Nigeria Meteorological Agency
No. 33 Pope John II Street, Maitama-Abuja
Public Notice NIME/5/2010
Invitation to Tender
In compliance with the Public Procurement Act, 2007, the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) intends to undertake the underlisted projects under its 2010 financial year capital budget, consequently, the Agency wishes to invite interested companies to tender for the following projects:
1. Construction of Zonal Office at Kano
In consideration of the need to increase the station network to meet WMO recommendation on station network density, the Agency intends to construct new Zonal stations in parts of the country where there is need. This will ensure adequate weather coverage for the country.
Lot 1 – Kano
2. Provision and Installation of Numerical Weather Prediction Equipment for Nimet (Cluster for Modeling) at Abuja Airport
The NWP equipment in an integrated system that assimilains meteorological data process and analyse these date with displayed output products whose validity range 1-5days.
3. Construction of Class Room/Library Block at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Regional Training Centre (RTC), Oshodi.
The classrooms would serve as Lecture, Library and Laboratory facilities for the students at the Regional Meteorological Training Centre (RTC), Oshodi, Lagos.
4. Renovation of Nimet Building at Strachan Street, Lagos
The Agency intends to carry out renovation work on the former Headquarters Building at Strachan Street, Lagos.
A. Tender Requirement
To qualify for consideration, interested companies are required to submit the documents listed hereunder. Failure to submit any of the under-listed documents may lead to disqualification of the bid.
i. Evidence of registration with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).
ii. Audited Account for the last three years (2007-2009).
iii. Evidence of payment of the last three (3) years Tax (2007-2009).
iv. Details of Company’s profile including the Curriculum Vitae of the key professional staff and other resources.
v. Evidence of Manufacture’s Authorization (in the case of equipment).
vi. Evidence from company’s Banker as to its financial capability to undertake the project, if awarded.
vii. Verifiable evidence of previous experience in jobs of this magnitude nature. (Attached Letters of Award and Certificates of Completion).
viii. Evidence of VAT Registration and past remittances.
ix. Evidence of compliance with the provision of the Pension reform Act 2004 as contained in section 16 sub – section B(d) of the Public procurement Act 2007.
x. List of equipment and plants with evidence of ownership and verifiable office location.
xi. Records of company’s Registration with relevant Professional bodies for Consultants.
xii. Any other information that would be of advantage to the company.
B. Additional Information
i. Notwithstanding the submission of tender data, the Nigerian Meteorological Agency is neither committed nor obligated to include your company or any bid or award any contract to your company or agent.
ii. The advertisement on the part of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency; nor shall it entitle potential companies to make claims whatsoever or seek any indemnity from the Nigerian Meteorological Agency by virtue of such company having responded to the advertisement.
iii. All tenders should be accompanied with tender security in the sum of 2% of the total quotation sum.
C. Non – Refundable Tender Fee
i. Tender documents would be obtained from the Agency’s procurement secretariat, within work hours before closing date, upon payment of non – refundable tender fee of N30, 000.00 for each of the lots.
D. Submission Deadline
Complete Financial and Technical Tenders are to be submitted in two separate Envelopes Marked Financial Bid or Technical Bids respectively. Each of the Envelopes are to contains one original and two duplicate copies of the Tenders respectively. Both envelopes should be marked Confidential on top left corner and written Tender for (Specify Lot) all the centre. Tender to be addressed and submitted to the office of the Director General/CEO at the Agency’s address supplied at the top of this advert. Submission of applications closes on 4th October, 2010 by 12:00 noon while the bid will be opened at 2:00pm on the same date at the Nimet Headquarters Conference Hall, Abuja.
Note: Only the Technical Bids will be opened on the date mentioned in this publication while the Financial Bids of the Bidders that passed the Technical Evaluation would be opened on a date that would be communicated to prequalified companies.
Management
Nigerian Meteorological Agency
Abuja.
