Within the framework of 2023 Investment Budget, the Mayor of Nguti Council; Delegated Project Owner and Contracting Authority hereby launches an Open National Invitation to Tender for the opening and grading of the road from BAMBE — BERMIN

The works shall involve the following tasks inter alia:

1°' group: Manual labour (executed by road committees and community structures)

• Cleaning of ring culverts
• Cleaning of structures
• Grass cutting

2" group: Mechanized labour using the Equipment Intensive (HIEQ) method

D    Backfilling

D    Wearing course

D    Simple reshaping

D    Re-shaping compaction

D    Re-shaping of the platform

D    Creation of ditches and outlets

D    Construction of cross cutting hydraulic structures

D    Construction of masonry ditches

D    Quarry stone masonry

D    Surface dressing asphalting work

D    etc

The estimated cost after preliminary studies is 40 000,000 (Forty Million) 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 is financed by the 2023 Public Investment Budget of the Ministry of Public Works. Budget head NI

The file may be consulted during working hours at the Private Secretariat of the Mayor of Nguti Council, Telephone N^° (237) 675092482/ 678808704, as soon as this tender notice is published.

The file may be obtained from the Mayor's Secretariat, Nguti Council Telephone (237) 675092482/ 678808704 as soon as this tender notice is published against payment of a non refundable sum of 40,000 CFA francs, payable at Nguti Council 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 Nguti Council Chambers not later than 24/05/2023 at 10 AM local time and should carry the inscription:

TO THE DELEGATED PROJECT OWNER (CONTRACTING AUTHORITY)

« OPEN NATIONAL INVITATION TO TENDER'S NOTICE NO. 04/ONIT/NCTB/SWR/PIB 2023

of 31/03/2023

FOR THE OPENINING AND GRADING OF THE ROAD FROM BAMBE —

BERMIN

EMERGENCY PROCEDURE

"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) months

1. Lots:

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 1,600,000 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 in a single phase. The opening of the administrative documents, the Technical and Financial offers will take place on the 24/05/2023 at 11 AM local time, at the Conference Hall of office designated by the Contracting Authority (at the Nguti Council Chambers), by the Nguti Council Internal Tenders Board. 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 commitee

1. Absence or non-conformity of an element in the administrative file;
2. Deadline for delivery higher than prescribed;
3. False declaration or falsified documents;
4. A bid with the external envelope carrying a sign or mark leading to the identification of the bidder;
5. Incomplete financial file;
6. Change of quantity or unit of the Tender file in the financial bid;
7. 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 fourty eight (48) hours to produce or replace said document else 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;
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

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 Nguti Council Telephone N^° (237) 675092482/ 678808704