DEADLINE: 20TH MARCH, 2023
FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL (FHI360)
IN COLLABORATION WITH ACHIEVING HEALTH NIGERIA INITIATIVE (AHNi)
INVITATION TO TENDER FOR PLANNED PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE (PPM) OF PCR ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT
RFQ REFERENCE: GF-RFQ-AHNİ-04-2023
(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 (AHNi) is inviting qualified and certified companies to submit sealed quotation for a Plan Preventive Maintenance (PPM) of Ancillary Equipment at the four (4) PCR Laboratories supported by the Global Fund NAHI Project titled as LOT1 and LOT2
(b) REQUEST:
Interested bidders should visit this weblink on any web browser: https://bit.ly/3mo3CzA to access and download the list and specification of the PCR Ancillary Equipment to be contracted.
(c) MINIMUM ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENT:
No Tender Requirement 1 Company Profile; registered address(s), official/functional emails, telephone numbers and point of contact for the company 2 Evidence of legal registration document of the company (CAC, FORM CO7 and FORM CO2) 3 Latest Tax Clearance Certificate 4 Evidence of Financial Capability (most recent audited account) 5 Bank Reference Letter duly signed and addressed to AHNI Procurement Committee 6 Evident of NSF Biosafety Cabinet Field Certifier Accreditation(current) 7 Evidence of ISO 17025 training on equipment maintenance with current calibration certificates of tools used in equipment maintenance and calibrations. 8 Evidence of experience in award(s) of Contract for PPM for Ancillary Laboratory Equipment of similar Scope, Complexity and Value within the last 3 years: Bidders must provide copy(ies) of Job Orders or Service Contracts 9 Financial 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 EVALUATION EVALUATION DECRIPTION EVALUATION APPLICATION 1ST STAGE Complete Conformity to Tender Submission Requirement PASS OR FAIL 2ND STAGE Conformity to Minimum Eligibility Requirement listed 1-8 PASS OR FAIL 3RD STAGE Conformity to Financial Quotation (i.e., Clear Specification, Clear unit of Measurement, Certification, Delivery Leadtime, Price and Warranty) listed as 9 PASS OR FAIL 4TH STAGE Consideration for Award Price Reasonableness, Acceptable Quality, Acceptable Certification, Acceptable
Delivery Timeline and Warranty
(e) SUBMISSION PROCEDURE AND INSTRUCTIONS:
Technical Documentation (Criteria 1-7) 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 (AHNi),
Plot 512, Cadastral Zone B09 (#23 Celina Ayom Crescent), Behind NAF Conference Centre,
Kado 900108, Abuja FCT
(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, which is advertised as one LOT. AHNI expectation is to award all items to one successful bidder based on overall price competition; Deliveries- Maintenance Location (UDUTH, Sokoto, UMTH, Borno, NAUTH, Anambra and LASUTH, Lagos);
- All proposal document submitted including prices must be valid for a period of one (1) Year from the tender due date. This include but not limited to cost, terms, conditions, and service level agreement;
(g) CLOSING DATE:
Tender document must be hand delivered or couriered to the above address on or before Monday 20th March 2023 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 AHNi to award a contract.
