The Mayor of Bamenda III Council, the Delegated Contracting Authority, on behalf of the Republic of Cameroon, hereby launches a consultation for THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN 8 X 6M SPAN BRIDGE LINKING NTAMUCHE AND NTAHKEKAH, CONSTRUCTION OF AN ACCESS ROAD TO NTAMUCHE WITH GUTTERS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ROAD BEFORE AND AFTER THE BRIDGE, AND A BOX CULVERT, BAMENDA III SUBDIVISION, MEZAM DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION.

The work consists of THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN 8 X 6M SPAN BRIDGE LINKING NTAMUCHE AND NTAHKEKAH, CONSTRUCTION OF AN ACCESS ROAD TO NTAMUCHE WITH GUTTERS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ROAD BEFORE AND AFTER THE BRIDGE, AND A BOX CULVERT, BAMENDA III SUBDIVISION, MEZAM DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION. In general, the works to be done consists of;

The estimated cost after preliminary studies stands at 100,000,000 (One hundred million francs)

FCFA all taxes inclusive

The works are divided into one lot

Participation to this invitation to tender restricted to the following pre-qualified registered enterprises based in the Republic of Cameroon, who have registered on the COLEPS System (having a certificate) and are categorised in the required sub sector; Forban and Sons Company Limited, King’s Company and N.A.K LOVE Company Limited following Authorization No: 03932-26/L/MINMAP/SG/DGMI/DMTR/CE4 OF 11 JUNE 2026

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

The Consultation File may be consulted during working hours at the SIGAMP OFFICE of the Bamenda III Council as soon as this Consultation Notice is published

The tender file consulted online in the MINMAP/COLEPS platform at www.publiccontracts.com or from the BAMENDA III COUNCIL, SIGAMP OFFICE free of charge

Each offer prepared in English or in French (in PDF Format) shall be uploaded or submitted on the COLEPS platform on http://www.plubliccontracts.com latest the 14/07/2026 at 10:00 a.m local time.

The backup copy shall be submitted in a USB Flash at the Bamenda III Council (SIGAMP Office) not later than the date and time stipulated above and should bear;

CONSULTATION N° 005/CF/MUT/AGR/BIIIC/BIIICITB/MINTP/RF/2026 OF 01/07/2026

FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN 8 X 6M SPAN BRIDGE LINKING NTAMUCHE AND NTAHKEKAH, CONSTRUCTION OF AN ACCESS ROAD TO NTAMUCHE WITH GUTTERS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ROAD BEFORE AND AFTER THE BRIDGE, AND A BOX CULVERT, BAMENDA III SUBDIVISION, MEZAM DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION

“To be opened only during the bid-opening session”

In case of any ambiguities or differences, only the original shall be considered authentic.

N.B: The three (03) volumes in PDF Format shall then be enclosed in a USB Flash drive bearing only the reference of the quotation in question.

The maximum deadline provided by the Project Owner/Contracting Authority for the execution of the works forming the subject of this invitation to tender is four calendar (04) months, as from the date of notification of the contractor by the control engineer to start work.

Each bidder must include in his/her administrative documents, a bid bond that respects the models of thistender file, issued by a first-rate banking establishment approved by the Ministry in charge of finance, of an amount of 2,000,000 (two million francs) FCFA accompanied by a CDEC receipt, valid for thirty (30) days as from the date of validity of the offers. Bid bonds for unsuccessful bidders shall be withdrawn not later than fifteen (15) days after the award of the contract and those of successful bidders shall be retained until the required performance guarantee for good execution is provided.

        Under penalty of being rejected, only originals or true copies certified by the issuing service or administrative authorities 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 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 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 opening of the bids in one phase shall be done on 14/07/2026 at 11a.m. prompt in the conference hall of the BAMENDA III Council by an Adhoc Committee set up by the Mayor. Only bidders may attend or be duly represented by a person of their choice, who has full knowledge of the file and mandated in that capacity.

The evaluation of bids shall be carried out in three stages:

Ø  1^st Stage: verification of the conformity of each administrative document;

Ø  2^ndStage: Evaluation technical bids;

Ø  3^rd Stage: Analyses of Financial bids.

The criteria of evaluation shall be as follows:

14.1-Eliminatory criteria

Eliminatorycriteria fix the minimum conditions to be fulfilled to beadmitted for evaluation according to the essential criteria. The non-respect of these criteria leads to the rejection of the bid made by the bidder.

They refer especially to:

A.     –Eliminatory criteria

¨      Absence or insufficient bid bond.

¨      Non respect of 48hrs given for absence or non-conformity of anyother document in the administrative file;

¨      False declaration or falsified documents;

¨      A bid with the external envelope carrying a sign or mark leading to the identification of the bidder;

¨      Incomplete bids;

¨      Absence of a quantified unit price;

¨      Score of less than 75% of essential criteria;

¨      Change of quantity or unit in the financial file

¨      Deadline for deliveryhigherthanprescribed

¨      Financial capacitybelow 50 % of the project cost

B.      Essential criteria

NB. Pursuant to circular letter No.00005/LC/MINMAP/CAB of 26/12/2023, bidders with certified true copies of the certificate of categorisation shall not submit in their TECHNICAL FILE documents relating to; their turnover, References of the company, own minimum technical and Logistics means, permanent staff and head office location.

1-    General presentation of the Tender;

2-    Financial capacity

3-    References of the company in  building construction;

4-    Quality of the personnel; 

5-    Technicalorganization of the works;

6-    Safetymeasures on the site;

7-    Logistics;

8-    Attestation and report of site visitsigned by the Contractor;

9-    SpecialTechnical Clauses initialled on all the pages and signedat the last page;

10- Special Administrative Clauses completed and initialledon all the pages and signedat the last page.

14.2. Main Qualification criteria:

Essential criteria are those that are primordial or key in the judgment of the technical and financial capacity of candidates to execute the works forming the subject of the invitation to tender. They must be determined in relation to the nature and content of the works to be executed.

Indicatively, the criteria related to the qualification of candidates will be on:

¨      Financial situation;

¨      Experience;

¨      Personnel;

¨      Equipment.

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..

The bidders shall remain committed to their offers during a period of (ninety) 90 days from the deadline set for the submission of bids

Additional information in relation to technical details can be obtained at the office of the contracting authority, notably The Mayor of Bamenda III Council office situated at Mile IV Nkwen and on www.publiccontracts.cm (COLEPS).