Within the framework of 2024 Public Investment Budget, the Mayor of BAFUT Council, the Contracting Authority, hereby launches an Open National Invitation to tender for the purchase of a 6x4 dump truck for the Bafut council in BAFUT Sub Division, Mezam Division of the North West Region

Purchase and supply of a 20 ton (6x4 dump truck)

The estimated cost after preliminary studies is sixty-nine million Francs CFA (69, 000, 0000 CFA)

The work is a unique lot as follows:

-           Purchase and supply of a 20 ton (6x4 dump truck) in BAFUT Sub Division,

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 2024 Public Investment Budget of the Ministry of Local Development and Decentralisation (MINDDEVEL), budget head No.……..

The file may be consulted during working hours at BAFUT Council, SIGAMP Service, as soon as this notice is published.

The file may be obtained from SIGAMP Office of the BAFUT Council,  as soon as this notice is published against payment of the sum of Sixty five thousand Francs CFA (65.000 CFA francs), payable at the BAFUT Municipal 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 SIGAMP Service of the Bafut Council office not later than 20 /03/ 2024 at 10.am local time and should carry the inscription:

<< OPEN NATIONAL INVITATION TO TENDER N°07 ONIT/MINDDEVEL/BC/BCITB/ NWR/2024 OF 21/02/2024 FOR THE PURCHASE OF A 20 TON (6x4 DUMP TRUCK) FOR THE BAFUT COUNCIL IN BAFUT SUB DIVISION, MEZAM DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION

BY EMERGENCY PROCEDURE

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

The maximum deadline provided by the Contracting Authority for the execution of the works forming the subject of this Invitation to tender is 90 Days (3 months)

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. 13 of the Tender File, of an amount of one million three Hundred and eighty thousand Francs CFA (1,380,000 CFA)and valid for thirty (30) days beyond the date of validity of bids

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 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 declared inadmissible. This refers especially to the absence of or an insufficient bid bond issued by a first-rate bank or an insurance company 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.20/03/2024 at 11.amlocal time, in the conference hall of the Bafut Council, by the BAFUT 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:

1. A.     Eliminatory criteria
   1. 1.      Absence or insufficient bid bond
   2. 2.      48hrs given for absence or non-conformity of any other document in the administrative file;
   3. 3.      False declaration or falsified documents;
   4. 4.       Deadline for delivery higher or greater than the prescribed
   5. 5.      A bid with the external envelope carrying a sign or mark leading to the identification of the bidder;
   6. 6.      Incomplete financial file;
   7. 7.      Absence or change of a quantified unit price;
   8. 8.      Score of less than  75% of essential criteria;
   9. 9.      Non respect of the technical specification
   10. 10.   Absence of after sales service

1. B.      Essential criteria

NB. Pursuant to circular letter No.00005/LC/MINMAP/CAB of 26/12/2023, bidders with certified true copies of the certificate of categorisation shall not submit in their TECHNICAL FILE documents relating to ; Their turnover, References of the company, own minimum technical and Logistics means ,permanent staff and head office location

1-    General presentation of the Tender;

2-    Financial capacity

3-    References of the company in  similar works;

4-    Quality of the personnel; 

5-    Logistics;

6-    Special Technical Clauses initialled on all the pages and signed at the last page;

Special Administrative Clauses completed and initialled on all the pages and signed at the last page.

This evaluation will be done in a purely positive way (yes) or negative (no) with an acceptable minimum of at least 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 sixty (60) days from the deadline set for the submission of tenders.

Complementary technical information may be obtained during working hours from the SIGAMP Office of the Bafut Council