DEADLINE: 12TH DECEMBER, 2023
ENUGU STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (TECHNICAL) ENUGU, ENUGU STATE
INVITATION TO PRE-QUALIFICATION AND TENDER FOR THE YEAR 2023 TETFUND ZONAL INTERVENTION PROJECT
1. BACKGROUND
The Enugu State College of Education (Technical) Enugu, Enugu State in pursuant of its mandate and in compliance with the requirements of the Public Procurement Act, 2007, wishes to invite interested, competent/qualified and experienced contractors/firms with relevant experiences and good track records of prompt delivery to be pre-qualified for the procurement of Laboratory Equipment for Various Department with accessories under the Year 2023 Zonal Intervention Project.
2. SCOPE OF WORK/SUPPLY
LOT NO DESCRIPTION 1 Supply, Installation, Testing, and Commissioning of Science Laboratory Equipment for Various Departments and Accessories
3. ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
a. Evidence of Certificate of Incorporation issued by Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) including Forms CAC 1.1 or CAC 2 and CAC7;
b. Evidence of Company’s Income Tax Clearance Certificates for the last three (3) years valid till 31st December 2023;
c. Evidence of Pension Clearance Certificate valid till 31st December, 2023 (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, 2023 (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 current Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) Compliance Certificate valid till 31st December, 2023;
f. Evidence of Registration on the National Database of Federal Contractors, Consultants and Service Providers by submission of Interim Registration Report (IRR) expiring on 31/12/2023 or valid Certificate issued by BPP;
g. Sworn affidavit
- disclosing whether or not any officer of the relevant committees of the Enugu State College of Education (T), Enugu state or Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) is a former or present Director, shareholder or has any pecuniary interest 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 county for any criminal offence relating to fraud impropriety or criminal misrepresentation of falsification of facts relating to any matter.
- That the company is not in receivership, the subject of any form or bankruptcy proceedings of the subject of any form of winding up petition or proceeding
- That the company does not have existing loan or financial liability with a bank, other financial institutions of third party that is classified as doubtful, non-performance, bad or whose repayment portion has been outstanding for the last four (4) months.
h. For supply of equipment: Letter of authorization as representative of the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs);
i. Company’s Audited Accounts for the last three years (2020, 2021 & 2022)
j. Reference letter from a reputable commercial bank indicating willingness to provide credit facility for the execution of the project when needed;
k. Company’s profile with the curriculum Vitae of key staff to be deployed for the project, including copies of their academic/professional qualifications such as COREN, QSDRBN, ARCON, CORBON etc;
l. For Joint Venture/Partnership, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) should be provided (CAC, Tax Clearance Certificates, Pension Clearance Certificate, ITF Compliance Certificate, NSITF Clearance Certificate, IRR & Sworn affidavit are compulsory for each JV Partner);
m. All documents for submission must be submitted with a Covering/Forwarding letter under the Company’s letter head paper bearing amongst others, the Registration Number (RC) as issued by the CAC, Contact Address, Telephone Number (preferably GSM No) fax and email address. The letter head paper must bear the Names and Nationalities of the Directors of the company at the bottom of the page, duly signed by the authorized officer of the firm.
4. COLLECTION OF TENDER DOCUMENTS
Interested firms are to collect the Standard Bidding Document (SBD) from the office of the Chief Procurement Officer, Enugu College of Education, (Technical) Enugu with an evidence of payment of a non-refundable tender fee of N10, 000.00 per lot, through remita platform in any commercial Bank of choice in favour of Enugu College of Education, (Technical) Enugu, Evidence of such payments is to be presented at the cash office.
5. SUBMISSION OF TENDER DOCUMENTS
Prospective bidders are to submit two (2) hard copies each of the technical and financial bids with softcopy of the financial bid in MS Excel format, packaged separately in sealed and clearly marked as “Technical Bid” and “Financial Bid”. Thereafter, the two sealed envelopes should be put together in a bigger sealed envelope addressed to the Provost, Enugu College of Education, (Technical) Enugu, and clearly marked with the name of the project boldly written at the back of the envelope.
Furthermore, the reverse of each sealed envelope should bear the name and address of the bidder and dropped in the designated tender Box at the office of the tender board not later than 12:00 noon on Tuesday, 12th December, 2023.
6. OPENING OF TECHNICAL BIDS
Only the Technical will be opened immediately after the deadline for submission at 12:00 noon on Tuesday, 12th December, 2023 at the Provost’s Conference Room, Enugu College of Education, (Technical) the presence of bidders or their representatives.
7. GENERAL INFORMATION
a) Bids must be in English Language and signed by an authorized official;
b) Bids submitted after the deadline for submission would be returned unopened;
c) All cost will be borne by the bidders;
d) The University is not obliged to award the contracts to the lowest cost bidders;
e) The technical bids will be opened in the presence of bidders or their representatives, CSOs in the areas of Anti-Corruption and Transparency and private professional bodies; and will be covered by video recording; invitation link will be sent to bidder who chooses to join the bid opening online;
f) Only pre-qualified bidders at technical evaluation will be invited at later date for virtual financial bids opening, while the financial bids of un-successful bidders will be returned un-opened;
g) Enugu College of Education, (Technical) is not bound to prequalify and bidder reserves the right to annul the procurement process at any time without incurring any liabilities in accordance with section 28 of the Public Procurement ACT 2007.
SIGNED
Provost
Enugu College of Education, (Technical), Enugu, Enugu State
