Invitation to Tender at TotalEnergies Upstream Company Nigeria Limited (TUCN)

TotalEnergies Upstream Company Nigeria Limited (TUCN) operator of the OML 58, OML9, OML100, OML102 and CML 130 is requesting for:

Title: Invitation to Tender for the Procurement of Production Chemicals for TUCN

Nipex Tender No: 1000005807
Tender ID: CTR071100

Preamble
TotalEnergies Upstream Company Nigeria Limited (TUCN) operator of the OML 58, OML9, OML100, OML102 and CML 130 invites interested and reputable Contractors with suitable equipment and relevant experience to apply for pre-qualification for consideration to tender for the Supply of Production Chemical for all the Company's operations,

Scope of Work
The Contract is basically for the Provision of Specialty Production Chemical/Commodity Chemical Delivery Services. The Scope to be covered under the contract shall include as a minimum the following:

• Organise the Supply Chain Management of the Production chemicals to ensure an adequate supply to meet TUCN operational needs.
• Provide the procurement and supply of Production Chemicals using INCOTERMS-DDP ONNE Rase, Port Harcourt Rivers state and DOP LADOL in Lagos State Nigeria. The destination of the chemicals shall be COMPANY base FLT Onne and LADOL, and this shall be on call-off basis.
• Provide technical support (where necessary) such as optimization, testing, monitoring, surveillance, troubleshooting and manage incidental matters relating to the efficiency of CHEMICAL required for the production processes in accordance with the provisions of the contract.

N/B: Qualified bidders will be expected to supply chemicals based on the packaging stated in their purchase order

Project Delivery Schedule:

• The schedule requirement is to have a contract in place by Q4 2022. The Call for Tender will detail the provisions necessary for the Service

HSE Considerations
The greatest importance is placed on prospecting Contractor's Safety performance and past records. The Tenderers will be required to complete at the technical stage, a HSE Questionnaire and submit with his Technical Tender, a comprehensive HSE Management System manual among other documents. The analysis of the HSE requirement will contribute to progressing selected Tenderers in the CFT process. Any Tenderer that scores below 60% in the HSE Evaluation would not be allowed to progress to the Commercial Stage irrespective of his performance in other elements of the technical evaluation process.

Mandatory Requirements

• To be eligible for this tender exercise, interested suppliers are required to be pre-qualified and have a "LIVE" subscription status in the following NJQS service/product group category: Production/ Process/Drilling Chemicals (2.07.08) by the CFT advert closing date. All successfully pre-qualified suppliers in any of these categories will receive an invitation to submit their Tender for the services.
• To determine if you are pre-qualified and view the product/services category you are listed for: Open www.vendors.nipex-ng.com and access NIOS with your log in details, Click on Products/Services Status tab to view your status and product codes.
• If you are not listed in the product/service categories mentioned above but you have registered with the Department of Petroleum Resources (OPR) to do business in the Nigerian Oil & Gas Industry in those areas, please contact the Nipex administration office at 8, Baya Kuku Street, Ikoyl Lagos with your DPR certificate as evidence for verification and necessary update.
• To initiate the NJOS pre-qualification process, access www.nipex-ng.com click on click on "Service" tab followed by "NJQS Registration".
• To be eligible, all tenders must comply with the Nigerian content requirements in the Nipex system.
• Only Nigerian Indigenous service companies having verifiable Nigerian equity shareholding of 51% and above shall submit bids for this tender.

Application Closing Date
Only Suppliers who are registered and have a "LIVE" status in the NJQS category Production/Process/Drilling Chemicals (2.07.08) at 1600 hrs on April 18th, 2022, being the advert closing date shall be invited to submit technical and commercial tenders.

Nigerian Content
TUPNI is committed to the development of the Nigerian Oil and gas business in compliance with the Nigerian Content Act 2010 for Nigerian Content Development.

It is important that prospective bidders familiarize themselves and comply with the provisions of the Nigerian Oil & Gas Industry Content Development Act otherwise referred to as The Nigerian content Act at the stage of bidding.

