Within the framework of 2026 Investment Budget, the Mayor of Kumbo Council hereby launches an Open National Invitation to tender for the Construction of a Block of two (02) Classrooms and head teacher's office at GS Mbuluf in the Kumbo Council Area Bui Division of the North West Region.

1.          Nature of work:

Work to be done consists of

Ø  Preparatory works

Ø  Earth works

Ø  Foundation

Ø  Masonry elevation

Ø  Carpentry-roof works

Ø  Electricity

Ø  Painting

Ø  VDR drainage

Work to be done consists of

Ø  Preparatory works

Ø  Earth works

Ø  Foundation

Ø  Masonry elevation

Ø  Carpentry-roof works

Ø  Electricity

Ø  Painting

Ø  VDR drainage

The estimated cost after preliminary studies is 22, 000 000 (Twenty-two million) CFA Francs.

Participation to this invitation to tender is open to Cameroonian enterprises that are in compliance with the fiscal laws.

Works which form the subject of this invitation to tender shall be financed by the 2026 Public Investment Budget of the Ministry of Decentralisation and Local Development

The file may be consulted during working hours at the Kumbo Council, Telephone N⁰ (237) 67000 3577, as soon as this notice is published.

The file may be obtained from the Kumbo Council Telephone N⁰(237) 670003577as soon as this notice is published against payment of the sum of forty thousand (40, 000) CFA francs, payable at the Kumbo Municipal Treasury, representing the cost of purchasing the tender file. 

Each offer drafted in English or French in 06 (six) copies including 01 (one) original and 05 (five) copies should reach the Kumbo Council not later than 07/04/2026 at 10 AM local time and should carry the inscription:

<<OPEN NATIONAL INVITATION TO TENDER N°:007/ONIT/KC/KCITB/MINDDEVEL/2026 OF 13/03/2026 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BLOCK OF TWO (02) CLASSROOMS AND HEAD TEACHER’S OFFICE AT GS MBULUF IN KUMBO MUNICIPALITY, BUI DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION.

“To be opened only during the bid-opening session

The maximum deadline provided by the Contracting Authority for the execution of the works forming the subject of this invitation to tender three (04) 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 an amount of 440, 000 CFA (four Hundred and forty thousand) CFA Francs accompanied by a receipt of payment of 440, 000 CFA at CEDEC, valid for thirty (30) days beyond the date of validity of bids. As per article 90 (9) of the Public contract Code (Decree No. 2018/366 OF 20 June 2018), certified cheques or bank cheques are acceptable in the place of bid bond.

Under penalty of being rejected, only originals or true copies certified by the issuing service or administrative authorities (Senior Divisional Officer, Divisional Officers) must imperatively be produced in accordance with the Special Regulations of the invitation to tender.

They must obligatorily be not older than three (3) months preceding the date of LAUNCHINGOF THE TENDERS 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 declared inadmissible. 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 07/04/2026 at 11AM local time, in the conference hall of Kumbo Council, by the Kumbo Council Tenders Board. Only bidders may attend or be represented by duly mandated persons of their choice.

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

1. Eliminatory criteria

1.    Absence of the bid bond

2.    Absence or non-conformity of an element in the administrative file;

3.    Deadline for delivery higher than prescribed;

4.    identification of the bidder;

5.    Incomplete financial file;

6.    Change of quantity or unit of the Tender file in the financial bid;

7.    Non respect of 75% of essential criteria;

During the opening session of the bids if a document of the administrative bid is absent or noncompliant, the bidder will be given forty-eight (48) hours to produce or replace the said document else it will be eliminated during the evaluation of the bids. No such document will be accepted after this deadline.

2. Essential criteria

1-    General presentation of the tender files;

2-    Financial capacity;

3-    References of the company in similar achievements;

4-    Quality of the personnel; 

5-    Technical organization of the works;

6-    Safety measures on the site;

7-    Logistics;

8-    Attestation and report of site visit;

9-    Special Technical Clauses initialed in all the pages;

10- Special Administrative Clauses completed and initialed in all the pages.

These essential criteria are subject to lower limits, the details of which are spelled out in the Special Regulations of the invitation to tender

This evaluation will be done in a purely a purely binary method with a positive (yes) or negative (no) with an acceptable minimum of 75% of the essential criteria taken into account.

The contract will be awarded to the bidder who would have proposed the offer with the lowest reasonable 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.

 Pursuant to justification by bidder, unconvincing abnormally low costing will not be accepted spelled out in the Special Regulations of the invitation to tender of this consultation.

Bidders will remain committed to their offers for sixty (60) days from the deadline set for the submission of tenders.

Complementary technical information may be obtained during working hours at the Kumbo Council Telephone N⁰(237) 67000 3577