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Procurement
Overview
IRENA's procurement process is grounded on its financial regulations and rules, while giving due consideration to the following generally accepted procurement principles:
- Fairness, integrity and transparency of the procurement process
- Best value for money
- Effective international competition
- The interest of the Agency
The core principle underlying the Agency’s procurement process is to obtain the “best value for money”. Obtaining the 'best value for money' means selection of an offer which presents the optimum combination of life-cycle costs and benefits, and meets the business unit’s requirements. Best value for money should not be confused with the lowest price option. Rather, it requires an integrated assessment of technical, organisational and pricing factors and considering their relative importance. For example, reliability, quality, experience, reputation, past performance, realistic costs/fees and reasonableness.
As competition is the basis for impartial and transparent procurement, business units are also responsible for protecting the integrity of the procurement process and maintaining fairness and confidentiality in Agency’s treatment of all offers. The objective of Agency’s competitive processes is to provide all eligible prospective offerees with timely and adequate notification of the Agency’s requirements, and equal opportunity to tender for the required goods, civil works or services.
Solicitation documents for competitive bidding i.e. Requests for Proposals (RFP), Requests for Quotations (RFQ), Invitation to Bid (ITB) or Request for Information (RFI) will be posted on this website as they arise, including deadlines and detailed instructions for submitting bids.
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) does not charge a fee at any stage of the procurement process (e.g. vendor registration, bid submission or any other stage). If you have any reason to suspect that any activity purporting to be made on behalf of IRENA may be fraudulent, please approach us through our contacts below.
Please find attached the above captioned solicitation. Please provide your technical and financial offers, following the formats as provided. Please ensure that the technical and financial offers are submitted as separate pdf files. Bids will be accepted by Email – Bids@irena.org
Please do not hesitate to contact us should you require any additional clarification.
Bidding opportunities
Contact details for procurement section at IRENA is as follows:
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) headquarters
Masdar City – Abu Dhabi,
United Arab Emirates
P.O. Box: 236
In the event that you believe you have not been fairly treated, please contact awardreview@irena.org