Within the framework of 2020 Public Investment Budget, the Mayor of the BABESSI Council; Project Owner and Contracting Authority hereby launches an Open National Invitation to Tender for the CONSTRUCTION OF A BRIDGE AT PK 6+080 ALONG THE BABESSI MARKET - BANGOLAN MARKET ROAD IN BABESSI SUB DIVISION NGOKETUNJIA DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION

Work to be done consists of preparatory works, foundation works, Masonry elevation, decking works, backfilling and finishing works

Series 000-lnstallation

001 Site Installation

002 Geotechnical and technical Studies (performance program and Execution Documents)

 Series 100- Site Preparation

101 Bush cutting

102 Traffic flow

103 Diversion of water course/road and construction of a temporary wooden bridge

104 Widening of the river bed upstream and downstream to eight meters (L=200M, W=8.0m) to enlarge the bed

105 Demolition of the two existing structures (stone masonry abutments of the 02 bridges)

106 Implantation

Series 200 -General Earth Works

 201 Excavation of foundation trenches

 202 Excavation of trenches foe the buttress wall up and downstream at the edges of the raft

 203 Backfill of excavation

204 Access fill and re-elevation of the carriage way on the swamp

205 Resurfacing of the filled accesses to the bridge with laterite from a borrow pit Series

300-Foundations-Abutment—wing walls - deck

301 Hard-core 302 Stone masonry works for foundation, abutment and wing walls filtering material behind the abutment

 303 Archor of rods HA25 to a rock(hard soil of good bearing capacity): 01m deep from floor of excavation for footings 50cx50cm 304 20cm waiting rods for anchoring to reinforcement mesh of the footings) Total length rod HA25 to be cut 1.2m well coated with tar and drilled Into so if while embedding another protected coat with a paste of cement mortar dosed at400lcg/m3

305 Lean concrete floor dosed of 150kg/m3

306 concrete 15crn thick dosed at 250kg/m3 for the water proof behind the abutments and wing walls

307 Reinforced concrete dosed at 400kg/m3 for the footings

308 Reinforced concrete dosed at 400kg/m3 for the seating of the slab, the slab and kerbs of the bridge

309 Reinforced concrete 15cm thick dosed at 350kg/m3 for raft of the bridge (at the floor of the bridge , should extend upstream by 02m and 01m downstream

311 Reinforced concrete 15cm thick and 01 m deep dosed at 350kg/m3 for a buttress wall upstream of the raft across the whole length

312 Neat formwork for the visible concrete parts of the deck 313 Scaffolding

Series 400-ASSEMBLING

401 IPE 280 for rib beams 402 IPE 450 for beams including all subjections

Series 500-PAINT

501 Anticorrosive paint on metal profiles

502 Oil paint

503 Coal tar cladding of the concreted parts of the bridge in contact with soil (rear of the abutment and wing walls, footing)

Series 600-Equipment

 601 Mix guardrails (RC+iron tubes 60)

 602 Weep holes

603 Drainage pipes

604 Signposts

605 RC Post marker (Ballses)

Series 700-drainage

 701 Stone masonry trapezoidal ditch upstream along the fill of the both accesses of the bridge

The estimated cost after preliminary studies is 63 479 644 (sixty three million four hundred and ninety seven thousand six hundred and forty four) CFA Francs.

Unique lot: CONSTRUCTION OF A BRIDGE AT PK 6+080 ALONG THE BABESSI MARKET - BANGOLAN MARKET ROAD IN BABESSI SUB DIVISION NGOKETUNJIA DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION

Participation to this Invitation to tender is open to Cameroonian enterprises that are in compliance with the fiscal laws.

The Works on This tender are funded by the budget of the Ministry of Public works through the road fund. For the 2020 financial year.

The file may be consulted during working hours at the Private Secretariat of the BABESSI Council, NGOKETUNJIA, Telephone N° (237) 670 61 59 79 as soon as this notice is published.

The file may be obtained from the Private Secretariat of the BABESSI Council, Telephone N°(237) 670 61 59 79 as soon as this notice is published against payment of non refundable sum of 95,000 CFA francs, payable at the BABESSI Council Municipal 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 should reach the Babessi Council not later than _02_/_09_/2020_ at 10 AM local time and should carry the inscription:

TO THE PROJECT OWNER (Contracting Authority) « OPEN NATIONAL INVITATION TO TENDER'S NOTICE N° 07/ON1T/BCITB/BC/BSB/NGOKETUNJIA/NWR/FR/2020 OF 28/07/2020 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BRIDGE AT PK 6+080 ALONG THE BABESSI MARKET - BANGOLAN MARKET ROAD IN BABESSI SUB DIVISION NGOKETUNJIA DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION"

"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 four (04) 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 1,272,450 CFA (One million two hundred and seventy two thousand four hundred and fifty) Francs 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 opened by the Babessi Council Internal Tenders Board in a single phase. The opening of the administrative documents, the Technical and Financial offers will take place on the _02_/_09_/_2020_ at 11 AM local time, at the Conference Hall of the Babessi Council,. Only bidders may attend or be represented by duly mandated persons of their choice.

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 by the adhoc committee

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;

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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 forty eight (48) hours to produce or replace the said document else it 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 signed by the bidder and the works director respectively;

9- Special Technical Clauses initialed in all the pages and last page signed;

 10-Special Administrative Clauses initialed in all the pages and last page signed.

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 on 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 reasonable 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. 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 Technical Service of the BABESSI Council Telephone N° (237) 670 61 59 79