Tender Notice No. 02 OF 2007 – 2008 (OPEN)
      

1.    Sealed Open tenders are invited for the under mentioned Work:
    

2.

Tender forms are available in the office of XEN/Con/E.C.Rly., Chiraiyatand, Patna on production of demand draft from any nationalized/Scheduled bank in favour of FA & CAO/Con/ECR, Mahendrughat, Patna or money receipt issued by the Divisional Cashier, Sonpur/Danapur Division for the cost of tender document mentioned above between 10.00 Hrs. to 16.00 Hrs on any working day from 23.10.2007 to 06.11.2007. In case any tenderer wishes to obtain the tender document by post, Rs. 500 (Five hundred) extra should be sent by demand draft in favour of FA & CAO/C/EC Rly, Mahendrughat, Patna.However, the Railway takes no responsibility for damage, loss or late delivery of tender documents sent by post.
   

3.

Tenders can be dropped in prescribed tender boxes placed in offices of the CAO/Con/E.C Rly. Mahendrughat, Patna up to 12.00 hrs. of the date of opening  and tender will be opened at 12.30 Hrs  on the same day at Patna in presence of tenderers, present  at the time of opening of the tender. If the office is closed on the stipulated date and time due to some unforeseen holiday, tender will be received upto and opened on the next working day at the same place & time.
  

Tender can also be sent to chief Admn. Officer, EC Rly, Mahendrughat, Patna-4 by registered post/speed post/courier service to reach before 12.00 hrs. of the date of opening. However, Rly. will not be responsible for non receipt or delayed receipt  of such tenders.
  

4.

The tender must be submitted with proper amount of Earnest Money in favour of FA & CAO/Con/ECR, Mahendrughat, Patna. Tender without proper Earnest Money will be summarily rejected. The tender form is not transferable.
 

5.

Eligibility Criteria:
  

i)

Contractor should have completed in the last three financial years (i.e. current year and three previous financial years), at least one similar work, for minimum value of 35% of Advertised tender value, is clarified as under: -
  

a)

Similar nature of work physically completed within the qualifying period, i.e. the last 3 financial years and current financial year (even though the work might have commenced before the qualifying period) should only be considered in evaluating the eligibility criteria.
  

b)

The total value of similar nature of work completed during the qualifying period and not the payments received within qualifying period alone, should be considered.
    

In case, the final bill of similar nature of work has not been passed and final measurements have not been recorded, the paid amount including statutory deduction is to be considered. If final measurements have been recorded and work has been completed with negative variation, then also the paid amount including statutory deduction is to be considered. However, if final measurements have been recorded and work has been completed with positive variation but variation has not been sanctioned, original agreement value or last sanctioned agreement value whichever is lower should be considered for judging eligibility.
  

c)

In the case of composite works involving combination of different works, even separate completed works of required value should be considered while evaluating the eligibility criteria.For example, in a tender for bridge work where similar nature of work has been defined as bridge work with pile foundation and PSC superstructure, a tenderer, who has completed one bridge work with pile foundation of value at least equal to 35% of the tender value and also has completed one bridge work with PSC superstructure of value at least equal to 35% of the tender value, should be considered as having fulfilled the eligibility criteria of having completed single similar nature of work.
   

ii)

Total contractual amount received during the last three financial years and in the current financial year, should be a minimum of 150% of advertised tender value as per audited balance sheet duly certified by the Chartered Accountant. For the financial year ended and/or the current financial year if audited balance sheet is not available contractual amount received duly certified by the chartered accountant should be submitted as a proof of turnover.
 

Alternatively at least payment certificates from Central Govt./ State Govt./Central P.S.Us/State P.S.Us and other Government Agencies for a minimum of 150% of advertised tender value may be submitted.
   

iii)

Contractor should submit revenue/Banker’s Solvency certificate of minimum 40% of advertised tender value of work.
   

“Similar nature of Work means:-
   

*    Tender No.02 of 2007-08(Open) is defined as any contract involving execution of building construction work.
   

*    Tender No.03 of 2007-08(Open) is defined as Supply of vehicle on hire.
   

*    Tender No.04 of 2007-08(Open) is defined as RCC works – Minor Bridge Construction and P.Way Works.
   

6.

(a)

Advance to contractor is  not applicable
  

Note:-

I.

Completion certificate of the work issued from Central Govt./State Govt./Central P.S.Us/State P.S.Us and other Government Agencies shall only be accepted, credential from Private Individuals shall not be accepted.
  

II.

Tenders submitted without credentials as per Eligibility Criteria Annexure I, II & III of Tender Notice are liable to be rejected. However, Annexure – III is applicable for Tender No. 04 of 2007-08 (Open) only.
  

III.

Rates shall have to be quoted as percentage above or below for each schedule separately. Tenderers must not quote item wise rates. In case any contractor quotes unified percentage for each schedule and item wise rates against individual items also, no cognizance would be taken for the item wise rates quoted by the contractors. However, railways reserves their right to cancel any tender where item wise rates have been quoted.
   

IV.

i.

Tender notice is also available on http://www.tendertimes.com.
  

ii.

The tender documents will also be available on website http://www.tendertimes.com during the above mentioned period and the same can be down loaded and used as tender document for submitting tender. This facility is available free of cost.  However, the demand draft as prescribed above towards the cost of tender documents will have to be enclosed with the tender. Incase the tender is not accompanied with the valid demand draft for the cost of the tender document as detailed above, the tender will be summarily rejected.
   

Executive Engineer/Con (I/C)

East Central Railway, Patna