Terms of Reference and Scope of Services AFGHANISTAN ...

March 2018

Terms of Reference and Scope of Services

AFGHANISTAN ENERGY STUDY

Development of a Least-Cost Electrification Plan,

Investment Prospectus, and associated training

Phase II

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Contents

BACKGROUND AND SECTOR CONTEXT ............................................................................... 2

OBJECTIVE ................................................................................................................................... 3

SCOPE OF THE ASSIGNMENT .................................................................................................. 5

A. Capacity Development ..................................................................................................... 5

B. Detailed short-term power plans and investment prospectus for five provinces ............. 5

C. Location Expectations ...................................................................................................... 6

D. Country-wide investment plan ......................................................................................... 6

SCHEDULE AND KEY DELIVERABLES .................................................................................. 7

TEAM COMPOSITION ................................................................................................................. 8

ESTIMATED LEVEL OF EFFORT ............................................................................................ 10

SELECTION CRITERIA ............................................................................................................. 10

DURATION AND CONTRACT ................................................................................................. 11

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BACKGROUND AND SECTOR CONTEXT

1. With a GNI per capita of US$570 (2012 World Bank estimates), Afghanistan is the lowest income

country in South Asia and emerging from over three decades of conflict. It remains an extremely fragile

state and faces enormous development challenges, including high levels of poverty (36 percent1) and

unemployment (22.6 percent2). Despite the ongoing conflict and insecurity, there have been some

significant advances in institutional strengthening and rapid economic growth of 12 percent on average

during 2003-20143, driven in large measure by huge foreign aid flows of close to US$16 billion per annum.

2. With foreign aid set to decline from 2014 with the withdrawal of international forces and the labor force

expanding by about 300,000 per year, the Afghan economy urgently needs to find ways to sustainably

accelerate broad-based growth in the medium term - implying, inter alia, adequate and stable electricity

supply to meet expanding demand. Even under reasonably optimistic scenarios, growth in Afghanistan is

projected to fall from a 10-year average of over 9 percent to between 5 and 6 percent over 2011–18.

Additionally, unemployment, already at 8 percent in 2009–10, is projected to rise further, with potentially

destabilizing effects. In this context, Afghanistan is actively seeking ways to accelerate growth through

increased private and public investment, with a particular focus on addressing the country’s severe

infrastructure bottlenecks. In any country, access to affordable and reliable electricity is part and parcel to

the success of any economic growth strategy.

3. The percentage of the population with access to electricity in Afghanistan has reached 89 percent in

2013-14 (up from 42 percent in 2007-08), but only 29 percent of the households are connected to the grid

(ALCS 2013-14). 4 These gains are mainly driven by access to grid-based electricity in the urban areas, and

individual solar panels in rural areas. Access to the grid remains a serious challenge in rural areas, where

more than 77 percent of Afghans live: only 11% of rural households have access to the grid. Solar energy

is the primary electricity source in rural areas, available to 48% of the households (up from 2% in 2007-

2008) (ALCS 2013-14). Per capita consumption averages 176 kWh per capita per year, which is

significantly less than the South Asia average of 707 kWh per year and the average electricity usage per

person world-wide of 3,144 kWh (based on 2014 data).5

4. Some advancements in rural electrification through promotion of community level micro hydropower

and stand-alone solar systems have however been made. For those with access to the electricity grid there

was a serious challenge in the past of prolonged power outages. The situation has improved significantly

in the major urban population centers along the critical North East corridor between Mazar-e-Sharif and

Kabul, following the import of power from Uzbekistan and the rehabilitation of three hydro plants (Mahipar

and Sarobi completed, and Naghlu ongoing). Increasingly parts of some urban centers, for example Kabul,

Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif, and Pul-e-Khumri, now have a 24-hour power supply for the first time in decades.

Additionally, several least cost electricity plans have developed over the last years, including a 2013 Power

Sector Master Plan supported by the ADB. This work will build on these, and help add relevant capacity in

Afghanistan to help support their implementation and ongoing updating.

5. Arguably the biggest barrier to Afghanistan’s electrification is the development of a “bankable”

investment plan. While least cost expansion plans exist, they have not yet been translated into actionable

targets and timetables for electrification. Rural access to electricity is driven by support from the National

Solidarity Program (NSP), which requires prioritization of needs and subjects provision of modern energy

1 World Bank 2012 estimates 2 Afghanistan Central Statistics Organization’s Afghanistan Living Conditions Survey (ALCS) 2013 3 As per Afghanistan Central Statistics Organization estimates 4 http://cso.gov.af/Content/files/ALCS/ALCS%20ENGLISH%20REPORT%202014.pdf 5 http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/afghanistan/overview

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services to a haphazard approach. This assignment is intended to close this gap, and provide the Government

of Afghanistan with a detailed plan against which financing can be pledged.

