The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited says it is seeking to engage reputable and credible operations and maintenance (O&M) companies to operate and maintain two refineries.
The refineries are the Warri Refining and Petrochemical
Company (WRPC) and the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC).
NNPCL, in a statement on its official X handle on Friday,
said the decision is to ensure reliability and sustainability to meet the
nation’s fuel supply and energy security obligations.
“The O&M tender for WRPC and KRPC will be treated as a
single tender through a three stage tender process (expression of interest,
EOI, technical and commercial) leveraging on all the possible opportunity costs
associated with procurement of consumables, personnel/manpower management,
utilisation of computerised maintenance management software (CMMS), warehousing
management system (WMS) etc,” the statement reads.
According to NNPC, the O&M contract scope of work will
cover, but not be limited to the following: long-term and short-term production
and operations planning, production and operations execution, monitoring,
reporting and optimisation of operation, maintenance planning (short-term),
maintenance execution, and reliability and inspection.
Others include process and controls engineering, quality
control, quality assurance and laboratory, specialist engineering, health and
safety, environmental management, turnaround maintenance planning and
execution, minor projects, non-contractor management, subcontractor management,
inventory, and warehouse management.
The oil firm said for any bidder to be eligible for the
tender exercise, they are required to “fill out and submit mandatory details
through this link http://forms.office.com/r/kjSyVwz3Eg on or before 12 midnight
Thursday 12th September 2024”.
“Individual bidders
would be duly notified on their registration in NNPC LTD/NipeX tender process
portal,” the NNPC said.
“Thereafter the bidder would have access to make their
submission on the NNPC LTD/NipeX tender process portal.
“All submission bids should be titled; EOI for the provision
of operations and Maintenance (O&M) services for NNPC Limited Refining:
Warri Refining and Petrochemical company (WRPC) and Kaduna Refining and
Petrochemical Company (KRPC)”.
FINANCIAL
REQUIREMENTS
The oil company said applicants must present audited
accounts for the past four years (2020 to 2023) that include balance sheet,
income and cash flow statements.
“Provide evidence of your company’s latest credit ratings
and the name of the rating agency,” the energy firm said.
“Demonstration of a minimum average annual turnover of at
least $2 billion USD for the financial years ending: 2020, 2021, 2022, &
2023 respectively.”
TENDER SUBMISSION AND
CLOSING DATE
The NNPC also said documents should be submitted online
through the electronic NIPEX tender portal on or before 12 pm on September 26.
“The EOIs shall be opened virtually, following the deadline
for EOIs submission at 12noon Thursday 10th October 2024 using the Microsoft
Teams,” the oil firm said.
“Bidders who have
submitted their bids and external observers shall be invited to attend the
virtual live stream bid opening session.”
In the event of any unscheduled holiday on the bid
submission date, the NNPC said the new deadline for submission of bids will be
on the next working day.
Also, the EOI closing date and time will be extended to the
next working day and time, the oil company said.
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