DEADLINE: 15TH & 29TH APRIL, 2024
UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN TEACHING HOSPITAL
OLD JEBBA ROAD, OKE-OSE
PMB 1459, ILORIN, KWARA STATE, NIGERIA
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI) AND INVITATION TO TENDER PROJECTS EXECUTION
1. INTRODUCTION
The University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, in implementing its year 2024 Capital Projects hereby invites all reputable and interested contractors, suppliers and service providers with relevant experience and good tracks records of accomplishments of performance, to submit expression of interest (EOI) for capacity building and Tenders for execution of projects (Works).
2. SCOPE OF SERVICES
LOT NO PROJECT TITLE Lot 1 Manpower development and capacity building for clinical and non-clinical staff of the Hospital CATEGORY B: WORKS Lot 2 Construction of invisible wire fencing of the infectious diseases treatment research and training centre at the Hospital Permanent Site.
3. ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Interested firms are to submit the following:
a) Evidence of Certificate of Incorporation issued by Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) including Forms CAC 1.1 or CAC 2 and CAC7 or business name where applicable;
b) Evidence of Company’s Income Tax Clearance Certificates (or personal Income Tax Clearance Certificates for all partners) for the last three (3) years valid till 31st December 2024
c) Evidence of Pension Clearance Certificate valid till 31st December, 2024 (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, 2024 (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, 2024;
f) Evidence of Registration on the National Database of Federal Contractors, Consultants and Service Providers by submission of Interim Registration Report (IRR) expiring on 31/12/2024 or valid Certificate issued by BPP;
g) Sworn affidavit
- disclosing whether or not any officer of the relevant committees of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital 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) Company’s Audited Accounts for the last three years (2021, 2022 & 2023)
i) Reference letter from a reputable commercial bank indicating willingness to provide credit facility for the execution of the project when needed;
j) 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;
k) Consultancy services: evidence of firm’s current registration with relevant regulatory professional body(ies) such as CMD, MDCN. 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) List of Plants/Equipment with proof of Ownership/Lease agreement;
Note: 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 (CATEGORY B)
Interested Bidders are requested to collect Tender Documents from the Office of the Head of Procurement Unit between the working hours of 8:00am and 4:00pm daily from Monday 1st April, 2024 upon the payment of non-refundable tender fee of N10,000.00 (Ten Thousand Naira) only per LOT into the university of Ilorin Teaching Hospital’s Remita account, by following these procedures:
Type www.remita.net on the web, click on pay FGN and TSA, click on FGN: Federal Government of Nigeria, Type University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital on “who do you want to pay” select UTH GENERAL PURPOSE on name of service/purpose and finally, fill the remaining option and pay. The photocopy of teller for this payment should be attached to the Tender documents.
Consultants interested in category A are not expected to pay at this stage until after EOI shortlisting.
5. SUBMISSION OF TENDER DOCUMENTS CATEGORY B
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 together in a bigger sealed envelope addressed to The Chief Medical Director, University of Ilorin, Kwara State and clearly marked with (the name of the Project and the lot number). 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 Head, Procurement Unit not later than 12:00 noon Monday, 29th April, 2024.
6. SUBMISSION OF EOI
Interested firms in services are to submit the Expression of Interest (EOI) for each of the lot desired, in three (3) hard copies each (one original & two copies). The EOI should be addressed as indicated above and submitted not later than 12:00 noon, Monday 15th April, 2024.
7. OPENING OF EOI AND TECHNICAL BIDS
The EOI and the technical bids will be opened immediately after the deadline for submission at 12:00 noon, Monday 15th April, 2024 and 12:00 noon Monday, 29th April, 2024 respectively, at the Procurement/ ACTU building Conference Hall of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital Permanent site in the presence of bidders or their representatives, financial bids will kept unopened. For further enquiry, please contact the Procurement unit on this email address: callfemoye@yahoo.com
8. GENERAL INFORMATION
a) EOI/Bids must be in English Language and signed by an official authorized by the bidder;
b) EOI/Bids submitted after the deadline for submission would be returned unopened;
c) Bidders should not bid for more than one (1) lot;
d) The EOI/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;
e) Category A: Only shortlisted firms will be invited at a later date for collection of Request for Proposals
f) Category B: 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) The University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital is not bound 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
Management
University of Ilorin Teaching Ilorin
