Procedure for Bid
Submission
13. Validity of Bids:
13.1 Bids shall remain valid for a period of not less than three months from the last date for receipt of Bid.
13.2 During the above mentioned period no plea by the bidder for any sort of modification of the bid based upon or arising out of any alleged misunderstanding of misconceptions or mistake or for any reason will be entertained.
13.3 In exceptional circumstances, prior to expiry of the original time limit, the Bid Inviting Officer may request the bidders to extend the period of validity for a specified additional period. Such request to the Bidders shall be made in writing. A Bidder may refuse the request without forfeiting his E.M.D. A Bidder agreeing to the request will not be permitted to modify his Bid, but will be required to extend the validity of his E.M.D. for a period of the extension.
14. Earnest Money Deposit
14.1 The bidder shall upload, Earnest Money Deposit equivalent to 1% of ECV along with the tender. As per G.O.Ms.No.8/Dt08.05.2016 this EMD shall be in the form of:.
a) Net banking/RTGS/NEFT from their registered bank accounts only.
b) The bidders can pay the EMDs using Credit Card/Debit Card, as per the VISA/Master Card Guidelines.
14.2 The balance EMD @ 1�% of TCV shall be paid at the time of concluding Agreement by the successful Bidder. This EMD can be in the form of :
a) a demand draft from any Nationalised / Schedule bank.
14.3 EMD furnished towards 1%EMD shall paid online as per GO.Ms.No.8/Dt.08.05.2016.
14.4 The EMD of Bidders will be returned no sooner the bids are finalised or end date of the Bid validity period which ever is earlier.
14.5 Deleted.
14.6 The earnest money deposited by the successful bidder will not carry any interest and it will be dealt with as provided in the conditions stipulated in the bid. The balance E.M.D. given in the form of Crossed Demand Draft on a Nationalised / Schedule bank, shall be valid for the duration of contract period plus defect liability period of two years and in case any valid extension of contract period is granted, the validity of EMD shall also be extended for the corresponding period. The EMD from Nationalised / Schedule Bank furnished by the bidder towards additional security amount shall be valid till the work is completed in all respects.
14.7 The E.M.D. shall be forfeited.
(a) if the Bidder withdraws the Bid during the validity period of Bid.
(b) in the case of a successful Bidder, if he fails to sign the Agreement for whatever the reason.
14.8 In consideration of the Executive Engineer / Executive Engineer /Chief Engineer /Commissionerate of Bids undertaking to investigate and to take into account each bid and in consideration of the work thereby involved, all earnest monies deposited by the bidder will be forfeited to the Government in the event of such bidder either modifying or with-drawing his bid at his instance within the said validity period of three months.
15. Signing of Bids.
15.1 If the bid is made by an individual, it shall be signed with his full name and his address shall be given. If it is made by a firm, it shall be signed by an authorised partner (with proof) who shall also sign his own name, and the name and address of each member of the firm shall be given, if the bid is made by a corporation it shall be signed by a duly authorised officer who shall produce with his bid, satisfactory evidence of his authorisation. Such bidding corporation may be required before the contract is executed, to furnish evidence of its corporate existence. Bids signed on behalf of G.P.A. holder will be rejected.
15.2 The Bid shall contain no alterations or additions, except those to comply with instructions issued by the Bid Inviting Officer, or as necessary to correct errors made by the Bidder, in which case all such corrections shall be initialled by the person signing the Bid.
15.3 No alteration which is made by the bidder in the contract form, the conditions of the contract, the drawings, specifications or statements / formats or quantities accompanying the same will be recognised; and, if any such alterations are made the bid will be void.
D. SUBMISSION OF BIDS.
16. Submission of Bids:
16.1 The following self attested certificates, documents etc, are to be scanned and uploaded on to the ?e ?procurement platform at www.apeprocurement.gov.in.
a) Copy of contractors registration certificate under appropriate class with Government of Andhra Pradesh
b) EMD as specified in the form (EMD shall be paid online only)
c) PAN Card and Latest I.T. Returns
d) GST Registration certificate incorporating Tax Identification Number (TIN)
e) Qualification certificate of Key personnel
16.2 The bidders 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 bidders should upload the scanned copies in support of their Technical bids. The bidders shall sign on all the statements, documents, certificates, uploaded by him, owning responsibility for their correctness/authenticity.
