The Mayor Widikum Boffe Council, the Contracting Authority, on behalf of the Republic of Cameroon, hereby launches an open invitation to tender, emergency procedure for the CONSTRUCTION OF WIDIKUM TOWN PHASE II GIANT WATER PROJECT, WIDIKUM SUB DIVISION, MOMO Division, and North-West Region. It is a single lot.

• SINGLE LOT: CONSTRUCTION OF WIDIKUM TOWN PHASE II GIANT WATER PROJECT -WIDIKUM-BOFFE COUNCIL Area,

The works include the following:

SINGLE LOT

Participation is open under the same conditions to all Cameroonian companies and business concerned that are in compliance with the Cameroon laws.

The works, subject of this invitation to tender, are financed by the Public Investments Budget MINDDEVEL 2020

The tender file may be consulted at the Widikum-Boffe Council Office Secretariat, during working hours, as soon as this tender notice is published.

The tender file may be acquired from the Widikum-Boffe Council Office Secretariat, Contract Award Service upon presentation of a non refundable treasury receipt of 90 000 ( Ninety  thousand) FCFA payable at the Widikum council Treasury representing the cost of the tender file. Such a receiptshall identify the payer as representing the company that wants to participate in the tender.

The tender file in three (3) volumes shall be enclosed in three sealed envelopes.

• Envelope A containing the administrative documents (volume 1)
• Envelope B containing the technical offer (volume 2)
• Envelope C containing the financial offer (volume 3)

The three volume shall then be enclosed in a single sealed envelop bearing only the reference of the tender in question. The different documents of each offer shall be numbered as indicated in the tender and separated by dividers of the same colour

8.    Submission of bids:

 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 Widikum-Boffe Council Office Secretariat not later than 05/03/2020 at 10:00 AM local time and should carry the inscription:

<< OPEN NATIONAL INVITATION TO TENDER,

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

The maximum execution deadline shall be five (5) calender months, including the rainy season and other vagaries, wth effect from the date of notification of the administrative order of work commencement.

Each bidder must include in his administrative documents a bid bond issued by a first rate bank approved by the Ministry in charge of Finance featuring in the annex of the tender file of the sum of 1,800,000(one million eight hundred thousand  ) FCFA.

            The provisional deposit shall be authomatically released not later than 30 (thirty) days following the expiry of the validity of the bids for bidders who shall not be retained. In the case where the bidder is awarded the contract, the provisional deposit shall be released after the constitution of the final bond.

  Under penalty of being rejected, only originals or certified true copies signed 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 rejected. 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 05/03/2020 at 11: 00AMlocal time, in the conference hall of the Widikum-Boffe Council, by its competent Members. Only bidders may attend or be represented by duly mandated persons of their choice and having a good knowledge of their files.

The evaluation of the bids shall be done in three (03) steps:

• 1^st step: Verification of the conformity of the administrative file;
• 2^nd step: Evaluation of the technical file;
• 3^rd step: Analysis of the financial file.

The criteria of evaluation are the following:

14.1-Eliminatory criteria

14.1.1- Administrative documents

• Any offer not in conformity with the prescriptions of this tender file shall be declared inadmissible. Especially the lack of the provisional guarantee;
• Absence of a document in the administrative file;
• False declaration or falsified documents.

14.1.2- Technical file

• Incomplete  or non compliant documents;
• False declaration, forged or scanned documents;
• Absence of the prefinancing capacity of at least five million, (25,000 000) F CFA,
• Technical assessment mark lower than 80% of “Yes”.

• Non existence in the technical file of the rubric « organization, methodology and planning »

14.1.3- Financial offer

• Incomplete financial offer;
• Non compliant documents;
• Omission of quantified unit price in the financial offer;
• Absence of break down price.

Essential criteria:

The technical offer of the bidder shall be assessed along the following lines:

The note of the technical offer will be gotten by addition of marks for every criteria. Only the technical offer having gotten an equal or superior note to 80% of YES will be kept for the financial evaluation.

This evaluation will be done in a binary way (yes) or (no) with an acceptable minimum of (80%) of the essential criteria taken in 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 80% of the essential criteria.

Bidders will remain committed to their offers for one hundred and fifty (150) days from the deadline set for the submission of tenders.

Complementary technical information may be obtained during working hours from the DD MINEE MOMO