NIGERIAN PORT AUTHORITY EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI) FOR ICT AUDIT OF DEPLOYED INFRASTRUCTURE AND SOLUTION AUTHORITY-WIDE AS A PART OF THE AUTHORITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORMING AGENDA – PROJECT TETRA

NIGERIAN PORT AUTHORITY

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI) FOR ICT AUDIT OF DEPLOYED INFRASTRUCTURE AND SOLUTION AUTHORITY-WIDE AS A PART OF THE AUTHORITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORMING AGENDA – PROJECT TETRA

A.INTRODUCTION

The Management of Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) hereby invites reputable and competent Information and Communication Technology (ICT) firms to submit Expression of Interest document for ICT Audit of Deployed Infrastructure and Solutions in all its locations. The information technology audit or information systems audit is an examination of the deployed assets and solutions. The Audits evaluation will determine if the information systems are maintaining data integrity and operating effectively to achieve the technology transformation objectives of the Authority

B.  SCOPE OF SERVICES

The Consultants is expected to evaluate the quality, routines and controls of IT installations and processes as follows

a.       Organization and management of IT operations.

b.      Infrastructure Readiness Assessment (IRA) – infrastructure Landscape , Data Centre, Connectivity, Disaster/Recovery, Hardware, Storage, Back Up and Support Capabilities.

c.       Application Development and Maintenance.

d.      IT application, network and infrastructure security

e.       Productivity and Communication – Leverage on a-d above, to ensure the deployment of a fit-for-purpose productivity and communication platform across NPA. This will ensure that productivity is improved and communication across board is simplified thus improving service delivery and quality.

f.       Identify capacities and opportunities for improvement and development of practical and cost-effective Port Community System and Traceability from “Load to clear”.

More information will be provided on the Request for proposal (RIP) to be issued to shortlisted firms.

C. TENDER REQUIREMENTS

Interested companies should submit bound bid documents duly signed, paginated, separated by dividers and arranged in the order outlined hereunder

Expression of Interests Requirement

1.      Evidence of Certificate of Incorporation with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) including Form CO7/CAC2 and CO7/CAC7

2.      Evidence of Company Tax Clearance Certificate and Audited Account for the last (3) years (2014, 2015 and 2016), duly signed by ANAN, /ICAN license Auditors.

3.       Evidence of Current Pension Clearance Certificate from National Pension Commission (PENCOM).

4.      Evidence of Current Compliance Certificate with Industrial Training Fund (ITF) Act No. 19 of 2011.

5.       Evidence of Current Compliance Certificate with the Employees Compensation Act which requires that all employers of labor must remit 1% of the total annual enrollment of their workers to the Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF)

6.      Evidence of Current registration on the National Data Base of Contractors, Consultants and Services providers by the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) or copy of interim Registration report (IRR) as evidence of compliance with the requirement.

7.      Bid must be in English Language and signed by an official authorized by the bidder.

8.      All bids must be accompanied with a sworn affidavit disclosing that they do not have any Director who has been convicted in any Country for any criminal offence relating to any matter.

9.      All bidders must accompany every bid with an affidavit disclosing whether or not any officer of the relevant committees of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) or Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) is a former or present director, shareholder or has any pecuniary interest in the bidder and confirm that all information presented in its bid are true and correct in all particulars.

10.  Firms must have a minimum of five (5) years experience in performing similar jobs.

11.  Firm must have staff with ISACA certification and either of CISSP, ITIL, CCNP or any other similar professional certifications.

12.  Evidence of minimum of two (2) similar projects executed in the last three (3) years including letters of awards, completion etc.

13.  Company profile to include names, qualifications and experience of key personnel (attach certificates and evidence of experience).

14.  All documents for submission must be transmitted with Covering/Forwarding letter under the Company/Firms Letter Head Paper bearing amongst others, the Registration Number (RC) as issued by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), contact address, telephone (preferably GSM No), fax and emails address. The Letter Head paper must bear the Name and Nationalities of the Directors of the Company/Firm at the bottom of the page.

15.  For joint Venture (JV) Partnership, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) should be provided.

Note: Failure to comply with items 1-10 will lead to disqualification of the bid.

D.        SUBMISSION OF EXPRESSION OF INTEREST DOCUMENTS

Prospective Bidders are to submit two (2) hard copies of EOI documents (the original and one duplicate) in SEALED ENVELOPES, clearly marked “EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI) FOR ICT AUDIT OF DEPLOYED INFRASTRUCTURE AND SOLUTIONS AUTHORITY-WIDE AS A PART OF THE AUTHORITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORMATION AGENDA – PROJECT TETRA” Specifying PUBLIC NOTICE NO: 4034 and addressed to “THE SECRETARY, TENDERS BOARD, NIGERIAN PORTS AUTHORITY”. Furthermore, the reverse side of the sealed envelope should have the name and address of the bidder. Then drop the sealed envelope in the designed Tender Box located on the 1^st floor of the Headquarters Building of Nigerian Port Authority at 26/28, Marina Lagos adjacent to the Lift lobby not later than 11:00am on Friday, 20^th October 2017.

All bid documents recived before the deadline for submission will be immediately opened at  Conference room, 1 Joseph Street, off Marina, Lagos in the office presence of bidders or third representatives. Please ensure that you sign the bid submission register in the office of the General Manager, Procurement on the 1^st floor of the headquarters Building of Nigeria Ports Authority as the Authority will not be held liable for misplaced or wrongly submitted bids. For further enquiries, please contact the “General Manager (Procurement)” on emails:info.procurement@nigerianports.org

 E.           GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Late submission would not be entertained.

2. All costs incurred as a result of this tender invitation and any subsequent requests for information shall be borne by the bidding companies and only short-listed companies will be contacted.

3. The Authority is not bound to pre-qualify any bidder and reserves the right to annual the Procurement process at any time without incurring any liabilities in accordance with Section 28 of the Public Procurement Act 2007.

SIGNED

MANAGEMENT

NIGERIAN PORTS AUTHORITY