| Procedure for Bid
Submission
The bidders shall submit their eligibility and qualification details, Technical bid, Financial bid etc., in the online standard formats displayed in e 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 e 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 e Procurement platform:
For registration and online bid submission bidders may contact HELP DESK of M/S Upadhi Techno Services Pvt Ltd Vijayawada. www.e procurement. gov.in or https://tender.eprocurement.gov.in.
2. Digital Certificate authentication:
The bidder shall authenticate the bid with his Digital Certificate for submitting the bid electronically on e Procurement platform and the bids not authenticated by digital certificate of the bidder will not be accepted on the e Procurement platform.
For obtaining Digital Signature Certificate, you may please Contact:
Andhra Pradesh Technology Services Limited, Vijayawada
You may please Contact Registration Authorities of any Certifying Authorities in India. The lists of CAs are available by clicking the link "https://tender.eprocurement.gov.in/DigitalCertificate/signature.html".
3. Hard copies:
Submission of Hard copies as per G.O Ms No: 174, I & CAD Dept., dated: 01-09-2008
I. Submission of original Hard copies of the uploaded scan copies of DD/BG towards EMD by participating bidders to the tender inviting authority before opening of the price bid be dispensed forthwith.
II. All the bidders shall invariably upload the scanned copies of DD/BG in e-Procurement system and this will be the primary requirement to consider the bid as responsive.
III. The Department shall carry out the technical bid evaluation solely based on the uploaded certificates documents. DD/BG towards EMD in the e-procurement system and open the price bids of the responsive bidders.
IV. The Department will notify the successful bidder for submission of original hard copies of all uploaded documents DD/BG towards EMD prior to entering into agreement.
V. The successful bidder shall invariably furnish the original DD/BG 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 with in the stipulated date shall be the responsibility of the successful bidder. The Department will not take any responsibility for any delay in receipt / on ? receipt of original DD/BG towards EMD, Certificates /documents, from the successful bidder before the stipulated time. On receipt of documents, the Department shall ensure the genuinity of the DD/BG towards EMD and all other certificates / documents uploaded by the bidder in e-Procurement system in support of the qualification criteria before concluding the agreement.
VI. If any successful bidder fails to submit the original Hard copies of uploaded Certificates/ Documents, DD/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 system 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 Department shall invoke all Processes of law including criminal prosecution of such defaulting bidder as an act of extreme difference to avoid delays in the tender process for execution of the development schemes taken up by the Government. The information to this extent may be displayed in the e-Procurement platform website.
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 Upadhi Techno Services Pvt Ltd Vijayawada. 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 service tax of 10.30% + Bank Charges for Credit Card Transaction of 2.09%(inclusive of service tax) on the transaction amount payable to M/S Upadhi Techno Services Pvt Ltd Vijayawada 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 upto 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 entering into agreement / issue of purchase orders, towards e procurement fund in favour of Managing Director, APTS. There shall not be any charge towards e Procurement fund incase of works, goods and services with ECV less than and up to 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 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 and M/S Upadhi Techno Services Pvt Ltd Vijayawada is not responsible for incomplete bid submission by users.
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