Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc- Invitation To Tender For Call-Off Contract For The Provision Of Dredging Services For Ovhor, Sapele, Okporhuru, Ubaleme And Other Seplat Western Assets Locations – OMLS 4, 38 And 41

DEADLINE: 26TH FEBRUARY, 2021
SEPLAT PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY PLC
(ON BEHALF OF THE NPDC/SEPLAT JOINT VENTURE)
TENDER OPPORTUNITY: CALL-OFF CONTRACT FOR THE PROVISION OF DREDGING SERVICES FOR OVHOR, SAPELE, OKPORHURU, UBALEME AND OTHER SEPLAT WESTERN ASSETS LOCATIONS – OMLS 4, 38 AND 41

(1.0)  INTRODUCTION:
To support the NPDC/SEPLAT JV’s production plans, there’s the need to carry out capital and maintenance dredging of Well slots and access in the swamp locations within Seplat Western Asset (OML – 4, 38 and 41) in readiness for drilling operations.

The dredging services call-off contract is required to optimize the time and resources that would be spent in one-off tendering for such services. The call-off service contract can also be used for land reclamation, sand search and related services as may be required in the swamp locations occasionally.

Qualified contractors shall need to demonstrate capability in capital dredging and maintenance dredging of well site locations and access, sand search and sand stockpiling, reclamation works and shore protection, for onshore and shallow waters terrain within the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

The proposed strategy will utilise the NipeX contracting platform to run the tendering process.

(2.0) SERVICES REQUIRED/ SCOPE OF WORK:
As a minimum requirement, the selected contractors shall have the necessary experience, equipment/resources, capability and shall be fully responsible for the provision of services as detailed in the table below in the onshore and shallow waters operations.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATION
The selected contractors must have proven experience in capital dredging work for well-site slot and access as well as maintenance dredging/sweeping in both onshore and shallow water terrains in the Niger Delta region.

The experience can be demonstrated by showing examples of successful delivery of similar works, proof of equipment ownership or valid MOU for lease, competent manpower with relevant qualifications/experience and financial capability to seamlessly deliver projects of such magnitude without depending on outstanding invoice payments on previous jobs completed.

(3.0) MANDATORY TENDER REQUIREMENTS:
(1) To be eligible for this tender exercise, interested companies are required to be pre-qualified in the relevant NipeX Joint Qualification System (NJQS) database Product/Services categories indicated in 2.0 above. All successfully pre-qualified contractors in this category will receive an Invitation to Tender (ITT).

(2) To determine if you are pre-qualified and view the product/service category you are listed for: open http://vendors.nipex-ng.com and access NJQS with your log in details. Click on the Products/Services Status tab to view your status and product codes.

(3) If You are not listed in a Product/Service category and you are registered with Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to do business, contact Nipex Office at 8, Bayo Kuku Street, Ikoyi, Lagos with your DPR Certificate verification and necessary update.

(4) To initiate the NJQS pre-qualification process, access www.nipex-ng.com, click on services tab followed by NJQS registration.

(5) Any entity intending to bid as a joint venture/alliance must demonstrate a genuine alliance or joint venture with details on scope and responsibilities of parties for this work and payment arrangement. Such companies must show evidence of joint venture via a legally binding agreement duly signed by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of both companies. In the absence of a binding legal agreement relating directly to this activity, the company submitting the response on behalf of the alliance/joint venture must supply of power of attorney authorizing it to do so.

(6) To be eligible, all tenders must comply with the Nigeria Content requirements in the NipeX system. In the section below: OGTAN shall mean Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria and NCEC shall mean Nigerian Content Equipment Certificate.

(4.0) NIGERIAN CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
SEPLAT, as an indigenous exploration and production company in Nigeria is committed to the development of the capabilities of Nigerian companies in compliance with the provisos of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act 2010 for Nigerian Cement Development. Tenderers are to note that they will be requested the technical tender to provide details of their relevant strategy to ensure that they fully comply with the Nigerian Content Act, 2010 as provided at http://www.ncdmb.gov.ng/images/GUIDELINES/NCAT.pdf, in view of the fact that non-compliance will constitute a fatal flaw in all contract evaluations.

