DEADLINE: 26TH FEBRUARY, 2024
NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM COMPANY LTD (NNPC)
NNPC LTD TOWERS, HERBERT MACAULAY WAY, PMB 190, GARKI-ABUJA, NIGERIA
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI) FOR THE PROVISION OF OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE (O&M) SERVICES FOR NNPC LIMITED PORT-HARCOURT REFINING COMPANY (PHRC)
1. INTRODUCTION
The NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM COMPANY LIMITED is an integrated Oil and Gas company engaged in petroleum/gas exploitation, refining and petrochemicals, transportation, storage and marketing.
NNPC Limited is seeking to engage reputable and credible operations & Maintenance (O&M) companies to operate and maintain of its refineries, Port Harcourt refining company (PHRC) to ensure reliability and sustainability to meet the nation’s fuel supply and energy security obligations.
2. DESCRIPTION
The O&M contract scope of work shall cover, but not be limited to, the following refinery business processes;
- Long-term and short-term production/operations planning
- Production and operations execution
- Monitoring, reporting and optimization of operations
- Maintenance planning (short term)
- Maintenance execution
- Reliability and inspection
- Process and controls engineering
- Quality control, quality assurance and laboratory
- Specialist engineering
- Health and safety
- Environmental management
- Turnaround maintenance planning and execution
- Minor projects
- Non-hydrocarbon procurement
- Sub-contractor management
- Inventory and warehouse management”
3. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS
- Evidence of company’s registration and incorporation issued by the respective governing body, certified true copy of the certificate of incorporation obtained from the Corporate Affairs Commission CAC within the last twelve months ending January 2024 and CAC status report generated within 3 months of bid submission (for national companies and similar documentation from the respective governing body for foreign companies), particulars of Directors, certified true copies of statutory documents indicating ownership structure of company, name(s) of major shareholders and percentage shareholding)
- Provide detailed company profile and a signed letter of application indicating interest on the company’s letterhead paper bearing amongst others, telephone number, email address and company’s full address clearly listing verifiable location(s) of your operational head office and spread of your branch office(s) with a comprehensive company profile addressed to NNPC Ltd.
- Copy of tax clearance certificate for the past three (3) years; 2020, 2021 & 2022 (receipts not acceptable) issued by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (for national companies and similar documentation from the respective governing body for foreign companies). Certification must be valid up to 31st December, 2023.
- Employee Compensation Scheme (ECS) Clearance certificate as evidence of compliance with the provisions of the Employee Compensation Act 2010 issued by the Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) expiring not earlier than 31st December, 2023 (for national companies and similar documentation from the respective governing body for foreign companies) (receipts not acceptable).
- Certificate of compliance with provisions of the pension reform act, 2014 issued by the National Pension Commission expiring not earlier than 31st December 2023. (For national companies and similar documentation from the respective governing body for foreign companies.
- Evidence of certificate of compliance with the provision of Industrial Training Fund (ITF) Act 2011 issued by the ITF expiring not earlier than 31st December, 2023 (for national companies and similar documentation from the respective governing body for foreign companies).
- Relevant certificate of registration with the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) expiring not earlier than 31st December, 2023. (For national companies and similar documentation from the respective governing body for foreign companies).
BUSINESS INTEGRITY REQUIREMENTS
A prospective bidder shall make provision of sworn affidavit/Notarization to support action as follows:
- disclosing whether or not any officer of the relevant committees of the NNPC ltd 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;
- To allow NNPC Ltd verify all claim made in your submission.
- To allow NNPC Ltd verify that your organization is not in receivership, nor the subject of any form of insolvency of bankruptcy proceedings or the subject of any form of petition or proceedings;
- To confirm that the company is not a replacement for a hitherto tax defaulting company.
- A written statement confirming that your company does not have any Director who has been convicted in any country for a criminal offence relating to fraud or any financial impropriety or criminal misrepresentation of falsification of facts relating to any matter.
- A written statement confirming that the firm does not have any existing loan or financial liability with a bank or other financial institution;
- Certainty of business integrity and pre-signed undertaking to strictly comply with Nigerian Anti-corruption laws in processing the bid and executing the contract if successful.
