Within the framework of 2022 Public Investment Budget, the Mayor of BAFUT Council; Contracting Authority hereby launches an Open National Invitation to Tender in a unique lot for the CONSTRUCTION OF FARM TO MARKET BRIDGE OVER NIKEH STREAM LINKING NTANGOH AND NIBE PHASE 1 in Bafut Sub division, Mezam Division of the North West Region.

Work to be done consists of preparatory works, foundation works, masonry elevation, decking works, backfilling and finishing works

The estimated cost after preliminary studies is 47,639,643 (Forty seven million six hundred and thirty nine thousand six hundred and forty three) CFA Francs. Due to insufficient funding the project will be executed in 2 phases, phase I funded by MINADER PIB 2022 at the cost of 23,000,000 francs.

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The works are in a single lot as follows; CONSTRUCTION OF FARM TO MARKET BRIDGE OVER NIKEH STREAM LINKING NTANGOH AND NIBE PHASE 1 IN BAFUT SUBDIVISION ; Mezam Division of the North West Region

Participation in 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 (Phase I) shall be financed by the 2022 Public Investment Budget of the MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Budget head N°56-30-186-04-641611-2811

The tender file may be consulted during working hours at the technical service of the Bafut Council, Telephone N ⁰ (237) 677527274 as soon as this notice is published.

The file may be obtained from the technical service of the Bafut Council, Telephone  N⁰  (237) 677527274 as soon as this tender notice is published against payment of a non-refundable sum of 40,000CFA francs, payable at the Bafut Council Municipal Treasury, representing the cost of purchasing the tender file. 

Each offer drafted in English or French in 07 (seven) copies including 01 (one) original and 06 (six) copies should reach the Bafut Council not later than 23 /03/2022 at 10 AM local time and should carry the inscription:

TO THE PROJECT OWNER

« OPEN NATIONAL INVITATION TO TENDER N°06/ONIT/MINDDEVEL/ BC/BCITB/2022 OF 22/02/2022 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF FARM TO MARKET BRIDGE OVER NIKEH STREAM LINKING NTANGOH AND NIBE PHASE 1 IN BAFUT SUBDIVISION, MEZAM DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST REGION.

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

The maximum duration provided by the Contracting Authority for the execution of the works forming the subject of this invitation to tender is four (04) calendar months with effect from the date of issuance of the service order to start work.

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 460,000CFA (four hundred and sixty thousand) Francs CFA, valid for thirty (30) days beyond the date of validity of bids.

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 LAUNCHING OF 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 23/03/2022 at 11 AM local time, at the Conference Hall of Bafut Council by the Bafut Council Internal Tenders’ Board. Only bidders may attend or be represented by duly mandated persons of their choice.

1.      Evaluation criteria

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

Eliminatory criteria

• Outright elimination during the opening session of the bids

1.    Absence of the bid bond
Elimination during the evaluation of bids by the adhoccommitee
2.    Enterprises suspended by MINMAP circular;
3.    Deadline for delivery higher than prescribed;
4.    False declaration or falsified documents;
5.    A bid with the external envelope carrying a sign or mark leading to the identification of the bidder;
6.    Incomplete financial file;
7.    Change of quantity or unit of the Tender file in the financial bid;
8.    Non respect of at least75%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 and last page signed;
10. Special Administrative Clauses completed and initialed in all the pages and last page signed.

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 positive ( yes) or negative (no ) with an acceptable minimum of at least 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 Technical Service of the Bafut Council Telephone N ⁰ (237) 677527274

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