall be awarded the work.
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GST will be paid extra as per the Rules of the Government of India and
should be clearly spelt out in the financial bid.
No extra amount shall be paid on any ground whatsoever
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ENVELOPE-B i.e. price bid will be opened only for bidders who have been
found successful in meeting the preliminary scrutiny criterion with all
required information furnished in ENVELOPE-A.
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7. Forms for the Proposal
To
The Secretary,
Bureau of Energy Efficiency
4th Floor, Sewa Bhavan,
R.K. Puram Sector-I
New Delhi -110066
India
Sir,
Sub: Hiring of Agency for managing the Facilitation Centre for BEE’s
Financing Schemes
The undersigned Agency, having read and examined in detail all the
RfP documents in respect of appointment of an Agency for BEE for the
said project, do hereby express their interest to provide their Services as
specified in the scope of work
2. Correspondence Details
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Name of the contact person to
3 whom all references shall be made
regarding this tender
Designation of the person to whom
4 all references shall be made
regarding this tender
Address of the person to whom all
5 references shall be made regarding
this tender
6 Telephone (with STD code)
7 E-Mail of the contact person
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4. Declaration
We hereby declare that our Proposal is made in good faith and the
information contained is true and correct to the best of our knowledge and
belief.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
Witness: Agency:
Signature Signature
Name Name
Address Designation
Company
Date Date
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7.2. Form 2 : Minimum Eligibility
.1 Name of Agency
1.2 Year of
Registration/Incorporation
1.3 Year of
Registration/Incorporation
in India*
Witness: Employee:
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Signature Signature
Name Name
Address Designation
Organization
Date Date
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7.3. Form 3: Prior Experience
Name of Consultant/Firm:
Project/job name:
Nature of Project:
Description of Project
Country:
Name of Employer:
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Project/job:
No of professional staff-months
provided by associated
Consultants:
Witness: Employee:
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Signature Signature
Name Name
Address Designation
Organization
Date Date
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7.4. Form 4: Approach for Project
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7.5. Form 5: CVs of Proposed Team Members
[Provide CVs of the proposed team for undertaking the current project,
especially of the Proposed Head of the Agency. The CVs to be included in
the following format:]
NAME:
1. Proposed Position:
2. Name of Firm:
3. Name of Staff:
4. Date of Birth:
5. Nationality:
6. Education:
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11. Employment Record:
12. Detailed
13. Certification:
I, the undersigned, certify that to the best of my knowledge and belief, this
Date:
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7.6. Form 6: Declaration Letter
We are not involved in any major litigation that may have an impact of
affecting or compromising the delivery of services as required under this
contract.
Witness: Agency:
Signature Signature
Name Name
Address Designation
Organization
Date Date
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7.7. Form 7: Work plan (with timelines)
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7.8. Form 8: Letter of Undertaking
FORM OF UNDERTAKING
(to be given on the letter-head of the Bidder/ Lead Member)
To
The Secretary
BUREAU OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY (BEE),
4th Floor, Sewa Bhawan,
R.K. Puram,
New Delhi - 110066
Subject: BID for the “........................................ ”
Reference: RFP No………….. dated: …………….
Dear Sir,
I/ we have taken note of the Integrity Pack (Form8) appended to the aforesaid RFP.
We understand that only those Bidders who commit themselves to such a Pact with
BEE/ Principal, would be considered competent to participate in the bidding process;
signing of this Integrity Pact and furnishing the same as a part of my/ our Bid, is an
essential preliminary qualification requirement.
I/ We understand that the Integrity Pact shall be deemed to form a part and parcel of
the RFP document and the contract/ agreement to be subsequently executed by the
BEE with the Successful Bidder and we undertake to remain bound by its provisions.
I/ We hereby confirm and undertake that in the event I/ we commit any violation of
the Integrity Pact it would entail disqualification from the bidding process and if the
work has been awarded to me/ us, then it would lead to cancellation of the letter of
award and termination of our contract/ agreement with BEE, and my/ our exclusion
from future business dealings with BEE/ Principal as per the existing provisions of
GFR 2017, Prevent of Corruption Act, 1988 and other Financial Rules/ Guidelines as
may be applicable to BEE/ Principal.
I/ We further undertake that in case I/ we engage any subcontractor, if permitted
under the RFP document and the contract/ agreement, I/ we as the Principal
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Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor, shall take the responsibility ensuring adoption of the
Integrity Pact by the subcontractor engaged by me/ us.