16.3 The Department 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 problems encountered by the Tenders while submitting their bids online.
17 Deleted
18 Last date / time for Submission of the Bids.
18.1 Bids must be submitted not later than the date and time specified in NIT. In the event of the specified date / time for the submission of bids declared as holiday, the bids will be received on the next working day up to the time specified..
18.2 The Executive Engineer may extend the dates for issue and receipt of Bids by issuing an amendment in which case all rights and obligations of the Executive Engineer and the Bidders will remain same as previously.
19 Late Bids.
19.1 Any Bid received after the last date / time prescribed in NIT will be summarily rejected.
20 Modification to the Bid.
20.1 No Bid shall be modified after the last date /time of submission of Bids.
E. BID OPENING AND EVALUATION
21 Bid opening
21.1 The Technical bids will be opened online by the concerned Executive Engineer at the time and date as specified in the tender documents. All the Statements, documents, certificates, EMD shall be paid online only etc, uploaded by the Tenders will be verified and downloaded, for technical evaluation. The clarifications, particulars if any required from the bidders, will be obtained either online or in the conventional method by addressing the bidders. The technical bids will be evaluated against the specified parameters/criteria same as in the case of conventional tenders and the technically qualified bidders will be identified. The result of Technical bids evaluation will be displayed on the ?e? market place, which can be seen by all the tenderers who participated in the tenders.
The department shall carry out the technical bid evaluation solely based on the uploaded certificates/documents, EMD shall be paid online only in the e-procurement system and open the price bids of the responsive bidders.
22 Clarification on the Technical Bid.
22.1 The tender opening authority may call upon any tenderer for clarification on the statements, documentary proof relating to the technical bid. The request for clarification and response thereto shall be in writing and it shall be only on the qualification information uploaded online by the tenderer. The clarification called for from the tenderers shall be furnished within the stipulated time, which shall not be more than a week.
22.2 The tenderer if so desirous, shall agree in writing to furnish the clarification called for within the stipulated time and, for disqualification and rejection of his tender in the event of failure to do so.
23 Examination of technical Bids and Determination of Responsiveness --Deleted-
24 Price Bid Opening:
b) Price Bid Opening:
24.1 Only the Price Bids of qualified Bidders whose Bids are found satisfying the eligibility criteria shall be opened.
24.2 Bids shall be scrutinised in accordance with the conditions stipulated in the Bid document. In case of any discrepancy of non-adherence Conditions the Bid accepting authority shall communicate the same which will be binding both on the bid Opening authority and the Bidder. In case of any ambiguity, the decision taken by the Bid Accepting Authority on bids shall be final.
25. Evaluation and Comparison of Price Bids
25.1 The Executive Engineer, Tribal Welfare, Paderu, will evaluate and compare the price bids of all the qualified Bidders.
25.2 Negotiations at any level are strictly prohibited. However, good gesture rebate, if offered by the lowest bidder prior to finalisation of bids may be accepted by the bid accepting authority.
25.3 Selection of Bidder among the lowest & equally quoted bidders will be in the following
orders:
a) The bidder whose bid capacity is higher will be selected.
b) In case the bid capacity is also same the bidder whose annual turnover is more will be preferred.
c) Even if the criteria incidentally become the same, the turnover on similar works and thereafter machinery available for the work and then the clean track record will be considered for selection.
26. Discrepancy in Tender percentage quoted
26.1 In case of any discrepancy between the overall bid percentage quoted in words and figures, the percentage quoted in words shall prevail. In case the bidder has quoted overall bid percentage only in words and not in figures or vice versa, such bid shall be treated as incomplete and rejected.
27. Process to be Confidential.
27.1 Information relating to the examination, clarification, evaluation and comparison of Bids and recommendations for the award of a contract shall not be disclosed to Bidders or any other persons not officially concerned with such process until the award to the successful Bidder has been announced by the bid accepting authority. Any effort by a Bidder to influence the processing of Bids or award decisions may result in the rejection of his Bid.
