Centres of Excellence Equipment for UATH and Kuchingoro PHC - Supply, Delivery, Installation, Calibration and User Orientation

UNICEF Nigeria invites sealed bids from eligible and qualified Nigerian-registered companies for the supply, delivery, installation, calibration, functional testing and user orientation of equipment for the Centres of Excellence located at University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH) and Kuchingoro Primary Health Centre (PHC), Abuja. The requirement includes: • Mother/Child Survey Scales • High Precision Infant Digital Scales • Infant/Child Length and Height Measuring Board Sets • Double-Door Refrigerators (approximately 95 litres) IMPORTANT REQUIREMENTS 1. This solicitation is open only to companies legally registered and operating in Nigeria. 2. Only goods physically available in stock within Nigeria at the time of bid submission shall be accepted. 3. Bidders must indicate available quantities, brand, make, model and exact stock location for all offered items. 4. UNICEF reserves the right to conduct physical stock verification before award and a pre-delivery inspection (PDI) before acceptance and dispatch. 5. Offers based solely on future importation, anticipated supply or goods not immediately available in-country may be considered non-responsive. 6. All equipment must be brand new, unused, complete, and supplied with manufacturer warranty and technical documentation. 7. Successful supplier(s) shall be responsible for delivery, installation, calibration, functional testing and user orientation at the designated sites. 8. Partial delivery shall not be accepted unless otherwise approved by UNICEF in writing. Bid Evaluation: Award may be made by item to the lowest-priced substantially compliant bidder meeting all eligibility, technical, stock availability, inspection and delivery requirements. UNICEF reserves the right to make split awards where considered operationally advantageous and is not bound to accept the lowest-priced or any offer. Bidders are advised to carefully review the ITB document, technical specifications and mandatory submission requirements before submitting their offers through the UNICEF e-submission system. This tender will be run through the UNICEF e-submissions system. By clicking on the blue ‘Express Interest’ button in the UNGM tender notice, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document (including instructions on how to access the tender documents and submit an Offer) will be automatically emailed to the ‘contact persons’ included in your UNGM registration. Alternatively, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document is publicly available on the UNICEF supply internet pages here: https://www.unicef.org/supply/index_procurement_policies.html . In the tender management site, if you navigate to the documents tab and opt in to confirm your intention to submit a Bid – you will then see the mandatory placeholders for documents that must be attached prior to submitting your Offer (you will also see if there are any mandatory questionnaires to complete). As such, you are recommended to `opt in` well before the submission deadline so you are clear exactly what documents are required to be uploaded prior to completing your submission. Please note that in order to access the tender documentation through UNICEF’s e-submissions system, vendors must: (i) be registered with UNICEF in UNGM as a company/NGO; (ii) have successfully completed all mandatory information currently required by UNGM when registering. Please ensure that any files submitted as part of your Bid are not corrupt or damaged in any way. Please exercise particular caution when using compressed files. Any corrupt or damaged files may lead to your Bid being invalidated. All vendors are strongly recommended to regularly log in to the UNICEF e-submissions system to check for any deadline extensions, new clarifications, new correspondence or updated tender documents relating to this tender.