Joint Admissions And Matriculation Board (JAMB)- Invitation To Tender And Expression Of Interest For The Execution Of 2025 Projects (14 Lots)

DEADLINE: 3RD FEBRUARY, 2025
JOINT ADMISSIONS AND MATRICULATION BOARD (JAMB)
JAMB HEADQUARTERS, BWARI, FCT
INVITATION TO TENDER AND EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR THE EXECUTION OF 2025 PROJECTS

1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board is a Parastatal charged with the responsibility of conducting Matriculation Examination for entry into all Tertiary institution in Nigeria and also admissions through Direct Entry method as provided by the JAMB Act 1989, Cap 193, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria.
1.2 The Board in keeping with its mandate and in compliance with the provisions of the Public Procurement Act, 2007 hereby invites interested and competent Bidders for the procurement of the under-listed 2024 projects:

CATEGORY A: SERVICES

CATEGORY B: GOODS

2.0 ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Interested bidders should submit the following documents:
a. Evidence of Certificate of Incorporation issued by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) including Form CAC1.1 or CAC2 and CAC7; Business Name is also acceptable for Consultancy Services;
b. Evidence of Company’s Income Tax Clearance Certificate (or personal Income Tax Clearance Certificates of all the Partners in case of Business Name) 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 Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) 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 31st December, 2024 or valid Certificate issued by BPP.
g. Sworn Affidavit:

• disclosing whether or not any officer of the relevant committees of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board or the Bureau of Public Procurement is a former or present Director, shareholder or has any pecuniary interest in the bidd4er 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 Country for any criminal offence relating to fraud or financial impropriety or criminal misrepresentation or falsification of facts relating to any matter;
• that the Company is not in receivership, the subject of any form of insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings or the subject of any form of winding up petition or proceedings;
• that the company does not have existing loan or financial liability with a bank, other financial institution or 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 (3) years 2021 – 2023;
i. Reference Letter from a reputable Commercial Bank in Nigeria, 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 NITDA/CPN, Project Management, Software Engineering, Quantity Surveying or any related discipline;
k. In the case of Consortium/Joint Venture:

• The individual firms making the consortium must fulfill the prequalification requirement above.
• A copy of the Memorandum of Understanding

l. Verifiable documentary evidence of at least three (3) similar jobs (in size, nature & complexity) executed in the last five (5) years including Letter of Awards, Valuation Certificates, Job Completion Certificates and Photographs of the projects. Note: the Board will conduct physical verification of similar jobs;
m. For Lots A5 to A11 Evidence of 2024 Annual Renewal with Environmental health Officers Registration Council of Nigeria;
n. For Lot B1: the following requirements must be met;
I. Evidence of Contact Centre Value Added Service (VAS) license from the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) for;
II. Evidence of Short Code Value Added Service (VAS) license from the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC);
III. Evidence of partnership with at least 2 Telecommunication operators e.g. Interconnect clearing houses or Mobile Network Operators;
IV. Evidence of the firm’s compliance with the Nigeria Data protection Regulatory (NDPR);
o. All documents for submission must be transmitted with a Covering/Forwarding letter under the Company/Firm’s Letter Head paper bearing amongst others, the Registration Number (RC) as issued by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC). Contact Address, Telephone Number (preferably GSM No.), and Nationalities of the Directors of the Company at the bottom of the page, duly signed by the authorized officer of the Firm.

3.0 SUBMISSION OF EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EoI) DOCUMENTS
Interested firms are to submit both soft copies and three (bound) EOI documents duly signed, paginated, separated by dividers and arranged as indicted in (2.0) above. The documents should be submitted in a sealed envelope and clearly marked with (the name of the service and the Lot number), and addressed to
The Registrar,
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,
National Headquarters,
Bwari-Abuja

Furthermore, the reverse of each sealed envelope should bear the name and address of the bidder and drop in the designated Tender Box located at the procurement Department in the National Headquarters Complex, Bwari-Abuja; not later than 12:00 noon Monday 3rd of February, 2025.

4.0 COLLECTION OF TENDER DOCUMENT FOR (GOOD) ONLY
Interested Companies are to collect the Standard Bidding Document (SBD) from the office of the Director Procurement, Room A11, Block A, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Bwari, Abuja. A non-refundable fee of N10,000.00 (Ten Thousand Naira) only per lot is to be paid by each Bidder before collection of a Bid Document. The tender fee is to be paid into TSA account in favour of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board as “TENDER FEES”

5.0 SUBMISSION OF TENDER DOCUMENTS (GOODS)
Prospective bidders are to submit bid for each of the Lot desired, two (2) hard copies each of the technical and financial bids with soft copy of financial bid only in MS Excel format and should be paginated, packaged separately in sealed envelopes and clearly marked as “Technical Bid” or “Financial Bid’. Thereafter, put the sealed envelopes together in a bigger sealed envelope clearly marked with (the name of the service and the Lot number) and addressed to:

The Registrar,
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,
National Headquarters,
Bwari – Abuja

Furthermore, the reverse of each sealed envelope should bear the name and address of the bidder and drop in the designated Tender Box located in room A12 of the procurement Department, National Headquarters Complex, Bwari-Abuja; not later than 12:00 noon Monday 17th of February, 2025.

6.0 OPENING OF EOI/TENDER DOCUMENTS
A. The EOI documents will be opened immediately after the deadline for submission on Monday 3rd of February, 2025 by 12:00 Noon at the National Headquarters Complex, Bwari, FCT.
B. The Technical Bids for Goods will be opened immediately after the deadline for submission on noon Monday 17th of February, 2025 by 12:00 Noon at the National Headquarters Complex, Bwari, FCT.
Please, ensure that you sign the EOIs/Bids Submission Registrar in the office of Director Procurement, Room A11, Block “A”, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, National Headquarters, Bwari, FCT; as the Board shall not be held liable for misplaced or wrongly submitted bids.

For further enquiries, please contact the “Director Procurement” on e-mail jambprocurement@gmail.com or Phone Number 08028399391

7.0 GENERAL INFORMATION
a. Bids and Expression of Interest (EoI) must be English Language and signed by an official authorized by the bidder;
b. Bids and Expression of Interest (EoI) submitted after the deadline for submission would be returned un-opened;
c. Bidders should not bid for more than two (20 Lots;
d. For Category A: only shortlisted firms will be invited at a later date for collection of Request for Proposal;
e. All costs will be borne by the bidders;
f. Non-Compliance with the conditions stated herein will lead to automatic disqualification of the bidder from the bidding process;
g. Technical and Financial Bids enclosed in one and single envelope that will expose the Technical and Financial Bids at the time of opening shall be disqualified;
h. For Category B: only pre-qualified bidders at Technical Evaluation will be invited at a later date for Financial Bid opening, while the Financial Bids of un-successful bidders will be returned unopened;
i. 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 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;
j. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), is not bound to shortlist/pre-qualify any bidder and 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
Prof. Is-haq O. Oloyede CON, FNAL