Within the framework of the execution of the 2024 Investment Budget, the City Mayor of Bamenda City Council hereby launches under emergency procedure an Open National Invitation to Tender for the above-mentioned project.

The works are made up of:

-         Site installation;

-         Roof works;

-         All other works necessary for good execution of the project.

The estimated cost after preliminary studies is Twenty-eight million four hundred and seventy-eight thousand four hundred and thirty-two (28,478,432) Francs CFA inclusive of all taxes.

The works have been regrouped in a unique lot.

Participation in this invitation to tender is opened to all national companies specialized in building construction and public works. 

The works referred to in this invitation to tender shall be funded by the 2024 Investment Budget of the Bamenda City council, Head 220 120.

The tender documents may be consulted during working hours at the Bamenda City Council, Department of Technical Services, Tel: 233 36 12 67/677 14 41 31/677 00 32 58, upon publication of the invitation to tender.

The tender file may be obtained from the Department of Technical Services, of the Bamenda City Council as soon as this notice is published against payment of the sum of forty-seven thousand six hundred (47,600) CFA Francs, payable into the Bamenda City Council Treasury under the budgetary head 712 101.  

The tenders shall be drafted in English or French and in six (06) copies, including one (01) original and five (05) copies, labelled as such. Bibs shall reach the Department of Technical Services of Bamenda City Council, Tel.  233 36 12 67/677 14 41 31/677 00 32 58 in sealed envelopes, not later than 19/06/2024 at 10 am precisely. They shall bear the following:

«OPEN NATIONAL INVITATION TO TENDER N° 004/ONIT/BCCITB/2024 of 23/05/2024, for the reconstruction of some roofs at the Bamenda Main Market destroyed during the fire incident of 22^nd February, 2024 under emergency procedure.

TO BE OPENED ONLY DURING THE TENDER 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 two (02) months.

Each bidder must include in his administrative documents, a bid bond or its equivalent 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 five hundred and sixty nine thousand, five hundred and sixty nine sis hundred (569,600) CFA Francs and valid for thirty (30) days beyond the date of validity of bids.

For fear of being rejected, only originals or certified true copies certified by the issuing services or administrative authorities 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 submission of bids or may be established after the signature of the tender notice except the NSIF attestation with a validity of one month.

The opening of the bids in one phase shall be done on the 19/06/2024, at 11.00 am prompt in the Tenders board office of the Bamenda City Council. Bidders may attend or be represented by a duly mandated person.

-Main eliminatory criteria

Eliminatory criteria

-                      Absence of bid bond;

-                      Forged, scanned, false or fake document;

-                      Non-compliance with the bid model

-                      Deadline of execution more than the prescribed;

-                      Omission of a quantified task on the bill of quantities;

-                      Technical mark of less than 80%;

Essential criteria

            The following essential criteria shall be evaluated in a binary manner (satisfactory or not) and will

            include:

-                      Financial situation ;

-                      Equipment ;

-                      Personnel ;

-                      Methodology of execution and conformity with technical specifications, environmental protection and

            hygiene; 

-                      References for similar works ;

-                      Acceptance of the conditions previewed for the contract.

The contract shall be awarded to the bidder whose bid is in conformity with the dispositions of the tender file and on the basis of technical quality and with the lowest bid confer article 99 of the public contracts code.

Bidders will be bound by their tender for a period of ninety (90) days with effect from the tender-submission deadline.

Complementary information may be obtained during working hours from the Department of Technical Services of the Bamenda City Council, Tel: 233 36 12 67/677 14 41 31/677 00 32 58.