DEADLINE: 10TH AUGUST, 2021
ACHIEVING HEALTH NIGERIA INITIATIVE (AHNI)  
INVITATION TO TENDER FOR SUPPLY OF MEDICAL LABORATORY CONSUMABLES
TENDER REFERENCE: GF-ITT-AHNI-03-2021

(a) BACKGROUND:
With funding from the Global Fund, Family Health International (FHI360) is collaborating with Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi) to support the government of Nigeria to enhance sustained cross-sectional integration of HIV/AIDS services by building Nigeria’s capacity to deliver sustainable high quality, comprehensive, prevention, treatment, care, and related services in Nigeria.

Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNI) is inviting qualified and interested companies to submit sealed quotations for supply of Medical Laboratory Consumables

(b) REQUEST:
Interested bidders should visit this website on any web browser: https://bit.ly/3i6xtIA to access and download the list and specification of Medical Laboratory Consumables.

(c) MINIMUM ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENT

NOTENDER REQUIREMENT
1Company Profile; registered address(s), official/functional emails, telephone numbers and point of contact for the company
2Evidence of legal registration document of the company (CAC, FORM CO7 and FORM CO2)
3Latest Tax Clearance Certificate
4Evidence of Financial Capability (most recent audited account)
5Bank Reference Letter duly signed and addressed to AHNi Procurement Committee
6Evidence of experience in award(s) of similar scope and complexity within the last 3 years: Bidders must provide copy(ies) of Job Orders or Contract of Supply and proof of delivery(ies)
7Products Physical Sample Presentation for Verification and Approval is a MUST
8Financial Quotation and required Commercial Terms

(d) EVALUATION AND SELECTION CRITERIA:
Bidders must ensure that all requested information in (c) are included in the submission documentation. Proposals will be evaluated as follows:

STAGES OF BID EVALUATIONEVALUATION DESCRIPTIONEVALUATION APPLICATION
1ST STAGEComplete Conformity to Tender Submission RequirementPASS OR FAIL
2ND STAGE Conformity to Minimum Eligibility Requirement listed 1-6 PASS OR FAIL
3RD STAGE Products Physical Sample Presentation for Verification and Approval (Only for those that met requirement of Stages 1&2) PASS OR FAIL
4TH STAGE Conformity to Financial Quotation (i.e., Clear Specification, Clear unit of Measurement, Delivery Leadtime, Price and Warranty) PASS OR FAIL
5TH STAGE Consideration for AwardPrice Reasonableness, Acceptable Quality, Acceptable Shelf-Life, Acceptable Delivery Timeline and Warranty

(e) SUBMISsION PROCEDURE AND INSTRUCTIONS:
Technical Documentation (Criteria 1-5) and Financial Quotation including commercial terms (Criteria 8) MUST be submitted in 2 separate envelopes, signed by authorized representative, properly labeled with your company name and address on one side of the envelope as well as its content on the other side of the envelope (E.g, Envelop 1-Technical Document, Envelop 2-Financial Quotation. You are expected to submit these two (2) envelopes inside one (1) big envelope duly address to:
The Procurement Committee,
Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi),
#8, Yedseram Street, Off Ibrahim Babangida Boulevard, Maitama, Abuja.

(f) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO BIDDERS:

  • For clarification on any aspect of this tender, please send an email reflecting tender reference to Abuja.Procurement@Ahnigeria.org
  • AHNi is Value Added Tax (VAT) exempted but deducts withholding tax (WHT) in compliance; with relevant Nigerian Tax Laws;
  • Deliveries- delivery location (Lagos or Abuja, NIGERIA);
  • All proposal documents submitted including prices must be valid for a period of six (6) months from the tender due date. This includes but is not limited to cost, terms, conditions, and service level agreement;
  • To ensure AHNi get value for money, Bidders that meet the technical requirement will be required top submit physical sample(s) of the product proposed for physical verification/approval and shall form part of the selection process. The Date and Time for Physical Samples Presentation shall be duly communicated to those concerned.

(e) CLOSING DATE:
Tender document must be hand delivered or couriered to the above address on or before Tuesday 10th August 2021 at 5:00pm GMT.

DISCLAIMER
AHNi reserves the right to select and negotiate with those companies it deems in its sole discretion to be qualified for competitive bid and to terminate negotiation without incurring any liability. Issuance of bid document does not constitute a commitment by AHNi to award a contract.