4. COMPLIANCE WITH THE NIGERIAN CONTENT ACT
i. Current and in place organizational structure with detailed experience and skills of key management personnel with names. Provide evidence (personnel list and position organization chart).
ii. Current percentage of management that are Nigerian Nationals and the percentage of the total workforce that are Nigerian.
iii. Detailed past/present commitment to staff training and development of Nigerian personnel (where applicable).
5. SUBMISSION OF EOI DOCUMENTS/CLOSING DATE
ALL EOIS MUST BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY TO THE NNPC LTD/Nipex TENDER PORTAL
- To be eligible for this tender exercise, interested bidders are required to fill out and submit mandatory details through this link https://forms.office.com/r/4k3L3HU0HP on or before Midnight Monday 29th January, 2024.
- Section 5.1 (a-e) above is a mandatory requirement to register your company for participation in this EOI process in the NNPC Ltd/ Nipex Tender process portal.
- All interested bidders who do not provide as requested in section 5.1 a-e above as 12:00 Midnight Monday, 29th January 2024 will no longer have access to submit the mandatory details.
- Individual bidders would be duly notified on their registration on the NNPC LTD/ Nipex Tender portal.
- Thereafter, the bidder would have access to make their submissions on the NNPC LTD/ Nipex tender portal.
- All submitted EOIs should be titled “EOI for the provision of operations and Maintenance (O&M) services for NNPC Limited port Harcourt Refining company (PHRC).
THE SUBMISSION/CLOSING DATE
All documents should be submitted online through the electronic NIPEX Tender Portal on or before 12:00 Noon Monday 26th February 2024 to www.nipex-ng.com .
The EOIs shall be opened virtually, following the deadline for EOIs submission at 12:00 Noon Monday 26th February, 2024 using the NNPC Microsoft teams. Bidders who have submitted their EOIs and External observers shall be invited to attend the virtual live stream bid opening session.
In the event of any unscheduled holiday on the bid submission date, the new deadline for submission of EOIs will be on the next working day. Accordingly, the EOIs closing date/time shall be extended to the next working day and time.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
It must be noted that Bidders acknowledge and accept, with respect to the EOI that:
a) NNPC LTD will only accept documents received electronically via the designated NipeX portal, EOIs received in any other form shall not be accepted
b) Timely submission is the responsibility of the bidder.
c) At the deadline of EOIs submission bidders will no longer have access on the Nipex portal to submit their bid
d) The uploading of large electronic files may take time and as such, bidders must allow for sufficient time to fully transmit all files prior to the bid closing time.
e) All submissions must be in a readable PDF format. If the electronic files containing the EOI documents are corrupted contain a virus or are unreadable for any reason NNPC LTD serves the right to reject the EOI documents
f) Bidders are advised that NNPC LTD may not discover corrupted or unreadable files submitted via the NipeX portal until after the EOI submission deadline
g) NNPC LTD is not responsible for errors or failures in the Bidder’s own systems, and No extension of the submission deadline or time will be granted
h) NNPC LTD accepts no responsibility for Bidders misunderstanding of the instructions or incorrect usage of the NipeX portal system
i) All companies who have submitted their mandatory details and registered on the NipeX portal and external observers shall be invited to attend a virtual Expression of Interest opening session through Microsoft Teams to be communicated
j) NNPC LTD shall deal directly with only authorized officers of the interested companies and not through individuals or agents
k) All costs incurred by your company because of this invitation to submit Expression of Interest and any subsequent request for information shall be to your account
l) NNPC LTD will not enter into any form of communication with interested bidder) from the commencement date of this advertisement
m) NNPC LTD reserves the right to write the information and documents provided from regulatory authorities
n) This Invitation to EO process and any related process neither creates any commitment by NNPC LTD nor establishes any legal relationship
o) All information must be provided in English Language
p) Only shortlisted firms will be contacted at a later date for collection of Request
q) The NNPC LTD is not bound to shorts any bidder and reserves the night to annul the Procurement process at any time without incurring any abilities.
This advertisement is also published on our website www.nnpcgroup.com
SIGNED:
NNPC LTD MANAGEMENT
