| Procedure for Bid
Submission
a) The bidder shall submit his response through bid submission to the tender on
.apeprocurement. platform at www.apeprocurement.gov.in by following the procedure given below. The bidder would be required to register on the .apeprocurement. market place
www.apeprocurement.gov.in or https://tender.apeprocurement.gov.in and submit their bids online. No offline bids shall be entertained by the Tender Inviting Authority for the tenders published in e-procurement platform.
b) The bidders shall submit their eligibility and qualification details, Technical bid, Financial bid etc., in the standard formats displayed in .apeprocurement. 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 certificates/documents in the .apeprocurement. web site. The bidder shall sign on the statements, documents, certificates, uploaded by him, owning responsibility for their correctness/ authenticity.
1). Registration with ap e-procurement platform:
For registration and online bid submission bidders may contact HELP DESK of M/s A.P.T.S., Hyderabad., 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 .apeprocurement. platform and the bids not authenticated by digital certificate of the bidder will not be accepted on the .apeprocurement. platform. For obtaining signature certificate, you may please contact.
All the bidders need to obtain Digital Certificates from APTS:
For obtaining Digital Signature Certificate, Please Contact:
Andhra Pradesh Technology Services Limited
BRKR Bhavan, B-Block
Tank bund Road
Hyderabad-500022
Phone: +91-40-23220305
Fax: +91-40-23228057
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/Digital Certificate / Signature.html.
3). Submission of 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 towards EMD by participating bidders to the tender inviting authority before opening of the price bid id dispensed forthwith.
ii) All the bidders shall invariably upload the scanned copies in .apeprocurement. 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, towards EMD in the .apeprocurement. 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 towards EMD prior to entering into agreement.
v)The successful bidder shall invariably furnish the original towards EMD, Certificates/Documents of the uploaded scanned 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 responsibility for any delay in receipt/non-receipt of the original towards EMD, Certificates/Documents from the successful bidder before the stipulated time. On receipt of documents, the department shall ensure the genuinity towards EMD and all other Certificates/documents uploaded by the bidder in .apeprocurement. 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, BG towards EMD within stipulated time or if any variation is noticed between the uploaded documents and the hardcopies submitted by the bidder the successful bidder will be suspended from participating in the tenders on .apeprocurement. platform for a period of 3 years. The .apeprocurement. 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 as per G.O.Ms.No. 174,
I & CAD Dt. 01.09.2008. The information to this extent may be seen in the .apeprocurement. plat form web site. 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 and EMD:
It is mandatory for all the participating bidders from 1st January 2006 to electronically pay a Non-refundable Transaction fee to M/s. APTS, the services provider through ?Payment Gateway Service on .apeprocurement. platform?. The Electronic Payment Gateway accepts all Master and Visa Credit card 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.4 IT & C department dated: 17.02.2005. A service tax of 15% or as applicable + Bank Charges for Credit Card Transaction as applicable 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 valve) with a cap of Rs.10,000 (Rupees ten thousand only) for all works with ECV upto Rs.50 crores, and Rs.25,000/- (Rupees twenty five thousand only ) for works with ECV above Rs.50.00 crores from successful bidders on .apeprocurement. platform before entering into agreement / issue of purchase orders, towards .apeprocurement. fund in favour of Managing Director, APTS. There shall not be any charge towards .apeprocurement. fund in case of works, goods and services with ECV less than and upto Rs. 10 lakhs.
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 .apeprocurement. 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 apeprocurement .
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