ELECTRICITY ACCESS SCALE-UP PROJECT (EASP) FINANCIAL INTERMEDIATION COMPONENT

Request for Expressions of Interest (EoI) for Consultancy Services to Support the Development and Operationalisation of Environmental and Social Management Systems (ESMS) for Participating Financial Institutions (PFIs) under the Financial Intermediation Component of the Electricity Access Scale-Up Project (EASP)

Procurement Reference Number: UECCC-EASP/CONS/2026-2027/00002

1 BACKGROUND

The Government of Uganda (GoU) with funding support from the World Bank is implementing the Electricity Access Scale-up Project (EASP). The project aims at increasing access to energy for households, commercial enterprises, industrial parks, and public institutions nationwide, including in Refugees Hosting Districts (RHDs).

Project implementation is carried out by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (MEMD) and the Uganda Energy Credit Capitalization Company (UECCC) through dedicated Project Implementation Units (PIUs). UECCC is implementing the Financial Intermediation component under the EASP that includes:

• Results Based Financing Program (RBF) that offers end-user grants extended through Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) to address affordability constraints of households and enterprises accessing off-grid solar, clean cooking solutions and productive uses of energy.

• Credit Support Facility (CSF) that entails provision of dedicated Lines of Credit to Partner Financial Institutions (PFIs) for the on-lending as working capital facilities to ESCOs dealing in Clean Cooking Solutions (CCS), Off-grid Solar Solutions (OGS) and Productive Uses of Energy (PUE) and on-lending to End-users (households and enterprises) for acquiring of eligible clean energy products.

• The Public Institutions Program entails provision of grant financing for the provision of clean cooking solutions and solar electrification to public institutions including schools, health centers, and public water points. The program is implemented in conjunction with the Ministries of Energy and Mineral Development (MEMD), Ministry of Water and Environment (MWE), Ministry of Education & Sports (MoES) and Ministry of Health (MoH).

• The Technical Assistance Facility that supports Energy Service Companies, Participating Financial Institutions and other key project stakeholders to build capacity and skills to address barriers to effective service delivery.

UECCC intends to engage consultants to support PFI's without functional ESMS to develop and operationalise their respective ESMS. The consultants will guide and provide the PFI's with technical support through training workshops to skill and enable them to develop and operationalise their respective ESMS.

UECCC now invites eligible consulting firms ("Consultants") to express their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services.

The shortlisting criteria are:

1. Documents establishing the legality of the firms (Certificate of Incorporation/Registration, Articles and Memorandum of Association or equivalent, Tax clearance certificate).

2. General experience of a minimum of five (5) years in developing Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIA), Environmental and Social Management Systems in the energy sector.

3. Experience of at least three (3) similar assignments within the last six (6) years of similar scope, and nature involving Environmental and Social Impact Assessments Environmental and Social Management Plans, Environmental and Social Management Systems in the energy sector.

4. Average annual turnover of not less than UGX.500m (Uganda shillings Five hundred million only) over the last 3 years

5. Annual Audited Accounts for the last three years

6. Firm's organization to demonstrate the firm's technical and managerial capability (Provide only the structure of the Organization, General qualification and number of Key Staff in areas of Environmental and social safeguards Assessments, Detailed evaluation Criteria are provided in the Terms of Reference at the UECCC website: www.ueccc.org.ug)

2 SELECTION PROCESS

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III, paragraphs, 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank's "Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers" July 2016 revised November 2017, August 2018 and November 2020, September 2023 and September 2025) ("Consultant Guidelines") setting forth the World Bank's policy on conflict of interest.

Consultants will be selected in accordance with the Consultant's Qualification Selection (CQS) method set out in the Procurement Regulations (Revised September 2025).

Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours from 8:30am to 5:00pm ET.

Expressions of interest should be delivered in a written form to the address below (in person, or by mail, by 6th August 2026 at 2.00pm ET).

Hard Copy submissions should be accompanied by a soft copy on a flash disk.

Expressions of interest (EOI) or any other inquiries shall be addressed to:

The Managing Director,
Uganda Energy Credit Capitalisation Company
Amber House, Plot 29/33 Kampala Road, 3rd Floor, Block E
P.O. Box 29725 Kampala
Electronic submissions should be submitted to gdu@ueccc.org.ug