6. This assignment is one subset of a wider effort that the World Bank is conducting with the Government

of Afghanistan, which is to provide for an updated assessment of the energy sector, with the aim of

informing investments to increase access to affordable and sustainable energy. This wider effort is called

“the Afghanistan Energy Study” and is a five-part series of complementary assessments and surveys to be

conducted over a period of three years. The five activities are:

Activity 1: Transactions Advisory and Knowledge Sharing

Activity 2: Financial, Economic and Community modality assessment

Activity 3: Household and Enterprise Energy Diaries

Activity 4: Development of a Least-Cost Electrification Plan and Investment Prospectus

Activity 5: Institutional Assessment

7. This assignment corresponds to the fourth activity. However, it is expected that the Consultant selected

for this assignment will draw on the results of all other activities, if and when available.

8. Recent experience with developing country electricity utilities showed that spatial diversity in many

factors – demographics, terrain, wealth levels, access to infrastructure, security, and resource availability,

to name a few – all have strong impacts on electrification planning. These factors need to be captured

quantitatively and with locational specificity with a data/modeling platform that allows users to view, share

and modify underlying data and assumptions.

9. The widespread availability of new and low-cost geo-spatial information and tools greatly reduce costs

of mapping resources, establishing and maintaining geo-spatial datasets, and rapidly creating electrification

plans with quantitative and spatial specificity and accuracy. These lower-cost and improved tools also

make it easier to build capacity within developing country institutions so that they themselves can establish

and maintain datasets for infrastructure, social needs (education, health), and other key resources needed

for development.

10. While the quantity and quality of geo-spatial data gathering has improved in many developing countries

around the world, much of this data has been captured in “one-off” events, creating datasets that become

quickly out-of-date, as populations grow or infrastructure is built. Going forward, a key issue is how to

provide flexible, updateable systems that will allow local practitioners to correct errors in data, as well as

add to and change data incrementally as time progresses and local conditions change. Maintaining and

keeping such data current at a national level, requires a web-based energy access platform. At the same

time, taking into account the high level of uncertainty due to the fragility and conflict in Afghanistan.

OBJECTIVE

11. Recent global experience shows that the most effective and efficient way to achieving a rapid increase

in electrification is through a sector-wide approach in which both on-grid and off-grid based electrification

strategies are pursued in a complimentary manner. Under such an approach, implementation efforts will

be channeled towards the deployment of solutions in line with a national level, least-cost option

electrification plan, and both financial and physical resources will be mobilized in a predictable and

structured fashion.

12. A plan that relies solely on the grid with corresponding coordinated investments in generation and

transmission can be expected to increase the rate of electrification only slowly, especially if available donor

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financing for large infrastructure investment becomes increasingly scarce. A systematic off-grid plan that

operates concurrently with the grid expansion plan would help ensure that affordable basic electricity

services are made available to a wider section of the population.

13. Based on a financial and economic analysis of different technology options, forecasted energy demand

and energy resource potentials, the proposed activity will use proven methodologies to spatially identify

and prioritize areas that should be electrified either: (i) by extension of the national grid, based on the

national government’s generation and transmission development plans (including plans for imports); or (ii)

through the provision of decentralized energy systems such as mini grids (diesel, hybrid diesel-renewables

or renewables -especially small hydro-) and individual systems (e.g. solar home systems and appliances).

The assessment will likely use information gathered through Activity 3 (Household and Enterprise Diaries)

of the “Afghanistan Energy Study”, to determine levels of unmet and suppressed electricity demand, current

energy expenditures, affordability and customers’ willingness to pay. It will also build on the 2013 Power

Sector Plan, while updating or refining some of the assumptions and analysis in that work.

14. Experience has demonstrated that it is critical to build the human capital and technical capacity to

undertake such energy planning exercises as to ensure sustainability of this type of planning. This task,

therefore, includes provision of a training package to instill the GIRoA and the relevant agencies with the

necessary knowledge and tools to continue this type of work in the future. Close collaboration with the

client is fundamental along with strong client participation, ensuring that this task is relevant and supportive

for the client’s work.

