Maldives Releases Solar Tender worth 5 MW in Greater Malé

The Government of the Republic of Maldives has announced that it has called upon investors and developers to install a 5 MW grid-tied solar photovoltaic system in the Greater Malé Region. The range of work for this project includes the designing, building, financing, owning, operating, and transferring of the solar project.

Bidding for tender will be piloted through International Competitive Bidding (ICB) procedures steady with World Bank’s Guidelines called Procurement under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits and Grants by World Bank Borrowers dated January 2011, reviewed July 2014. It is open to all bidders from entitled source countries as demarcated in the guidelines.

The project will be executed under the Accelerating Sustainable Private Investment in Renewable Energy (ASPIRE) program along with the support of the Scaling Up Renewable Energy Program (SREP). The ASPIRE program aims to scale up to over 20 MW of solar PV through private investment in the Maldives.

The last date to apply for the tender is March 18, 2019.