In the light of the above, tenderers shall be expected by the Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to:

• Demonstrate that the entity proposed for execution of the service, is a Nigerian Registered Company, or Nigerian Registered Company as the contracting entity in genuine alliance or joint venture with foreign company with details on scope and responsibilities of parties for this work. Such Companies must show evidence of joint venture binding agreement duly signed by the CEO of both companies including evidence of plans of physical operational presence and set-up in Nigeria.
• Furnish details of company ownership and shareholding structure. Also, submit photocopies of its CAC Forms C02 and C07.
• Provide evidence of what percentage of its key management positions are held by Nigerians and what percentage of the total work force are Nigerians. Also show overall percentage of work to be performed by Nigerian resources relative to total work volume.
• Provide a Nigerian Content Plan with detailed description of the role, work scope, man-hours and responsibilities of all the Nigerian companies and personnel that will be involved In executing the work.
• State proposed total scope of work to be conducted by Nigerian personnel (whether contracted directly or under subcontract agreements) with names and addresses including evidences of well-equipped offices and workshop.
• Provide detailed plan for staff training and development on engineering, project management and procurement (Including all software to be used, number of personnel, name of organisation providing such training and evidence of past training record) for Nigerian personnel including description of any specific programs in place for transfer of technology and skills to indigenous businesses and Nigerians over the next five (5) years.
• Provide evidence of domiciliation of project management and procurement centres in Nigeria with physical address (Not P.O.Box)
• Provide detailed description of the location of in-country facilities (Equipment, storage, workshop, repair, maintenance and testing facilities).
• Provide detailed statement with evidence of how it attends to maximize the use of Nigerian made goods and services.
• Provide details on any other Nigerian Content Initiative the company is involved in.
• In line with the NCD Human Capacity Development Initiative, Bidder shall commit to providing Project-Specific training, man-hour, budget, skill development and understudy plan for Nigerian personnel utilizing OGTAN registered trainer(s) or other approved NCDMB training institution(s)
• Provide evidence of minimum 50% equity ownership of equipment by Nigerian subsidiary.
• Provide evidence of NCEC (Nigerian Content Equipment Certificate).
• Evidence of Registration on the NCDMB NOGIC JQS Portal

Please note that failure to provide any of the above documentation (or requirement) will be a fatal flaw.

(5.0)  CLOSING DATE
Only tenderers who are registered with NJQS Product/Category: 3.06.05 – Dredging Services with a *LIVE* subscription status at 16:00hours on 26th February 2021 being the advert close date, shall be invited to submit technical and commercial Bids.

(6.0) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
(1) All costs incurred in preparing and processing NJQS prequalification and responding to this tender opportunity shall be to the bidder’s own account.

(2) This advertisement and subsequent ITT shall neither be construed as any form of commitment on the part of SEPLAT to award any contract to any tenderer or associated contractors, sub-contractors or agents, nor shall it entitle pre-qualified tenderers to make any claims whatsoever, and/or seek any indemnity from SEPLAT and/or any of its partners by virtue of such tenderers having been pre-qualified in NJQS.

(3) The tendering process shall be undertaken in accordance with the NNPC contracting process in compliance with Public Procurement Act 2007.

(4) SEPLAT will communicate only with authorized officers of the qualifying bidders at each stage of the tender process, as necessary, and will NOT communicate through individuals or appointed agents.

(5) This tender and any related process neither creates any commitment by SEPLAT nor establish any legal relationship.

(6) All information must be provided in English language.

(7) Notwithstanding the pre-qualification in NJQS, SEPLAT is neither committed not obliged to include your company on any bid list or to award any form of contract to your company and/or associated companies, subcontractors or agents.

(8) SEPLAT will not enter any form of communication with interested bidder(s) from the commencement date of this Advertisement.

(9) Submission of any fictitious document will attract suspension from participation in future bids.

(10) Only pre-qualified companies in the appropriate registered NipeX Categorization as at the last dale of this Advertisement will be eligible and shall be invited for tendering.

(11) SEPLAT will not enter correspondence with any company or individual on why a company was short-listed or not short-listed.

(12) Only tenderers that score the minimum pass mark in the technical evaluation exercise shall progress to the commercial stage of the tender process. Evaluation of tenders and selection of successful bidders will be based on proven capacity of a bidder to offer the service and submission of the best commercial responsive tender.

(13) Full tendering procedure will be provided only to contractors that have been successfully prequalified in NJQS.

(14) Contractors that are prequalified for this product/service category in NJQS must ensure that the name and contact details (physical address, email address and telephone number) of their company and authorized/responsible personnel is up to date in their company profile in the NJQS database.

(15) The tendering process shall be the NiPeX contracting process requiring pre-qualified companies to submit technical tenders first. Following a technical review which will focus on the disqualification criteria, only technically and financially qualified contractors will be requested to submit commercial tenders.

Please visit NipeX portal at www.nipex-ng.com for this advert and other information and note that this tender will be processed through NipeX system.

DISCLAIMER:
This advertisment shall not be construed to ba a commitment on the part of the NPDC/SEPLAT Joint Venture to award any form of contract to any company and/or associated companies, sub-contractors or agents; nor shall it entitle any company submitting documents to claim any indemnity from NPDC/SEPLAT Joint Venture and/or of its partners by virtue of such companies having responded to this advertisement.