{I/ We further certify that I am competent and authorized to give this undertaking on
behalf of (name of the Bidder). The duly signed Integrity
Pact is enclosed with my/ or Bid.}
Yours faithfully,
(Signature of the Authorized Signatory of the Bidder/ Lead Members)
In case the Bidder is a Joint Venture or Consortium, then this should be modified as “I further certify
that I am competent and authorized to give this undertaking on behalf of the Bidder comprising of
(name of the Lead Member), (name of the second partner/
member) and (name of the third partner/ member). The duly signed Integrity Pact is
enclosed with our Bid.”
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7.9. Form9 : Integrity Pact
An Integrity Pact on plain paper as per the Form9 of this RFP document shall be duly
signed and sealed by the authorized signatory of the Bidder and submitted as a part
of the Technical Bid. However, the actual execution of the Integrity Pact on non-
judicial stamp paper of requisite value will be done at the time of execution of the
Agreement/ Contract by the Selected Bidder with the BEE. If the Bidder is a Joint
Venture or Consortium, then this Pact must be signed by all partners or members.
The Integrity Pact shall be read as an integral part and parcel of the RFP document
and the Contract/ Agreement to be signed between the Successful Bidder and BEE.
The Integrity Pact shall be operative from the date it is signed by both the Parties till
the final completion of the contract. Any violation of the same at any stage i.e. during
the bidding process and during contract execution stage, would entail disqualification
of the Bidder and exclusion from future bidding dealings.
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Integrity Pact
(To be executed on the plain paper and submitted along with Technical Bid/ Tender
documents.)
This Integrity Pact is made at on this day of 20 .
BETWEEN
BUREAU OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY (BEE), a statutory body set-up under the
provisions of the Energy Conservation Act, 2001 by the Government of India with the
primary objective of reducing energy intensity of the Indian economy, having its
office at 4th Floor, Sewa Bhawan, R.K. Puram, New Delhi-110066, acting through its
[designation of the concerned officer] (hereinafter referred to as the
“Principal”, which expression shall, unless repugnant to the meaning or context
thereof, include its successors and permitted assigns) of the ONE PART;
AND
(name of the Bidder), acting
through Mr./ Ms. (name of the Authorised Signatory), holding the
designation of [designation of the Authorised Signatory] (hereinafter
referred to as the “Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor”, which expression
shall unless repugnant to be meaning or context thereof include its successors and
permitted assigns) of the SECOND PART.
Preamble
WHEREAS, the Principal has floated the Tender {RFP No dated
} (hereinafter referred to as “Tender/ Bid”) and intends to award, under
laid down organizational procedure, contract for
{Name of the work} (hereinafter
referred to as the “Contract”).
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AND WHEREAS the Principal values full compliance with all relevant laws of the
AND WHEREAS to meet the purpose aforesaid, both the Parties have agreed to
enter into this Integrity Pact (hereafter referred to as “Integrity Pact” or “Pact”) the
terms and conditions of which shall also be read as integral part and parcel of the
(b) The Principal will, during the Tender process, treat all Bidders with equity and
reason. The Principal will, in particular, before and during the tendering process,
provide to all Bidders the same information and will not provide to any Bidder,
confidential/ additional information through which the Bidder could obtain an
advantage in relation to the tendering process or the contract execution.
(c) The Principal will exclude all known prejudiced persons from the process.
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(2) If the Principal obtains information on the conduct of any of its employees, which
is a criminal offence under the Indian Penal Code, 1860/ Prevention of Corruption
Act, 1988 (“IPC/ PC Act”) or any other Statutory Acts or if there be a substantive
suspicion in this regard, the Principal will inform the Chief Vigilance Officer and in
addition can initiate disciplinary actions as per its internal laid down Rules/
Regulations.
The Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor commits himself to take all measures
necessary to prevent corruption. He commits himself to observe the following
principles during his participation in the tender process and during the contract
execution :
(a) Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor will not directly or through any other
person or firm offer, promise or give to any of the Principal's employees, involved in
the tender process or the execution of the contract or to any third person, any
material or other benefit which he/ she is not legally entitled to, in order to obtain in
exchange any advantage of any kind whatsoever during the tendering process or
during the execution of the contract.
(b) The Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor will not enter with other Bidders into
any undisclosed agreement or understanding, whether formal or informal. This
applies in particular to prices, specifications, certifications, subsidiary contract,
submission or non-submission of bids or any other action to restrict competitiveness
or to introduce cartelization in the bidding process.
(c) The Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor will not commit any offence under the
relevant IPC/ PC Act and other Statutory Acts. Further, the Bidder/ Contractor/
Consultant/ Vendor will not use improperly, for purposes of completion or personal
gain, or pass on to others, any information or document provided by the Principal as
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part of the business relationship, regarding plans, technical proposals and business
details, including information contained or transmitted electronically.
