Within the framework of the 2025 Public Investment Budget (PIB), the Mayor of NKUM Council “Contracting Authority” hereby launches an open National Invitation to tender for the SUPPLY OF MEDICAL EQUIPMENT TO TATUM INTEGRATED HEALTH CENTER This invitation to tender comprises one (01) lot as follows:

Work to be done consists of the SUPPLY OF MEDICAL EQUIPMENT TO THE TATUM INTEGRATED HEALTH CENTER

  Participation in this invitation to tender is open to Cameroonian enterprises that are in compliance with the fiscal laws and having a good experience in the domain concerned.

             The said Works shall be financed by the Public Investment Budget (PIB) of MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH for the 2025 financial year assigned to the Mayor of NKUM   Council as Delegated Authorizing officers with Budget Head: 59 40 047 06 641651 464211 631

Interested eligible bidders may obtain further information during working hours as from the date of publication of this tender notice, at the NKUM council.

The file may be obtained at the NKUM Council, at the Service for the award of Public Contracts, Telephone N⁰ 677 827 817 as soon as this notice is published against payment of a non- refundable sum of (50 000) Fifty Thousand FCFA, payable at the Council Treasury NKUM representing the cost of purchasing the tender file.

The file may be obtained at the NKUM Council, at the Service for the award of Public Contracts, Telephone N⁰ 677 827 817 as soon as this notice is published against payment of a non- refundable sum of (50 000) Fifty Thousand FCFA, payable at the Council Treasury NKUM representing the cost of purchasing the tender file.

The maximum execution deadline shall be three (03) calender months, including the rainy season and other vagaries, with effect from the date of notification of the administrative order of work commencement.

Each bidder should include in his administrative document, a bid bond of 400,000 (FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND) CFA francs issued by a first rate-bank or insurance company approved by the Ministry in charge of Finance in conformity with COBAC conditions.

Against the risk of being rejected, only originals or true copies certified by the issuing service or administrative authorities of the administrative document required, including the bid bond, shall imperatively be produced in accordance with the Special Conditions of the invitation to tender. They shall neither be older than three (03) months nor be produced before the signing of the tender notice.

            Any offer not in conformity with the prescriptions of this notice and tender file shall not be accepted, especially the absence of a bid bond issued by a first rate-bank, approved by the Ministry in charge of Finance, or the non-respect of the model of the tender file documents, shall lead to a pure and simple rejection of the offer without any appeal being entertained

        Under penalty of being rejected, only originals or true copies certified by the issuing service 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 single phase. The opening of the Administrative documents, Technical and Financial offers shall take place on the 12/03/2025 at 11 am local time, by the NKUM Council Internal Tenders Board in the NKUM Council Conference Hall.

Only bidders may attend or be represented by duly mandated persons of their choice.

Evaluation criteria

There are two types of evaluation criteria: eliminatory and essential criteria.  [The aim of these criteria is to identify and reject incomplete bids or bids not in conformity with the essential conditions laid down in the Tender File.

13.1 Eliminatory criteria

-     Absence of a document in the administrative file;

-       Absence or non-conformity of a document in the administrative file after 48 hours

-     Submission after the deadline prescribed;

-     False declaration or falsified documents;

-     Absence or insufficient bid bond;

-     Non-compliance with the model tender;

-     Omission of a unit price in the financial bid;

-     Non-respect of 75% of essential criteria;

13.2    Essential criteria

-     General presentation of the tender files;

-     Financial capacity;

-     After-sales service;

-     References of the company in  similar achievements;

-     Technical organization of the works;

-     Safety measures on the site;

-     Logistics;

-     Attestation and report of site visit;

-     Special Technical Clauses initialed in all the pages;

-     Special Administrative Clauses completed and initialed in all the pages

Iii   Main qualification criteria

The criteria relating to the qualification of candidates could be indicative on the following:

The essential criteria are subjected to minima whose detail is given in the Special Tender Regulation (RPAO).

This evaluation shall be done in a purely binary method with a (yes) or a (no) with an acceptable minimum of 80% of the essential criteria taken in to account.

The contract will be awarded to the bidder who would have proposed the offer with the lowest realistic amount, in conformity with the regulations of the Tender Documents and having scored 100% of the eliminatory criteria and at least 80% of the essential criteria.

The Jobbing Order shall be awarded to the bidder whose bid is in conformity with the dispositions of the tender file and on the basis of the lowest realistic bid and technical quality. (See article 33 of the public contracts code).

The bidders shall remain committed to their offers during a period of (sixty) 60 days from the deadline set for the submission of bids.

Complementary technical information may be obtained during working hours at the NKUM Council, Service of award of Public Contracts Telephone N⁰ 677 827 817.                                                      

 Delivery deadline

The maximum execution deadline provided for by the Contracting Authority shall be ninety (90) days maximum, as from the date of notification of the Service Order.