DEADLINE: 17TH SEPTEMBER, 2024
SEPLAT ENERGY
ON BEHALF OF THE NEPL/SEPLAT JOINT VENTURE)
INVITATION TO TENDER FOR THE PROVISION OF PRESSURE PUMPING SERVICES FOR WESTERN ASSET OPERATIONS
NIPEX SHOPPING CART: SEPLAT.00000112
NCDMB/PCAD/IPPG/SEPLAT – ADV-1023/30578
1. INTRODUCTION:
SEPLAT Energy the operator NEPL/SEPLAT Joint Venture invites interested and prequalified companies with relevant experience in the Provision of Pressure Pumping Services for its well intervention and rigless programs for Onshore/Swamp Operations.
2. SERVICES REQUIRED/SCOPE OF WORK:
The contractor shall provide Pressure Pumping Services to support well intervention and rigless operations. These services are essential for maintaining well integrity, enhancing production, and executing remedial work on existing wells. The work will involve the use of specialized equipment and personnel to ensure the safe and efficient execution of operations.
The scope of work includes, but is not limited to, the following activities:
a. Evacuation of Produced Crude in Remote Tanks during Well Testing Operations:
The contractor will provide pressure services to evacuate produced crude from remote storage tanks during well testing operations. This involves safely and efficiently transferring the crude from the tanks to designated storage or processing facilities.
b. Opening Tripped Non-Equalizing tubing Retrievable Surface Controlled Subsurface Safety Valves (TRScSSSV) in Old Wells:
Pressure pumping services will be utilized to open tripped Non-Equalizing tubing Retrievable Surface Controlled Subsurface Safety Valves (TRScSSSV) in Older completes wells. These valves, which may have become stuck due to long term inactivity, require controlled pressure application to restore their functionally.
c. Equalizing Pressure for Pressure Balanced (PB) Valves and Ball Valves:
The contractor will provide pressure pumping services to equalize pressure in Pressure Balanced (PB) valves and ball valves that have tripped due to low or fluctuating well pressures. The service is necessary to keep these valves open and maintain the desired flow conditions within the well. These operations are critical to ensuring the safe and efficient functioning of wells within the specified fields, particularly during well testing and maintenance activities.
The contract is expected to run for 2 years with an option to extend for an additional 1 year, subject to performance and project requirements.
3. MANDATORY TENDER REQUIREMENTS:
1. To be eligible for this tender exercise, interested companies are required to be pre-qualified in the relevant product/services categories of NipeX Joint Qualification System (NJQS) database as indicated in 2 above. All successfully pre-qualified contractors in this category will receive an invitation to tender (ITT).
2. To determine if you are pre-qualified and view the product/service category you are listed for: open www.vendors.nipex-ng.com and access NJQS with your log in details. Click on Products/Services tab to view your status and product codes.
3. If you are not listed in this product/service category you registered with NUPRC to do business, Please Contact Nipex Office at 27b, Oyinkan Abayomi Drive, Ikoyi Lagos with your NUPRC certificate as evidence for verification and necessary update.
4. To initiate the JQS pre-qualification process, please access www.nipex-ng.com, click on services tab followed by NJQS registration.
5. Any entity intending to bid as a joint venture/alliance must demonstrate a genuine alliance or joint venture with details on scope and responsibilities of parties for this work and payment arrangements. Such companies must show evidence of joint venture via a legally binding agreement duly signed by the Chief executive Officer (CEO) of both companies. In the absence of a binding legal agreement relating directly to this activity, the company submitting the response on behalf of the alliance/joint venture must supply a power of attorney authorizing it to do so;
6. To be eligible, all interested bidders must comply with the Nigerian Content requirements in Nipex system. In the section below:
“OGTAN” shall mean Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria and “TENDERER” shall mean bidder.
4. NIGERIAN CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
SEPLAT, as an indigenous Exploration and Production Company in Nigeria, is committed to the development of the capabilities of Nigerian companies in compliance with the provisions of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act 2010 for Nigerian Content Development.
Tenderers are to note that they will be requested in the technical tender to provide details of their relevant strategy to ensure that they fully comply with the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Act 2010 as provided at http://www.ncdmb.gov.ng/images/GUIDELINES/NCACT.pdf , in view of the fact that non-compliance will constitute a fatal flaw in all contract evaluations.
