NNPCL said it is seeking an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) services contract for the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC) and Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC).
The company is set to ensure sustained production and enhance refining quality at its Warri and Kaduna plants. Its Chief Corporate Communications, Olufemi Soneye who made this known on Friday said: that the national oil company which outlined the qualifications of companies interested in bidding for the contracts, stated that the move will help ensure reliability and energy security for the country.
NNPCL said it would be a single tender through a three-stage tender process namely: Expression of Interest (EOI), Technical, and Commercial. The contract scope, the NNPC said in the public notice would cover long-term and short-term production and operations planning, production, and operations execution. It would also extend to monitoring, reporting, and optimization of operation, maintenance planning (short-term), maintenance execution, and reliability as well as inspection.
According to the national oil company, it also includes process and controls engineering, quality control, quality assurance and laboratory, specialist engineering, health and safety, and environmental management. The winning firms will also be involved in turnaround maintenance planning and execution, minor projects, non-contractor management, subcontractor management, inventory, and warehouse management.
As part of the requirements for qualification, the NNPC stated that applicants must present audited accounts for the past four years, that is 2020 to 2023, including balance sheet as well as income and cash flow statements. Bidders are also expected to provide evidence of their company’s latest credit ratings and the name of the rating agency and demonstrate a minimum average annual turnover of at least $2 billion for the financial years ending 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 respectively.
According to the NNPC, documents by interested persons should be submitted online through the electronic NIPEX tender portal latest noon on October 10. The oil company further stressed that bidders must swear to an affidavit disclosing whether they are officers of any of the relevant committees of the NNPC, directors, shareholders, or have any pecuniary interest in the bidder.
It also requested a written statement confirming that interested companies do not have any director who has been convicted in any country for a criminal offence relating to fraud or any financial impropriety or criminal misrepresentation or falsification of facts relating to any matter. Among others, it called for a written statement confirming that the firm does not have any existing loan or financial liability with a bank or other financial institution.
NNPC stated that it will not enter any form of communication with interested bidder(s) from the commencement date of the advertisement.
