The City Mayor of the Bamenda City Council hereby launches under the emergency procedure an open national invitation to tender for the above-mentioned project.

The works are made up of:

-          Site installation;

-          Site Preparation;

-          Earth Works;

-          Foundations - Abutment - deck - wing walls;

-          Equipment;

-          Drainage;

-          All other subjection necessary for good execution of the works.

The estimated accrued cost after preliminary studies is fifty-three million seven hundred and ninety-nine thousand eight hundred (53,799,800) FCFA inclusive of all taxes.

The works are regrouped in a single lot.

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

Works referred to in this invitation to tender shall be funded by the Bamenda City Council 2021 Investment Budget under the budgetary Head: 220 150.

The tender documents may be consulted during working hours at the Bamenda City Council, Department of Technical Services, Service of Direct Works, Tel: 233 36 12 67,upon publication of the invitation to tender.

The file may be obtained from the Department of Technical Services of the Bamenda City Council, as soon as this notice is published against payment of the sum of  sixty-seven thousand (67,000) CFA francs, payable into the Bamenda City Council Treasury under the budgetary head 712 101.    

Drafted in English or French and in five (5) copies, including one (01) original and four (4) copies, labelled as such. Offers shall reach the Bamenda City Council Tenders Board, in sealed envelopes, not later than 04/03/2021 at 12 noon. They shall bear the following:

«OPEN NATIONAL INVITATION TO TENDER N°006/ONIT/BCC/ITB/2021of 16/02/2021 for the construction of a bridge between Chinde and Ntatru in Bamenda under

“Emergency procedure”

TO BE OPENED ONLY DURING THE TENDER OPENING SESSION»

The maximum deadline provided by the Contracting Authority for the execution of the works forming the subject of this invitation to tender is three (3) 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 one million seventy-five thousand nine hundred and ninety-six (1,075,996) CFA Francs and valid for ninety (90) days as from the latest date of submission of bids.

For fear of being rejected, only originals or true copies certified by the issuing services or administrative authorities 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 but not limited to the absence of a bid bond issued by a first-rate bank approved by the Minister in charge of Finance.

The Administrative documents, Technical and Financial bids shall be opened in a single phase on the 04/03/2021 at 1pm, local time, by the Bamenda City Council Internal Tenders Board, at the Bamenda City Council Conference Room.

Bidders may attend or be represented by a duly mandated person.

i)        Eliminatory criteria

-          Absence or incomplete document in the administrative or technical file;

-          Forged, scanned, false or fake document;

-          Absence of bid bond;

-          Non compliance with bid model;

-          Deadline of execution more than the prescribed;

-          Omission of a quantified task on the bill of quantities;

-          Financial proposal more than the provision;

-          Technical mark less than 70% .

ii)      Essential criteria

-          The following essential criteria shall be evaluated in a binary manner (satisfactory or not) and will include:

-          Financial situation;

-          Equipment;

-          Personnel;

-          Methodology of execution and conformity with technical specifications,environmental protection and hygiene; 

-          References for similar works      

The contract shall be awarded to the bidder whose bid has been judged essential in compliance with the tender file and is evaluated as the lowest.

Bidders will be bound by their tender for a period of ninety (90) days with effect from the tender-submission deadline.

Complementary technical information may be obtained during working hours from the Department of Technical Services, Tel: 233 36 12 67 at Mulang.