As from the commencement of this Act, the minimum Nigerian Content in any project, service of product specification to be executed in the Nigerian oil and gas industry shall be consistent with the level set in the Schedule of the Act and any other targets as may be directed by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (The Board):

• Prospective bidders shall comply with all the provisions of the Nigerian Content Act that relate to these Services and in particular comply with the minimum Nigerian Content percentage for the scopes which are covered in the Schedule of the Act and any other requirement that may arise from time to time not explicitly stated in this advert, but which apply to the services in fulfillment of the Nigerian Content Act, in the submission of their
• In line with the NCD Human Capacity Development Initiative, Bidder shall commit to providing Project Specific training, man-hour, budget, skill development and understudy plan for Nigerian personnel utilizing OGTAN registered trainer(s) or other approved NCDMB training institutions)
• Submit a plan on how tenderer intend to give first consideration to services provided from within Nigeria with a list of work packages, 3rd party services and subcontracts that should be reserved for Nigerian indigenous contractors and those for Community Contractors Including the list of services that will be provided by companies of Nigerian origin.
• Demonstrate that tenderer is a Nigerian indigenous company or an indigenous company in genuine alliance with a foreign-owned or multinational company registered in Nigeria, Submit certified true copies of CAC forms 10, 02 & 07 (or its equivalent; CAC 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, etc.) including company memorandum & article of association and/or evidence of tenderer's Incorporation, shareholding & ownership structure in Nigeria. Where applicable, evidence of the Partnership//V Agreement (where applicable) between Indigenous Company and their alliances with duly signed exclusive binding Memorandum of Agreement by the CEO of the entities in the alliance.
• Provide detailed description of the location of in-country committed facilities & Infrastructure (assets, equipment, technical office, and administrative space, storage, workshop, assembly area, repair & maintenance, testing, laboratory, etc) in Nigeria to support this contract. Evidence that 50% of all equipment deployed to work by multinational and international companies is owned by the local subsidiaries is a necessity
• Provide a project-specific training, man-hour budget, skill development and technology transfer plan for Nigerian personnel or indigenous businesses including evidence of past performance on training and development for Nigerian nationals & Indigenous businesses. Plan for sponsorship of Nigerians to acquire competence and/or certification. Further development of local employees as professionals. Proposed training plan for Nigerians on the project including a brief training outline for OEM products, engineering, software & hardware, project management, procurement, construction, Installation, start-up & commissioning. maintenance, testing and operations.
• Provide evidence (personnel list and positions with organization chart to substantiate) of percentage of management that are Nigerian Nationals and the of the total workforce that are Nigerians.
• Submit tenderer's corporate organization's overall human resource's structure

Note: Failure to comply with the provision of the Nigerian Content Act 2010 or to demonstrate commitment to the development of the Nigerian Content Policy shall result in the disqualification of the tenderer from the bidding process

Additional Information

• Failure to provide any of the listed documents or information may automatically disqualify the tenderer
• All costs incurred in registering and pre-qualifying for this and other service categories in NIQS shall be borne solely by the tenderers.
• This advertisement shall neither be construed as any form of commitment on the part of TUCN to award any contract to any Supplier and/or associated Vendors, sub-contractors or agents, nor shall it entitle pre qualified companies to make any claims whatsoever, and/or seek any indemnity from TUCN and/or any of its partners by virtue of such companies having been pre-qualified in NJQS.
• The ITT and any further progression of this tender shall be via Nipex portal, interested tenderers are therefore advised to ensure that their profiles In Nipex are active with a valid official email address accessible by their organization as this shall be the only means to transmit the ITT
• Manhour figures for Capital Project Portfolios are estimates to provide definition to the scope and do not constitute guaranteed quantities,
• TUCN will only recognize and correspond with duly authorized officers of the pre-qualified tenderers and NOT through individuals or agents acting on their behalf.

NCDMB Certification Authorization Number: ES/NCOMB/TOTAL/ADV/UPD/11012/Production of Chemicals for TUCN.