Procedure for Bid
Submission
25A) Procedure for Bid Submission
25.1 The Tenderers who are desirous of participating in ?e?procurement shall submit their Technical bids, price bids etc., in the Standard formats prescribed in the Tender documents, displayed at ?e?market place. The tenderers should upload the scanned copies in support of their Technical bids.
25.2 Submission of Hard Copies of the uploaded scanned copies of Online receipts or BG towards EMD by participating bidders to the tender inviting authority before opening of the Price Bid is dispensed forthwith as per G.O.Ms.No.174, Irrigation & CAD (PW-Reforms) Department, dated 01/09/2008.
All the bidders shall invariably upload the scanned copies of on line reciepts / BG in e-procurement platform and this will be the primary requirement to consider the Bid as responsive.
25.2 The Corporation will not hold any risk and responsibility for the loss in transit during uploading of the scanned document, for the invisibility of the scanned document online, and any other problem(s) encountered by the Tenderers while submitting his bids online.
25.3 The Corporation shall carryout the technical evaluation of bid solely based on the uploaded certificates / documents, on line reciepts/ BG towards EMD in the e-procurement platformand open the Price Bids of the responsive bidders.
25.4 The Corporation will notify the successful bidder for submission of original hard copies of all uploaded documents, on line reciepts / BG towards EMD prior to entering in to agreement.
25.5 The successful bidder shall invariably furnish the originalon line reciepts/ BG towards EMD, Certificates / documents of the uploaded copies to the tender inviting authority before entering in to agreement either personally or through courier or post and the receipt of the same with in the stipulated date, shall be responsibility of the successful bidder. The Corporation will not take any responsibility for any delay in receipt / non-receipt of original on line reciepts/ BG towards EMD, certificates / documents, from the successful bidder before the stipulated time. On receipt of documents, the Corporation shall ensure the genuinely of the on line reciepts / BG towards EMD, and all other certificates / documents uploaded by the bidder in e-procurement platform in support of the qualification criteria before concluding the agreement.
25.6 If any successful bidder fails to submit the original hard copies of uploaded certificates / documents, on line reciepts / BG towards EMD, with in the stipulated time or if any variation is noticed between the uploaded documents and the hard copies submitted by the bidder, the successful bidder will be suspended from participating in the tenders on e-procurement platform for a period of 3 years. The e-procurement platform would deactivate the user ID of such defaulting successful bidder based on the trigger / recommendation by the tender inviting authority in the system. Besides this, the Corporation 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 executing of the development schemes taken up by the Government. The information to this extent may be displayed in the e-procurement platform website.
25.7 The bidders should quote their initial price offer at the prescribed field / place provided in the e-market place.
25.8 The quoted initial price offer cannot be in excess of 5% over the Estimated Cost Value (ECV) value provided by the Department.
25.9 All bidders shall furnish the original hard copies of the BG for EMD and Self Declaration before opening date of Initial Price Offer and within the stipulated time.
25.10 If any bidder fails to submit the original hard copies of the BG for EMD and Self Declaration within the stipulated time, the initial Price Offer of the respective bidder will not be opened and they shall not be carried forward into the reverse auction phase.
25.11 After identification of the L-1 Initial Price Offer, eligible (those who have submitted original hard copies of the BG for EMD and Self Declaration) bidder shall be transferred to the Reverse Auction Platform.
25.12 Automatic bid evaluation is provided on e-procurement platform.
B) Reverse Tendering Process:
After identifying the eligible agencies / bidders will be eligible to participate in e-auction process in terms of guidelines issued vide G.O.Ms.No.67, WR (Reforms) Dept., Dt.16.08.2019. and G.O.Ms.No.50, WR (Reforms) Dept., Dt.15.10.2020.
a) Only those bids will be evaluated and considered for comparison to arrive at L1 value and allowed to participate in reverse bidding in whose favour an authorised communication or a letter or a scanned and uploaded copy of that letter on e-procurement website or an e-mail from the issuing bank or any authorised communication from the bank with regard to issue of the Bank Guarantees/ on line receipt is sent to the Tender inviting authority within the stipulated time.
b) To conduct the reverse tender process at least two bidders would be required.
c) Names of the bidders / vendors shall be anonymously masked in the Reverse Tendering process and vendors will be given suitable dummy names.
d) The Corporation shall carryout the technical evaluation of bid solely based on the uploaded certificates / documents, on line receipt / BG towards EMD in the e-procurement platformand open the Price Bids of the responsive bidder and proceed further for reverse auctioning.
e) After identification of the L-1 Initial Price Offer, eligible (those who have submitted original hard copies of the DD/BG for EMD within the stipulated time) bidders shall be transferred to the Reverse Auction Platform.
f) The L-1 Price offer (Initial) shall be the maximum allowable Bid price for the reverse tendering process.
g) Only one round of reverse tendering shall be carried out in which bidders can revise their bids multiple times within the time limits specified.
h) At the start of the Reverse Tendering process the Maximum Allowable Bid Price will be set and bidders shall submit their bids in an online platform.
i) The initial period of the Reverse tendering process will start after 3 hours, following which there will be auto extensions of time by 15 minutes in case of any reduction in bids recorded in the prior 15 minutes.
j) Only the current L-1 bid shall be visible to all bidders who may revise their bids until the end of the process.
k) Decrements made in each subsequent bid shall not be less than 0.5% of the ECV uploaded.
l) The L-1 bid may be determined following a period of inactivity of more than 15 minutes of reverse bidding after the initial 3-hour period after closure of the main bidding.
m) The reverse tendering process shall be on hold for a maximum period of 24 hours (1 day).
n) Not with standing anything explained above, the condition explained in G.O.Ms.No.67 Water Resources (Reforms) Department, Dated 16-8-2019 will hold good.
C) Conclusion of the Reverse Tendering Process:
a) After conclusion of the reverse auction process, the pre-qualification criteria of all bidders shall be verified along with an additional field verification for the successful bidder. In case of successful verification of pre-qualification criteria of the L-1 Bidder, he will be awarded the contract and the EMDs of other successfully verified bidders shall be refunded.
b) If any variation is noticed between the up loaded documents and the self-declaration submitted by the bidder, the bidder will be suspended from participating in the tenders on e-procurement platform for a period of 3 years. If any of the documents furnished by the bidder are found to be false / fabricated / Bogus, at any time the bidder will be black listed and the EMD will be forfeited.
c) In case there are discrepancies between the L1 bidder?s declarations under the technical and financial criteria and the supporting documents submitted, the L1 bidder shall be disqualified, his EMD shall be forfeited, he will be removed from the reverse tendering process and the remaining bidders shall be notifies of the date and time when the reverse tendering process shall be resumed.
d) The reverse tendering process shall be resumed with the L2 price as the Maximum as the Maximum Allowable Bid Price.
e) Only 15 minutes shall be initially allowed for the remaining bidders to revise their bids, subject to automatic extensions of 15 minutes.
f) The reverse tendering process shall continue until the determination of a successful bidder.
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