Within the framework of 2024 Public Investment Budget, The Mayor of Santa Council, Delegated Contracting Authority, hereby launches an Opened National Invitation to Tender FOR THE PAVEMENT OF THE SURROUNDING OF SANTA MAIN MARKET/DRAINAGES IN SANTA SUB DIVISION,MEZAM DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION OF CAMEROON BY EMERGENCY PROCEDURE.

Work to be done consists of:

Construction works

• FOR THE PAVEMENT OF THE SURROUNDING OF SANTA MAIN MARKET/DRAINAGES IN SANTA SUB DIVISION,MEZAM DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION OF CAMEROON BY EMERGENCY

The estimated cost after preliminary studies is 55,000,000 CFA (Fifty five million)

The work is as follows: FOR THE PAVEMENT OF THE SURROUNDING OF SANTA MAIN MARKET/DRAINAGES IN SANTA SUB DIVISION,MEZAM DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION OF CAMEROON BY EMERGENCY PROCEDURE

Participation to this Invitation to Tender is opened to Cameroonian enterprises that are in compliance with the Cameroon laws.

Works which form the subject of this Invitation to Tender shall be financed by the 2024 Public Investment Budget

The file may be consulted during working hours at the SIGAMP office in Santa Council, as soon as this notice is published.

The file may be obtained from the SIGAMP office in Santa Council, as soon as this notice is published against payment of the sum of 70 000 CFA francs (seventy thousand Francs CFA), payable at a Public 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 marked as such, should reach the Santa Council office, not later than 02/02/2024 at 10:00 AM local time and should carry the inscription:

<< OPENED NATIONAL INVITATION TO TENDER N^o 004/ONIT/SC/SCITB/ 2024 OF  12/01/2024 FOR THE PAVEMENT OF THE SURROUNDING OF SANTA MAIN MARKET/DRAINAGES IN SANTA SUB DIVISION,MEZAM DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION OF CAMEROON BY EMERGENCY PROCEDRE. >>

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

The maximum deadline provided by the Delegated Contracting Authority for the execution of the works forming the subject of this Invitation to tender is One hundred and twenty (120) days.

          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 N^o. 12 of the Tender File, of an amount of 1 100 000 FCFA (One Million One Hundred Thousand FCFA) and valid for Sixty (60) days beyond the date of validity of bids.

        Under penalty of being rejected, only originals or certified true copies signed 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 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 rejected. 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 02/02/2024 at 11: 00 am local time, in the conference hall of the regional Tenders’ Board, by its competent Members. Only bidders may attend or be represented by duly mandated persons of their choice and having a good knowledge of their files.

 Evaluation criteria

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

1. Eliminatory criteria

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.      Absence or insufficient bid bond;
5.      A bid with the external envelope carrying a sign or mark leading to the identification of the bidder;
6.      Incomplete financial file;
7.      Change of quantity or unit;
8.      Non respect of (75%) of essential criteria;
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 of site visit duly signed by the Regional Delegate MINEPAT for North West or by honour 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.

This evaluation will be done in a binary way (yes) or (no) with an acceptable minimum of (75%) of the essential criteria taken in account.

The Contract will be awarded to the bidder who would have proposed the offer with the lowest 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.

Bidders will remain committed to their offers for Ninety (90) days from the deadline set for the submission of tenders.

Complementary technical information may be obtained during working hours from the Santa council office.