(d) The Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor of a foreign origin shall disclose the
name and address of its Agents/ Representatives in India, if any. Similarly, the
Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor of Indian Nationality shall furnish the name
and address of the foreign principals, if any. Further, details as mentioned in the
'Guidelines on Indian Agents of Foreign Suppliers' shall be disclosed by the Bidder/
Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor. Also all the payments made to the Indian Agent /
Representative have to be in Indian Rupees only.
(e) The Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor will, when presenting his bid,
disclose any and all payments he has made, is committed to or intends to make to
agents, brokers or any other intermediaries, in connection with the award of the
contract. He shall also disclose the details of services agreed upon for such
payments.
(f) The Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor will not instigate third persons to
commit offences outlined above or be an accessory to such offences.
(g) The Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor will not bring any outside influence
through any Govt. bodies/ quarters directly or indirectly on the bidding process in
furtherance of its bid.
(1) If the Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor, before award or during execution
has committed a transgression through a violation of any provision of Article 2,
above or in any other form such as to put his reliability or credibility in question, the
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Principal is entitled to disqualify the Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor from the
tender process.
(4) The Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor with its free consent and without any
influence agrees and undertakes to respect and uphold the Principal's absolute
rights to resort to and impose such exclusion and further accepts and undertakes not
to challenge or question such exclusion on any ground, including the lack of any
hearing before the decision to resort to such exclusion is taken. This undertaking is
given freely and after obtaining independent legal advice.
(5) The decision of the Principal to the effect that a breach of the provisions of this
Integrity Pact has been committed by the Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor
shall be final and binding on the Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor, however,
the Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor can approach IEM(s) appointed for the
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purpose of this Pact.
(6) On occurrence of any sanctions/ disqualification etc. arising from violation of this
Integrity Pact, the Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor shall not be entitled for any
compensation on this account.
(7) Subject to full satisfaction of the Principal, the exclusion of the Bidder/ Contractor/
Consultant/ Vendor could be revoked by the Principal if the Bidder/ Contractor/
Consultant/ Vendor can prove that he has restored/ recouped the damage caused by
him and has installed a suitable corruption prevention system in his organization.
(2) If the work has been awarded then in addition to (1) above, the Principal shall be
entitled to cancel the letter of acceptance/ notice of award issued to the Bidder.
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(3) If the contract/ agreement has been signed, then the Principal shall be entitled to
take recourse to the relevant provisions of the contract, related to Termination of
Contract, due to Contractor’s/ Consultant's/ Vendor’s Default. In such case, the
Principal shall be entitled to forfeit the Performance Bank Guarantee of the
Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor and/ or demand and recover liquidated and all
damages as per the provisions of the contract/ agreement against Termination.
(2) If the Bidder makes incorrect statement on this subject, he can be disqualified
from the tender process or action for his exclusion can be taken as mentioned under
Article-3 above for transgressions of Article-2 and shall be liable for compensation
for damages as per Article-4 above.
(2) The Principal will enter into agreements with identical conditions as this one with
all Bidders/ Contractors/ Consultants and Subcontractors.
(3) The Principal will disqualify from the tender process all Bidders who do not sign
this Pact or violate its provisions.
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Article 7 Criminal charges against violating Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/
Vendor/ Subcontractors
If the Principal obtains knowledge of conduct of a Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/
Vendor or Subcontractor, or of an employee or a representative or an associate of a
Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor or Subcontractor, which constitutes
corruption, or if the Principal has substantive suspicion in this regard, the Principal
will inform the same to the Chief Vigilance Officer.
(2) The Monitor is not subject to instructions by the representatives of the Parties
and performs his functions neutrally and independently. He will report to the
Principal.
(3) The Monitor would be provided access to all documents/ records pertaining to the
contract for which a complaint or issue is raise before him, as and when warranted.
(4) The Monitor shall examine all complaints received by him and give his
recommendations/ views to the Principal at the earliest. However, issues like
warranty/ guarantee etc. shall be outside the purview of the Monitor.
(5) The Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor accepts that the Monitor has the right
to access without restriction to all project documentation of the Principal including
that provided by the Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor. The Bidder/ Contractor/
Consultant/ Vendor will also grant the Monitor, upon his request and demonstration
of a valid interest, unrestricted and unconditional access to his project
documentation. The same is applicable to Subcontractors also.
(6) The Monitor is under contractual obligation to treat the information and
documents of the Bidder/ Contractor/ Subcontractor with confidentiality. The Monitor
has also signed on 'Non-disclosure of Confidential Information' and of 'Absence
of Conflict of Interest'. In case of any conflict of interest arising at a later date, the
IEM shall inform the Principal and recuse himself/ herself from that case.
