DEADLINE: 7TH FEBRUARY, 2023
FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL (FHI360)
ACHIEVING HEALTH NIGERIA INITIATIVE (AHNi)
REQUEST FOR QUOTATION FOR SUPPLY OF MEDICAL LABORATORY AND PWIDS CONSUMABLES FOR THE GLOBAL FUND NAHI PROJECT (READVERTISED)
RFQ REFERENCE: GF-RFQ-AHNİ-02-2023

(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 (AHN) is inviting qualified and interested companies to submit sealed quotations for a readvertised supply of Medical Laboratory and PWIDS Consumables as listed in the provided weblink below:

(b) REQUEST:
Interested bidders should visit this webpage on any web browser to access and download the LOT in respect to this notice:

LOT NO.PROJECT DESCRIPTION
LOT 1: Supply of Medical Laboratory and PWIDS Consumables for Global Fund NAHI Project (Readvertised)https://bit.ly/3Wy01LI


(c) MINIMUM ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENT:

No.Tender 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 Registration, FORM CO2 and FORM CO7)
3Latest Tax Clearance Certificate
4Evidence of Financial Capability (most recent and signed audited account)
5Bank Reference Letter duly signed and addressed to AHNI Procurement Committee
6Evidence of experience in award(s) of Medical Laboratory Consumables of similar scope, complexity, and value within the last 3 years: Bidders must provide copy(ies) of Job Orders or Contract of Supplies as well as proof of delivery(ies)
7Submission of Physical Sample(s) of all quoted product(s) of interest 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 against the follows:

STAGES OF BID EVALUATIONEVALUATION DECRIPTIONEVALUATION APPLICATION
1ST STAGEComplete Conformity to Tender Submission RequirementPASS OR FAIL
2ND STAGEConformity to Minimum Eligibility Requirement listed 1-6PASS OR FAIL
3RD STAGEProducts Physical Sample Presentation for Verification and Approval (This is a one-off exercise that will be conducted for those bidders that have met the requirement of Stages 1 &2)PASS OR FAIL
4TH STAGEFinancial Bid Opening and Assessment of Conformity to Financial Quotation (i.e., Clear Specification, Clear unit of Measurement, Delivery Leadtime, Price and Warranty)PASS OR FAIL
5TH STAGEConsideration for AwardPrice Reasonableness, Acceptable Quality, Acceptable unit of Measurement, Acceptable Shelf-Life, Acceptable Delivery Timeline and Warranty

(e) SUBMISSION PROCEDURE AND INSTRUCTIONS:
Technical Documentation (Criteria 1-6) 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 envelop 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 addressed to:
The Procurement Committee,
Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNİ),
Plot 512, Cadastral Zone B09(#23 Celina Anyom Crescent),
Behind NAF Conference Centre, Kado 900108, Abuja FCT-Nigeria

(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;
  • Please note that you are expected to quote for all items listed in a particular LOT or across the five (5) LOTS to merit an award. AHNI expectation is to award all items to one successful bidder based on overall price competition except where it is practically impossible as may be determine by eventual quotations received and physical sample reviews conducted;
  • Deliveries- Delivery location for all items after award would be (Federal Central Medical Store, Oshodi, Lagos NIGERIA);
  • Do not submit your sample along with your quotation. This would be treated as a sperate exercise where email communication requesting for same shall be sent to all those that have met the requirement of technical prequalification stages (It is listed at Criteria 7);
  • All proposal document submitted including prices must be valid for a period of six (6) month from the tender due date. This include but 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 to 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 and Review shall be duly communicated to those concern later.

(g) CLOSING DATE:
Tender document must be hand delivered or couriered to the above address on or before Tuesday 7th February 2022 at 5:00pm GMT.

DISCLAIMER
AHNi reserves the right to select and negotiate with those company 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 AHN i to award a contract.