DAI
INVITATION FOR PRE-QUALIFICATION OF CONTRACTORS FOR PROCUREMENT
DEADLINE: 2ND OCTOBER, 2020

1. INTRODUCTION
DAI Nigeria on behalf of the Fleming Fund Country Grants wishes to invite your company to participate in the pre-qualification exercise of potential contractors for the renovation of sentinel laboratories that are being upgraded to improve the capacity and diagnostics of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through a One Health Approach. In compliance with the DAl procurement process, this invitation is for interested and competent Contractors for the procurement of the following under-listed projects

2. SCOPE OF WORKS
The scope of work shall entail 2 entities for which only companies with the relevant experience and expertise are encouraged to vie for the lots. Note that any prospective contractor that is deemed not to have the relevant experience and expertise will be disqualified from tendering
(A) RENOVATION OF LABORATORIES
i. LOT 1: Renovation of Laboratory at UCTH, Calabar, Cross Rivers State
ii. LOT 2a & 2b: Renovation of Laboratory at UNTH & VTH, Nsukka Enugu State
iii. LOT 3a & 3b: Renovation of Laboratory at VTH & UITH llorin, Kwara State
iv. LOT 4: Renovation of Laboratory at LAUTECH Oshogbo, Osun State
v. LOT 5: Renovation of Laboratory at OAUTH Ife, Osun State
vi.LOT 6:  Renovation of Laboratory at UDVTH Sokoto, Sokoto State
vii. LOT 7: Renovation of Laboratory at FMC Jalingo, Taraba State

Each company shall make submission for ONLY one out of the seven lots
listed above

(B) INSTALLATION OF BACKUP POWER SUPPLY
viii. LOTA: Installation of Solar Backup Power at UCTH, Calabar and UNTH & VTH, Nsukka
ix. LOT B: Installation of Solar Backup Power at VTH & UITH Ilorin
x. LOT C: Installation of Solar Backup Power at LAUTECH Oshogbo and OAUTH Ife,
xi. LOT D: Installation of Solar Backup Power at UDVTH Sokoto, Sokoto State
xii. LOT E: Installation of solar Backup Power at FMC Jalingo, Taraba State
xiii. LOTB: Installation of Solar Backup Power at ABU VTH Zaria and AKTH Kano
xiv. LOT C: Installation of Solar Backup Power at National Fisheries Lab, Lagos and LUTH
xv. LOT D: Installation of solar Backup Power at UCH Ibadan
xvi. LOT E Installation of Solar Backup Power at NCDC NRLAbuja and NVRI Jos

Each company shall provide one submission indicating preferred location in the covering letter

3. ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Each Company is expected to submit the following corporate responsibility
documents. This would be submitted online without which as expression of interest without which submission will be outrightly disqualified.
1. The Evidence of Certificate of Incorporation with the Corporate Affairs
Commission(CAC).
 2. Evidence of Company’s Income Tax Clearance Certificate valid till 31stDecember 2020.
3. Evidence of Current Pension Compliance Certificate valid till 31st
December 2020.
4. Evidence of Industrial Training Fund (ITF) Compliance Certificate valid till
31st December 2020.
5. Evidence of Current Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) Compliance Certificate valid till 31st December 2020.
6. Evidence of Registration on the National Database of Federal Contractors,
Consultants and service providers by submission of Interim Registration Report (IRR) expiring on 31/12/2020 issued by BPP.
7. Copy of certified audited accounts for immediate past 3 years (2017, 2018
and 2019) duly stamped by certified auditors

Other Criteria.
a. Evidence of Financial Capability and Banking Support (Bank Reference
letter, Statement of Account for the last 3 months etc
b. Experiences/ Technical Qualification of key personnel (Company Profile,
CVs and Credentials).
C. Evidence of Verifiable documents of at least five (5) “Similar Projects” executed in the last Five (5) years
d. Evidence of knowledge of the industry (Award letters of projects executed, Photographs and Certificates of Practical Completion etc.).
e. List of completed and On-going Projects (if any)
f. Relevant information concerning means of contact, e.g. Telephone (GSM),
E-mail address etc. of Company and Responsible person.
g. Evidence of expertise in renewable energy for those participating in the
pre qualification exercise for INSTALLATION OF BACKUP POWER SUPPLY

4. CONDITIONS FOR ELIGIBILITY FOR SUBMISSION OF PRE QUALIFICATION DOCUMENTS
Each company shall make submission for ONLY one out of the seven lots listed above. Failure to submit all corporate responsibility requirements listed above under items 1-7 of the “ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS” will lead to outright
disqualification of the submission. All other submissions listed under other
Criteria” listed as a-gwill be scored, having a minimum threshold for passing
The successful submissions will be invited to tender at a later stage to be
determined by the Programme

5. SUBMISSION OF COMPLETED PRE-QUALIFICATION DOCUMENTS
All documents for submission must be conveyed with a covering letter written on Company Letterhead Paper bearing contact address, telephone number, email address and names of Directors. The pre-qualification documents should be scanned in a single PDF format and submitted online along with the covering letter addressed to the Team Lead, The Fleming Fund Country Grant to email address: NG-FF_Procurement_In@dai.com cc ayws2103@gmail.com clearly marked “Pre-qualification for LOT.: as SUBJECT on the email, and not later than 10:00am on Monday, 2nd October, 2020.

In line with the need to adhere to precautionary measures as a result of CoVID-
19 pandemic, public opening of pre-qualificatíons submissions will not hold.

Kindly note that:-
We reserve the right to verify submissions made and to make disqualifications on false claims made during the pre-qualification exercise.

That this advertisement for invitation to pre-qualification shall not be
considered as a commitment on our part, nor shall it entitle any bidder to
make any claims whatsoever.

Full tender procedures will apply only to bidders that are pre-qualified at
the discretion of the programme.