In light of the above, tenderers shall be expected by Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to:
- Demonstrate that the entity proposed for execution of the service, is a Nigerian registered company, or Nigerian registered company as the contracting entity in genuine alliance or joint venture with foreign company with details on scope and responsibilities of parties for this work. Such companies must show evidence of joint venture binding agreement duly signed by the CEO of both companies including evidence or plans of physical operational presence and set-up in Nigeria.
- Furnish details of company ownership and shareholding structure. Also submit photocopies of its CAC Forms CO2 and CO7
- Tenderer shall submit project specific organogram clearly showing distribution Nigerian AND Expatriate staff to be deployed on the project – this should include both management and non-management.
- Provide a Nigerian Content Plan with detailed description of the role, work scope, man-hours and responsibilities of all the Nigerian companies and personnel that will be involved in executing the work. This should include detailed statement with evidence of how it intends to maximize the use of Nigerian made goods and services.
- Provide detailed description of the location of in-country committed facilities (equipment, storage, workshops, repair, maintenance and testing facilities).
- In line with the NCD Human Capacity Development Initiative, bidder shall commit to providing project-Specific training, man-hour, budget, skill development and understudy plan for Nigerian personnel utilizing OGTAN registered trainer(s) or other approved NCDMB training institution(s).
- Provide evidence of NCEC (Nigerian Content Equipment Certificate) – NCEC category “SS” (Production Services) for nitrogen generation and relates services.
- Evidence of Registration on the NCDMB NOGIC JQS Portal.
- All procurement activity must be done through a registered Nigerian vendor(s) with valid NCEC for the item to be procured.
Please note that failure to provide any of the above documentation (or requirements) will be a fatal flaw.
5. CLOSING DATE:
Only bidders who are registered with NJQS Product/Category:
A.3.04.18 Well Overhauling/Stimulation Services: Hydraulic Stimulation, Coiled Tubing/N2 Services, Pumping Services
With a “LIVE” subscription status at 16:00hours (West African Time) on 17 September 2024 being the advert close date shall be invited to submit technical and commercial bid.
6. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
1. All cost incurred in preparing and processing NJQS prequalification and responding to this tender opportunity shall be to the tenderer’s own account.
2. This advertisement and subsequent ITT shall neither be construed as any form of commitment on the part of SEPLAT to award any contract to any company and or associated companies, sub-contractors or agent, nor shall it entitle prequalified companies to make any claims whatsoever, and/or seek any indemnity from SPDC and or any of its partners by virtue of such companies having been prequalified in NJQS.
3. The tendering process shall be undertaken in accordance with the NNPC contracting process in compliance with Public Procurement Act 2007
4. SEPLAT will communicate only with authorized officers of the pre-qualifying companies at each stage of the tender process, as necessary and will not communicate through individuals or appointed agents.
5. This tender and any related process neither creates any commitment by SEPLAT nor establish any legal relationship.
6. All information must be provided in English Language.
7. Notwithstanding the pre-qualification in NJQS, SEPLAT is neither committed nor obliged to include your company on any bid list or to award any form of contract to any company and/or associated companies, sub-contractors or agents.
8. SEPLAT will not enter any form of communication with interested bidder(s) in respect hereof form the commencement date of this advertisement.
9. Submission of any fictitious document will lead to suspension from participation in future bids.
10. Only pre-qualified companies in the appropriate registered NipeX Categorization as at the last date of this advertisement will be eligible and shall be invited for tendering.
11. SEPLAT will not enter correspondence with any company or individual on why a company was short-listed or not short-listed
12. Only tenderers that score the minimum pass mark in the technical evaluation exercise shall progress to the commercial stage of the tender process. Evaluation of tenders and selection of successful bidders will be based on proven capability of a bidder to offer the service and submission of the best commercial responsive tender.
13. Full tendering procedure will be provided only to contractors that have been successfully prequalified in NJQS.
14. Contractors that are prequalified for this product/service category in NJQS must ensure that the name and contact details (physical address, email address and telephone number) of their company and authorized/responsible personnel is up-to-date in their company profile in this NJQS database.
15. This tendering process shall be the NipeX contracting process requiring pre-qualified companies to submit technical tenders first. Following a technical review, which will focus on the technical evaluation criteria, only technically and financially qualified contractors will be requested to submit commercial tenders.