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(7) The Principal will provide to the Monitor sufficient information about all meetings
among the Parties related to the Project provided such meetings could have an
impact on the contractual relations between the Principal and the Bidder/ Contractor/
Consultant/ Vendor. The Parties offer to the Monitor the option to participate in such
meetings.
(8) As soon as the Monitor notices, or has reason to believe, a violation of this Pact,
it will so inform the management of the Principal and request the management to
discontinue or take corrective action, or to take other relevant action. The Monitor
can, in this regard, submit non-binding recommendations. Beyond this, the Monitor
has no right to demand from the Parties that they act in a specific manner, refrain
from action or tolerate action.
(9) The Monitor will submit a written report to the Principal within 8 to 10 weeks from
the date of reference or intimation to him by the Principal and, should the occasion
arise, submit proposals for correcting problematic situations.
(11) The word 'Monitor' would include both singular and plural.
(2) If any claim is made/ lodged during this time, the same shall be binding and
continue to be valid despite the lapse of this Pact as specified above, unless it is
discharged/ determined by the Principal.
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(3) If the Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor is in a partnership/ joint venture or a
Consortium, this Pact must be signed by all partners or members.
(4) Should one or several provisions of this agreement turn out to be invalid, the
remainder of this agreement shall remain valid. In this case, the Parties will strive to
come to an agreement to their original intentions.
(5) Issue like warranty/ Guarantee etc. shall be outside the purview of the Monitor.
(6) In the event of any contradiction between the Integrity Pact and its Annexure(if
any), the clause in Integrity Pact shall prevail.
(7) Any disputes/ differences arising between the Parties with regard to term of this
Pact, any action taken by the Principal in accordance with this Pact or interpretation
thereof shall not be subject to any Arbitration.
(8) The actions stipulated in this Integrity Pact are without prejudice to any other
legal action that may follow in accordance with the provision of the extant law in
force relating to any civil or criminal proceedings. Provide however, the Bidder/
Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor who has signed an Integrity Pact shall not approach
the court while representing the matter to the Monitor under this Pact and shall wait
for his decision in the matter.
In witness whereof the Parties have signed and executed this Pact at the place and
date first done mentioned in the presence of following witness:-
(For & On behalf of the (Principal) (For & On behalf of Bidder/ Contractor/Consultant/
Vendor)2
2 In case the Bidder/ Contractor/ Consultant/ Vendor is a Joint Venture/ Partnership/
Consortium, then this Pact shall be signed by all members/ partners. (Office Seal)
(Seal/ Stamp)
Place
Date
Witness 1:
(Name & Address)
Witness 2:
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8. FORMS for the Cost Proposal
The Secretary,
Bureau of Energy Efficiency
4th Floor, Sewa Bhavan,
R.K. Puram Sector-I
New Delhi -110066
India
Sub: Hiring of Agency for managing the Facilitation Centre for BEE’s
Financing Schemes
Sir,
In response to the above-mentioned subject, hereunder is our financial
cost for the project:
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Total cost (vi + vii)
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully
Name :
Designation :
Seal : Date :
Place :
Business Address:
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Annexure A
(Details of the eco-system of BEE’s facilitation centre IT portal)
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BEE Facilitation Centre Portal: Server Requirements – Production
1. ECOSYSTEM
Specification Recommended
Configuration
CPU 4 Core
RAM 8 GB
Operating System CentOS Linux
Disk Space 70 GB
Public IP to be configured to this server.
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Pre-configured NIC Server Configuration:
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Specification Recommended
Configuration
CPU 4 Core
RAM 8 GB
Operating System CentOS LINUX
Disk Space 70 GB
We are using this server
for Active Database. Pre-
configured NIC Server
Configuration: Linux
Database Server:
CentOS + MySQL
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(Server Architecture Diagram)
3. Open-Source Technologies
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Annexure B
(Information to be covered in DPRs)
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1. The hired agency is required to provide the following details in DPR
of selected EE projects:
a. The required background of the organization and details of
relevant EE project. This may include following, subject to
availability:
i. The production process of the organization
ii. Energy performance in existing situation
iii. Fuel and electricity consumption of a typical entity in relevant
industry including fuel mix.
iv. Average production by a typical unit in relevant industry
v. Details of existing Energy Consumption for EE project
vi. Details and role of existing technology/equipment
vii. Design and operating parameters
viii. Operating efficiency of the existing technology/equipment
ix. Details of Technical and Financial barriers
x. Current cost of purchase of power/ fuel for the company.
Source of purchase.
xi. Any other details may be added by hired Agency
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x. Status of statutory clearances required for implementation of the
project
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Annexure-I Bank Details for NEFT/RTGS
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