Within the framework of 2025 Public Investment Budget, The President of the North West Regional Assembly, Contracting Authority, hereby launches an Open National Invitation to tender for the Rehabilitation of Seven (07) Blocks of Classrooms at GBHS Kumbo (Re-launched) By Emergency Procedure

Works to be done consists of
                                100- PRELIMINARY WORKS
                                200- MASONRY WORKS
                                300- METALIC/WOOD WORKS
                                400- ROOF / CEILING WORKS
                                500- PLASTERING AND COATINGS                     600- ELECTRICAL WORKS
                                700- PLUMBING – SANITORY
                                800- PAINTING
                                900- FLOOR AND WALL FINISHES 

The estimated cost after preliminary studies is as follows:

This project is in a single lot as follows:

Participation to this Invitation to tender is open under the same conditions to all Cameroonian companies and business persons that have proven experience in the field of building construction and provided they are in compliance with the Cameroonian laws

Works which are the subject of this Invitation to Tender shall be financed by the 2025 Public Investment Budget assigned to the North West Regional Assembly

The file may be consulted during working hours at theoffice of the Director of General Affairs at the North West Regional Assembly (Annex Building of Block “A”) Tel N° 2 33 36 00 92 or using the address www.marchespublics.cm, as soon as this notice is published. 

The file may be obtained from the office of the Director of General Affairs at the North West Regional Assembly, Tel N°2 33 36 00 92 or using the address www.marchespublics.cm, as soon as this notice is published against payment of the sum of 87,400 (Eighty-Seven Thousand Four Hundred) CFA Francs, into the North West Regional Assembly Treasury (Block B), representing the cost of purchasing the Tender File.

-              5 Mb for Administrative offers;
-              15 Mb for the Technical offers;
-              5 Mb for the financial offers.

Supported formats shall include:
                PDF formats for texts documents; -
-              JPEG formats for images.

The Tenderer shall use a compression software to reduce the size of the file to be submitted.

The maximum deadline provided by the Contracting Authority for the execution of the works subject of this Invitation to tender is Four (04) Calendar Months per Lot. 

The bidder must include in his administrative documents, a bid bond issued by a first-rate financial establishment approved by the Ministry in charge of Finance and whose list is found in document No. 12 of the Tender File, of an amount, (See table below) 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 (The Governor, 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 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 27/JUIN/2025 at 11.00 am local time, in the conference hall of the North West Regional Assembly Internal Tenders’ Board, by its competent members. Only bidders may attend or be represented by duly mandated persons of their choice and having a good knowledge of their files. 

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

A.Eliminatory criteria
1.Absence or non-conformity of an element in the administrative file non regularized within 48 hours                  after opening of bids
2.Execution deadline higher than prescribed in the Tender File;
3.False declaration or falsified documents;
4.Absence or insufficient bid bond;
5.A bid with the external envelope carrying a sign leading to the identification of the bidder;
6.Incomplete financial file;
7.Non respect of 75% of essential criteria;
8.Suspended by MINMAP for 2025 fiscal year.

9.Submission of insufficient number of bids or the lake of the original copy of bids;
10.Average annual turnover of at least the tendering amount (Average annual turnover calculated as       total certified payments received for contracts in progress or completed, within the last five (5) years       (from 2020). This should be justified by copies of past contracts (completed or ongoing). Final       reception minutes for all completed contracts before 2024 and provisional reception minutes for               contracts completed in 2024 should be presented;
11.Failure to provide a backup copy of offers on time;
12.Failure to comply with the format of file type and size for online submission.

B.Essential criteria
1-General presentation of the Tender Files;
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 on honour by the bidder and report of site visit with pictures; 9-Special Technical Clauses initialed in all the pages, signed and dated at the last page; 

The evaluation will be done in a binary way (yes) or (no) with an acceptable minimum score of 75% of the essential criteria taken in account. (A Bidder can bid for more than one Lot but can be awarded only one Lot).

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.

10- Special Administrative Clauses completed and initialed in all the pages, signed and dated at the last page

Bidders will remain committed to their offers for Ninety (90) days from the deadline set for the submission of tenders. 

Complementary technical information may be obtained during working hours from the office of the Director of General Affairs, North West Assembly Building, Block “A”. (Tel N°2 33 36 00 92).