Assessing the capacities and infrastructure needs for the development of Renewable Energy Industry and Service Hubs (RE Centers): Potential Sites for Integrated Renewable Energy Hub Development in Southern Viet Nam

1. Background

As a federal enterprise, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH supports the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development. On behalf of the German Government, GIZ provides advisory services to the Vietnamese Government in three priority areas: (1) Vocational training, (2) Environmental policy and sustainable use of natural resources, and (3) Energy. For further information, please visit www.giz.de/viet-nam.

The project “Promoting the transition of the energy sector in Viet Nam” (TEV) funded by German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), to foster the development of a long-term political energy transition strategy, including legal and regulatory fundamentals, as well as the transfer of technological knowledge to EAV/MOIT.

The TEV Project will engage a local consulting firm or organization to assess potential sites for integrated Renewable Energy (RE) Hub development in Southern Viet Nam. The assignment aims to identify suitable locations based on technical, economic, environmental, legal, and social considerations, while outlining the regulatory, governance, and financing requirements needed for implementation. The assessment builds on the strategic directions of Viet Nam’s Power Development Plan VIII (PDP8), the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), and an initial study on the applicability of the RE Hub concept in Viet Nam.

The assessment will evaluate potential sites, identify key risks, enabling factors, and provide an evidence-based foundation for site selection, investment planning, and policy development to support Viet Nam’s energy transition and sustainable economic growth.

Therefore, GIZ Hanoi Office as the contracting party, on behalf of TEV project, is conducting a public tender to look for qualified Local Consulting Firm (here after called as LCF) to implement the assignment:

a. Tentative timeframe of the assignment: tentatively start from 15 August 2026 until 19 December 2026

b. Place of Assignment: Hanoi and provinces that are relevant

c. Estimate working days: up to 214 working days for the expert team of 05 members

2. Eligible requirements for the bidder

a. Commercial eligibility assessment:

• Commercial register entry

• Average annual turnover for the last three financial years (2023, 2024, 2025) of at least: 2.900.000.000VND (~97.000 EUR provisional exchange rate of June 2026)

• Average number of employees and managers for the past three calendar years (2023, 2024, 2025) of at least: 50 persons

b. Technical eligibility assessment:

• Having operated at least 10 years in Vietnam’s energy sector

• Having experienced providing the consulting services for at least 5 projects in Vietnam on Energy Policy/Technology Application advisory project for MOIT and/or Pre-FS/FS for power projects in last 5 years (03/2021 – 03/2026)

• Having experienced of at least one Development Cooperation project

• Similar projects or contracts that were conducted by LCF with a minimum value of 1.400.000.000VND (~ 48.000 EUR provisional exchange rate of June 2026)

3. Interested companies are requested to prepare the following documents:

Interested LCFs are requested to prepare the following documents in English:

a. Eligibility documents:

  • Letter of interest (with Director’s or authorised person’s signature and company stamp)

  • Self-Declaration of Eligibility for procedures of public tender (including bank statement/ bank confirmation letter)

  • Audited financial reports of the last 03 years. Important/key information in the audited financial reports or in annual tax reports must be translated into English if documents are in Vietnamese

  • LCF profile and technical experience incl. Business license (for firm) or Decision of establishment (for association); Tax code registration; organisational chart;

  • Copy of reference projects or other documents to prove that LCF can meet all technical eligibility requirements mentioned in Section 2 above.

b. Technical offer: must correspond to the requirements of the TOR and clearly demonstrate how such requirements are fulfilled.

c. Financial offer: calculate your financial bid as instructed in the Costing requirements specified in the TOR.

Remark: Consortium: Not applicable for this tender

Note to the Bidder: Besides the minimum requirements mentioned above, further details are provided in the complete Tender Dossier. GIZ will send the complete dossier to the interested bidders as per the deadlines specified in Article 5 below.

4. Method of bid submission

The complete tender dossier is to be received only by email to VN_PoS_Quotation@giz.de by 23/07/2026, 17.00 (Hanoi time). At the submission, the tender must be submitted in one (1) email including three (3) zip folders named as follows:

•  7000015155 – Eligibility Documents – Company name

•  7000015155 – Technical Offer – Company name

•  7000015155 – Financial Offer – Company name

In case the total size of your documents is below 10 MB, you can attach them directly in the email sent to us. In case the total size of your documents is above 10 MB, the files must be sent via GIZ file transfer system. The bidders are required to record the password on file transfer and send the correct ones to GIZ. Wrong passwords could lead to bidding failure.

5. Deadlines

•  To receive a complete Tender Dossier, interested bidders can contact GIZ via email to question-from-bidder-pos-vn@giz.de before 12/07/2026

•  For questions about the tender, please send to the email question-from-bidder-pos-vn@giz.de before 16/07/2026

•  The complete tender documents are sent by only email to VN_PoS_Quotation@giz.de by 23/07/2026, 17.00 (Hanoi time).

6. Notes

•  Only formality-conform offers will be eligible assessed and only eligible bidders will be technically assessed, and only technically suitable quotations will be financially assessed.

•  Sending bids to the wrong email address will lead to disqualification of the supplier.

•  Bids sent after the deadline will be disqualified.

•  For data protection and information security reasons: In case the total volume of your bids is above 10 MB, the files must be sent via GIZ file transfer system. Files sent via other applications/systems such as Google drive, Dropbox…will not be accepted. Guidance on how to use file transfer will be provided.

GIZ is obliged to ensure the confidentiality of all submitted documents by bidder(s) during the tender process!