Within the framework of 2024 Investment Budget, the Mayor of Bamenda II Council, the Contracting Authority, hereby launches an Open National Invitation to tender The Construction of a Bridge Over River Mezam Linking Bagmande - Asongkah to Alabukam and Rehabilitation of Road from Bagmande-Asongkah - Alabukam and Alankie Quarter (6km) In Mankon Phase Ii In Bamenda Ii Council Area, Mezam Division Of The North West Region by emergency procedure

Work to be done consists of

-      Installation

-      Site preparation

-      General earth works

-      Foundation-Abutment-deck-wing walls

-      Equipment

-      earth work for the road

-      Drainage

The estimated cost after preliminary studies is 130,000,000 (one hundred and thirty million) FCFA all taxes inclusive

The works is as follows:

  The Construction Of A Bridge Over River Mezam Linking Bagmande - Asongkah To Alabukam And Rehabilitation Of Road From Bagmande-Asongkah - Alabukam And Alankie Quarter (6km)  In Mankon Phase II

PAParticipation 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 Road Fund, budget head No.

The file may be consulted during working hours at Bamenda II Council, Mayor’s Private Secretariat Telephone N⁰ 679-685-596, as soon as this notice is published.

The file may be obtained from Bamenda II Council, Mayor’s Private Secretariat Telephone N⁰ 679-685-596 as soon as this notice is published against payment of the sum of 150,000 CFA francs (one hundred and fifty thousand Francs CFA), payable at a Bamenda II 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 Bamenda II Council, Mayor’s Private Secretariat not later than 09/08/2024 at 10.am local time and should carry the inscription:

<< OPEN NATIONAL INVITATION TO TENDER N°08/ONIT/BIIC/BIICITB/2024

OF 17/07/2024 THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BRIDGE OVER RIVER MEZAM LINKING BAGMANDE - ASONGKAH TO ALABUKAM AND REHABILITATION OF ROAD FROM BAGMANDE-ASONGKAH - ALABUKAM AND ALANKIE QUARTER (6KM) IN MANKON PHASE II IN BAMENDA II COUNCIL AREA, MEZAM DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION BY EMERGENCY PROCEDURE

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“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 4 Months for 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 Two million six hundred thousand (2,600,000) 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 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 09/08/2024 at 11.am local time, in the conference hall of Bamenda II Council, by the Bamenda II Internal Tender Board. Only bidders may attend or be represented by duly mandated persons of their choice.

Evaluation criteria

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

A.     Eliminatory criteria during evaluation

1.      Absence of a document in the administrative file;

2.      False declaration or falsified documents;

3.      A bid with the external envelope carrying a sign or mark leading to the identification of the bidder;

4.      Non-compliance with model bid

5.      Incomplete financial file;

6.      absence of a quantified unit price;

7.      Non respect of 75% of essential criteria;

8.      Name of company suspended by MINMAP

9.      Financial situation below a third of the estimated cost

B.      Essential criteria

1-     General presentation of the Tender Files;

2-     References of the company in building construction;

3-     Quality of the personnel; 

4-     Technical organization of the works;

5-     Safety measures on the site;

6-     Logistics;

7-     Attestation and report of site visit signed by the Contractor;

8-     Special Technical Clauses initialed in all the pages and signed at the last page;

9-     Special Administrative Clauses completed and initialed in all the pages and signed at the last page

This evaluation will be done in a purely 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 sixty (60) days from the deadline set for the submission of tenders.

Complementary technical information may be obtained during working hours from Bamenda II Council, Mayor’s Private Secretariat