27.2 No Bidder shall contact the Executive Engineer, Tribal Welfare, Paderu, or any authority concerned with finalisation of bids on any matter relating to its Bid from the time of the Bid opening to the time the Contract is awarded. If the Bidder wishes to bring additional information to the notice of the Executive Engineer, Tribal Welfare, Paderu, it should do so in writing.
27.3 Before recommending / accepting the bid, the bid recommending / accepting authority shall verify the correctness of certificates submitted to meet the eligibility criteria and specifically experience.
27.4 Bids will be finalised by the Executive Engineers / Superintending Engineers / Chief Engineers for the works costing up to Rs.2.00 Crores. The bids for the works costing more than Rs.2.00 Crores will be referred to COT along with technical bid evaluation for consideration. The Commissioner of bids shall scrutinize the bids submitted by Engineer-in-Chief / Chief Engineer / Project administrators in accordance with the conditions stipulated in the bid document and in case any discrepancy of non-adherence to the conditions, the same shall be communicated which will be binding both on the bid concluding authority and contractor. In case of any ambiguity the decision taken by the COT on bids shall be final.
F. AWARD OF CONTRACT
28 Award Criteria
28.1 The Executive Engineer, Tribal Welfare, Paderu, will award or recommend to the Competent bid accepting authority for award of the contract to the Bidder who is found Technically qualified as per the Bid conditions and whose price bid is lowest.
28.2 The bid accepting authority reserves the right to accept or reject any Bid or all bids and to cancel the Biding process, at any time prior to the award of Contract, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected Bidder or Bidders or any obligation to inform the affected Bidder or Bidders of the reasons for such action.
29 Notifications of Award and Signing of Agreement.
29.1 The Bidder whose Bid has been accepted will be notified of the award of the work by the Executive Engineer, Tribal Welfare, Paderu, prior to expiration of the Bid validity period by registered letter. This letter (hereinafter and in the Conditions of Contract called ?Letter of Acceptance?) will indicate the sum that the Government will pay the Contractor in consideration of the execution, completion, and maintenance of the Works by the Contractor as prescribed by the Contract (hereinafter and in the Contract called the ?Contract Amount?).
29.2 When a bid is accepted the concerned bidder shall attend the office of the Executive Engineer, Tribal Welfare, Paderuon the date fixed in the Letter of acceptance. Upon intimation being given by the Executive Engineer, Tribal Welfare, Paderu of acceptance of his bid, the bidder shall make payment of the balance E.M.D., and additional security deposit wherever needed by way of Demand Draft obtained from a Schedule Bank, and sign an agreement in the form prescribed by the department for the due fulfilment of the contract. Failure to attend the Executive Engineer, Tribal Welfare, Paderu office on the date fixed, in the written intimation, to enter into the required agreement shall entail forfeiture of the Earnest Money deposited. The written agreement to be entered into between the contractor and the Government shall be the foundation of the rights and obligations of both the parties and the contract shall not be deemed to be completed until the agreement has first been signed by the contractor and then by the proper officer authorised to enter into contract on behalf of the Government.
29.3 The successful bidder has to sign an agreement within a period of 15 days from the date of receipt of communication of acceptance of his bid. On failure to do so his bid will be cancelled duly forfeiting the E.M.D., paid by him without issuing any further notice and action will be initiated for black listing the bidder.
29.4 If the successful bidder backs out from entering into agreement at the last minute causing loss to Govt. will be debarred for one year from participating in the tendering process of any department of the Govt. besides forfeiture of the 1% EMD.
29.5 If the successful bidder of a single bid received backs out from entering into agreements the EMD will be forfeited but the bidder will be debarred for six months from participating in the tendering process of any department of the Govt
30.Corrupt or Fraudulent Practices
30.1 The Government require that the bidders / suppliers / contractors under Government financed contracts, observe the highest standard of ethics during the procurement and execution of such contracts. In pursuance of this policy, the Government
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