Procurement Notice

Firms whether bidding individually or in the form of a Joint Venture, shall:

1. be legally incorporated or otherwise organised in, and have their principal place of business in an Eligible Country; 
2. be more than fifty (50) percent beneficially-owned by a citizen or citizens and/or a bona fide resident or residents of an Eligible Country, or by a body corporate or bodies meeting these requirements, as far as the ownership can be reasonably determined; and
3. shall have no arrangement and undertake not to make any arrangement whereby the majority of the financial benefits of the contract, i.e. more than fifty (50) percent of the value of the contract, will accrue or be paid to sub-contractors or sub-consultants that are not from an Eligible Country.

Eligible countries are member countries of CDB and countries eligible for procurement under European Union procurement which are not member countries of CDB[1]. Bidders are advised to review the detailed eligibility criteria detailed in Section 4 and conflict of interest provisions in Section 5 of the Procurement Procedures for Projects Financed by CDB (November, 2019).

Eligible bidders will be required to submit full qualification information with their bids establishing their eligibility to bid and qualification to perform the contract if the bid is accepted.  Tender and qualification information are to be submitted in the English Language on the prescribed forms inserted in the Bid Documents.  Submissions that do not provide the information required or that do not demonstrate the prospective contractor’s ability to perform satisfactorily, will not qualify and will not be considered for further evaluation.

Bid documents are available from address 1 below.  Written requests can be made by email marked: “Request for Bid Documents for the Supply of Mass Metrology and Force Metrology Equipment for Barbados, Dominica and St. Kitts and Nevis Project.” The documents will be promptly dispatched, but under no circumstance will CROSQ be held responsible for late delivery, loss or damage to the documents.

Bids must be submitted either in:

• Hard copy in the form of a sealed envelope, with the name and address of the bidder, and be clearly marked “Tender for Supply of Mass Metrology and Force Metrology Equipment for Barbados, Dominica and St. Kitts and Nevis Project” to the postal address in address 2 below; or,
• Electronically to the email address in address 2 below.

The deadline for Bid submission is:

Date: Monday, July 19, 2021

Time: 10:00 am Atlantic Standard Time (AST)

Each bid must be accompanied by Bid-Securing Declaration. Late bids will be rejected.

CROSQ reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, and to annul the process and reject all bids, at any time prior to award of contract, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected prospective bidder(s) or any obligation to inform the affected prospective bidder(s) of the grounds for CROSQ’s action. CROSQ will not defray any costs incurred by any bidder in the preparation of bids.