DEADLINE: 14TH JULY, 2023
AMNI INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LIMITED
CALL FOR PRE-QUALIFICATION FOR THE PROVISION OF ANCHOR HANDLING TUG SUPPLY (AHTS) VESSEL
AMNI REFERENCE NUMBER: CAP-AMN-NCD-0423-ADV-20001
(1.0) INTRODUCTION
Amni International Petroleum Development Company Limited (“Company”) hereby announce a pre-qualification opportunity to prospective bidders with requisite experience, skilled manpower and marine spread, for the provision of Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel of at least 180T Bollard Pull to support their Offshore operations.
(2.0) SCOPE OF WORK.
The scope of work consists of activities required to accomplish, as detailed herein below:
(a) Provision of Anchor Handling Tugboat (AHTS) of at least 180T Bollard Pull to support shuttle and export operations in anchoring, static towing and polling activities.
(b) Deck cargo delivery.
(3.0) SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
Prospective Bidders must have proven experience as a company, in terms of providing the necessary technical management, or full ship management, offshore vessel spread, and qualified personnel for this service.
(a) Prospective Bidders must either partner or fully own and operate a suitable AHTS vessel.
(b) Prospective Bidders must show evidence of provision of similar AHTS services and client point of contact.
Prospective Bidders must either own and operate its own suitable AHTS vessel suitable or have exclusive rights to charter a suitable vessel and will be required to furnish the particulars of such vessel.
(4.0) MANDATORY PREQUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS/DOCUMENTS
To enable efficient prequalification of Prospective Bidders, all interested Vendors must provide the following documentation:
(a) Evidence of registration with Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) to perform related services
(b) Evidence of registration with the Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board for the category of work.
(c) Corporate profile, organisation, size, and structure, including any parent, technical partnership, alliance, or joint venture of companies to whom they belong, together with CV and experience profile of key management personnel.
(d) Demonstration of prospective bidder’s relevant experience via suitable analogs, listing details of (and providing completion certificates for) the most recent five (5) mooring operations completed.
(e) Documented evidence of any significant relationships with supplying contractors and subcontractors together with details of any technical support agreements with foreign contractors:
(f) Evidence of conformity of vessel(s) to the Nigerian Cabotage Law and associated guidelines and regulations
(g) Financial audited accounts for last three (3) year’s annual turnover of over USD50Million per year.
(h) Tax clearance for the last three (i) years that support the audited accounts above.
Only prospective bidders considered to have satisfactorily met Company’s pre-qualification requirements shall be shortlisted and issued Company’s invitation to tender.
(5.0) NIGERIAN CONTENT REQUIREMENT
Prospective bidders are to note that any participant in any tender process will be required to give full details of their strategy to ensure that they fully comply with provisions of the NOGICD Act. Submissions shall be evaluated strictly with the minimum evaluation criteria defined in NOGICD Act.
In line with the above, any participant in any tender process will be required to submit at the tender stage the following in compliance with the NOGICD Act:
(a) Evidence that its corporate entity satisfies the NOGICD Act requirements for providing Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation, Hook-Up and Pre-commissioning (EPCI) Services with evidence to demonstrate compliance.
(b) Evidence of its corporate entity’s ownership structure including CAC Form C02 and C07, registration on NOGIC NJQS, and NUPRC certificate.
(c) Nigerian Content Plan which shall explain the methodology of how it intends to comply with the requirements of the NOGICD Act and how to achieve the set target(s) in the Schedule of the NOGICD Act and any targets set by The Board.
(d) A plan of how it intends to give first consideration to materials manufactured in Nigeria as well as assembled goods of Nigerian origin which shall include a breakdown of all materials and consumables to be utilized and identifying those that are found locally, finished products and materials that will be procured from Nigerian manufacturing and assembly plants, finished goods that order can be placed from outside Nigeria through Nigerian authorized vendors and accredited agents and those that would be directly imported.
(e) Details of services subcontracted to Nigerian vendors.
(f) Details of its corporate organisation, overfill human resources structure (management, supervisors senior and junior skilled officers, etc.), identifying positions manned/occupied by Nigeria nationals with evidence of type of employment-in-country and identifying the positions manned/occupied by other nationals.
(g) Details description of the location of in-country committed facilities & infrastructure (assets equipment, technical office, facility administrative offices and space, storage etc.) to carry out the work.
(h) If in partnership with other companies, provide evidence of the partnership, alliance or joint venture. Such evidence shall be the binding agreement(s) duly signed by the Chief Executive Officers or persons of comparable designation of each party. Such agreements must be governed the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The agreements must clearly state the work-share ratio and responsibilities of parties for the work, and evidence or plans of physical operational presence and set-up in Nigeria.
(i) Bidder should provide letter of commitment stating that in event of project/contract award, bidder commits to executing Human Capacity Development Training in line with NCDMB Guidelines.
(j) A Community Content Plan in line with The Board’s Community Content Guideline for review and approval by The Board.
(k) Bidder must provide evidence of NCDMB Marine Vessel Certification for vessels to be deployed for tender.
Prospective bidders and any tender participants shall comply with all the provisions of the NOGICD Act and associated guidelines, that relate to any tender and comply with the minimum Nigerian Content percentage for the scopes which are covered in the Schedule of the NOGICD Act. This also includes any other requirements that may arise from time to time not explicitly stated in this advert, but which apply to the services in fulfilment of the NOGICD Act, in the submission of their responses.
Note:
Failure to fully comply with the NOGICD Act or demonstrate commitment to Nigerian Content Development Policy of the Nigerian Government shall result in the disqualification of prospective bidder from the pre-qualification process and/or tender process.
(6.0) CLOSING DATE & SUBMISSION OF PREQUALIFICATION DOCUMENTS
(a) The closing date for responses to this CALL FOR PRE-QUALIFICATION is midnight 14 July, 2023.
(b) All responses are to be submitted electronically through the following link https://forms.gle/bXPzV1UPhUdb64Qi9 To fill in the pre-qualification form, visit the link and sign in or create an account to access the form.
(c) Any inquiries regarding Prospective Bidders’ response to this CALL FOR PREQUALIFICATIONS are to be made to info@amni.com
(7.0) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
(a) This CALL FOR PRE-QUALIFICATION shall not be construed as an Invitation to Tender (ITT) or any form of commitment on the part of Company to award a contract to any entity, vendor or prospective bidder or company and/or associated companies, sub-contractors, or agents or to carry out the work described.
(b) This CALL FOR PRE-QUALIFICATION shall not entitle prospective bidder to make any claims whatsoever and/or seek any indemnity from Company and/or any of its partners by virtue of such prospective bidder having responded to this advertisement.
(c) Company reserves the right to reject any and/or all respondents to this CALL FOR PREQUALIFICATION at its sole discretion and at no costs whatsoever.
(d) Any further progress in this CALL FOR PREQUALIFICATION shall be at the discretion of Company and via its own facilities. Company shall not enter correspondence with any prospective bidder, company or individual on why a company was shortlisted or not short-listed.
(e) All costs incurred in preparing and processing this prequalification shall be borne solely by respondent, prospective bidder, individual contractors, suppliers, and vendors.
(f) Company will communicate only with authorized officers and/or vendors and NOT through individuals or agents.
ES/NCDMB/AMNI/ADV/IPPG/230523/ANCHOR HANDLING TUG SUPPORT (AHTS) VESSEL
