The City Mayor of the Bamenda City Council hereby launches on behave of his municipality an open national invitation to tender for the above-mentioned project.

The works are made up of:

• Site installation;
• Site clearance;
• Earthworks;
• Landscaping;
• Construction of dam and buttress walls;
• Construction of reservoir walls, stream banks and overflow water control/ surface runoff drainage channels;
• Earth retaining wall;
• Plumbing works;
• Metallic works;
• Finishing;

Any other subjection necessary for the realization of the works

The estimated accrued cost after preliminary studies is two hundred and fifty-one million nine hundred and sixty thousand nine hundred and ten (251,960,910) FCFA inclusive of all taxes including control and supervision.

The works are regrouped in a single lot.

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

Works referred to in this invitation to tender shall be funded by the BCC 2025 Investment Budget under the budgetary Head: 220 150.

The tender documents may be consulted during working hours at SIGAMP Services of Bamenda City Council, Tel: 633 36 12 67 and COLEPS Platform www.publiccontract.cm or www.marchespublique.cm, upon publication of the invitation to tender.

The file may be obtained from the SIGAMP Services of Bamenda City Council, Tel: 633 36 12 67, as soon as this notice is published against payment of a non-refundable sum of one hundred and thirty-eight thousand (138,000) CFA francs, payable into the Bamenda City Council Treasury under the budgetary head 712 101

Drafted in English or French shall be submitted exclusively only on the COLEPS platform www.publiccontract.cm or www.marchespublique.cm, not later than 04/04/2025 at 10 am server time. All bids should be in PDF format:

The maximum deadline provided by the Contracting Authority for the execution of the works forming the subject of this invitation to tender is six (6) calendar months

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 five million and thirty-nine thousand (5,039,000) CFA Francs and valid for ninety (90) days as from the latest date of submission of bids. Bearing a fiscal stamp

For fear of being rejected, only scanned originals or certified true copies 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 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.

The Administrative documents, Technical and Financial bids shall be opened in a single phase on the 01/04 2025 at 11am, local time, by the Bamenda City Council Internal Tenders Board, at the conference hall of the Board in the Bamenda City Council in Mulang.

Bidders may attend or be represented by a duly mandated person having a sound knowledge of the bid and come along a back-up copy of their bids in a USB key sealed in an envelope.

Bidders may attend or be represented by a duly mandated person having a sound knowledge of the bid

i)        Eliminatory criteria

-                      Forged, false or fake document;

-                      Absence or insufficient bid bon or its equivalent;

-                      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 less than 80%;

-                      Non submission of bids online.

ii)      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 of the contract.

The contract shall be awarded to the bidder whose bid has been judged essential in compliance with the tender file and is evaluated as the lowest.

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

Complementary technical information may be obtained during working hours from the SIGAMP Services of Bamenda City Council, Tel: 633 36 12 67 and COLEPS Platform www.publiccontract.cm or www.marchespublique.cm,  upon publication of the tender.