Within the framework of 2020 Investment Budget, the Mayor of BELO Council; Project Owner and Contracting Authority hereby launches an Open National Invitation to Tender for the CONSTRUCTION OF A BRIDGE LINKING GTHS NJINIKEJIM (MUWWA QUATER) AND KICHU; BELO municipality in BOYO Division of the North West Region.

Construction of a 5m span bridge with stone masonry abutments, I beam and a reinforce concrete deck with the sequence below
•Site clearance
•Site installations
•Setting out
•Excavation of foundations
•Foundation Works
• Construction ofmasonry abutment walls
•Reinforced concrete cross beam and deck
• Installing ofMain beams and entretroise (Steel I beam 400 and 260)
• Finishes/equipment
•Baclfilling
•Road signs

The estimated cost after preliminary studies is 35,026,370 (Thirty-five million, twenty-six thousand, three hundred and seventy) CPA Francs.

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 are financed by the 2020 Public Investment Budget of the Ministry of Public Works. (Road Fund)

The file may be consulted during working hours at the Private Secretariat of the Mayor of BELO Council, Telephone N° (237) 674 71 64 29, as soon as this tender noticeis published.

The file may be obtained from the Mayor's Secretariat, BELO Council Telephone (237) 677 26 44 26 as sooH as thls tender notice is published against payment of a nonrefundabie sum of 70,000 CFA francs(Seventy thousand francs), payable at Public 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 BELO COUNCIL, Contract Award Service not later than 06/10/2020 al 10:00 noon local time and should carry the inscription:

TO THE PROJECT OWNER (CONTRACTING AUTHORITY)
« OPEN
N° 11/ONIT/MINDDEVEL/BC/BCITB/2020
FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A BRIDGE LINKING GTHS NJINIKEJIM (MUWWA QUATER) AND KICHU VILLAGE IN BELO COUNCIL AREA 5M SPAN, 5M WIDTH, 6.5M HEIGHT, emergency procedure
RELAUCH
"To be opened only during the bid-opening session"

The maximum duration provided by the Contracting Authority for the execution of the works forming the subject of this invitation to tender is three (03) calendar months

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 700,000 CPA (Seven hundred thousand CFA), valid for thirty (30) days beyond the date of validity of bids. As per article 90 (9) of the Public contract Code (Decree No. 2018/366 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 be not older than three (3) months preceding the date of LAUNCHING OF THE TENDERS 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 open in a single phase. The opening of the administrative documents, the Technical and Financial offers will take place on the  06/10/2020 at 11: 00AM local time, in the conference hall of the Belo 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.

Evaluation criteria
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
• Elimination during the evaluation of bids bv the adhoc commitee
2. Absence or non-conformity of an element In the administrative file;
3. Deadline for delivery higher than prescribed;
4. False declaration or falsified documents;
5. A bid with the external envelope carrying a sign or mark leading to the identification of the bidder;
6. Incomplete financial file;
7. Change of quantity or unit of the Tender file in the financial bid;
8. Non respect of %=75%of essential criteria;
During the opening session of the bids if a document of the
administrative bid is absent or noncompliant, the bidder will be given
fourty eight (48) hours to produce or replace said document else 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 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;
9. Special Technical Clauses initialed in all the pages;
10. Special Administrative Clauses completed and Initialed in all the pages.
These essential criteria are subject to lower limits, the details of which are spelled out in the
Special Regulations of the Invitation to tender

This evaluation will be done in a purely binary method with a positive (yes) or negative (no) with an acceptable minimum of 3/4= 75®yo of the essential criteria taken into
account.
The contract will be awarded to the bidder who would have proposed the offer with the lowest reasonable amount, in conformity with the regulations of the Tender Documents  and having satisfied to 100% of the ellmlnatory criteria and at least 76%of the essential criteria.
Pursuant to justification by bidder, unconvincing abnormally low costing will not be accepted 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 at the BELO Council  Telephone N®{237) 674 71 6420