The
Ethiopian Herald Friday 27 February 2026
FEDERAL
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ETHIOPIA
DESIGN AND
SUPERVISION OF STATCOM CONSULTING SERVICES
Request for
Expressions of Interest
Country: Federal Democratic
Republic of Ethiopia
Name of the Project: Contract for
the Design and Supervision of STATCOM
Grant No.: CET1135 05
Ref.No.
EEP/AFD/STATCOM/CS/02/2026
Client: Ethiopian Electric Power
(EEP)
The Ethiopian Electric Power
(EEP) has received a financing from the European Union ("EU"), the
management of which has been delegated to the Agence Française de Développement
("AFD"), and intends to use part of the funds thereof for payments under
the following project Design and Supervision of STATCOM.
1. Objective of the assignment The
primary objective of this assignment encompasses comprehensive Project Procurement,
Contract Administration, Supervision and commisioning to ensure the successful
execution of ±80 MVAR STATCOM implementation Project for the existing Hurso
(230kV) substation. The Consultant will provide expert support in detail
engineering design, specification preparation, tender document preparation, procurement,
contract management, Test and commissioning, capacity building for the STATCOM
implementation project and oversight from project inception to closure. Services
are expected to start in August 2026 and have an approximate total duration of thirty-six
(36) months.
a. Ensure Compliance with
International Standards:
- Align all procurement documents
with EEP's Procurement Regulations and the AFD's Procurement Regulations
Guidelines and Standard Bidding Documents and relevant international
guidelines.
- Ensure conformity with the
Financing Agreement requirements and mitigate legal and procedural risks.
b. Ensure Technical Accuracy and
Quality:
- Prepare detailed engineering designs and technical
specifications for ±80 MVAr STATCOM at Hurso (230kV) substation including all necessary
switchgear and all bay equipment's and ensure both quality standards and
sustainability goals.
- Ensure that all components of
the engineering design (including equipment, ma terials, and construction
methodologies) are current, appropriate, and reliable for the intended use in
the project.
- Ensure that the designs are optimized for efficiency, cost-effectiveness,
and ease of implementation.
- Ensure whether the tender
document and design reflect the latest technological advancements, regulatory changes,
and industry trends.
- Ensure that specifications are
comprehensive, addressing all aspects of the STATCOM construction, including
electrical, protection and control schematics, mechanical, civil, and Ensure
Environmental, Social, and Occupational Health & Safety Compliance
considerations, in compliance with EIB (Environmental and Social Sustainability
Framework, 2 February 2022) and AFD (Environmental and Social Framework, August
4, 2016.)'s E&S standards and national regulations
c. Standardize and Optimize
Procurement Documents :
- Develop a comprehensive,
standardized package of bidding documents for ±80 MVAr STATCOM for the existing
Hurso (230kV) substation.
- Harmonize specifications,
methodologies, and evaluation criteria to ensure consistency across all
procurement activities.
- Prepare complete and clear
tender document to ensure that it effectively communicates all technical,
financial, and legal requirements.
- Review and validate STATCOM
feasibility study document, environmental and social and other technical study
reports (such as EEP's E&S screening) for the preparation of tender
document including technical specifications, scope of works, cost estimates based
on the latest standards and lessons learned.
- Ensure that critical path
analysis is conducted to identify potential risks and ensure that the timeline
for delivery is reasonable given the project's scope and complexity.
- Prepare cost estimates based on updated designs, specifications,
and market conditions.
d. Environmental, Social, and Occupational Health &
Safety Compliance:
- Ensure the tender document fully reflects compliance
with Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP), Environmental and Social
Management Plans (ESMP) and Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) regulations,
if necessary, Resettlement Policy Framework (RPF).
- Address the environmental
mitigation measures and ensure that the tender documents incorporate
sustainability criteria and social safeguards for local communities.
-Review and validate the
environmental and study report and Prepare site-specific Environmental and
Social Management Plans (ESMPS), including mitigation and monitorings plans,
Waste and Hazardous Waste Management Plan, Biodiversity Management Plan, Health
and Safety Management procedures, Grievance Redress Mechanism for Workers, and
Labour Management Plan.
e. Legal, Regulatory, and
Compliance :
- Undertake a detailed legal and compliance check to verify
that the tender document aligns with national regulations, international
standards, and funding agency requirements (e.g. AFD, World Bank, other
financiers).
