Within the framework of 2022 Public Investment Budget, The MAYOR FUNDONG COUNCIL,

Contracting Authority, hereby launches an Opened National Invitation to tender by emergency procedure for the FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF ADUK WATER SUPPLY SCHEME (LOT 1), AND EXTENSION OF MBAM WATER SUPPLY SCHEME (LOT 2) IN THE FUNDONG MUNICIPALITY OF BOYO DIVISION, NORTH WEST REGION

NATURE OF SERVICE FOR LOT 1: Work to be done consists of:

    PREPARATORY WORKS

    CONSTRUCTION AND REHABILITATION WORKS

     CONSTRUCTION OF THE CATCHMENTS

     STORAGE TANKS, STAND TAPS AND VALVE CHAMBERS

    REHABILITATION WORKS

    PIPING NETWORK

    ENVIRONMENTAL MITIGATION MEASURES

    PROJECT SUSTAINABILITY

 Participation in this invitation to tender is open to competent Cameroonian enterprises that are in compliance with the fiscal laws and who are not currently excluded from public procurement.

The said works shall be financed as per the programmed budget of the 2022 Public Investment Budget (PIB 2022) of the Republic of Cameroon under the Ministry of Water Resources Energy and Energy (MINEE) assigned to the Mayor of Fundong Council

The Tender documents may be consulted and obtained immediately after publication of this invitation to tender from the Mayor’s Private secretariat of the Fundong council during working hours at the Fundong Council Chambers.

The Tender file shall be obtained from the Fundong Council Chamber as soon as this notice is published against payment of a non-refundable sum of Seventy-Five Thousand (75,000) CFA francs, payable at the Fundong Council Treasury. Such receipt shall identify the payer as representing the company that wants to participate in the tender.

Each bid written in English or French shall be signed by the bidder or by a duly authorized representative and presented in Seven (7) copies, that is one (01) original and six (06) copies labelled as such. These shall be submitted in one external envelope - sealed, containing three (3) internal envelopes, that is, Envelope A: Administrative Documents, Envelope B: Technical file and Envelope C: Financial file. The sealed external envelope shall bear no information about the company and shall reach the Fundong Council secretariat not later than the 07/04/2022 at 10 am local time and note should be taken that in case of any ambiguities or differences during opening, only the original shall be considered authentic. The sealed pack shall bear the following inscriptions:

<<<OPEN NATIONAL INVITATION TO TENDER BY EMERGENCY PROCEDURE

NO -004/ONIT/ FUNDONG COUNCIL/FCITB/2022 OF   14/03/2022 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF ADUK WATER SUPPLY SCHEME (LOT 1),AND EXTENSION OF MBAM WATER SUPPLY SCHEME (LOT 2) IN

THE FUNDONG MUNICIPALITY OF BOYO DIVISION, NORTH WEST REGION>>>

The maximum deadline for the execution provided for by the Contracting Authority shall be three  months (90 calendar days) with effect from date of notification of the Administrative Order to start works.

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 - the list of which is found in document No. 12 of the Tender File, whose amount is Five Hundred  Thousand FCFA (500,000) for Lot 1 and Three Hundred and Ninety Four thousand FCFA (394,000), for LOT2 and valid for thirty (30) days beyond the deadline of validity of bids.

At the risk of being rejected, only originals or certified true copies by the issuing services or administrative authorities must imperatively be produced in accordance with the Special Regulations of this Invitation to Tender. They must not be more than three (3) months old as at the date of submission of bids. 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 and valid for a period of thirty days shall be rejected.

The opening of bid by the Fundong Council Internal Tenders Board(FCITB)shall take place on Wednesday 11/04/2022 at 1 1: AM local time in Fundong Council Chambers.

The bids shall be evaluated in three (03) steps:

   1st Step: Verification of the conformity of the Administrative file;

   2nd step: Evaluation of the technical file;

   3rd Step: Analyses of the financial file. The criteria of evaluation are the following:

 Eliminatory criteria

- Administrative documents

• Absent of Bid bond
• Any Administrative document not in conformity with the prescriptions of this tender file shall results in elimination if the situation is not regularized within forty-Eight Hours. This rule shall not be applied to the Bid Bond
• Any bids not in conformity with the prescriptions of this tender shall be inadmissible
• False declaration or falsified documents

Technical File

• Complete documents or scanned documents ;
• False declaration, forged or scanned documents;
• Technical assessment mark lower than 75% of “YES”.

- Financial Offer

• Incomplete financial Offer;
• Non-compliant documents;
• Omission of quantified unit price in the financial offer;
• Absence of breakdown of prices;

Essential criteria:

The technical offer of the bidder shall be assessed along the following lines

9. Special Technical Clauses initialed in all the pages and signed, stamped and dated on the last page;

                 Special Administrative Clauses completed and initialed on all the pages and signed, stamped and dated on the last page

The evaluation will be done in a purely binary manner - (yes) or (no). The contract shall be awarded to the bidder who would have obtained a minimum technical score of 70% in the essential criteria and 100% in the eliminatory criteria, and who would have proposed a bid with the lowest amount, in conformity with the regulations of the tender documents. (see article 33 of the Public Contracts Code).

Bidders shall remain bound to their offers for a period of ninety (90) days from the last date of the submission of tenders, that is, the tenders shall be valid for 90 (ninety) days with effect from their submission deadline.

Additional (supplementary) technical information may be obtained every day during working hours from the Fundong Council Tel.: Phone :(237) 677755510 Email: fundongcouncil2014@gmail.com, Website:fundongcouncil.org.

18) AMENDMENT TO THE INVITATION TO TENDER: The Contracting Authority reserves the right, if need be, to

subsequently amend this invitation to tender in conformity with the Public Contracts Code