Metallurgical Training Institute (MTI), Onitsha- Expression Of Interest And Invitation To Tender For 2024 Capital And Constituency Projects (4 Lots)

DEADLINE: 10TH & 24TH JUNE, 2024
METALLURGICAL TRAINING INSTITUTE (MTI), ONITSHA
KM 6/7, ONITSHA OWERRI ROAD, PMB 1555, ONITSHA
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST AND INVITATION TO TENDER FOR 2024 CAPITAL AND CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS

1. INTRODUCTION
The Metallurgical Training Institute, Onitsha is a Federal Government owned institute with the mandate to train low/middle level technical manpower in maintenance and repair works for the steel and allied industries in Nigeria. In compliance with the Public Procurement Act, 2007, the Institute hereby invites reputable, competent and qualified companies to tender for renovation, procurement and consultancy services for the following projects:

2. SCOPE OF WORKS & SERVICES

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; business name is also acceptable for services
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 Ministry of Steel Development 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

h) Company’s Audited Accounts for the last three years (2021 , 2022 & 2023); and declared turnovers must correspond with those in Tax clearance certificate;
i) Reference letter from a reputable commercial bank indicating willingness to provide credit facility for the execution of the project when needed;
j) For training programme: evidence of firm’s current registration with the Centre for Management Development (CMD);
k) Lot 3: firms must register with National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA);
l) 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;
m) 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;
n) Works: List of Plants/Equipment with proof of Ownership/Lease agreement;
o) Electricity jobs: evidence of current licence issued by Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency (NEMSA);
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 A & B)
Interested and competent bidders should collect the Standard Bidding Document (SBD) from PROCUREMENT DEPARTMENT, Room 6, Metallurgical Training Institute, Onitsha on evidence of non-refundable tender fee of N10, 000.00 per lot using the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) payment gateway platform that can be accessed from the REMITA website: please note that interested firms in services will not pay at this stage until after shortlisting.

5. SUBMISSION OF TENDER DOCUMENTS (CATEGORY A & 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, put the two sealed envelopes should be put together in a bigger sealed envelope addressed to Director/Chief Executive, Metallurgical Training Institute, km 6/7 Onitsha – Owerri road, Onitsha and clearly marked with the name of the project and 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 procurement department of the institute, Room 6 not later than 12:00 noon Monday, 24th June, 2024.

6. SUBMISSION OF EOI DOCUMENTS (CATEGORY C)
Interested firms are to submit two (2) bound expression of interest document separated by dividers and arranged as indicated above. The documents should be submitted in a sealed envelope and addressed to Director/Chief Executive, Metallurgical Training Institute, km 6/7 Onitsha – Owerri road, Onitsha and clearly marked with the name of the project and 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 procurement department of the institute, Room 6 not later than 12:00 noon Monday, 10th June, 2024.

7. OPENING OF EXPRESSION OF INTEREST AND TECHNICAL BID
The EOI and the technical bids will be opened immediately after the deadlines for submission at 12:00 noon Monday, 10th June, 2024 and 12:00 noon Monday, 24th June, 2024 respectively in the presence of bidders or their representatives in the Institute’s Board Room. Please ensure that you sign the bid submission register at the procurement department of the institute, Room 6 as the Metallurgical Training Institute will not be held liable for misplaced or wrongly submitted bids.

8. GENERAL INFORMATION
a. EOIs/ Bids must be in English Language and signed by an official authorized by the bidders.
b. Arrangement of technical documents in hard copies should follow the order in the list above and appropriately paginated. The technical documents should have a table of content indicating the pages, which these items are to be found. Failure to comply with this directive will result in disqualification of the bidder.
c. EOIs/Bids submitted after the deadline for submission would be returned unopened;
d. Bidders should not bid form than two (2) lots.
e. All cost will be borne by the bidders;
f. Bids documents can also be collected in soft copies and bidders can submit through Post (courier services);
g. Metallurgical Training Institute, Onitsha reserves the right to verify claims made in the returned tender documents.
h. The EOIs/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;
i. Category A & 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;
j. Category C: only prequalified bidders at technical evaluation will be invited at a later date for collection of tender documents;
k. The Nigerian Export Promotion Council 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
Ag. Director/Chief Executive
Metallurgical Training Institute, Onitsha