Within the framework of 2024 Public Investment Budget, the Lord Mayor of Bamenda 1 Council, the Contracting Authority/the Project Owner, hereby launches a REQUEST FOR QUOTATION FOR THE REHABILITATION OF TWO BLOCKS OF TWO CLASSROOMS  AT G.S NTOH IN BAMENDA 1 COUNCIL AREA, MEZAM DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION.

Works to be done consists of

• Preparatory works
• Earth works
• Foundation
• Masonry elevation
• Carpentry-roof works
• Metallic works
• Electricity
• Painting

• VDR drainage

The estimated cost after preliminary studies is 20.000.000 (Twenty million) FCFA.

The works consist of a unique lot as follows:

THE REHABILITATION OF TWO BLOCKS OF TWO CLASSROOMS  AT G.S NTOH IN BAMENDA 1 COUNCIL AREA, MEZAM DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION.

Participation to this Invitation to Tender is opened to Cameroonian enterprises that are in compliance with the fiscal laws.

         Works which form the subject of this Invitation to Tender shall be financed by the 2024 Public Investment Budget of MINEDUB, budget heads No...............................................

The file may be consulted during working hours at the Bamenda I Council, SIGAMP Service, as soon as this notice is published.

The file may be obtained from the Bamenda I Council, SIGAMP Service as soon as this Notice is published against payment of the non-refundable sum of thirty five (35000) CFA francs, payable at the Bamenda I Council Treasury, representing the cost of purchasing the Tender File

Each offer drafted in English or French in 07 (seven) copies including 01 (one) original and 06 (six) copies marked as such, should reach the Bamenda I Council, SIGAMP Office not later than 27/02/2024 at 10:00 AM local time and should carry the inscription:

<<REQUEST FOR QUOTATION N° 01/RQ/MINDDEVEL/ BICITB /B1C /B1SD/

MEZAM/NWR/2024 OF 02/02/2024 FOR THE REHABILITATION OF TWO BLOCKS OF TWO CLASSROOMS  AT G.S NTOH IN BAMENDA 1 COUNCIL AREA, MEZAM DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION>>

“To be opened only during the bid-opening session”

The maximum deadline provided by the Contracting Authority for the execution of the works forming the subject of this Invitation to tender is sixty (60) Days

          Each bidder must include in his administrative documents, a bid bond issued by a first-rate banking establishment approved by the Ministry in charge of finance and whose list is found in document No. 12 of the Tender File, of an amount of 400.000 FCFA (four hundred thousand Francs CFA)and valid for thirty (30) days beyond the date of validity of bids

        Under penalty of being rejected, only originals or true copies certified by the issuing service or administrative authorities (Senior Divisional Officer, Divisional Officers) must imperatively be produced in accordance with the Special Regulations of the Invitation to Tender.

They must obligatorily not be older than three (3) months preceding the date of submission of bids or may be established after the signature of the tender notice

 Any bid not in compliance with the prescriptions of the Tender File shall be declared inadmissible. This refers especially to the absence of a bid bond issued by a first-rate bank approved by the Minister in charge of Finance. .

The bids shall be opened in a single phase. The opening of the administrative documents, the Technical and Financial offers will take place on the 27/02/2024at 11:00 AMlocal time, in the conference hall of the Bamenda I Council, by the Bamenda I Council Internal Tenders Board. Only bidders may attend or be represented by duly mandated persons of their choice who have knowledge about the bids

The bids shall be evaluated according to the main criteria as follows:
Eliminatory criteria
1.      Absence or insufficient Bid Bond;
2.      Non respect of 48 hours given for absence or non conformity of an element in the Administrative File
3.      False declaration or falsified documents;
4.      A bid with the external envelope carrying a sign or mark leading to the identification of the bidder;
5.      Non-compliance with model bid
6.      Incomplete Bids
7.      Absence of a quantified unit price;
8.      Non respect of 75% of essential criteria;
9.      Financial capacity below 50% of the estimated cost
10. Change of a quantity in the Financial File

Essential criteria
     

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1-     General presentation of tenders
2-     Financial capacity
3-     References of the company in  similar achievements;
4-     Quality of the personnel; 
5-     Technical organization of the works;
6-     Safety measures on the site;
7-     Logistics;
8-     Attestation and report of site visit signed by the Contractor;
9-     Special Technical Clauses initialed in all the pages and signed at the last page;
10- Special Administrative Clauses completed and initialed in all the pages and signed at the last page.

This evaluation will be done in a purely positive way (yes) or negative (no) with an acceptable minimum of 75% of the essential criteria taken into account.

The Contract will be awarded to the bidder who would have proposed the offer with the lowest amount, in conformity with the regulations of the Tender Documents and having satisfied to 100% of the eliminatory criteria and at least 75% of the essential criteria.

Bidders will remain committed to their offers for sixty (60) days from the deadline set for the submission of tenders.

Complementary technical information may be obtained during working hours from the Bamenda 1 Council, Service of SIGAMP