Procedure for Bid
Submission
The bidder shall submit his response through Bid submission to the tender on ape-Procurement platform at www.apeprocurement.gov.in by following the procedure given below.
The bidder would be required to register on the e-procurement market place www.apeprocurement.gov.in or https://tender.apeprocurement.gov.in and submit their bids online. Offline bids shall not be entertained by the Tender Inviting Authority for the tenders published in e-procurement platform. The bidders shall submit their eligibility and qualification details, Technical bid, Financial bid etc., in the online standard formats displayed in ape-Procurement web site. The bidders shall upload the scanned copies of all the relevant certificates, documents etc., in support of their eligibility criteria/technical bids and other certificate/documents in the ape-Procurement web site. The bidder shall sign on the statements, documents, certificates, uploaded by him, owning responsibility for their correctness/ authenticity. The bidder shall attach all the required documents for the specific tender after uploading the same during the bid submission as per the tender notice and bid document.
1. Registration with ape-Procurement platform: For registration and online bid submission bidders may contact HELP DESK. www.apeprocurement.gov.in or https://tender.apeprocurement.gov.in.
2. Digital Certificate authentication: The bidder shall authenticate the bid with his Digital Certificate for submitting the bid electronically on eProcurement platform and the bids not authenticated by digital certificate of the bidder will not be accepted on the eProcurement platform. For obtaining Digital Signature Certificate, you may please Contact: Andhra Pradesh Technology Services Limited, Vijayawada (OR) You may please Contact Registration Authorities of any Certifying Authorities in India. The list of CAs are available by clicking the link "https://tender.apeprocurement.gov.in/DigitalCertificate/signature.html".
3. Hard copies:
i) Vide ref. G.O.Ms.No.174, I&CAD dept dated:1-9-2008, submission of original hard copies of the uploaded scanned copies of EMD by participating bidders to the tender inviting authority before the opening of the price bid is dispensed forthwith.
ii) All the bidders shall invariably upload the scanned copies of EMD in eProcurement system and this will be the primary requirement to consider the bid responsive.
iii) The department shall carry out the technical evaluation solely based on the uploaded certificates / documents, EMD in the eProcurement system and open the price bids of the responsive bidders.
iv) The department will notify the successful bidder for submission of original hardcopies of all the uploaded documents EMD prior to entering into agreement.
v) The successful bidder shall invariably furnish the original EMD, Certificates/Documents of the uploaded scan copies to the Tender Inviting Authority before entering into agreement, either personally or through courier or post and the receipt of the same within the stipulated date shall be the responsibility of the successful bidder. The department will not take any responsibility for any delay in receipt/non-receipt of original EMD, Certificates/Documents from the successful bidder before the stipulated time. On receipt of documents, the department shall ensure the genunity of the EMD and all other certificates/documents uploaded by the bidder in eProcurement system. In support of the qualification criteria before concluding the agreement.
4. The GO. Ms. No. 174 -I&CAD dated: 1-9-2008 Deactivation of Bidders If any successful bidder fails to submit the original hard copies of uploaded certificates/documents, EMD within stipulated time or if any variation is noticed between the uploaded documents and the hardcopies submitted by the bidder, as the successful bidder will be suspended from participating in the tenders on ape-Procurement platform for a period of 3 years. The ape-Procurement system would deactivate the user ID of such defaulting bidder based on the trigger/recommendation by the Tender Inviting Authority in the system. Besides this, the department shall invoke all processes of law including criminal prosecution of such defaulting bidder as an act of extreme deterrence to avoid delays in the tender process for execution of the development schemes taken up by the government. Other conditions as per tender document are applicable. The bidder is requested to get a confirmed acknowledgement from the Tender Inviting Authority a proof of Hardcopies submission to avoid any discrepancy.
5. Payment Of Transaction Fee: It is mandatory for all the participant bidders from 1st January 2006 to electronically pay a Non-refundable Transaction fee to M/s. APTS, the service provider through "Payment Gateway Service on E-Procurement platform". The Electronic Payment Gateway accepts all Master and Visa Credit Cards issued by any bank and Direct Debit facility/Net Banking of ICICI Bank, HDFC, Axis Bank to facilitate the transaction. This is in compliance as per G.O.Ms. 13 dated 07.05.2006. A GST of 18% + Bank charges on the transaction amount payable to APTS shall be applicable.
6. Corpus Fund: As per GO MS No.4 User departments shall collect 0.04% of ECV (estimated contract value) with a cap of Rs.10,000 (Rupees ten thousand only) for all works with ECV up to Rs.50 Crores, and Rs.25,000/- (Rupees twenty five thousand only) for works with ECV above Rs.50 Crores, from successful bidders on e-Procurement platform before issue of LOA, towards e-procurement fund in favour of Managing Director, APTS. There shall not be any charge towards e-Procurement fund in case of works, goods and services with ECV less than and up to Rs. 10 lakhs . the successful bidder shall pay carpus fund through online payment as per intimation letter communicated by the Tender Inviting Authority
7. Tender Document: The bidder is requested to download the tender document and read all the terms and conditions mentioned in the tender Document and seek clarification if any from the Tender Inviting Authority. Any offline bid submission clause in the tender document could be neglected. The bidder has to keep track of any changes by viewing the Addendum/Corrigenda issued by the Tender Inviting Authority on time-to- time basis in the E-Procurement platform. The Department calling for tenders shall not be responsible for any claims/problems arising out of this.
8. Bid Submission Acknowledgement: The bidder shall complete all the processes and steps required for Bid submission. The system will generate an acknowledgement with a unique bid submission number after completing all the prescribed steps and processes by the bidder. Users may also note that the bids for which an acknowledgement is not generated by the e procurement system are treated as invalid or not saved in the system. Such invalid bids are not made available to the Tender Inviting Authority for processing the bids. The Government of AP are not responsible for incomplete bid submission by users.
20. General Terms & Conditions:
1) Bids are invited on the e-procurement for the above mentioned work from the Contractors/ Contracting firms registered with Government of Andhra Pradesh. The details of Tender conditions and terms can be down loaded from the electronic procurement platform of Government of Andhra Pradesh i.e. .
2) Approximate Estimate Contract value of work Rs. 54,48,957.00
3) Contractors would be required to register on the e-procurement Market Place and submit their bids on line. The Department will not accept any bid submitted in the paper form.
4) EMD to be paid by way of unconditional and irrevocable Bank Guarantee issued by any Nationalised Bank in the standard format as shown in the Tender Schedule drawn in favour of Municipal Commissioner, Bhimavaram, or online payment gateway for Rs.54,490/- (i.e. 1% of ECV) drawn in favour of Municipal Commissioner, Bhimavaram.
NOTE: As per Government Order vide GO MS No. 266 Finance (HR-V-TFR-A&L-EWF) Department Dated: 15 -02-2021, collection of EMD /FSD @ 2.5% of the Tendered Contract Value is amended to 1% of the (TCV) tendered contract value temporarily i.e., up to 31.12.2021 (from all the participating bidders for fresh tenders) as a part of Relaxation of certain contractual obligations in view of COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, the successful bidder has to submit EMD / FSD @ 1% of TCV or ECV whichever is higher before concluding the agreement.
5) Period of completion of work: 4 Months + 2years defective liability period
6) The bidders can view/ down load the tender documents from the ?e? market place
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