NATIONAL OPEN TENDER N°005/AONO/SUPPTIC/CIPM/2021 FOR THE ACQUISITION OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT FOR THE ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DES POSTES, DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS ET DES TECHNOLOGIES DE L'INFORMATION ET DE LA COMMUNICATION (SUP'PTIC).       

               Source of funding : AUTONOMOUS BUDGET(BA)

1. Subject

THE DIRECTOR OF SUP'PTIC IS LAUNCHING AN OPEN NATIONAL TENDER NO. 005/AONO/SUPPTIC/CIPM/2021 FOR THE ACQUISITION OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT FOR THE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL OF POST OFFICE, TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (SUP'PTIC).

2. Consistency of services

The services provided under this Contract include: the supply of scientific and technical equipment:

   - THREE (03) FLUKE 87-5 6000 POINT OR 20000 POINT OR FLUKE 179 METERS.

   - THREE (03) UNI-T, UT890D METERS;

   - THREE (03) DIGIFLEX-NUMERICAL MULTIMETERS

   - THREE (03) ASTROAI DIGITAL MULTIMETERS

   - TWO (02) RJ45MULTIRESEA CABLE TESTERS, MULTIFUNCTION

3. Estimated cost

The estimated cost is eight million (8,000,000) FCFATTC.

4. Delivery time

The delivery period for the scientific and technical equipment is set at sixty (60) days from the date of notification of the service order.

5. Participation and origin

Participation in this invitation to tender is open to all companies and establishments under Cameroonian law that meet the conditions of this invitation to tender.

6. Financing

SUPPTIC 2021 budget

7. Consultation of the file

The file can be consulted during working hours at the SUPPTIC contracting department in Yaoundé, door A7, located on the second floor of the administrative building, telephone: 695035822/676314009 as soon as this notice is published.

8. Acquisition of the file

The tender dossier, drawn up in French or English, can be obtained from the contracts department of SUPPTIC in Yaoundé, Gate A7, located on the second floor of the administrative building, telephone: 695035822/676314009 as soon as this notice is published, against payment of a non-refundable sum of thirty thousand CFA francs (30. 000) and upon presentation of a receipt, payable to the "CAS-ARMP special account" n° 335988 opened in all the branches of the Banque Internationale du Cameroun pour l'Epargne et le Crédit (BICEC).

9. Submission of bids

Each bid, written in French or English, in seven (07) copies, the original and six (06) copies marked as such, must be received at the SUPPTIC contracting department in Yaoundé, door A7 on the second floor of the administrative building, telephone 695035822/676314009, no later than 10.05.2021 at 12.00 noon. / 2021 at 12:00 local time and should be marked: "NATIONAL OPEN TENDER NO. 005/AONO/SUPPTIC/CIPM/2021 FOR THE ACQUISITION OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT FOR THE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL OF POST, TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES-SUPPTIC. ".

10. Provisional Bond

Each bidder must attach to its administrative documents a bid bond of one hundred and sixty thousand (160,000) FCFA issued by a first class bank approved by the Ministry of Finance and listed in Exhibit 11 of the DAO.

In the absence of this bid bond and in accordance with Order No. 093/CAB/PM of November 5, 2002 setting the amounts of the bid bond and the costs of the bidding documents, SMEs with national capital and management may produce a legal mortgage.  

11. Admissibility of bids

The required administrative documents must be submitted in originals or copies certified by the issuing department or competent administrative authority, in accordance with the provisions of the Special Rules for Invitations to Tender. They must be less than three (03) months old or have been drawn up after the date of signature of the invitation to tender.

Any bid that is incomplete in accordance with the requirements of the bidding documents will be declared inadmissible. In particular, the absence of a bid bond issued by a first-class bank approved by the Ministry of Finance or failure to comply with the model documents in the bidding documents will result in the outright rejection of the bid without any appeal.

12. Opening of bids

The opening of the bids will be done in one step.

The opening of the administrative documents, the technical Offers and the financial Offers will take place on 10 /05/2021 at 1 p.m. by the internal Contract Award Commission placed at SUPPTIC in room C9 of SUPPTIC.

Only the tenderers may attend this opening session or be represented by a person of their choice duly mandated and having a perfect knowledge of the file.

In case of absence or non-conformity of a document of the administrative file during the opening of the bids, a delay of forty-eight (48) hours is granted to the tenderers concerned to produce or replace the document in question. However, the absence of the bid bond at the bid opening will result in the rejection of the bid.

13. Evaluation Criteria

1. Eliminatory criteria

- Absence of the bid bond,

- Misrepresentation or falsification of documents,

- Non-compliance with the major technical specifications of the supply,

- Failure to meet at least four (04) essential criteria,

- Absence of a quantified unit price,

- Non-conformity of the tender model,

2. Essential Criteria

The rating of the following essential criteria will be done according to the binary mode by attributing to each criterion the positive value (yes) or the negative value (no).

-Certificate of financial solvency issued by a first class banking institution approved by MINFI.

-Supplier's references: proof of having executed at least one similar contract during the last three years; 2018; 2019; 2020; for a total amount of eight million (8,000,000)

-Compliance of the proposed equipment with at least 90% of the technical specifications

-Delivery time

-A certificate of warranty for the equipment

14. Award

The contract will be awarded to the bidder who submits the lowest bid, which is substantially in accordance with the requirements of the bidding documents, and which meets 100% of the eliminatory criteria and obtains at least four (04) yeses out of five (05) of the essential criteria.

15. Duration of validity of bids

The bid bond (according to the attached model) in the amount of one hundred and sixty thousand (160,000) CFA francs and valid for one hundred and twenty (120) days, issued by a first class bank approved by the Ministry of Finance of Cameroon, unless otherwise provided for in the financing agreement;

Duration of validity of bids

Bidders shall remain bound by their bids for 90 days from the deadline for submission of bids.

16. Additional information

Additional information can be obtained during working hours from the SUP'PTIC Contracts Department, door A7 of the administrative building.

YAOUNDE 05 April 2021

The DIRECTOR

WATCHING Félix

Source : ARMP

Source : ARMP