INVITATION TO TENDER FOR CONSTRUCTION OF NORTHERN UMBRELLA OF  WATER AND SANITATION COORDINATION OFFICE BLOCK AT RHINO CAMP
TENDER REFERENCE NO: 83467369
Name of Project:  Water and Sanitation for Refugees and Host Communities in Northern Uganda (WatSSUP)
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH ish) currently implementing the WatS SUP Program on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). As part of this Project, GIZ intends to pre-qualify Contractors for construction works below.
Construction of Northern Umbrella of  Water and Sanitation coordination office block at Rhino camp in Rhino Camp refugee settlement and host communities

GIZ invites interested and qualified Construction/Engineering companies to express their interest by furnishing GIZ Uganda Country Office with the following mandatory requirements:
• An official letter expressing interest
• Registered powers of attorney authorizing signatory/representative of the firm to sign bids/tenders on behalf of the firm.
• Bid validity up to 120 working days
• Certificate of incorporation/registration, tax registration, tax clearance, and valid trading Licence.
• Provide evidence of contract and nomination of consortium leader in case there is a consortium agreement to fulfil the tender package. f) Company profile including number of employees (permanent/temporary in total with minimum 05 no. permanent staff), (brief) profile of key management staff and key professional staff qualified to perform the works, list of projects of a similar nature which were implemented by the company (including a brief description of the projects, name of clients and contract value) in the last three years and company organogram/Structure showing Internal staff
• List 3 (three) construction/ building projects of a similar nature in the last 5 years at the cost of minimum UGX 300 million each which were completed by the company (including a brief description of the projects, name of clients and contract value).
• Experiences in 3 (three) similar construction projects in the technical area of construction of buildings in refugee hosting area in the last 5 years at cost of a minimum of UGX 200 million each which were completed by the company (including a brief description of the projects, name of clients and contract value).
• Annual total turnover for each of the last three (3) years (2021,2022,2023) of over UGX 300 million minimum, and provide copies of financial and tax reports of these last 3 years (incl. balance sheet, income statement, cash-flow statement, and tax reports and tax payment evidence). For the consortium/Joint venture, the annual turnover will be calculated for the total annual turnover of the consortium/joint venture.
• Evidence of ownership of minimum construction machinery and equipment (including 250ltr  concrete mixer, 7ton tipper truck, 2.5-ton compaction roller,  concrete vibrator c/w poker, Surveying Equipment) and evidence of leasing or ownership of a backhoe  loader and compressor.
• Summary of Certified Audited Accounts for 2023, 2022 and 2021
• Not on any sanction list including PPDA blacklist.
• Provide evidence that the Company has been in business for the last 5 years.

Please note: If previously or currently engaged on a GIZ project a due diligence check with a particular programme(s) will be undertaken to verify the Company's positive performance in quality and completion time.

Request for Bidding/Tendering Documents and detailed specification. Interested and eligible bidders shall obtain detailed bidding/tendering documents in soft copy form only. Kindly submit your request for bidding/ tender documents by email to: Procurement-giz-uganda@giz.de, starting from 20.06.2024 by indicating the subject "83467369-Construction of NUWS office block".
All requests for clarifications to this tendering process shall be in writing and should be addressed to GIZ Uganda via email to Procurement-giz-uganda@giz.de  

Bids Submission Deadline date and time
Interested bidders should submit their offers/bids electronically by Thursday 11th July 2024, 4.00pm (EAT) to UG Quotation@giz.de indicating the tender reference: "83467369-Construction of NUWS office block".
• Failure to indicate the tender reference number in the subject may disqualify your offer directly as it may fail to be received in the tender box.
• Late submissions will not be accepted!
• Bids submitted with GIZ staff or other GIZ emails in copy shall be rejected.
• Only bids submitted to UG_Quotation@giz.de are acceptable.
• You should have offers of in both excel for BOQs and PDF and zip folders (i.e. compressed to format ".zip"). Do not encrypt offers since they may be incompatible with GIZ software.
• One email should be used for submitting technical and financial proposal.

Only file transfer https://filetransfer.giz.de/ should be used for submission of documents exceeding the default mail size of 30 MB or use two separate emails one submitting the eligibility documents, a second one submitting the technical requirements and third email submitting the Financial Offer. Please provide password for your submission before bid submission deadline and reference the tender number for which the password applies.

Financial offer should strictly be in Uganda shillings currency. 9. Failure to follow the above instruction may lead your offer to be encrypted and rejected
GIZ remains with full rights to cancel this process at any stage without informing providers and at no cost refund to the providers who participate in this tender process.