- Ensure the project complies with environmental regulations,
health and safety laws, and local codes of practice.
- Integrate international best
practices to attract reputable bidders and enhance project outcomes.
- Develop the qualification and
evaluation criteria to ensure that bidders are assessed on their ability to
meet both the technical and financial requirements of the project. Ensure that
evaluation criteria are clear, comprehensive, and objective, considering previous
performance, financial stability, technical expertise, and capacity to deliver large-scale
infrastructure projects.
f. Project Procurement and
Contract Management:
- Provide procurement support, including bid evaluation assistance,
contract negotiation guidance, and compliance monitoring.
- Ensure contract execution aligns with project timelines,
cost estimates, and quality standards.
- Support in prepapring the answers
to the bidders' clarification requests
- Support the employer in
addressing contractual disputes and risk mitigation strategies.
- Provide continuous support
during the bidding period, managing any technical clarifications requested by
bidders and ensuring responses align with the original scope of work and
specifications.
- Review all design documents,
technical submissions, and drawings provided by the contractor to ensure they
comply with the contractual requirements and project specifications.
- Review and approval of the
contractor's procedures for switch-on, performance testing, and acceptance
testing to ensure they align with the contract specifications, safety protocols
and industry standards.
- Ensure that the necessary
resources, tools, and personnel are available for all testing and commissioning
activities.
- Actively participate in acceptance testing (post-energization),
ensuring that all tests meet the requirements stipulated in the contract.
g. Mitigate Risks and Strengthen
Project Execution:
-Identify potential procurement
and contractual risks and propose mitigation strategies. Ensure that the
tendering process is structured to avoid delays, cost overruns, and technical
failures.
- Identify potential project
risks related to construction, schedule, budget, and quality, and develop
mitigation strategies to address these risks.
-Monitor and enforce safety
audits, site inspection and trainings on occupational health, safety hazards and
first aid.
-Incorporate mechanisms for
monitoring, reporting, and compliance enforcement to strengthen accountability.
- Provide continued and strong
Supervision and Contract Administration up to commissioning.
Through these objectives, the
consultant will contribute to a more efficient, transparent, and high-quality
procurement process, ensuring the successful implementation and supervision of
+80 MVAR STATCOM installation project for the existing Hurso (230kV) substation
in alignment with global best practices. The Ethiopian Electric Power 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
Individual consultants NGOs 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 AFDFinanced 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 of the JV members) 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.
1. Determination of the
Applicants will be based on the criterias listed in the below table:
For each experience submitted by
the Applicant, check the boxes of the criteria which are met by the
experience1.
Name of the Applicant:
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Criteria 1- Experience with
STATCOM or FACTS devices design, procure ment, Supervi- sion, admin-
istration and commissioning
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Criteria 2- Experience with
minimum two (2) successfully com-pleted STATCOMprojects above50 MVAR on
>230kV transmis sion network
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Criteria 3- Experianceto
delive projects in Sub-Saharan Africa
or similar devel oping country contexts
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Criteria 4- Familiarity with
interna- tional financ- ing institutions (AFD, World Bank, IDA)
procurement
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Criteria 5 - Experience with
Substation design, procurement, Super- vision, administra-tion and commis-sioning
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Criteria 6- Availability of Key
and nonkey experts forSTATCOM orFACTS devicesdesign, procure- ment,
Supervision, administration and commissionin
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Criteria 7 - Experience in
Environ- mental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIA) and Environmental and
Social Management Plans ESMP, Health and Safety protocols, Waste and
Biodiversity Plans, and Stakeholder Engagement Plans (SEP) preparation per
national/international stand- ards
(incl. AFD, WB, EPA)
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Criteria 8 Experience in
softwares and inter- national Standards for modeling,
system study, measuring,
testing and training on DIgSILENT PowerFactory, PSSOE, PSCAD/EMTDC, ETAP, EasyPower,
IEC 61954, IEC 61000, IEC 60076, IEC 62271, IEC 60255, IEC 61850 IEEE 519
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1. Each row will be a separate
experience which is listed in the application.
2. The "total" for each
column indicates the number of experiences which meet the criterion.
The nature of the Services are:
Detail design, preparation of technical specifications, tender documents for
STATCOM, evaluation, clarification response,contract negotiation, supervision,
project management, test and commissioning, capacity building, test witness and
issue payment certificate for the Design and Supervision of STATCOM project.