15. Further, it is clear that the design and population of an updateable, geo-spatial, data platform of

demography and current and planned energy and other infrastructure is essential for ongoing development

of the energy sector. Phase I of this activity developed an updatable GIS data platform, which has been

populated with data on demographics and energy and other infrastructure. This platform allows (i) the

storage of all data inputs such that they can be further utilized by the GIRoA, (ii) capabilities such that the

GIRoA is able to update and reproduce the least-cost option electrification plan using new and updated data

inputs. These efforts complement and contribute to efforts already underway in Afghanistan, including

those undertaken by the Afghanistan Energy Information Center (AEIC).6

16. Phase I also developed as a case study, a country-wide high-level least-cost set of scenarios, based on

the available GIS data. This is a fundamental input to be used to produce a detailed power plan and

investment prospectus for five provinces of Afghanistan.

17. Building on the Phase I of this activity, Phase II will provide three main outputs, in consideration of

their corresponding objectives:

• Capacity development by working closely with Afghan government ministries as partners with

respect to (i) understanding the different GIS based least-cost electrification planning

methodologies including their pros and cons, and (ii) developing an Afghan “in-house” updateable,

least-cost electrification model and associated data platform.

• Detailed short-term (less than five years) plan for five provinces that will consist of investment

options based on detailed power sector planning in several provinces. This plan will complement

existing government and utility plans (especially the “ADB 2013 Power Sector Master Plan”), as

well as allow the government to inform (i) its national electrification strategy; and (ii)

corresponding policy and regulatory reforms.

• Country-wide prospectus using the detailed provincial prospectus, describing detailed steps for

how it could be extrapolated to a country-wide plan as part of a possible Phase III.

6 Data collected by the AEIC can be accessed on their website at www.aeic.af

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18. Several electricity plans have been developed over the last years for Afghanistan, including a 2013

Power Sector Master Plan supported by the ADB, and a 2016 World Bank report “Energy Security Trade-

offs under Uncertainty” highlighting the uncertainty in the power sector in Afghanistan. This work will

build on these, and add relevant capacity in Afghanistan to help support their future refining and

augmenting.

These activities are described in more detail in the following section.

SCOPE OF THE ASSIGNMENT

19. The proposed assignment will consist of:

A. Capacity Development

20. In recent years, a number of different geo-spatial based electrification planning methods and tools have

emerged, primarily driven by research efforts of a handful of leading universities and research centers

focusing on energy system planning. These methodologies and tools are increasingly undertaken by

developing countries to inform their national energy strategies and planning and investments. Ensuring that

there are well-trained people in the country is essential for the long-term success of these planning and

investment activities.

21. Technical capacity building is crucial for the sustainability of geospatial projects like the proposed. As

such, it is key to incorporate representatives from the Afghan government in the team, and develop, through

collaboration, a working knowledge of the different methodologies and tools available to produce a least-

cost electrification plan. Formal training sessions will be delivered in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dubai, UAE, or

New Delhi, India over a period of five (5) days each. Informal training will be ongoing and take place in

Afghanistan, where the Consultant will spend the bulk of this contract.

22. On-the-job training, not just the theoretical background, is key to building the technical capacity of the

Afghan government. To this end, the World Bank task team and the Consultant, will be integrated within

a team of designated GIRoA officials and technicians. Just-in-time support will entail that the Consultant

be available, even if not physically present, through the duration of the assignment to support the GIRoA

(and associated agencies and the utility) in overcoming difficulties as they arise. As a result, it is expected

that all the sub-tasks outlined hereafter be conducted as part of a joint effort with the GIRoA and, more

specifically, with the team that will have been designated to undertake this effort.

23. In the same vein, steps should be taken to work closely with respective ministries in Kabul and to use

official GIRoA data, whenever possible, while sticking to the schedule of deliverables outlined below.

B. Detailed short-term power plans and investment prospectus for five provinces

24. Investment prospectus work will consist of economic analysis based on the province-level detailed

power planning work. Both the planning and economic work will consist of “deep-dives” of five provinces,

of which, three will be Herat, Kabul, and Balkh, and the remaining two will be selected among five

provinces - Baghlan, Panshir, Kapisa, Parwan, and Nangarhar, through stakeholders’ consultation

(including the GIRoA, the utility company DABS, development partners, and private sector stakeholders),

based on security issues, and natural resources availability, but also to include residential, industrial and

commercial areas. The prospectus will also include analysis of how security issues impact the proposed

plan and possible mitigation strategies.

