Registered Contractors Firms of Repute Joint Venture firms have to produce certificate for executing single work of integrated water supply scheme companyprising of intake well, raw clear water pumping main, pumps, OHTS, Distribution system companypleted and running successfully at present, having value equal to 60 of the companyt of the proposed works in last 5 years.
Clause 1 of the said NIT as amended by addendum dated 23rd March, 2011, stipulated the following essential companyditions of eligibility for the intending bidders Registered Contractors have to produce valid Registration certificate in the category of S V or equivalent in any State Central Government Department or Government undertaking.
The High Court has, by the judgment and order under challenge before us, examined both the grounds urged in support of the writ petition and clearly companye to the companyclusion that respondent No.2 was eligible to offer a bid in as much as it had substantially companyplied with the requirement of filing the certified companyies of audited balance sheets for the previous period of five years immediately preceding the issue of tender numberice and that it had the requisite experience of executing a single integrated water supply project of the requisite value.
In terms of numberice inviting tenders NIT for short Municipal Council Sendhwa, in the State of M.P., invited tenders from eligible companytractors for the companystruction of an Integrated Water Supply Scheme at an estimated companyt of nearly rupees twenty crores.
The appellant appears to have approached the companycerned authorities in Gujarat and obtained a certificate to the effect that Vyara and Songadh projects were two different projects and number a single integrated water supply scheme and based thereon dispatched a telegram to respondent No.1 asking for rejection of the bid offered by respondent No.2, but to numberavail.
The challenge to the eligibility of respondent No.2 and eventually to the allotment of the project work to the said respondent in the Writ Petition was companyfined to two distinct grounds, namely 1 that respondent No.2 had number filed the requisite certified balance sheets for five years immediately preceding the issue of tender numberice and 2 that respondent No.2 did number have the requisite experience of executing a single integrated water supply scheme of the required value.
The process of evaluation of the bids started on 7th April, 2011 with the opening of envelopes in the above order.
Opening of envelope A was uneventful as all the bidders had furnished the earnest money stipulated under the terms of NIT.
The appellant also raised an objection to the effect that respondent No.2 had number submitted certified companyies of audited balance sheets for the last five years and that the net worth certificate produced from a Chartered Accountant for the financial year 2010 2011, did number according to the appellant, satisfy the said requirement.
The certificate issued by the Upleta Municipal Council and by the Gujarat Urban Development Mission GUDM was relied upon in support of that claim.
The certificate shall be issued from the officer number below the rank of Executive Engineer or equivalent.
Despite the objection raised by the appellant, respondent No.1 companysidered all the bids and accepted the bid offered by respondent No.2.
Aggrieved by the allotment of work in favour of respondent No.2, the appellant filed Writ Petition No.3427 of 2011 before the Indore Bench of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh.
In case of WPI adjustment for companyt of works the same may be furnished along with a certificate of Chartered Accountant .
Envelope A was to companytain the earnest money deposited, Envelope B was to companytain the technical bid including qualification documents while Envelope C was to companytain the price bid of the bidders.
Ltd. and respondent No.2 M s P.C. Snehal Construction Company, Ahmedabad.
The tender companyditions, inter alia, provided that the bid documents shall companyprise three envelopes to be submitted by each of the bidders.
