The ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR OF CDENO,(Contracting Authority) within the frame-work of the 2026 Budget of CDENO hereby launches an Open National Invitation to tender  FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF 25 HECTARES OF BRACHIARIA PASTURE IN SOME DIVISIONS OF THE NORTH WEST REGION BY EMERGENCY PROCEDURE

Preliminary works and Execution

The provisional amounts after studies is One hundred and twelve million five hundred thousand (112,500,000) francs. CFA

The project shall be executed in a single LOT

 Participation in this invitation to tender is open to all registered and qualified enterprises of the Republic of Cameroon, with the necessary financial, technical and professional capabilities

   This project shall be financed by the PIISAH-CDENO budget for 2026, chap 20:10:11

9-        The soft copy of the file may be consulted free of charge Online via the COLEPS platform COLEPS platform at https://\www.marchespublics.cm

9-        A non-refundable sum of One hundred and three thousand  (103,000) FCFA payable into ARMP account no. 100010686097568660001-28 of BICEC Bank representing the cost for the purchase of the tender file

9-        Each bid shall be drafted in English or French and submitted by the bidder on the COLEPS platform not later than 04 of 03/2026 at 11.00 am. . The originals of the Administrative documents shall be sealed and submitted alongside the Back-up copies of the tender recorded on a USB key or CD/DVD must be sent to the CDENO tenders Board in a sealed envelope with the clear and legible indication "back-up copy", in addition to the above-mentioned Indication, within the deadline set and should carry the following inscription:  

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For online submissions, the offer must be submitted by the bidder on the COLEPS platform as follows

File size and format

For online submission, 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;

•                 5 MB for the Financial Offer.

The following formats are accepted:

•         PDF format for text documents;

• JPEG for images.

The applicant shall make sure that he uses compressing software to possibly reduce the size of the files

to be transmitted

    The deadline for the completion of the works shall be five (05) months with effect from date of notification of the service order to start works.

9-   Each bidder must attach to his/her administrative documents a bid bond issued by a first-rate banking institution authorized to issue bonds for public contracts, approved by the Ministry in charge of Finance amounting to two million two hundred  and fifty thousand (2,250,000)FCFA. 

     This attestation, which must be original, should be valid for thirty (30) days beyond the date of validity of bids. Failure to produce a bid bond issued by a first-rate banking institution or financial body authorized to issue bonds for public contracts, approved by the Ministry in charge of Finance shall result in the bid being rejected. A bid bond not related to the consultation concerned shall be considered absent. The original bid bond shall be submitted by a bidder during the bid opening sessions.

Administrative documents, the technical offer and the financial offer must be scanned and submitted on the COLEPS platform. The Originals of the bid bond and CDEC receipt have to be submitted during opening of bids. These certified true copies should signed by the issuing service or competent administrative authorities in accordance with the Special Regulations of the invitation to tender. These documents must be less than three (3) months old from the date of opening of bids except for CNPS clearance certificate whose validity should be one month

Any incomplete tender in accordance with the requirements of the tender file shall be declared inadmissible. In particular, the absence of a bid bond issued by a first- category body or financial institution approved by the Minister in charge of finance to issue bonds for public contracts or failure to comply with the model documents in the tender file shall result in the outright rejection of the tender without any other procedure. A bid bond produced but having no connection with the consultation concerned shall be considered as absent. A bid bond only submitted by a tenderer during the tender opening session shall be inadmissible

9-        The Bids shall be opened in a single phase in the conference hall of CDENO on the 04/03/2026 at 12:00 prompt.  Only bidders may attend or be represented by a single duly mandated person even in case of group of enterprises.

Under pain of rejection, the documents required in the administrative file must be produced in originals or in copies certified as true by the issuing department or the competent administrative authority, in accordance with the stipulations of the Special Regulations. They must be valid at the original date limit of bid submission or must have been produced after the date of signature of the tender notice.

In case of the absence or non-conformity of any document in the administrative file at the bids opening session, a period of 48 hours shall be granted to the bidders concerned to produce or replace the document in question.

Tender conformity shall be evaluated as per the following

A)    Eliminatory Criteria.

• Absence of bid bond at the opening of bids;
• Failure to submit, beyond the 48(forty-eight) hours deadline after the opening of bids, a document of the administrative file deemed non-compliant or absent (except the bid bond);
• False declarations, fraudulent schemes or forged documents;

·         Receipt from CDEC indicating the transfer of the Bid Bond amount

• Failure to comply with 75% essential criteria
• Absence of an attestation signed by honour not having abandoned a public contracts for the past three years;
• Absence of a quantified unit price in the financial offer;
• Absence of an element in the financial offer (submission, BPU, DQE);
• Execution duration should not be more than prescribed in the tender file

B)    Essential Criteria.

The preliminary evaluation shall be binary and based on the following essential criteria:

·                                               General presentation of the bids

·                                               Experience of the enterprise.

·                                               Quality of personnel qualification and management of the company

·                                               Attestation and report of site visit

·                                               Equipment (logistics means

·                                               Methodology for the  execution of works

·                                               Special Technical clauses initialed in all the pages and the last page signed stamp and dated

·           Special Administrative Clause completed and initialed in all the pages and the last page signed, stamped and dated.

Financial capacity

The job shall be awarded to the bidder whose bid is in conformity with the dispositions of the tender file and on the basis of the technical qualification and lowest realistic bid.

        Bidders will remain committed to their bids which shall be valid for a period of ninety (90) days with effect from the deadline for the submission

Complementary technical information may be obtained during working hours from CDENO main office, SIGAMP UNIT, BP 399 Bda, Tel: 233 36 10 17 / 677 45 17 21