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25. The detailed least-cost power plans will be based on geo-spatial data analysis. The consultant may

analyze the ONSSET model that has been prepared in Phase I of this assignment and if appropriate

customize and improve this model further, by including missing technologies such as hybrid systems, bio-

gas power generation, and considering sectoral level disaggregated demand, etc.

26. While the consultant should plan on delivering power plans and investment prospectuses for five

provinces, there is a possibility that this number will change. That being said, any such revision would be

to a lower number, to be prioritized in the order suggested in the previous paragraph.

27. As such, the prospectus shall provide information for a future, detailed investment program for the

Government, donor, and private sector financing. It shall convey, in easy to understand terms, an outline of

what a detailed investment plan should consider towards achieving the short-run plans of the Ministry of

Energy and Water (MEW) and the utility company DABS. In addition, it is expected that the prospectus

will complement the “ADB 2013 Power Sector Master Plan”, which focuses on transmission (110 kV and

above) and on grid connected generation sources. Thus, the prospectus should also consider grid extensions

below 110 kV, along with mini-grids, distributed generation and standalone systems.

28. In addition, the prospectus shall consider monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and oversight mechanisms

that might be used to track performance, implementation progress, and results. This could involve existing

World Bank contractors or other methods including remotely sensed options.

29. The Consultant’s role shall be to assist the Government in preparing the case, and not in conducting or

replacing ongoing dialogue between the Government, development partners, and private sector

stakeholders. The Consultant may offer professional opinion to the Government on policy issues if

requested, especially on the likely receptivity and credibility of the policies and "bankability" to the

development partners.

C. Location Expectations

30. Developing and maintaining relationships with the Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW) and the utility

company DABS is critical to the success of this Activity, as such the consultant is expected to spend

extensive time in Afghanistan.

31. This project is expected to be completed within one year. The consultant should expect to spend

approximately 20 weeks in Afghanistan.

D. Country-wide investment plan

32. Using the detailed plans from the five provinces as a foundation, the consultant shall develop a country-

wide plan, extrapolating the methodology to the whole country. It will entail (i) projections of demand and

connections disaggregated to the sectoral level; (ii) evaluation of technology and electricity supply options

at each sub-location (initial investment and operating costs), including grid supply and extensions, off-grid

applications, and cost-competitive renewable energy; that together are the implementation blocks of a

systematically staged and coordinated electrification rollout program at the national/regional level.

Naturally, this country-wide study will be at a higher-level abstraction than the detailed provincial studies.

33. The least-cost plan shall be based on a spatial analysis framework using geo-reference data of settlement

patterns – where people live, locations of main economic centers, locations of health and educational

facilities, and road network (at provincial level) – and a geo-reference overlay of the existing Medium

Voltage (MV) electricity network.

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34. The Plan will also provide analysis of its sensitivity to key variables and policy input parameters,

including connection charge, grid supply cost per unit, deployment of proven low cost network designs and

equipment to reduce investment requirements, etc.

E. Data expectations

35. The Consultant shall work closely with the GIRoA, in Afghanistan, to collect, compile, review and

analyze the requisite best and readily available data sources and data bases, and undertake preparation for

supporting GIS data layers that are required to conduct the spatial analysis called for in this assignment.

36. Data quality and sources remain an issue in Afghanistan. Thus, to ensure that the five province-level

investment prospectus, as well as the country-wide investment plan, are based on reliable data, the

Consultant will use new satellite imagery and GIS data as they become available and will be responsible

for improving such data to the extent needed, in cooperation with the World Bank task team and the GIRoA.

Also, the level of data resolution will be determined based on gap assessment results that will be undertaken

as part of this task.

Additional outputs and arrangements:

37. In order to ensure that the GIRoA capacity is effectively and substantively increased as part of

completing this assignment, the Consultant shall plan on spending substantial time in Afghanistan while

working closely with the GIRoA designated team, as well as with local counterpart firms or experts where

feasible. This task may also include the need for working with the World Bank task team in Dubai, UAE,

or New Delhi, India periodically.

38. The Consultant shall also transfer any non-proprietary models utilized to conduct the analysis and

recommendations in this assignment to the GIRoA or its designated counterpart(s). The Consultant shall

list any licenses needed to ensure the functionality of the GIS planning platform and provide estimated costs

for acquiring the licenses.

