OPEN NATIONAL INVITATION TO TENDER

N°06/ONIT/ E.29/EFAS/MDTB/PIB 2024

OF 23/12/2024 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BOX CULVERT OVER RIVER ACHIDI IN NJIMBEI QUARTER IN SANTA SUBDIVISION, MEZAM DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION.

Series 100-Preparatory works

Series 200: Site preparation

Series 300: Earth works

Series 400 - Foundations- abutments- Piles- beams-deck

Series 500 - Paint

Series 500 - Equipment

The estimated cost after preliminary studies is 22,671,000 (Twenty-Two Million Six hundred and seventy one thousand) FCFA.

The works consist of a unique lot as follows:

FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BOX CULVERT OVER RIVER ACHIDI IN NJIMBEI QUARTER IN SANTA SUBDIVISION, MEZAM DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION

Participation to this Invitation to Tender is opened 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 Public Investment Budget of the MINISTRY OF ECONOMY, PLANNING AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT of 2024 and Followingwith budget head N⁰94 195 05 110000 523411

The file may be obtained from the private Secretariat of the Senior Divisional Officer, Mezam Bamenda Telephone (237) 233 36 15 86 during working hours as soon as this notice is published.

            The tender file shall be obtained from the private Secretariat of the Senior Divisional Officer as soon as this Notice is published against payment of the non-refundable sum of 40.000 CFA francs (forty thousand Francs CFA), payable at the Public 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 Private Secretariat of the SENIOR DIVISIONAL OFFICER for Mezam not later than 31/01/2025 at 10:00 AM local time and should carry the inscription:

<<OPEN NATIONAL INVITATION TO TENDER

N° 06 /ONIT/ E.29/EFAS/MDTB/PIB 2024

OF 23/12/2024 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BOX CULVERT OVER RIVER ACHIDI IN NJIMBEI QUARTER IN SANTA SUBDIVISION, MEZAM DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION>>

The maximum deadline provided by the Delegated Contracting Authority for the execution of the works forming the subject of this Invitation to tender is 120 Days

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 453,500 CFA (Four hundred and fifty three thousand five hundred Francs 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 31/01/2025 at 11:00 AM local time, in the conference hall of the MEZAM DIVISIONAL TENDERS BOARD. Only bidders may attend or be represented by duly mandated persons of their choice who have knowledge about the bids

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

1. Eliminatory criteria

1.         The absence of bid bond;

2.          Non respect of forty eight (48) hours given for absence or non-conformity of a document in the administrative file;

3.         Deadline for delivery higher than prescribed;

4.         False declaration or falsified documents;

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

6.         Incomplete financial file

7.         Change of quantity or unit of the Tender file in the financial bid

8.         Non respect of 75% of essential criteria

9.         Financial capacity less than 2/3 of the project cost.

10.    Bids submitted later than 10am on submission date

2. Essential criteria

1-           General presentation of the Tender;

2-            Financial capacity;

3-           References of the company in  similar achievements;

4-           Quality of the personnel; 

5-           Technical organization of the works;

6-           Safety measures on the site;

7-           Logistics;

8-           Attestation and report of site visit ;

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

10-       Special Administrative Clauses completed and initialed in all the pages and last page signed.

These essential criteria are subject to lower limits, the details of which are spelled out in the special Regulations of the invitation of tender

This evaluation will be done in a purely positive (yes) or negative (no) with an acceptable minimum of 75% of the essential criteria taken into account.

The Jobbing Order 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 the Senior Divisional Officer, Mezam Bamenda Telephone (237) 233 36 15 86