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      Specific Procurement Notice   Request for Bids Employer: National Universities Commission Project: Sustainable Procurement, Environmental and Social Standards Enhancement (SPESSE) and Second Africa Higher Education Centres of Excellence for Development Impact (ACE-IMPACT) Projects Contract title: Procurement of Network Devices & Outdoor Wi-Fi Equipment Country: Nigeria IDA Credit Nos. P169405 & P169064 RFB No: NG-NUC-236331-GO-RFB & NG-NUC-NIGERIA-236719-GO-RFB Issued on 21st June 2021.   1.     The National Universities Commission has applied for financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Sustainable Procurement, Environmental and Social Standards Enhancement (SPESSE) and Second Africa Higher Education Centres of Excellence for Development Impact (ACE-IMPACT) Projects and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the contract for Procurement of Network Devices & Outdoor Wi-Fi Equipment. For this contract, the Borrower shall process the payments using the Direct Payment disbursement method, as defined in the World Bank’s Disbursement Guidelines for Investment Project Financing.” 2.     The National Universities Commission now invites sealed Bid from eligible Bidders for Provision of Network Devices & Outdoor Wi-Fi Equipment. for the Sustainable Procurement, Environmental and Social Standards Enhancement (SPESSE) and Second Africa Higher Education Centres of Excellence for Development Impact (ACE-IMPACT) Projects at National Universities Commission, 26 Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama Abuja Bidding will be conducted through National Competitive Bidding Procurement using a Request for Bids (RFB) as specified in the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers dated July 2016 revised November 2017 and August 2018 (“Procurement Regulations”) and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the Procurement Regulations. 4.     Interested eligible bidders may obtain further information from National Universities Commission (SPESSE Project), Attention: Project Coordinator,- at: [email protected] and inspect the bidding document during office hours 0900 to 1600 hours at the address given below, 5.     The bidding document in English language may be purchased by interested bidder upon the submission of a written application to the address below and upon payment of a nonrefundable fee of Fifty thousand Naira (N50,000.00) via Remita by generating Remita Retrieval Reference (RRR) in favour of Sustainable Procurement, Environmental and Social Standards Enhancement (SPESSE) Project, National Universities Commission- Project Implementation Unit.            Kindly follow these steps: (i) Enter Remita platform (https://remita.net/) (ii) Select ‘Bills and Purchases’ (iii) ‘Pay Biller’, (iv) Under ‘Who do you want to pay’, Select Sustainable Procurement, Environmental and Social Standards Enhancement Project(v) Under Name of Services/Purpose, select ‘NUC Sustainable Procurement Env Soc universities’ (vi) Complete the form and submit.                             Note: Evidence of payment in accordance with item 5 above must accompany all Bid submission. 6.        Bids can be submitted as one attachment or with a link to the storage location. All documents must be read-only, and password protected. The email address for the bid submission is  [email protected].  The submission deadline is 19t h July 2021 at 12.00pm Nigeria Local time. NUC-SPESSE Project will confirm the receipt of each bid. The read-only password protected bids will be opened on  1 9th July 2021 at 1.00pm Nigeria Local time. Bidders are expected to send the password of their documents within one hour after the bid submission deadline to [email protected] as specified in the bidding documents. 7.         All Bids must be accompanied by a Bid Security as follows:             Lot 1: Seven million six hundred thousand Naira Only (NGN7.6million)            Lot 2: Fourteen million Naira Only (NGN14million)   8.         Firms that cannot meet the following key qualifications requirements are not       encouraged to participate in the Bidding Process:   Average annual turnover requirement             Minimum average annual turnover of:         Lot 1 – Three hundred and eighty-two million Naira Only (NGN382,000,000.00)      Lot 2 – Seven hundred million Naira Only (NGN700,000,000.00)     calculated as total certified payments received for contracts in progress or completed, within           the last Five (5) years.   Financial Resources:   The Bidder shall demonstrate that it has access to, or has available liquid assets, unencumbered real assets, lines of credit, and other financial means (independent of any contractual advance payment) sufficient to meet the construction cash flow requirements estimated as   Lot 1 – Sixty-four million, Naira Only (NGN64,000,000.00) Lot 2 – One hundred and seventeen million Naira Only (117,000,000.00)   Specific Experience:   A minimum number of Two (2) similar contracts specified below that have been satisfactorily and substantially completed as a prime contractor, joint venture member, management contractor or subcontractor between 1st January 2016 and Application submission deadline: Two (2Nos) Contracts, each of minimum value:   Lot 1 – Three hundred and five million Naira Only (NGN305,000,000.00) Lot 2 – Five hundred and fifty-eight million, Naira Only (NGN558,000,000.00)     9.     Attention is drawn to the Procurement Regulations requiring the Borrower to disclose information on the successful bidder’s beneficial ownership, as part of the Contract Award Notice, using the Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Form as included in the bidding document. 10.   The address referred to above is: The National Universities Commission- (SPESSE) Project Attn: SPESSE Project Coordinator 26, Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama 900288, Abuja Nigeria Tel: +234 802 122 5843 E-mail: [email protected]     Sustainable Procurement, Environmental and Social Standards Enhancement Project (SPESSE) Nigeria Not cancelled RFB- Request for Bids Invitation for Bids Goods Monday, July 19, 2021- 12:00 WB-P770091-06/21 IDA65250 NG-NUC-236331-GO-RFB P169405 General- Education and Training Information and Communications Technology General- Information and Communications Friday, June 25, 2021 OP00135119 English Friday, June 25, 2021- 14:04 National Universities Commission Joshua Atah 26 Aguiyi Ironsi Street, PMB 237, Garki GPO, Maitama, Abuja +234 802 122 5843 [email protected] Other Public Administration, Tertiary Education World Bank Wednesday, June 23, 2021- 20:00 IBRD/IDA Loans (PE) National Universities Commission USD 930000.00 Procurement of Network Devices & Outdoor Wi-Fi equipment for SPESSE Centres of Excellence Project Coordinator http://nuc.edu.ng proc_voc_id: 43222605 proc_voc_title: Network gateway seg_id: 43000000 seg_title: Information Technology Broadcasting and Telecommunications family_id: 43220000 family_title: Data Voice or Multimedia Network Equipment or Platforms and Accessories class_id: 43222600 class_title: Network service equipment cmdty_id: 43222605 cmdty_title: Network gateway proc_voc_id2: 43222502 proc_voc_title2: VPN network security equipment seg_id2: 43000000 seg_title2: Information Technology Broadcasting and Telecommunications family_id2: 43220000 family_title2: Data Voice or Multimedia Network Equipment or Platforms and Accessories class_id2: 43222500 class_title2: Network security equipment cmdty_id2: 43222502 cmdty_title2: VPN network security equipment