SCHEDULE AND KEY DELIVERABLES

▪ Detailed power plans for five (5) provinces based on geo-spatial planning techniques.

▪ Detailed investment prospectus clearly explaining the purpose, institutional readiness of the

sector, possible roll-out schedule(s), high-level quantification of funding requirements and risk

mitigation measures for each of the aforementioned (5) five provinces, and including monitoring

and evaluation (M&E) and oversight mechanisms that might be used to track performance,

implementation progress, and results. These will be delivered as each province is ready and in one

consolidated final document.

▪ Country-wide investment plan, including an associated slide deck highlighting different

assumptions/likely scenarios that have been used to extrapolate from the province-level work

conducted.

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▪ Support the delivery and design of an electricity sector database (initially built with data from

Phase 1) which will include additional details regarding infrastructure, and key provinces. The

database design will be devised in a way that the client can maintain it over time.

▪ Ongoing training - This is envisaged to take place soon after the assignment commences in a

combination of desk-side trainings as well as classroom-style settings. A least two (2) formal

training events of 5 (five) working days each will be conducted, preferably in Afghanistan (or

alternatively, in suitable locations – e.g. New Delhi, India), and will be spread across the contract

period. Ongoing informal training will take place in Afghanistan. As a result, at least four people

(two people from DABS and two people from MEW) will be fully involved and trained in all

activities of this assignment (data gathering, analysis, and report writing)

39. The assignment is expected to begin in September 2017 and be completed no later than October 2018.

The Consultant will prepare and submit the following reports and deliverables as specified. All reports and

deliverables should be submitted electronically (by email) in English in Microsoft Word format,

accompanied by Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and Microsoft PowerPoint as necessary.

Deliverable Suggested Schedule (from commencement of

assignment)

Counterpart training/mentorship 8 weeks and continuing

Power plan and prospectus (1 province) 12 weeks

Power plan and prospectus (1 province) 14 weeks

Power plan and prospectus (1 province) 16 weeks

Power plan and prospectus (1 province) 18 weeks

Power plan and prospectus (1 province) 20 weeks

Consolidated investment prospectus 24 weeks

Country-wide plan 32 weeks

40. Please note, that there is some flexibility in the schedule of deliverables. Proposed deviations should

be submitted, in writing, to the World Bank task team. That being said, all deliverables must be

completed in less than 52-weeks

TEAM COMPOSITION

41. This assignment calls for significant time commitment, in Afghanistan, of senior and seasoned

Consultant staff capable of interacting effectively with top echelon national and regional government

officials for data sourcing and building ownership; as well as senior management and professional staff of

energy service providers in the public and private sectors.

42. The Consultant shall present evidence of adequate hands-on experience in the following areas: capacity

building and training, technical and economic evaluation of grid-based and off-grid electrification

technologies; electricity demand projection geospatially by sub-locations; use of distribution network

geospatial planner and geospatial analysis platform for least cost electricity rollout on grid - MV and

downstream by sub-locations - and access scale up in the corresponding off-grid space within each sub-

location; and preparation of the various data layers of digitized geospatial for key parameters – technical,

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economic, financial - required to undertake the geospatial analysis called for in this assignment. The

consultant will also need to possess the requisite experience to develop a fully-fledged, sophisticated

investment prospectus. This may require a partnership given the somewhat different skill sets necessary.

43. Additionally, participation of a qualified local counterpart firm in Afghanistan is desirable, but it is

recognized that this may not be easy to identify initially.

44. Proposals shall clearly highlight the qualifications and experience of the team leader, and team

members of direct relevance to the conduct of the tasks outlined under the scope of work above, as these

dimensions will be heavily weighted in the technical evaluation of proposals submitted. The team should

together have demonstrably proven in-depth experience in addressing the full range of functional and

technical expertise outlined in this TOR. Examples of the senior team members include:

• Team Leader - Strong technical and analytical background, and knowledge of international best

practices pertaining to design and deployment of geospatial least cost rollout (grid and off-grid)

platform for national electrification program investment and implementation planning, within the

overall framework of a sector-wide approach. The team leader should be highly experienced in

addressing the range of issues typically encountered in the process of identifying and acquiring relevant

geo referenced data (data sets) from relevant national agencies, as well as the process and techniques

for upstream data preparation and validation supplemented from international sources, preparation

thereof to support the geo referenced analysis. He/she should have comprehensive knowledge of energy

sources such as hydropower, solar and wind energy, thermal energy and biomass. He/she is expected

to bring an established and recognized track record of experience leading teams in undertaking

comparable efforts in other countries. The team leader must have effective communications and writing

skills, and at least a Master’s degree in engineering or equivalent, with a minimum of 15 years related

experience in a leadership role, internationally.

