Within the framework of the emergency project to combat food crisis in Cameroon (PULCCA), the Director General of the North West Development Authority (MIDENO) is looking for a competent and reliable contractor to acquire and
deliver/distribute organic fertilizer (Humic plus) to  market gardening farmers

The acquisition and distribution of organic fertilizer (Humic plus) to market gardening farmers as follows:

 To produce 12,000  litres of certified Humic Plus organic fertilizer and distribute to 1,155 selected vulnerable farmers with at least 60% of them being women

: Participation in this Invitation to tender is restricted to the following firms:

Services which form the subject of this Invitation to tender shall be financed by the EMERGENCY PROJECT TO COMBAT FOOD CRISIS IN CAMEROON (PULCCA)

The tender file can be consulted during working hours from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm at the MIDENO Head Office, Secretariat of the Director General (1^st Floor), Ayaba Street, P.O. Box 442, Bamenda; Email: mideno1981@gmail.com: Tel: 237 233 361 378  following the publication of  this notice.

The tender file may be obtained during working hours from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm at the MIDENO Head Office, Secretariat of the Director General, Ayaba Street, P.O. Box 442, Bamenda; Email: mideno1981@gmail.com: Tel: 237 233 361 378 following the publication of this notice against payment of a non-refundable sum of Ninety eight thousand (98,000) fcfa and payable into Account N^o 06845 97568660001- 28 in the name of “SPECIAL ACCOUNT SAC-ARMP” in any BICEC Branch in Cameroon

TUESDAY 10TH JUNE 2025 AT 10:00 AM PROMPT AT HEAD OFFICE OF MIDENO LOCATED ALONG AYABA STREET OPPOSITE MANSFIELD PLAZA HOTEL

The maximum execution deadline provided for by the Project Owner shall be two (2) months from the date of notification to start delivery

The stamped hand endorsed bid bond according to the attached model for the sum of One million nine hundred and forty five thousand (1,945,000) fcfa and with thirty (30) days validity period established by an organization or financial institution approved by the Ministry in charge of Finance to issue bonds in Public Procurement and listed  in Annex 11 of the Tender Document. The said guarantee must be accompanied by a consignment receipt issued by the “Caisse Depôt et Cosignation (CDEC) in accordance with Circular letter N^o 0000019/L/MinMap of 5^th June 2024 relating to the constitution of deposits, retention, restitution and deconsignment of bonds on public contracts, in case of group bidding/joint venture the bid bond is established on behalf of the group/joint venture.

Under pain of being rejected, only originals or certified true copies by the issuing service and official or administrative authorities (Senior Divisional Officers, Divisional Officers, Bank Officials, and Taxation Officials etc.) of the administrative documents required, including the bid bond, must imperatively be produced in accordance with the Special Conditions of the invitation to tender. They must obligatorily not be older than three (3) months or must not be produced after the submission of the bids. Any bid not in conformity with the prescriptions of this notice and tender file shall be declared inadmissible, especially the absence of a bid bond issued by a first-rate bank approved by the Ministry in charge of Finance or the non-respect of the models of the tender file documents shall lead to a pure and simple rejection of the bid without any appeal being entertained.

The opening of the administrative documents, technical and financial bids are scheduled on the 29 MAI 2025 prompt local time by an Adhoc Committee put in place by the Project Owner in the MIDENO Conference Room at the Project management Office. Only bidders may attend or duly represented by a person of their choice.

The bids shall be evaluated according to the following principal criteria;

A. Eliminatory Criteria

·        Absence or insufficient Bid Bond of the specified amount

·        Absence of the receipt of deposit  from CDEC of the amount indicated in the bid bond

·        Late submission of bids

·        False declarations or forged documents      

·        Under exclusion sanctions from the Authority in Charge of the Regulation of Public Contracts  

·        Associated directly or indirectly with the conception, preparation of technical specifications and other documents concerned with this tender 

·        Non-respect of 80% of the essential criteria

·        Bids whose outer envelopes leads to the recognition of the bidder                                                                                                             

B. Essential Criteria

Evaluation shall be done using the binary method. The contractor shall be selected by the Least Cost selection method after evaluating the technical capacity (Bidder must fulfill 100% of the eliminatory criteria and must score at least 80 out of the 100 points previewed for the technical evaluation) and financial capacity of the bidder and make sure that the supply he/she is proposing is in conformity with the technical specifications of the supply in the Tender document and in accordance with the procedures described in this tender file

 Bidders will remain committed to their bids for Thirty (30) days from the deadline set for the submission of tenders

Complementary information can be obtained during working hours from the secretariat of the Director General, MIDENO, P.O. Box 442, Bamenda: Email: mideno1981@gmail.com: Tel: 237 233 361 378