10005247 - Green Hydrogen Investments in India

The contract timeline is as follows:

• Contract Award/Start Date: November 2026, upon notification of its award. The anticipated performance period begins on this date.
• Commencement of Service Delivery: November/December 2026.
• Anticipated End Date: October 31, 2028.
• Total Duration: Approximately 24 months, starting from the contract award in November 2026 and ending on October 31, 2028. The completion of the final instruments is expected 22 months after the contract award.

Key Milestones for Work Package 2:

• MS2-1 Onboarding Call: 3 weeks after the request for a respective instrument.
• MS2-2 Kick-off meeting 1: 10 weeks after contract award.
• MS2-3 Completion of first 4 instruments: 8 months after contract award.
• MS2-4 Kick-off meeting 2: 10 months after contract award.
• MS2-5 Completion of second 4 instruments: 17 months after contract award.
• MS2-6 Kick-off meeting 3: 18 months after contract award.
• MS2-7 Completion of final 2 instruments: 22 months after contract award.

The core scope of work for this tender, titled "Green Hydrogen Investments, GH21," involves services related to "Green Hydrogen in hard-to-abate sectors: policy and regulatory instrument development, conduction of". The contractor is responsible for achieving the work packages, objectives, and indicators described in the documents. A primary deliverable is "Work Package 1 - Short-term help desk for studies," which aims to provide GIZ with flexible access to a pool of Senior Technical Experts (STE-pool) for short-term studies concerning India's green hydrogen (gH2) landscape. This includes producing an estimated 50 brief studies, each approximately 3 pages long, covering hydrogen-related fields such as law, politics, economics, energy, finance, and technology. These studies can be requested in German or English.

In addition to these deliverables, the contractor is required to:

• Interpret the tender's objectives and describe the changes in the partner system to be achieved.
• Present a technical-methodological concept for completing the tasks and achieving objectives.
• Describe the design of the project management process.
• Critically examine the Terms of Reference (ToRs), including assessing the appropriateness of the personnel concept for scheduled tasks, evaluating results hypotheses and potential implementation risks, and confirming the adequacy of the proposed personnel setup for rapid, high-quality delivery of ad-hoc studies.
• Outline a strategic approach for achieving the objectives in the ToRs.
• Address the building of partnerships with relevant actors.
• Propose approaches for leverage effects and scaling-up measures.
• Consider environmental and social sustainability requirements.
• Provide an operational plan, coordination with GIZ, steering/coordination with implementing partners, and monitoring.