Federal Ministry Of Finance, Budget And National Planning- Invitation To Tender For Technical And Financial Bids For Procurement Of Goods And Works, And Expression Of Interest (EOI) For Consultancy Services Projects Under The Ministry Of Finance Incorporated (16 Lots)

DEADLINE: 28TH NOVEMBER, 2022
FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE, BUDGET AND NATIONAL PLANNING
INVITATION TO TENDER FOR TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL BIDS FOR PROCUREMENT OF GOODS AND WORKS, AND EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI) FOR CONSULTANCY SERVICES PROJECTS UNDER THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE INCORPORATED (MOFI)

INTRODUCTION
The Ministry of Finance Incorporated (MOFI) is a statutory corporation established by the MOFI Act, 1959, as a custodian entity charged with managing the Federal Government’s investments in Government Owned Entities (GOEs) and Government Linked Entities (GLEs). Due to the numerous challenges limiting its performance, MOFI has been unable to adequately optimize the value-for-money of the FG’S investments. As a result, MOFI’s importance as the investment value-generating vehicle for the FG has been significantly diminished.

To reverse these negatives trends, the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning initiated a Review, Restructure and Repositioning programme to revitalize the FG’s investments in economically viable Entities. This is aimed at creating and retaining jobs, growing wealth for Nigeria and its citizens, growing FG revenues, funding government programmes and extracting optimal value from the FG’s assets. As part of this restructuring program, an asset valuation and due diligence process has been initiated to understand the current state and value of the government’s corporate assets towards providing a credible reference point for vital data such as operational status, financial value and performance among other indicators of business, financial and operational health.

In light of the above, and towards achieving MOFI’s mandatory objectives, the FMFBNP wishes to apply part of the funds in its 2022 appropriation for the implementation of some of the MOFI’s 2022 capital projects through procurement of Goods, Works and Consultancy Services. Accordingly, and in compliance with the Public Procurement Act, (PPA) 2007, the Ministry hereby invites interested, reputable and qualified Consultants to express interest and submit tender documents for the procurement of the following projects:-

CATEGORY 1:
START UP CAPITAL/OPERATIONAL GRANT FOR THE NEW MINISTRY OF FINANCE INCORPORATED (MOFI)

CATEGORY 1 (A): SERVICES

CATEGORY 1 (B): GOODS

CATEGORY 1 (C): WORKS

CATEGORY 2 – CONSULTANCY FOR CREATION OF NATIONAL ASSET REGISTER, PHASE I: INVESTMENT GRADE DUE DILIGENCE & ASSET VALUATION OF MOFI TAKE OFF LIST

(2) SCOPE OF SERVICES
The comprehensive scope of the projects as it relates to Goods, works, and Consultancy Services as well as specification and quantification concerning the works and the items to be supplied shall be provided in the Tender documents.

(3) ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
(a) Evidence of Certificate of Incorporation issued by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) including Form CAC 1.1 or CAC2 and CAC7;

(b) Evidence of Company’s Income Tax Clearance Certificate for the last three (3) years valid till 31st December, 2022; with minimum average annual turnover of Seventy Million Naira (N70,000,000) for works; Fifty Million Naira (N50,000,000) for Goods;

(c) Evidence of Pension Clearance Certificate valid till 31st December, 2022 (this requirement is only applicable to bidders whose number of staff is 15 and above);

(d) Evidence of Industrial Training Fund (ITF) Compliance Certificate valid till 31st December, 2022 (this requirement is only applicable to bidders whose number of staff is 5 and above or the bidder’s annual turnover is N50m and above);

(e) Evidence of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) Clearance Certificate valid till 31st December, 2022;

(f) Evidence of Registration on the National Database of Federal Contractors, Consultants and Service Providers by submission of Interim Registration Report (IRR) expiring on 31st December, 2022 or valid Certificate issued by BPP.;

(g) Sworn Affidavit

• disclosing whether or not any officer of the relevant committees of the FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE, BUDGET AND NATIONAL PLANNING or the Bureau of Public Procurement is a former or present Director, shareholder or has any pecuniary merest in the bidder and to confirm that all Information presented in its bid are true and correct in all particulars;
• that no Director has been convicted in any Country for any criminal offence relating to fraud or financial impropriety or criminal misrepresentation or falsification of facts relating to any matter;
• that the Company’s not in receivership, the subject of any form of insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings or the subject of any form of winding up petition or proceedings;
• That the company does not have existing loan or financial liability with a bank, other financial institution or third party that is classified as doubtful, non-performance, bad or whose repayment portion has been outstanding for the last four (4) months:

(h) Company’s Audited Accounts for the last three (3) years -2019, 2020 & 2021, duly acknowledged by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS);

(i) Reference Letter from a reputable commercial bank in Nigeria, indicating willingness to provide credit facility for the execution of the project when needed:

(j) Company’s profile including CVs of key professionals, photocopies of relevant academic and professional qualifications with attestation of availability and contact phone numbers;

(k) Verifiable documentary evidence of at least three (3) similar jobs executed in the last five (5) years including Letters of Awards, Valuation Certificates, Job Completion Certificates and Photographs of the projects;