- The technical area and
expertise is on contract management of the project as consultant specifically
detail STATCOM Design, preparation of technical specification, procurement,
Installation, Supervision Testing and Commissioning, detailed technical studies
on Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIA) and Environmental and
Social Management Plans ESMP, Health and Safety protocols; The consultant firm
should have key expertise related to the project scope. The applicant should
specify and list one or several technical areas.
- The location is in the region
(Africa), in the Client's country (Ethiopia) or other.
2. Determination of the
similarity of the experiences will be based on:
- Core business and years in
business for field of assignment.
- Relevant Experience in the
field of assignment.
- Technical and managerial capability
of the firm for field of assignment.
- The contracts size for the
field of the assignment.
A Consultant will be selected in
accordance with the Quality- and Cost-Based Selection (QCBS) method set out in
the Procurement Regulations.
3. Guidelines for the expressions
of interest
Expressions of Interest should be
submitted in one (1) hard copy and a soft copy in PDF format.
In order to ease the evaluation
process, it is required that the application documents do not exceed eighty (80) pages written in
English language, gathered in one (1) E-mail: kefyalewmergiya2127@gmail.com file
with a maximum size of 10 MB.
The expression of interest file
shall include, at a minimum.
- The letter of expression of
interest signed by the Applicant or representative of the JV.
- The copy of the co-contracting
(joint venture) agreement (if relevant).
- The presentation of the main
Applicant (legal existence, organizational chart & staff, financial
statement/turnover over the last 5 years etc., certificate of non- bankruptcy
if available).
- The relevant past and ongoing
references of the Applicant since January 2015 (see "Determination of the
similarity of the experiences above") with brief description (year(s) of
implementation, duration of Services, brief description...)
-A concept note of up to Two (2)
pages describing briefly the understanding of the service, its methodology, its
organization including articulation of international and local expertise, its
recommendations and prerequisites.
- The signed Statement of
Integrity, Eligibility and Social & Environment responsibility (see
appendix).
Among the submitted applications,
Ethiopian Electric Power will shortlist a maximum of six (6) Applicants, to
whom the Request for Proposals to carry out the Services shall be sent
The submittals should be
presented in English.
Expressions of interest must be
delivered in a written form to the address below in person and by email no
later than April 3, 2026, 4:00 PM local time (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia).
Interested Applicants may obtain further information at the same address
address below during office hours from Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM
local time (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia). The submittals should be presented in
English. Note: In addition to the Email submission the applicants must submit
One (1) original hard copy and One (1) electronic version on a flash drive
physically or by courier to the address below.
The address referred to above is:
Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP),
Procurement & Logistics Office
Attn: Eng. Tsion Birhanu,
Executive officer, Procurement
& Logistics
Yeka Sub-city, Woreda 09, (Former
Kotebe 02)
Infront of Kotebe Metal Tools
Factory,
Ethiopian Electric Power
Compound, Block Number 09, First Floor,
Office Number 203
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
E-mail: tsion.birhanu@eep.com.et,tsionnaod@gmail.com
Copy to: Mr. Kefyalew Mergiya,
Manager, Foreign Procurement office 3
Yeka Sub City, Worda 09, (Former
Kotebe 02)
In front of Kotebe Metal Tools
Factory,
Ethiopian Electric Power
Compound, Block Number 09, First Floor, Office
Number 103
For EOI Submission;
Mrs. Weyinshet Dejene,
Procurement Officer, Foreign Procurement 3
Yeka Sub City, Worda 09, (Former
Kotebe 02)
In front of Kotebe Metal Tools
Factory,
Ethiopian Electric Power
Compound, Block Number 09, First Floor,
Office Number 101
Email: weyinshetd@gmail.com
Request for clarification have to
be sent in a written form exclusively to the Client, not later than ten (10)
working days (from Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 5 :00 PM local time) before
submission. Answers will be sent to all potential Applicants having withdrawn the Request for
Expression of Interest from DG Market.
An application that does not meet
the above listed requirements will be rejected. The Statement of Integrity,
Eligibility, and Environmental and Social Responsibility form is also available
on the DG Market website and EEP Website, attached as an appendix to the Request
for Expressions of Interest notice.
Ethiopian
Electric Power