1. Procurement Opportunity:
Quality Control Supervising Consultant for the
Pilot Incentives in Energy Efficiency Project
MFK/MCC KOSOVO THRESHOLD PROGRAM

2. Content Background RELP Structure Timeframe & Budget
Pilot Incentives For Investment In Energy Efficiency (PIEE)
PIEE Intervention Packages & Scope
PIEE Implementing Consultant’s Role, Responsibilities, and Operational Areas
PIEE Quality Control Supervising services
Quality Control Supervising of EE measures
Quality Control Supervising of Environmental, Social, Health and Safety Compliance
Quality Control Supervising of Gender and Social Inclusion Compliance
Required experience and capacities of Supervising Consultant firm

3. Background
Threshold Program goal is to support GoK to reduce poverty through economic growth.
unreliable supply of electricity is identified as a binding constraint to economic growth.
low women labor force participation is also a significant socio-economic concern.
Reliable Energy Landscape Project (RELP) is one of the Threshold projects that aims to reduce the electricity use in the residential sector by interventions that incentivize:
investments in energy efficiency improvements.
Inclusion of women in the energy sector.
switching to more efficient sources of heat.

4. RELP Structure
Household Efficiency Retrofits (HER)
Apartment Building Efficiency Retrofits (AER)
Women Energy Entrepreneur Technical Assistance and Grant (WEE)
Activity 1 - Pilot Incentives for Investment in Energy Efficiency (PIEE)
Activity 2 – District Heat Metering (DHM)

5. Timeframe & budget Threshold program agreement: September 2017
Project Design and Preparation: October 2017 – December 2018
Program closure: September 2021
PIEE Implementing Consultant Kick Off: September 2019
PIEE completion: September 2021 (Threshold closure)
PIEE estimated budget: USD 21 million

6. PILOT INCENTIVES FOR INVESTMENT IN ENERGY EFFICIENCY (PIEE)
Main goal
Lessons learned and best practices gained to be transferred to the Government for future scaling up of subsidies for residential energy efficiency incentive programs

7. PIEE Intervention Packages & Scope
Incentives
Household Efficiency Retrofits (HER)
2,600 individual houses/ apartments
Throughout Kosovo
Retrofit rebate
Incentive level criteria:
Income
Social welfare status
Baseline thermal performance
Apartment Building Efficiency Retrofits (AER)
25 MABs
7 competitively selected municipalities
Retrofit grant
Additional grants for social welfare cases / vulnerable groups as appropriate
Women Energy Entrepreneur Technical Assistance and Grant (WEE)
Women entrepreneurs throughout Kosovo
Employment support
Grants
Paid internships
Main retrofit interventions
External Insulation
Windows
Heating Appliances
Water Heaters
Manufacturing systems

8. PIEE Implementing Consultant’s Role, Responsibilities, and Operational Areas
The Implementing Consultant (IC) is responsible for ensuring the implementation of the HER, AER, and WEE in manner that enables the disbursement of incentives to the intended target beneficiaries with the greatest impact and greatest economic efficiency.
The operational areas of the PIEE include:
Incentive design and deployment
Behavior Change and Outreach
Monitoring and Evaluation
Technical Assistance:
Capacity building (GoK/KEEA, ERO, etc)
Training and support to private sector (installers, service providers)
Gender and Social Inclusion Requirements and Activities
Environmental, Social, Health, and Safety Compliance

9. PIEE Quality Control Supervising services

10. Quality Control Supervising of EE measures
Initial audits of manuals, studies, reports, plans
Reviewing and monitoring of the qualified construction materials/products from the Product and Material Database developed by IC;
Reviewing and auditing engineering design for the energy efficiency retrofits;
Monitoring the energy efficiency retrofit works for HH, Apartment buildings and Women owned businesses;
Monitoring the commissioning of EE retrofit works

11. Quality Control Supervising
Environmental, Social, Health and Safety Compliance
Gender and Social Inclusion Compliance
Reviewing and monitoring of HSMP and ESMP;
Monitoring the implementation of health, safety and environmental safeguards
in compliance with MCC Guidelines, IFC Performance Standards, legislation of the Government of Kosovo and applicable international health, safety and environmental standards;
Reviewing and monitoring the compliance with GSI requirements as per the MFK SGIP and IC ToR’s

12. Required experience and capacities of Supervising Consultant firm
At least 10 years of experience
project management and supervisory work
incorporation of social and gender requirements
Experienced consultants with expertise in design, implementation and operation of energy efficiency retrofits
small residential buildings,
MABs,
business/enterprise buildings and their manufacturing/production systems and/or equipment

13. Required experience and capacities of Supervising Consultant firm
Key expert team
Team Leader
Energy Efficiency Specialist – Building Envelope
Energy Efficiency Specialist – Heating systems/appliances
Energy Efficiency Specialist – Manufacturing/Production Technologies
Environmental Safeguard Specialist
Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist

14. Thank You!