The City Mayor of the Bamenda City Council hereby launches an open national invitation for the above mentioned project.

The project to be realized comprises notably the construction of offices and toilets. The different  tasks to executed are as follows:

The estimated cost after preliminary studies stands at sixty-nine million four hundred and thirty- seven thousand four hundred and eighty-six (69,437,486) Francs CFA all taxes inclusive.

The works are regrouped in a unique lot: CONSTRUCTION OF OFFICES ON THE FIRST FLOOR OF THE C2D-LCU BUILDING AT MULANG-MANKON

Participation in this invitation to tender is opened to all national companies specialized in building construction and public works.

Works which from the subject of this invitation to tender shall be financed by Public Investment Budget of the Bamenda City Council for 2020 financial year.

The file may be consulted during working hours at the Bamenda Technical Services at Mulang Tel: 677 144 131/677 047 095 upon publication of the invitation tender.

The file may be obtained from the Bamenda City Council, Department of Technical Services, Tel: 677 144 131/675 102 929 upon publication of the invitation to tender against payment of the non- refundable sum of seventy-eight  thousand (78,000)CFA Francs, payable at Bamenda City Council Treasury under the budgetary head 712 101.

Each bid drafted in English or French shall be signed by the bidder or by a duly authorized representative and presented in five (05) copies including the original and four (04) copies marked as such. These shall be submitted in one sealed pack containing three (3) envelopes; (A: Administrative file B- Technical file, C: Financial file). The sealed pack shall bear no information on the enterprise, and should reach Bamenda City Council Tenders Board, not later than 11/06/2020 at 12 noon and should carry the inscription:

OPEN NATIONAL INVITATION TO TENDER

N° 003/ONIT/BCCITB/2020 OF 13/05/2020 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF OFFICES ON THE FIRST FLOOR OF THE C2D-LCU BUILDING AT MULANG-MANKON UNDER "EMERGENCY PROCEDURE"

 In case of any ambiguities or differences, only the original shall be considered authentic.

The maximum duration of execution provided for by the Contracting Authority shall be five (05) calendar months, as from the date of notification of the contractor y the contract manager to start work.

Each bidder must  include in his/her administrative documents, a bid bond that respects the modeIs of this tender file issued by an approved bank or an Insurance company, (see list in document No 12 of this tender file), of an amount of one million three hundred and eighty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty (1,388,750) Francs CFA, valid for ninety (90) days as from the date of validity of the offers. Bid bonds for unsuccessful bidders shall be withdrawn not later than fifteen (15) days after the award of the contract and those of successful bidders shall be retained until the required performance guarantee for good execution is provided.

For fear of being rejected, only originals or true copies certified by the issuing service or administrative authorities 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 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 opening of the bids in one phase shall be done on the 11/06/2020 at 1.00 pm prompt in the Conference Hall of the Bamenda City Council by the Internal Tenders Board. Bidders may attend o be represented by a duly mandated person.

The evaluation of bids shall be carried out in three stages:

 > 1^st Stage: verification of the conformity of each administrative document;

 > 2^nd Stage: Evaluation technical bids;

> 3^rd Stage: Analyses of Financial bids.

The criteria of evaluation shall be as follows:

1-Eliminatory criteria

 - Absence  of a document in the administrative file;

- False declaration or falsified documents;

-  Absence or insufficient bid bond;

- Omission of a quantified task on the bill of quantities and cost estimates

- Enterprise with an abandoned contractor uncompleted above contractual deadline.

- Non satisfaction of at least 2/3 of the criteria on references

2. Main Qualification criteria:

The criteria relating to the qualification of candidates could indicatively be on the following:

• Financial situation

• Experience

• Personnel

• Equipment.

• Methodology/organization of the site

The contract shall be awarded to the bidder whose bid is in conformity to the dispositions of the tender file and on the basis of the lowest bid and technical quality, confer article 99 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 information may be obtained during working hours from Bamenda City Council, Department of Technical Services, Tel: 677 14 41 31 / 675 10 29 29