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

The project to be realized comprises notably the construction of spring catchment and inspection chamber, the construction of reservoir and water fetching points, plumbing works, the construction of a soaka-way pit, drainage and fencing works and the planting of trees and grass.

The estimated cost after preliminary studies stands at twenty-five million (25,000,000)Francs CFA all taxes inclusive

The works are regrouped in a unique lot.

Participation in this invitation to tender is opened to all national companies specialized in construction of borehole.

Works which form the subject of this invitation to tender shall be financed by the Public Investment Budget of the Ministry of Decentralization and Local Development for 2023 financial year, Authorization N^o 57 27 100 02 641625 523412.

The file may be consulted during working hours at the Bamenda City Council, Department of Technical Services at Mulang Tel: 677 144 131/675 102 929upon publication of the invitation to tender.

The file may be obtained from the Bamenda City Council, Department of Technical Services at Mulang Tel: 677 144 131/677 047 095 upon publication of the invitation to tender against payment of the non-refundable sum of forty-two thousand (42,000) 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 on or before the 10/03/2023 not later than 10:00 am and should carry the inscription:

OPEN NATIONAL INVITATION TO TENDER N°004/ONIT/BCCITB/2023OF 14/02/2023 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF DOWN-BUSH ABANGOH WATER SCHEME

“UNDER EMERGENCY PROCEDURE”

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

  The maximum duration of execution provided for by the Contracting Authority shall be three (03) calendar months, as from the date of notification of the contractor by the contract manager to start work.

Each bidder must include in his/her administrative documents, a bid bond that respects the models 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 five hundred thousand (500,000) Francs CFA, valid for thirty (30) 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 10/03/2023, at 11:00 am prompt in the Conference Hall of the Bamenda City Council by the Internal Tenders Board. Only bidders may attend or be duly represented by a person of their choice, who has full knowledge of the file and mandated in that capacity.

Evaluation criteria

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:

14.1-Eliminatory criteria

-       Absence of bid bond;

-       Deadline of execution more than the prescribed;

-       False declaration or falsified documents;

-       Non compliance with bid model;

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

-       Technical mark of  less than 80%;

14.2. 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 33 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 Tenders Board at Mulang.