Within the framework of 2025 Public Investment Budget, the Lord Mayor of Mbiame Council, Bui Division Contracting Authority, hereby launches an Opened National Invitation to Tender for the Reinforcement of Mbontsem -Lam water scheme in Mbven Sub Division, North West Region

Work to be done consists of:

ü  REHABILITATION  of spring catchment

ü  Construction of 30m³ tank in in stone masonry

ü  Pipe line construction

ü  Pipeline excavation and backfilling.

ü  Plumbing accessories [G I and PVC]

ü  Water quality tests (physico-chemical and bacteriological)

ü  Supply of basic tools for maintenance

ü  Training of water management committee

ü  Production of sign post  

         The estimated cost after preliminary studies is 14,000,000 FCFA (Fourteen million FCFA), for the Reinforcement of Mbontsem -Lam water scheme in Mbven Sub Division, North West Region

Participation to this Invitation to Tender is opened to Cameroonian enterprises that are in compliance with the Cameroon laws.

Works which form the subject of this Invitation to Tender are to be financed by the 2025 Public Investment Budget of MINDDEVEL, Budget Head N^O: 59 29 200 01 641629  464211 822

The file may be consulted during working hours at the MBIAME Council, Contract Award Service as soon as this notice is published.

The file may be obtained from the MBIAME Council Contract Award Service as soon as it is publish against payment of the non refundable sum of 20,000 CFA francs (TWENTY   thousand Francs CFA), payable at a mbiame council Treasury, representing the cost of purchasing the Tender File.

NOW READ 05/03/2025 at 10;00 am local time

The maximum deadline provided by the Contracting Authority for the execution of the works forming the subject of this Invitation to Tender is ninety (90) 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 N^o. 12 of the Tender File, of an amount of 280,000 francs CFA (TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THOUSAND FCFA) and valid for thirty (30) days beyond the date of validity of bids

        Under penalty of being rejected, only originals or certified true copies signed 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 rejected. This refers especially to the absence of a bid bond issued by a first-rate bank OR INSURANCE COMPANY 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 28/02/2025 at 11: 00AM local time, in the conference hall of the Mbiame Council Contract Award Service, by the competent members. Only bidders may attend or be represented by duly mandated persons of their choice and having a good knowledge of their files

12.   Evaluation criteria

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

1. Eliminatory criteria

1.       Absence or non-conformity of an element in the administrative file;

2.       Deadline for delivery higher than prescribed;

3.       False declaration or falsified documents;

4.       Absence or insufficient bid bond;

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;

8.       Non respect of 75% of essential criteria;

9.       Non completion of any project in the previous years in the North West Region and suspended by ARMP in 2022

2. Essential criteria

1-       General presentation of the Tender;

2-       Financial capacity;

3-       References of the company in similar achievements visa by the competent authority;

4-       Quality of the personnel; 

5-       Technical organization of the works;

6-       Safety measures on the site;

7-       Logistics;

8-       Attestation of site visit duly signed by honour of the bidder.

9-       Special Technical Clauses initialed in all the pages;

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

This evaluation will be done in a positive 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 the Mbiame Council Contract Award Service