(l) Works: List of Plants/Equipment with proof of Ownership/Lease Agreement;

(m) For Supply of Equipment Letter of Authorisation as representative of the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs);

(n) Services: Evidence of Firm’s current registration with relevant regulatory professional body(ies);

(o) For Joint Venture/Partnership, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) should be provided indicating the responsibility and duties of the individual firms constituting the JV as well as Names and Skills of Key Staff under each Company in the JV such that an informed judgment on the Firm’s Capacity in terms of Permanent or Borrowed Personnel can be determined (CAC, Tax Clearance Certificate, Pension Clearance Certificate, ITF Compliance Certificate, NSITF Clearance Certificate, IRR & Sworn Affidavit are compulsory for each JV partner);

(p) All documents for submission must be transmitted with a Covering/Forwarding letter under the Company/Firm’s Letter Head Paper bearing amongst others, the Registration Number (RC) as issued by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) Contact Address Telephone Number (preferably GSM No.), and e-mail address. The Letterhead Paper must bear the Names and Nationalities of the Directors of the Company at the bottom of the page, duly signed by the authorised officer of the firm;

(4) TENDER FEES (GOODS AND WORKS)
A non-refundable tender fee of Ten Thousand Naira (N10,000.00) is payable by all bidders into the Federal Government Single Treasury Account (TSA) (Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget & National Planning) for Works and Goods projects only. Bid documents should be collected from the Office of the Director of Procurement.

(5) GUIDELINE FOR COLLECTION AND SUBMISSION OF TENDER DOCUMENTS
(a) All submissions must be in English Language;

(b) Consultants and Service providers who are interested in providing consultancy services for Category ‘1(A)’ or ‘2’, are to submit profiles of their companies containing the Eligibility criteria and other relevant requirements.

(c) The completed Expression of Interest (EOI) for both categories are to be submitted in two (2) hard copies in a sealed tamper proof envelope, with the appropriate Project Title and Lot No. at the top right-hand corner; and addressed to:

The Permanent Secretary,
Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget & National Planning (FMFBNP),
Phase II, CBD, Abuja

The closing date for submission of EOI is on or before 12:00 noon, Monday, 28 November, 2022.

(d) The completed Technical and Financial bids for categories 1 (B) and (C) (2 hard copies and 1 soft copy) shall be submitted in two different sealed tamper proof envelopes and labelled “Technical Bid” and “Financial Bid” and both placed in a third envelope. All the three (3) envelopes should bear the Company name at the reverse side while the “Project Name” and Lot No. at the Top Right-Hand corner of the envelope and addressed as in paragraph 5 (C) above and submitted in the same location, not later than 12:00 noon on Monday, 12 December, 2022.

(6.0) OPENING OF EOI AND TECHNICAL BIDS
(6.1) Only the Technical bids for categories 1 (B) and (C) will be opened immediately after the deadline for submission at 12:00 noon on Monday, 12 December, 2022. at the Ministry’s Main Auditorium, Ground Floor, in the presence of Bidders or their Representatives and Statutory observers, while the financial bids will be kept un-opened.

(6.2) The Expression of Interest documents for categories 1 (A) and 2 will be opened at the Ministry’s Main Auditorium, Ground Floor, immediately after the close of bidding, at 12:00 noon, Monday, 28 November, 2022.

(7.0) ENQUIRIES
All enquiries should be directed to Director Procurement via Phone no: 07040800808

NOTE
(i) The Ministry may verify any or all the claims made by bidders and shall disqualify any company whose claims are found to be false, in addition to other sanctions that may be deemed necessary.

(ii) Bidders who have worked for the Ministry and have History of poor performance, abandonment or prolonged contract execution period need not apply;

(iii) All costs incurred in responding to this advertisement shall be borne solely by the Bidders;

(iv) Bidders are allowed to bid for only One (1) Lot;

(v) All submission pages must be duly initialed by an authorised staff of the Company;

(vi) Non-Compliance to the instructions will lead to disqualification.

(vii) Bid document(s) submitted late will be returned un-opened

(viii) The advertisement shall not be construed to be a commitment on the part of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget & National Planning nor shall it entitle the applicant to make any claim(s) whatsoever and /or seek any indemnity from Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget & National Planning by virtue of such applicant having responded to this advertisement;

(ix) Attendees at the bid openings shall be required to wash hands, use hand sanitiser, wear mask and observe physical distancing. The Bids will be opened in the presence of CSOs and Professional bodies and covered by video recording; invitation link will be sent to bidders who chooses to join the bid opening online;

(x) Goods & Works: Only pre-qualified bidders at technical evaluation will be invited at a later date for financial bids opening, while the financial bids of un-successful bidders will be returned un-opened;

(x) Services: Only shortlisted bidders at EOI’s evaluation will be invited at a later date for collection of Request for Proposals.

(xii) The FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE, BUDGET AND NATIONAL PLANNING is not bound to pre-qualify any bidder and reserves the right to annul the Procurement process at any time without incurring any liabilities in accordance with

SIGNED
Permanent Secretary
Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning