The state of Cameroon represented by the Mayor of BAFUT Council, the Contracting Authority, hereby launches an open National Invitation to Tender for the completion of an Integrated Health Center in NCHUM, Bafut Subdivision of the Mezam Division, North West Region.

The works include the following:

- Setting up the work site;

- Main work;

- Secondary works

The second phase of the project which will be executed at an estimated cost of Twenty Five Million (25,000,000) Francs FCFA

Work which forms the subject matter of this jobbing order is in one lot: Completion of an Integrated Health Center 

Participation in this invitation is open to registered qualified Contractors of the Republic of Cameroon with financial ability, technical and professional expertise in public works and construction.

The works, subject of this invitation to tender, is financed by the Public Investment Budget of MINSANTE 2025, budget head No. ……………

The Tender File may be consulted at the SIGAMP OFFICE in BAFUT Council, within working hours from 7:30am to 3:30pm as soon as this Tender is published

The tender file may be acquired from the SIGAMP OFFICE in Bafut Council upon presentation of a non-refundable treasury receipt of Fifty Thousand Francs (50,000) FCFA payable at the Bafut Municipal treasury, representing the cost of purchasing the Tender file bearing the name of the company.

Each offer or bid drafted in English or French in seven (07) copies including one (01) original and six (06) copies marked as such in accordance with the prescriptions of the Tender file should be submitted at the BAFUT Council

(SIGAMP OFFICE) not later than 25 /02/2025 at 10 am local time and should carry the inscription:

OPEN NATIONAL INVITATION TO TENDER

N°04/ONIT/MINDDEVEL/ BC/BCITB/2025

OF 20/01/2025 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INTEGRATED HEALTH CENTER IN NCHUM, BAFUT SUBDIVISION OF THE MEZAM DIVISION, NORTH WEST REGION (Phase 2) BY EMERGENCY PROCEDURE.

“To be opened only during the bid-opening session”

The offers or the bids brought after the stipulated deadline shall not be received.

The maximum execution deadline shall be three (03) calendar months, including the rainy season and other vagaries, with effect from the date of notification of the service order to start work.

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. 13 of the Tender File, of an amount of Five Hundred Thousand Francs CFA (500,000FCFA) 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 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

 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 opening of bids shall be opened in a single one phase. The opening of the Administrative, Technical and Financial offers will take place on 25/02/2025 At 11.00 a.m. in the Conference Hall of the BAFUT Council by the Bafut Council Internal Tenders Board.

Only bidders may attend or be duly represented by a person of their choice who has full knowledge of the fil

The evaluation of the bids shall be done in three (03) steps:

Ø  1^st step: Verification of the conformity of the administrative file;

Ø  2^nd step: Evaluation of the technical file;

Ø  3^rd step: Analysis of the financial file.

i.                    Eliminatory criteria

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

¨       Absence of or insufficient bid bond

¨       Non respect of the 48hrs given for absence or non-conformity of any other document in the administrative file

¨       False declaration or forged document

¨       Deadline for delivery higher or greater than the prescribed

¨       Non-respect of at least 75% of the essential criteria

¨       Absence or change of quantified unit price in the financial file

¨       Incomplete bids

¨       Financial situation below one-third of the estimated cost

¨       A bid with external envelop carrying a mark or sign leading to the identification of the bidder

  ii)  Essential criteria

NB. Pursuant to circular letter No.00005/LC/MINMAP/CAB of 26/12/2023, bidders with certified true copies of the certificate of categorisation shall not submit in their TECHNICAL FILE documents relating to ; Their turnover, References of the company, own minimum technical and Logistics means ,permanent staff and head office location

a. General presentation of Tender

b. Financial capacity

c. References of the company in similar works

d. Quality of personnel

e. Technical organisation of works

f. Safety measures on the site

g. Logistics

h. Attestation of report of site visit

i. Special technical clauses initialled on all pages and last page signed

j. Special administrative clauses initialled on all pages and last page signed

This evaluation will be done in a binary method with purely positive (yes) or negative (no) with an acceptable minimum of at least 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

The bidders shall remain committed to their offers during a period of (ninety) 90 days from the deadline set for the submission of bids.

Complementary technical information may be obtained every day during working hours from the SIGAMP OFFICE at the BAFUT Council.