Expression of Interest for Supply and Installation of Custom Software and Licenses Date Added: May 12, 2025 Deadline: 26/05/2025 Category: ICT and Software, Computer Hardware Eligibility Requirements: The University in compliance with the PPA, 2007 and Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) guidelines, will carry out a Pre-qualification of companies that respond to this advert based on the following requirements: a. Evidence of Certificate of Incorporation with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) including form CAC1.1, CAC2 and CAC7; b. Evidence of Company Incomes Tax Clearance Certificate for the last three (3) years valid till 31st December 2025; c. Evidence of Current Pension Compliance Certificate Valid till 31st December 2025; d. Evidence of Current Industrial Training Fund (ITF) Compliance Certificate valid till 31st Dec. 2025; e. Evidence of Current Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) Certificate Valid till 31st Dec. 2025; f. Evidence of Registration on the National Data Base of Federal Contractors and Service Providers by Submission of Interim Registration Report (IRR) expiring on 31/1/2025 or Valid Certificate Issued by BPP g. Companys Profile with Curriculum Vitae of Technical/Management Staff and with Evidence of Previous work experience, detailed clients, nature of work/contract, contract sum and copies of academics and professional qualification. i.e NITDA/CPN, etc. h. Verifiable documentary Evidence of similar jobs executed in the last five (5) years including Letters of Award, Valuable Certificate, Job Completion Certificates and Photographs of the projects; j. Evidence of Financial Capability to execute the Project including reference letters from a reputable Commercial Bank including willing to provide Credit Facility for the Execution of the Project when needed; k. Sworn Affidavit disclosing whether or not any officer of the relevant committees of the Federal University of Technology, IkotAbasi or the Bureau of Public Procurement is a former or present Director, shareholder or has any pecuniary interest in the bidder and confirm that all information presented in its bid are true and correct in all particulars; l. A sworn affidavit that no of the Directors have been convicted in any country for any criminal offence including fraud of financial impropriety; m. For joint venture/partnership Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), should be provided (CAC, Tax Clearance Certificate, Pension Clearance Certificate, ITF Compliance Certificate, NSITF Clearance Certificate, IRR and Sworn Affidavit are compulsory for each JV partner); n. ICT jobs: Evidence of current License/accreditation with Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN) and National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA); o. For supply of Equipment: Letter of Authorization as representative of the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEMs); p. For Training Programmes: Evidence of firms registration with the Centre for Management Development (CMD); q. All documents for submission must be transmitted with a covering/forwarding letter under the company/firms Letter Head Paper bearing amongst others, the Registration Number (RC) has issued by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Contact Address, Telephone Number (preferably GSM No.), and e-mail address. Interested Firms are to collect the Standard Bidding Document from the office of the Director of Procurement, Federal University of Technology, IkotAbasi on evidence of payment of non-refundable fee of N10,000.00 per lot, through remita platform in any Commercial Bank of their choice in favour of Federal University of Technology, IkotAbasi. Evidence of such payment is to be presented at the cash office, Bursary Department for official receipt. Prospective bidders are to submit bid for the advertised Lots, Two (2) hard copies of each of the Technical and Financial bids packaged separately in sealed envelopes and clearly marked as Technical Bid or Financial Bid. Thereafter, put the two sealed envelopes together in a bigger sealed envelope and addressed to The Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, IkotAbasi, PMB 1055 IkotAbasi, Akwalbom State,Nigeria and clearly marked with (the name of the project and Lot number). Furthermore, the reverse side of the envelope should be clearly marked with the name and address of the bidder and dropped in the designated tender box at the Senate Chamber, Federal University of Technology, IkotAbasi not later than Monday 26th May 2025. The working hours are 8:00am to 4:00pm on weekdays, excluding weekends. The Tender documents will be opened immediately after the close of the submission by 12:00 noon on Monday 26th May2025 in the Senate Chamber, Federal University of Technology, IkotAbasi, Akwalbom Statein the presence of bidders or their representatives. Please ensure that you sign the bid submission Register in the Directorate of Procurement of the University as the University will not be held liable for misplaced or wrongly submitted bids. Note: a. Bids must be in English Language and signed by the official authorized by the firm; b. Bids submitted after the deadline for submission will be rejected and returned unopened; c. All cost incurred as a result of the bid invitation shall be borne by the bidders d. The University is not bound to consider any bidder for an award and reserves the right to cancel the bidding process and proceeding without incurring liabilities to the bidders e. Only prequalified bidders at the Technical Evaluation will be invited at a later date for collection of Tender documents for the Financial Bids; Federal University of Technology, Ikot Abasi is not bound to shortlist 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. g. The University is not obliged to award the contract to the lowest bidder Tender Link : https://etenders.com.ng/federal-university-of-technology-ikot-abasi-akwaibom-state-invitation-to-tender-expression-of-interest-eoi-for-year-2024-tetfund-intervention-for-ict-support/
