Within the framework of 2024, 2025 AND 2026 Investment Budget, the Mayor BALIKUMBAT Council; Project Owner and Contracting Authority hereby launches on Open National Invitation to Tender FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF COMMUNAL ROAD SMALL MARKET -WAPU-CMA BALIKUMBAT AND WAPU-FON’S PALACE (6.5KM) AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF DEULU BRIDGE (10M) INBALIKUMBAT MUNICIPALITY, NGOKETUNJIA DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION BY EMERGENCY PROCEDUE.

Work to be done consists of preparatory works, grading and opening and grading of part of the road works, drainage works on the roads herein below

The estimated cost after preliminary studies is 70,000,000 (seventy million), 80,000,000 (eighty million), 90,000,00 (ninety million) CFA Francs respectively IN PHASES

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 Public Works.

The file may be consulted during working hours at the technical service of the BALIKUMBAT Council, Telephone N⁰ (237) 670 91 22 86 as soon as this notice is published.

The file may be obtained from the technical service of the BALIKUMBAT Council, Telephone N⁰ (237) 670 61 59 79 as soon as this notice is published against payment of the sum of ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND (150,000) CFA francs, payable at the BALIKUMBAT Council Municipal Treasury, representing the cost of purchasing the tender file.

Each offer drafted in English or French in 06 (six) copies including 01 (one) original and 05 (five) copies should reach the BALIKUMBAT Council premises not later than 18/04/2024 at 10;00AM local time and should carry the inscription:

TO THE PROJECT OWNER

« OPEN NATIONAL INVITATION TO TENDER N° 10/ONIT/MINDDEVEL/BC/BCITB/2024OF 27/03/2024 FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF COMMUNAL ROAD SMALL MARKET -WAPU-CMA BALIKUMBAT AND WAPU-FON’S PALACE (6.5KM) AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF DEULU BRIDGE (10M) IN BALIKUMBAT MUNICIPALITY, NGOKETUNJIA DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION IN THREE PHASES BY EMERGENCY PROCEDUE.

 “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 FOUR (04) calendar months (EACH PHASE)

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 1,400,000 FCFA, 1,600,000 and 1,800,000 respectively CFA Francs, 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. N/B each first the contractor shall summit the bid bond in respect of the amount in the contract.

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 18/04/2024 at 11:00AM local time, at the Conference hall of BALIKUMBAT Council by the BALIKUMBAT 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:

Eliminatory criteria

a)     Absence of the bid bond

b)     Absence or non-compliance after 48 h after the opening of the offers of one piece of the administrative offer except for the bid bond

c)     False declaration, The Used of fraudulent, scanned in the Tender file of the Bidder no matter the file ; For This effect the contracting authority and DCTB has the reserves and right to authentify all the documents which seems not to correct.

d)     Non acceptance of contract such as  (CCAP et CCTP not paraph, not signed, dated at the end and without the mention read and approved)  ;

e)     Declare in his Technical file that the Bidder by honor is not among the enterprise or group of enterprise that have abandon projects for the past Three (03) years and who have not been on the list of suspended enterprises by Ministry Of Public Contracts.

f)      Modification of a quantity or unit of the estimate or Unit price schedule  ;

g)     Total absence of quantified price in the financial offer;

h)     Incomplete technical offer for lack of following parts:

• Site visit report with pictures of site;
• Works supervisor not having the qualification required in the tender documents;
• Amount of insufficient financial capacity.

i)              Incomplete financial offer for absence

• Submission;
• Quantitative and estimated quote;
• Of a unit price in the BPU.

j)       Absence or insufficiency of the four volumes of offers;

k)     Absence or non-compliance of the offers in digital medium,

l)       Is included in the list of companies annually excluded from public procurement.

m)    Non satisfactory of at least 85%of Essential Criteria.

B Essential Criteria:

          I.    Presentation ;

         II.    References of the Enterprise ;

        III.    Supervisors ;

       IV.    Logistical means ;

        V.    Technical proposal and planning ;

       VI.    Pre financial capacity;

N.B.: To be declared technically compliant, each offer must have satisfied all the eliminatory criteria and obtained at least 85 % of the essential criteria listed above, evaluated in accordance with the Technical Offers Scoring Grid.

Criteria with several sub-criteria will only be valid when all the sub-criteria are validated

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 Technical Service of the Balikumbat Council Telephone N⁰ (237) 670 91 22 86.