INDONESIA
Technical assistance programme for project preparation, communication and capacity-building activities in contribution to the SDG Indonesia One support to PT SMI in its mandate of financing infrastructure projects with Climate or SDG related benefits in Indonesia
Project ID: CID 1090
CONSULTING SERVICES
Expressions of interest
In order to promote and support the financing of SDG projects in Indonesia, the Agence Française de Développement (“AFD”), with the financial support of the European Union (the “EU”), concluded in 2020 a project in partnership with the Indonesian Public Development Bank PT Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (Persero) or “PT SMI”.
As a second partnership between AFD and PT SMI, this new project has brought their relationship to another level, by helping PT SMI’s ongoing transition from a public bank financing infrastructure projects to a new model of financial institution as a full-fledged development bank contributing to Indonesia's sustainable development goals (SDGs).
With a view to support the implementation of PT SMI’s programme to promote and finance SDG projects in the country, the project was indeed aimed to address Indonesia's infrastructure gap by supporting sustainable development projects through financial support, technical assistance, and a de-risking mechanism/investment grant made available to the clients of PT SMI. As such, the following resources were provided to PT SMI:
- (Component 1) a 150M USD non-sovereign credit-facility from AFD;
- (Component 2) a 500 000 EUR grant from AFD to support PT SMI in the disbursement, follow-up/ monitoring and justification of the use of the funds of the credit-facility; and
- (Component 3) a 5M EUR grant mobilised by AFD from the EU under the EU Asia Investment Facility (“EU AIF”) Programme in order to make it available to PT SMI for the financing of investment premiums (for up to 2M EUR – Component 3.1) and of a technical assistance for project preparation, communication and capacity-building activities, as well as evaluation/audit activities (for up to 3M EUR - Component 3.2).
As of today, AFD’s credit-facility to PT SMI has been fully used and allowed for the financing of investments with climate or social co-benefits (e.g. in health as an answer to the COVID crisis situation). For its part, apart from a few activities that have been carried out in support to PT SMI, the technical assistance programme component of the project (Component 3.2) remains to be implemented.
To this end, AFD is applying for the extension till end of May 2027 of the period of validity of the funds made available to the project by the EU. Once confirmation of the extension of the funds is received, PT SMI intends to use part of the amount of Component 3.2 thereof to make payments under a Technical assistance programme for project preparation, communication and capacity-building activities in contribution to the SDG Indonesia One support to PT SMI in its mandate of financing infrastructure projects with Climate or SDG related benefits in Indonesia, with a maximum budget of one million and nine hundred thousand euros (EUR 1.9 million), inclusive of all taxes.
The Services of the consultant shall consist of:
1. Project preparation activities, in the form of studies carried out on renewable energy projects or investments considered for financing by PT SMI such as hospital
2. Capacity-building activities to PT SMI (and possibly its clients), on risk-management, climate change and social issues, including gender
3. Verifying the additionality of the funds from the investment grant (Component 3.1) when used by PT SMI to support the financing of its clients’ investments.
4. Communication activities, contributing to the visibility of the programme and its impacts. These activities shall include the production of video materials, and other diverse activities such as the organisation of events and workshops aimed to promote PT SMI’s activities and mission and raise-awareness on climate change and development matters.
PT SMI invites Candidates to express their interest in providing the Services described above.
This Call for Expressions of Interest is addressed to:
q Design offices, Consulting firms q Individual consultants
q NGOs q NGO(s) and/or consulting firm(s) in a consortium (joint-venture)
Eligibility criteria for AFD financing are specified in Article 1.3 of the " Procurement Guidelines for AFD Financed Contracts in Foreign Countries ", available online on the AFD website:
http://www.afd.fr.
Candidates may submit only one application in their own name or as a consortium / joint-venture. If a Candidate (including a member of a consortium / joint-venture) submits or participates in several applications, these will be eliminated. However, the same Subcontractor may participate in several applications.
If the Respondent is a consortium / joint-venture, the Expression of Interest must include:
a copy of the consortium / joint-venture agreement signed by all its members,
or
a letter of intent to form a consortium / joint-venture, signed by all members and accompanied by a copy of the proposed consortium / joint-venture agreement.
In the absence of this document, other members will be considered as subcontractors.
Subcontractors' references and qualifications are not taken into account in the evaluation of applications.
Interested Candidates must provide information demonstrating that they are qualified and experienced to perform the present Services. To this end, they must provide references for recent and similar services.
The similarity of references will be analyzed according to :
The contract size, estimated EUR 1.9 million;
The nature of the Services: (i) carrying out project prepraration studies for renewable energy and hospital, including feasibility studies, Environmental and Social (E&S) impact studies, climate change vulnerabiliy assessments of projects, technical or financial complementary analysis of complex investments, or legal due diligence on the projects; (ii) delivering capacity-building services, including running trainings and development training materials, on-the job capacity building experience, etc.; (iii) implementing communication activities, both for event organisation and for the development of suppports and communication materials.
Field and technical expertise: Climate change, Renewable Energy or Hospital Finance, E&S, Engineering, Environmental and Social issues, Legal, Gender, Communication, Project assessment and analysis, Training and pedagogy.
The geographical context relevance, i.e. working experience in the Client’s country (Indonesia) or region (Southeast Asia).
The Customer will also examine the relevance of the Expressions of Interest with regard to the following criteria:
In-house skills and availability for technical support to in-country experts;
Local correspondents/partners;
Candidate's quality assurance procedures and certifications - specify purpose or title of certification: e.g. ISO 9001 or environmental and social certification.
PT SMI will draw up a shortlist of a maximum of six (6) Candidates, pre-selected on the basis of the applications received, to whom it will send the Request for Proposals for the performance of the required Services.
Expressions of Interest should be submitted to the postal or email address below, by June 30, 2025.
Procurement Committee PT Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (Persero)
Mailroom PT Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (Persero)
Sahid Sudirman Center, Lantai 47, Jl. Jend. Sudirman No.86, RT.10/RW.11,
Karet Tengsin, Kecamatan Tanah Abang,
Kota Jakarta Pusat, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta 10220, Indonesia
Email address: pengadaan@ptsmi.co.id
Interested Candidates may obtain further information at the email address above, during office hours: from Monday to Friday, 8.30 am to 5.30 pm (GMT+7).