Within the framework of 2019 Investment Budget, the Mayor of Bamenda II Council, the Contracting Authority, hereby launches an Open Notional Invitation to tender for the construction of a Bridge Linking Musang to Ntamulung Church Center in Bamenda II Sub Division, Mezam Division of the North West Region.

-Preparatory work

-Foundation works

-Masonry elevation

-Decking works

-Backfilling

- Finishing

The estimated cost after preliminary studies is 46.200.000 (forty six million two hundred thousand) FCFA all taxes inclusive.

The works are in a unique lot as follows: the construction of a Bridge linking musang to Ntamulung Church Center in Bamenda II Sub-Division; Mezam Division of the North West Region.

Participation to this Invitation to Tender is open 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 2019 Public Investment Budget of the Ministry of Decentralization and Local Development budget head No. 532735101641 6062251 821.

The file may be consulted during working hours at Bamenda II Council, at the CDO's Office Telephone N° 679685 596, ofthe Mayor's secretariat as soon as this notice is published.

The file may be obtained from Bamenda II Council, Mayor Secretariat, CDO's Office Telephone N° 679685 596 as soon as this notice is published against payment of a non-refundable Sum of 75.000 CFA francs (seventy five thousand Francs CFA), payable at a Bamenda II Municipal 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 Bamenda II Council, Mayor's CDO's Office not later than 24/07/2019 at 9.am local time and should carry the inscription:

« OPEN NATIONAL INVITATION TO TENDER

03/ONIT/BIIC/BIIC.ITB/B.II.SD/PIB/MEZAM/2019 OF 04/07/2019 IN A UNIQUE LOT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BRIDGE LINKING MUSANG AND NTAMULUNG Church Center, IN BAMENDA II SUB DIVISION, MEZAM DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION THROUGH

EMERGENCY PROCEDURE

"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 four (4) calendar months, taking effect from date of signature of Service Order.

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.12ofthe Tender File, of an amount of 924 000 CFA (nine hundred and twenty four thousands) Francs CFA and valid for thirty (30) days beyond the date of validity of bids. As per article 90(9) of the Public Contract Code (Decree No.201 8/366 of 20 June 2018), certified cheques or bank cheques are acceptable in the place of bid bond.

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 24/07/2019 at 10.om local time, in the conference hall ofBamenda II Council, by the Bamenda II Internal Tender Board. Only bidders may attend or berepresented by duly mandated persons of their choice.

The bids shall be evaluated according to the main criteria as follows:

A. Eliminatory criteria

• Outright elimination during the opening session of the bids

1. Absence of the Bid Bond

2. A bid with the external envelope carrying a sign or mark leading to the identification of the bidder

• Elimination during the evaluation of bids by the sub Technical committee

1. Absence or non-conformity of an element in the administrative file;

2. False declaration or falsified documents;

3. Non-compliance with model bid

4. Incomplete financial file;

5. Absence of a quantified unit price;

6. Non respect of 75% of essential criteria;

7. Name of company suspended by MINMAP Circular or left a project uncompleted in the previous year

8. Financial situation below a third of the estimated cost

9. Change of quantity or unit of the tender file in the financial bid during the opening session of the bids if a document of the administrative bid is absent or Non-compliant, the bidder will be given forty eight (48) hours to produce or replace the said document else it will be eliminated during the evaluation of the bids. No such document will be accepted after this deadline.

B. Essential criteria

1- General presentation of the Tender Files;

2- Financial Capacity

3- References of the company in building construction;

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;

Special Administrative Clauses completed and initialed in all the pages and signed at the last page.

The contract will be awarded to the bidder who would have proposed the offer with the lowest reasonable amount, in conformity with the regulations ofthe Tender Documents and having satisfied to 100% ofthe eliminatory criteria and at least 75% ofthe essential criteria spelled out in the Special Regulations of the invitation to tender of this consultation.

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 Bamenda II Council, Mayor Secretariat CDO's Office Telephone N° 679685596