Within the framework of the 2020 Public Investment Budget (PIB), the Mayor of Mbiame Council "Contracting Authority" hereby launches by emergency procedure an open National Invitation to tender for the construction of a block of two (02) classrooms at G S KOVJOH IN MBIAME Council Area. This invitation to tender comprises one (01) lot as follows;

Work to be done consists of constructing a block of two (02) classrooms at G S KOVJOH IN MBIAME Council Area, Bui Division. The works include the following:
Lot 100: Preparatory works and studies
Lot 200: Earth Works
Lot 300: Foundation
Lot 400: Block work in elevation
Lot 500: Carpentry works
Lot 600: Metallic works
Lot 700: Electricity
Lot 800: Painting
Lot 900: Drainage works and pavement
Lot 1000: Hygien and Environmental Protection 

The said Works shall be financed by the Public Investment Education for the 2020 financial year assigned to the Mayor of Mbiame Councin  and Delegated Authorizing officers with Budget Heads N0 54 15 197 01 641629 2222

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

The file may be obtained at the Mbiame Council, at the Service for the award of Public Contracts, Telephone N® 677 740 854 as soon as this notice is published against payment ofa non- refundable sum of (35 DOO)Thirty Five Thousand CFA francs, payable at the Municipal Treasury Mbiame 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 theoffice in charge ofPublic Contracts, not later than 24th April 2020 at 10.00 am local time. It should be labelled as follows:

"OPEN NATIONAL INVITATION TO TENDER
N0 01/ONIT/MBIAME COUNCIL/MCITB/2020 OF 26th MARCH 2020 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A
BLOCK OF TWO (02) CLASSROOMS AT GS KOVJOH IN MBIAME COUNCIL AREA, BUI DIVISION,
NORTH WEST REGION

TO BE OPENED ONLYDURING THE BID OPENING SESSION

The maximum execution deadline shall be four (04) calendar months including the rainy season and other vagaries, with effect from the date of notification of the administrative order of work comencement.

The maximum execution deadline provided for by the Contracting Authority shall be One Hundred and Twenty (120) days maximum, as from the date ofnotification of the service order.

Each bidder should include in his administrative document, a bid bond of 380 000 (Three Hundred and Eighty Thousand) CFA francs issued by a first rate-bank 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 ofthe invitation to tender. They shall neither be older
than three (03) months norbe produced before the signing ofthe tender notice.
Any offer not in conformity with the prescriptions of this notice and tenderfile 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 Regulation 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 declared  innamisible. 

This refers especially to the absence of a bid bond issued by a first-rate 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 24th April 11 am local time, by the Mbiame Council Internal Tenders Board in the Mbiame Concil 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.
i. Eliminatory criteria
Eliminatory criteria fix the minimum conditions to be fulfilled to be admitted for evaluation according of
the essential criteria. The non-respect ofthese criteria leads to the rejection ofthe bid made by the bidder.
Theyrefer especially to:
♦ Absence of bid bond
♦ False declaration or forged document
♦ Non compliance with major technical specifications (to be listed)
♦ Non-respect of Xessential criteria (X being greater than orequal to 1)
♦ Absence ofquantified unit price)
♦ Non compliance with the model bid
♦ Technical assessment mark lower than 80% of "Yes".
♦ Suspensionof the enterprise
//. Essential criteria
Essential criteria are primordial in the judgment ofthe technical and financial capacity ofcandidates
to execute the works forming the subjectof the invitation to tender.
The criteria relating to the qualification of candidates are based on the following:

• General presentation of the tender files;
• References of the company in similar achievements;
• Experience of supervisory staff ;
• Logistics (Equipment);
• Methodology;
• Financial capacity;
• Attestation ofsite visit signed by both the Contractor

• Reportof site visit signed by the Contractor
• The Special Technical Clauses (STC). (Each page should
signed and stamped);
• Special Administrative Clauses completed (each page should be initiated and the last page signed and stamped);
• Pre - Financing capacity not less than 75% of the amount required in the offer 
The essential criteria are subjected to minima whose detail is given in the special regulation of the  Invitation to tender (RPAO).
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 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 bid and technical quality. (See article 33 of the public
contracts code)

The bidders shall remain committed to their offers during a period of (ninety) 90 days from the deadline set for the submission of bids.

Complementary technical information may be obtained during working hours at the Mbiame Council, Service of award of Public Contracts.