The President of the South West Regional Executive Council, the Contracting Authority, hereby launches an open national invitation

to tender FOR THE SUPPLY AND INSTALLATION OF84 SOLAR STREETLIGHTS IN FAKO DIVISION, SOUTH WEST REGION, IN NINE (09) LOTS.

PREPARATORY WORKS

SUPPLY AND INS EALLATION_OF_SOLAR_EQULP-MENT AND ACCESSORIES

CIVIL WORKS

MISCELLANEOUS SERVICE

Participation is opened to all duly registered Cameroonian enterprises with the necessary technical and financial capacities who are not under suspension by the authority in charge of public contracts

Works which formed the subject of this invitation to tender shall be financed by the SOUTH WEST REGIONAL ASSEMBLY INVESTMENT BUDGET, 2025 financial year through budget head. (imputation)

The file may be consulted during working hours at cabinet of the President of Regional Executive Council, first floor of Regional Assembly Building, Buea, Service Tel: 233 32 61 86 as soon as this notice is published. It can equally be consulted online on COLEPS platform at http://vvww.marchespublies.cm and http://www.publiccontracts.cm, on the ARMP website (www.armp.cm) or on any other electronic means .

The file may obtained form the-same address above as soon as this notice published      against payment‑of-thef-40000-(forty thousand) --francs-C-FA_Ï-payment West Regional Assembly‑

Treasury. It is equally possible to obtain the electronic version of the Tender File by downloading it free of charge through the addresses indicated above. However, online submission is subject to the payment of Tender File purchase fees

The maximum duration provided by the Project Owner for the execution of the works forming the subject of this invitation to tender is three (03) months per lot.

This period runs from the date of notification of the service order to start the 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. 14 of the Tender File, of the following amounts:

ny other means of electronical communication indicated by Project Owner not later than --/-12025 at 10am prompt. A backup copy of the bid registered on USB key or CD/DVD should be forwarded in a sealed envelope with the clear and legible indication "backup copy", in addition to the ab ove label, within the allocated deadline.

N.B : File size and format

For online bidding, the maximum sizes of the documents that will transit on the platform and constitute the tenderer's offer are the following:

·         5 MB for the Administrative file;

·         15 MB for the Technical offer;

·         5MB for the Financial offer. The following formats are accepted:

·         PDF format for text documents;

·         JPEG for images.

The applicant shall use compression software to possibly reduce the size of the files to be transmitted according to the sizes indicated above.

13. Admissibility of bids

The administrative documents, the technical offer and the financial offer must be submitted inline

following the COLEPS requirements. Any incomplete offer in accordance with the prescriptions of the Tender File shah be declared inadmissible. Especially the absence of a bid bond issued by a financial body or institution approved by the Minister in charge of finance to issue bonds, for public contracts or the failure to comply with the model documents in the Tender File shall lead automatically to the rejection of the bid without any other procedure. A bid bond submitted but not relating to consultation concerned shah be considered as absent. A bid bond presented by a bidder during the bid opening session shah is not accepted.

The bids shah be opened in a single phase. The administrative, technical and financial bids shah be opened on, the 22/05/2025 at 11.00 a.m., local time by the South West Regional Assembly Internai Tender's Board in the conference hall of the Regional Assembly, in the presence of the bidders or duly authorized representatives having full knowledge of the file (power of attorney).

Only tenderers may attend this opening session or be represented by a single person of their choice, duly authorised, even in the case of ^la group of companies.

The eliminatory criteria are the following:

Absence of bid bond at the opening of bids with its consignment receipt delivered by the CDEC;

Failure to submit, beyond the 48 (forty-eight) hours deadline after the opening of bids, a

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False declarations, fraudulent schemes or forged documents;

Failure ta comply with 75% essential criteria (75% referring to the qualification threshold of technical bids);

-        Absence of the sworn statement for not having abandoned contracts during the last three years in the South West Region;

-    Absence of a quantified unit price in the financial offer; ii. Essential criteria The criteria relating to the qualification of candidates are the following:

-        Financial situation of the bidder

-        Reference of the enterprise Personnel

-        Equipment

Methodology and planning of execution

The jobbing order shah be awarcied to-lowestbidder fulfilling the technical and financial conditions

Bidders will remain committed to their bids for ninety (90) days from the initial deadiine set for the submission of bids.

Complementary technical information may be obtained during working hours from the cabinet of the President of the South West Regional Assembly