• Electrification Planner - Highly experienced in national electrification rollout program planning in

developing country contexts, setting up and using state of art GIS based rapid planning platform tools

of spatial analysis to optimize priority sequencing of MV grid extensions, LV reticulation and

connections; as well as mapping of off-grid rollout by sub locations for least cost supply. He/she should

have proven knowledge and expertise in electricity demand projections, least-cost economic analysis,

and excellent verbal and written communication skills. He/she should have a Master’s degree, at a

minimum, in engineering, science or a related field, with a minimum of 3 years of relevant working

experience after the graduate degree.

• Off-grid Renewable Energy Electrification Specialist – extensive knowledge and experience in

renewable energy technology, off-grid electrification technologies and delivery options (including

mini-grids, individual residential or institutional systems), and social economic considerations of off-

grid electrification. Deep understanding of the dynamics of grid extension and off-grid electrification

is required. He/she should have a Master’s degree, at a minimum, in engineering, science or a related

field, and a minimum of 3 years of relevant working experience on off-grid renewable energy

electrification.

• Geographer/GIS Data Specialist – a highly skilled and experienced professional in preparing and

assembling the essential data layers to support the least cost electricity access investment planning

platform, encompassing geo-referenced data inputs for technical, demographic, socioeconomic, and

customer affordability parameters required as inputs to support the least cost analysis of network

expansion options and supply options. He/she must also be well versed in the process and techniques

for upstream data preparation and validation, in particular where critical gaps exist in national data –

such as poor resolution of spatial data, or quality issues are a concern. The GIS data specialist should

be experienced in supplementing appropriate geospatial data from international sources as well as

utilizing triangulation techniques to develop the best available geo-referenced data set. He/she should

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have at least a Master’s degree in geography, planning or a related discipline and at least 3 years of

relevant experience.

• Investment Specialist - Strong technical and analytical background, and knowledge of international best

practices pertaining to power sector investment. The investment specialist should be highly experienced

in addressing the range of issues typically encountered in the process of identifying possible short-term

investment portfolios, costs and risks. He/she is expected to bring an established and recognized track

record of experience in undertaking comparable efforts in other countries. The investment specialist

must have effective communications and writing skills; and at least a Master’s degree in economics,

finance or equivalent, with a minimum of 3 years related experience in a leadership role, internationally.

45. The CVs of key staff assigned to cover the skills categories identified above should clearly demonstrate

the relevant experience of each team member by task assigned (i.e. specifically explaining the role and

responsibilities of each member in previous relevant assignments). Submissions should also highlight

directly relevant and specific experience in developing country contexts and in Afghanistan (or in the

region) that the team collectively brings to this assignment; including highlighting the relevant

qualifications and expertise of the local counterpart firm and the professionals assigned to this Consultancy.

ESTIMATED LEVEL OF EFFORT

Team Leader

Specialist #1:

Electrification

planner

Specialist #2:

Off-grid

renewable

energy

electrification

specialist

Specialist #3:

GIS data

specialist

Specialist #4:

Investment

specialist

Time

(Person-day) 100 80 80 80 80

Missions 5 4 4 2 3

SELECTION CRITERIA

Weights of scores:

Technical proposal 75

Financial proposal 25

Technical proposal scoring Points (out of

100 total)

Specific experience of the Consultants relevant to the assignment 10

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Adequacy of the proposed methodology and work plan in responding to the

Terms of Reference 60

Key professional staff qualifications and competence/adequacy for the

assignment 30

Minimum technical score7 75

46. The Consultant is reminded to include adequate costs as part of their financial proposal for safeguarding

the team’s security while in Afghanistan.

DURATION AND CONTRACT

47. The Consultant will be paid upon acceptance of key deliverables by the World Bank. During this time,

the Consultant will report directly to the leads for this activity: Fanny Missfeldt-Ringius (Lead Energy

Specialist), Naila Ahmed (Senior Social Development Specialist), and Morgan Bazilian (Lead Energy

Specialist).

7 Proposals scoring lower than 75 out of 100 in the technical assessment will not have their financial proposals opened.