Tenders’ boards shall be technical support bodies set up under Project Owners, Delegated Project Owners, Regional Governors and Senior Divisional Officers for the award of public contracts worth at least 5 000 000 (five million) CFA francs.
As such, they shall:
(a) Examine and give a technical opinion on draft tender files and requests for quotation prepared by Project Owners or Delegated Project Owners;
(b) Examine and, where necessary, adopt rating grids before the opening of bids;
(c) Open bids;
(d) Set up bid evaluation sub-committees;
(e) Prepare, where necessary, documents to be submitted to Central Contracts Control Boards for consideration;
(f) Make contract award proposals to Project Owners or Delegated Project Owners;
(g) Examine and give a technical opinion on draft contract amendments and on draft contracts awarded by mutual agreement.
Tenders’ boards shall be established by the Authority in charge of public contracts and comprise the following:
(a) Internal Tenders Boards placed under project owners;
(b) Regional Tenders Boards placed under Regional Governors for contracts to be financed with votes delegated to the Region;
(c) Divisional Tenders Boards placed under Senior Divisional Officers for contracts to be financed with votes delegated to divisions and for the contracts of regional and local authorities without tenders’ boards.
(2) On the proposal of the Project Owner, the Authority in charge of public contracts may set up several tenders’ boards under the said Project Owner, by virtue of the volume of activities, the nature of the services or the location of the services.
(3) The Authority in charge of public contracts may set up special tenders’ boards under some project unit heads, depending on financing conditions, and under some heads of Cameroon’s diplomatic missions abroad.
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