The consulting services include comprehensive supervision and project management support to UHE for the implementation of a contract for the design, supply and installation of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) with Energy Management Systems (EMS) and ancillary equipment at the Kyiv hydropower/pumped-storage station and the Kaniv, Kremenchuk and Seredniodniprovska hydropower plants, including related services such as the training of UHE staff.
The project envisages the installation of BESS and the creation of an EMS of a total capacity of 197 MW 2-h BESS across the four sites. Each location and project site is to be tendered as a separate lot (meaning that each separate location might have their own separate contractor and their own separate contract with terms that might differ from the other), but construction is to be carried out simultaneously.
Potential participants should keep in mind that they might have to deal with up to four different contractors and their own specific contracts during the implementation of this project. The contract(s) is foreseen to commence on 1 February 2027, for a total estimated duration of 54 months.
Interested consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the services including at least 10 years of experience in providing consulting services in technical supervision of construction and project management support, including on project environmental and social support; at least two projects related to installation and commissioning of BESS (as stand-alone or as part of hybrid PV/Wind + BESS projects) in the past five years, each with a power and energy capacity of at least 60 MW and at least 60 MWh respectively, as well as at least two projects related to installation and commissioning of HV substations (110 kV or higher), in the past five years, and experience in implementing at least four contracts/assignments related to environmental and social support for projects in the energy sector over the past seven years, including at least two with IFIs participation (IBRD, EBRD, ADB, etc.). Experience under IFI-funded projects is acceptable; specific prior experience under WB Plant contracts is not mandatory, provided that equivalent supply-install (plant-like) supervision experience is demonstrated.
The purpose of this Request for Expressions of Interest is to establish a shortlist of qualified consulting firms. The Request for Proposals, including the detailed evaluation methodology and contract conditions, will be issued only to shortlisted firms. A consultant will be selected in accordance with the Quality- and Cost-Based Selection (QCBS) method set out in the World Bank’s Procurement “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” (November, 2020 edition) and as further specified in the Request for Proposals.
The tender notice can be viewed at https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/procurement-detail/OP00457299, with a link to the Terms of Reference (TOR) accessed by clicking here.
In order to facilitate the preparation and submission of the relevant information, the consultants are proposed to use the following template for the preparation and submission of the Expressions of Interest (accessed by clicking here). At the same time, the consultants may, at their own discretion, formulate and present relevant information in any form that, in the consultant’s opinion, reflects the consultant’s vision of presenting their qualifications and experience for the services provision best of all.
Further information can be obtained by sending respective request to the e-mails provided below.
Expressions of Interest must be delivered in a written form in Ukrainian or English via email to the following address: o.hryshchenko@uhe.gov.ua, mandatory copy to: ya.lykhatska@uhe.gov.ua and yu.makukha@uhe.gov.ua by 5:00 p.m. Kyiv time, 2 September 2026. Expressions of Interest shall be submitted with the following reference in the subject line: “UHE-IPSR-ES: Expression of Interest”.
