Federal College Of Education Umunze, Anambra State (Technical)- Invitation To Pre-Qualification And Tender (Technical And Financial) For Years 2023 TETFUND Zonal Intervention Projects (2 Lots)

DEADLINE: 13TH NOVEMBER, 2023
FEDERAL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION UMUNZE, ANAMBRA STATE (TECHNICAL)
PMB 0189 UMUMZE, ANAMBRA STATE
INVITATION TO PRE-QUALIFICATION AND TENDER (TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL) FOR YEARS 2023 TETFUND ZONAL INTERVENTION PROJECTS

1. BACKGROUND
The Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze, Anambra state is a beneficiary of the (TETFund) Projects under year 2023 Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) Zonal Intervention Project.
In line with the provisions of the Public Procurement Act 2007, the college is desirous of undertaking a pre-qualification and tender exercise for these (Tetfund) Projects under 2023 Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) Zonal Intervention Projects. Consequently, the college wishes to invite reputable interested contractor/companies to submit their technical and financial bids for the following projects.

2. PROJECT DESCRIPTION

3. ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Interested firms should submit the following documents:
a) Evidence of Certificate of Incorporation issued by Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) including Forms CAC 1.1 or CAC 2 and CAC7;Business Name is also acceptable for services;
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, 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, 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) For supply of equipment: Letter of authorization as representatives of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)
h) Sworn affidavit

• disclosing whether or not any officer of the relevant committees of the Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze 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.

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) 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;
m) Work: list of plants/equipment with proof of ownership/lease agreement;
n) For ICT: evidence of firm’s registration with the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and computer professionals Registration Council of Nigeria
o) For training programme: Evidence of firm’s current accreditation issued by the Centre for Management Development (CMD);
p) Electricity jobs: Evidence of current licence issued by Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency (NEMSA)
q) Only companies included in the National Automotive Design and Development Councils approved list of local manufacturers of vehicle
r) 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 BIDDING DOCUMENTS
Bid documents containing full specification etc; to be collected from the procurement department between 9am and 4pm daily, Monday to Fridays upon the presentation of original receipts for the payments of Ten Thousand Naira (N10, 000) tender fee of each of the project, paid into the FCE(T) Umunze’s Remita account in any reputable commercial in Nigeria.

5. SUBMISSION OF BID DOCUMENTS
Two bound copies each of the technical and financial bids are to be separately sealed in different envelopes then to be enclosed in one larger sealed envelope indicating the project category, project description, lot number and code of the project bided for and addressed to: The Provost, Federal College of Education (T) Umunze, Anambra state the reverse of the envelope should bear the name and addressed of the bidder and dropped in the tender box stationed in the procurement department of Federal College of Education (T) Umunze not later than 12:00 noon Monday, November 13, 2023.

6. OPENING OF PREQUALIFICATION DOCUMENTS
Only the technical bids will be opened immediately after the deadline for submission at 12:00 noon Monday, November 13, 2023 at the council chamber of the College in the presence of observers, bidders or their representatives. Please ensure that you sign the bid collection and submission register in the procurement department of the Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze as the College will not be held liable for misplaced or wrongly submitted bids. For further enquires please contact the secretary, College tenders board on phone number 08037409906.

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. Any bidder that encloses technical and financial bid or more than one project in a single envelope will have his bid disqualified.
d. All cost will be borne by the bidders;
e. Delivery of prequalification documents through Courier services will not be accepted if received after the deadline
f. All cost incurred as a result of this tender invitation and subsequent request for information shall be borne by the bidding companies;
g. The technical bid will be opened in the presence of bidders or representatives, CSOs in the area of Anti-Corruption and Transparency and private professional bodies, and will be covered by video covered by video recording; invitation link will be sent to bidder who choose to join the bid opening online;
h. 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;
i. The College 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
FCE(T), UMUNZE