Within the framework of 2023Public Investment Budget, the MAYOR of BAMENDA II Council; Project Owner and Contracting Authority hereby launches an Open National Invitation to Tender for the Construction of Multipurpose Hall in Ntambag PHASE III, Bamenda II Subdivision, Mezam Division of The North West Region.

Work to be done consists of

• Preparatory works
• Electricity
• Painting
• VDR drainage
• Plumbing
• Tailing
• Aluminium and joinery works

The estimated cost after preliminary studies is 35,000,000 (Thirty five Millions) CFA Francs.

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Participation to this invitation to tender is open 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 2023 Public Investment Budget of the Ministry of Decentralisation: 57-27-100-02-641606-523313-821

The file may be consulted during working hours at the BAMENDA II Council, Telephone N⁰ (237) 679685596, as soon as this notice is published.

The file may be obtained from the BAMENDA II Council Telephone N⁰ (237) 676244462 as soon as this notice is published against payment of the sum of Forty Five Thousand (45, 000) CFA francs, payable at the BAMENDA II Municipal Treasury, representing the cost of purchasing the tender file. 

1.          :  the tender file in two volumes shall be enclosed in two sealed envelops

• Envelop A containing the administrative documents  (volume 01)
• Envelop B containing Technical (Volume 02)
• financial Documents (Volume 03)

The Three (03) volumes shall then be enclosed in a single sealed enveloped bearing only the reference of the tender in question. The different documents of each offer shall be numbered as indicated in the tender file and separated by divider of same colours.

1. 2.             Submission of bids:

Each offer drafted in English or French in 07 (copies) copies including 01 (one) original and 06 (six) copies should reach the BAMENDA II Council not later than 03/03/2023 at 10 AM local time and should carry the inscription:

08/02/2023 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF MULTIPURPOSE HALL IN NTAMBAG PHASE III, BAMENDA II SUBDIVISION, MEZAM DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION.

“To be opened only during the bid-opening session” by emergency procedure

The maximum deadline provided by the Contracting Authority for the execution of the works forming the subject of this invitation to tender is three (03) calendar months

1. Lots: The lot is unique as follows; the Construction of Multipurpose Hall in Ntambag PHASE III, Bamenda II Subdivision, Mezam Division of The North West Region.

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 700,000CFA (seven Hundred thousand)CFA Francs, 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 in a single phase. The opening of the administrative documents, the Technical and Financial offers will take place on the 03/03/2023 at 11AM local time, in the conference hall of BAMENDA II Council, by the BAMENDA II Council Tenders Board. Only bidders may attend or be represented by duly mandated persons of their choice.

1. 1.      Evaluation criteria

The bids shall be evaluated according to the main criteria as follows:

1. Eliminatory criteria

• Outright elimination during the opening session of the bids

1. 1.    Absence of the bid bond
2. 2.    A bid with the external envelope carrying a sign or mark leading to the identification of the bidder

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.

2. 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;

9-    Special Technical Clauses initialed in all the pages;

10- Special Administrative Clauses completed and initialed in all the pages.

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 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 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 BAMENDA II Council Telephone N⁰ (237) 676244462