Within the framework of 2024 lnvestment Budget, the Mayor of Bangem Council; Delegated Project Owner and Contracting Authority hereby launches an Open National Invitation to Tender

FOR THE REHABILITATION WORKS ON THE ACCESS ROADS TO THE TWIN LAKES OF MANENGUBA (MBAT-MANENGUBA LAKE) Bangem municipality in Kupe Muanenguba Division of the South West Region.

The works shall involve the following tasks inter alla:

1^5t 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

>      Backfilling

>      Wearing course

D     Simple reshaping

D     Re-shaping compaction

>      Re-shaping of the platform

>      Creation of ditches and outlets

>      Construction of cross cutting hydraulic structures

>      Construction of masonry ditches

• Quart^-y stone masonry

>      Construction of bridges

>      Surface dressing asphalting work

>      etc

The estimated cost after preliminary studies is 25 000 000 (Twenty -five millions) CFA Francs.

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 are financed by the 2024 Public Investment Budget of MINTOUR. Budget head N° 53 23 250 01 641908 522114 981

The file may be consulted during working hours at the Private Secretariat of the Mayor of Bangem Council, Telephone N^° (237) 650 083 914

The file may be obtained from the Mayor's Secretariat, Bangein Council Telephone (237) 650083914 as soon as this tender notice is published against payment of a non refundable sum of 40, 000 CFA francs, payable at the Bangem 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 Divisional Delegation of Public Contracts at Bangem not later than 12/04/2024 at 10 AM local time and should carry the inscription:

TO THE DELEGATED PROJECT OWNER (CONTRACTING AUTHORITY)

« N° 009/ONIT/SWRIBANGEM COUNCIL /BCITB/PIB/2024 OF
27/02/2024
FOR THE REHABILITATION WORKS ON THE ACCESS ROADS TO THE
TWIN LAKES OF MANENGUBA (MBAT-MANENGUBA LAKE)

"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 titis invitation to tender is three (03) calendar 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. 12 of the Tender File, of an amount of 500 000 CFA (Five Hundred thousand 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 originels 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 aider 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 shah 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 shah be opened in a single phase. The opening of the administrative documents, the Technical and Financial offers will take place on the 12/04/2024 at 11 AM local time, at the Conference Hall of office designated by the Contracting Authority (at the Bangem Council Hall) , by the Bangem Council Internai Tenders Board. Only bidders may attend or be represented by duly mandated persons of their choice

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

A. Eliminatorv criteria

• Outright elimination during the opening session of the bids

1. Absence of the bid bond

• Elimination during the evaluation of bids by the

1. Absence or non-conformity of an element in the
2. Deadline for delivery higher than prescribed;

False declaration or falsified documents

1. A bid with the external envelope carrying a sign or mark leading to the identification of the bidder;
2. Incomplete financial file;
3. Change of quantity or unit of the Tender file in the financial bid;
4. Non respect of³/4=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 forty 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

I. General presentation of the tender files;

1. Financial capacity;
   1. References of the company in similar achievements;
   2. Quality of the personnel;
   3. Technical organization of the works;
   4. Safety measures on the site;
   5. Logistics;
   6. Attestation and report of site visit;
   7. Special Technical Clauses initialed in all the pages;
   8. 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 4/3= 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 confonnity with the regulations of the Tender Documents and having satisfied to 100% of the eliminatory criteria and at least 75°/0of 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.