Within the framework of 2020 Public Investment Budget, the Lord Mayor BALI Council, the Contracting Authority/the Project Owner, hereby launches an Open National Invitation to tender for the construction of a bridge at Ngwatkan in BALI Council Area, Mezam Division of the North West Region PHASE I.

Work to be done consists of
-Preparatory work
-Earth works
-Drainage works
- Equipment

The estimated cost after preliminary studies is 27,700,000 (twenty seven million seven hundred thousand) FCFA.

The works consist of a unique lot as follows:
construction of a bridge at Ngwatkan in BALI Council Area, Mezam Division of the North West Region PHASE I.

Participation and origin
Participation to this Invitation to Tender is opened 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 2020 Public Investment Budget of MINTP.

The file may be consulted during working hours at the BALI Council, as soon as this notice is published.

The tender file shall be obtained from the BALI Council as soon as this Notice is published against payment of the non-refundable sum of 40 000 CFA francs (forty thousand Francs CFA), payable at the BALI Council Treasury, representing the cost of purchasing the Tender File.

Each offer drafted In English or French in 06 (Six) copies including 01 (one) origin and 05 (five) copies marked as such, should reach the BALI Council not later than 13/05/2020 10:00 AM local time and should carry the Inscription:

« OPEN NATIONAL INVITATION TO TENDER
 N0. 04/ONIT/ BC/BCITB/2020 OF
24/04/2020 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BRIDGE AT NGWATKAN AT BALI IN
DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION BY EMERGENCY PROCRDURE PHASE I >
To be opened only during the bid-opening session

The maximum deadline provided by the Delegated Contracting Authority for the execution of the works forming the subject of this Invitation to tender is 120 Days

Each bidder must include in his administrative documents, a bid bond issued by a firstrate 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 554,000 CPA (Five hundred and Fifty four thousand Francs CFA) and valid for thirty (30) days beyond the date of validity of bids

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  the administrative documents, the Technical and Financial offers will take place on the 13/05/2020 at 11:00 AM local time, In the conference hall of the BALI Council. Only bidders may attend or be represented by duly mandated persons of their choice who have knowledge about the bid

Evaluation criteria
The bids shall be evaluated according to the main criteria as follows:
A. Eliminatory criteria
1. Absence of a document In the administrative file;
False declaration or falsified documents;
A bid with the external envelope carrying a sign or mark leading to the
identification of the bidder;
Non-compliance with model bid
Incomplete financial file;
Absence of a quantified unit price;
Non respect of 75% of essential criteria;
Name of company suspended by MINMAP or the non-completion of any
project in the previous years
9. Financial capacity below a third of the estimated cost
B. Essential criteria
1- General presentation of the Tender;
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 signed by the Contractor;
9- Special Technical Clauses initialed In all the pages and signed at the last page;
10-Special Administrative Clauses completed and initialed In all the pages and
signed at the last page.

This evaluation will be done in a purely binary way yes or no with an acceptable minimum of 75% of the essential criteria taken into 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 75% of the essential criteria.

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 the the BALI Council Office.