MAINTENANCE SECTION

ICAR-NATIONAL DAIRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE

KARNAL – 132 001 (HARYANA)

File No.F.2-8/Const. of Garbage (ME)-2015-2016/- 186-219 Dated.29/12/2015

INVITATION FOR BID

Item-Rate Tenders/Bids are invited on behalf of the Director, NDRI, Karnal from approved and eligible bidders of C.P.W.D. and those of appropriate list of Department of Telecommunications, M.E.S., Railways and state P.W.D., H.U.D.A.etc. for the following Repair works. A photocopy of Certificate of Enlistment of Contractors/Licence issued by CPWD/ Labour Commissioner is essentially required from the Contractors.

(1)Construction of 33 Nos Garbage-bins at NDRI, Karnal.

1. The work of construction of Garbage-bin/Dust binas per specification and drawing estimatedcost of Rs.4,88,400.00 (Rupees Four lakh Eighty Eight Thousand Four Hundred only). This estimate, however, is given merely as a rough guide.

2. Agreement (Contract) shall be drawn with the successful bidder on prescribed Form available in the bidding document. Bidder shall quote his rates as per various terms and conditions of the said form.

3. The time allowed for carrying out the work will be 30 days from the 10th day after the date of written orders to commence the work or from the first day of handing over of the site, whichever is later, in accordance with the phasing, if any, indicated in the tender documents.

4. The site for the work is available.

5.Tender forms will be issued on payment basis by Maintenance Engineering Section between hours of 11.00 AM to 3.00 PM from 30th, December, 2015 to 14th, January, 2016 everyday except on Sunday and Public Holidays.

6. Issue of tender forms will be stopped at 3-00 PM on dated 14th, January, 2016

Bidding documents consisting of plans, specifications, the schedule of quantities of the various classes of work to be done and the set of terms & conditions of contract to be complied with by the contractor whose tender may be accepted and other necessary documents can be seen in the office of the Maintenance Engineer, NDRI, Karnal between hours of 11.00 A.M to 4.00 P.M. from 30th, December, 2015 to 14th, January, 2016 everyday except on Sundays and Public Holidays. Tender documents, will be issued from his office, during the hours specified above, on payment of the following:

i) Rupees Five Hundred onlyin cash as cost of tender may be deposited with NDRI, Cashier or Tender form/Bidding Document can be downloaded from our website – ndri.res.in & cost of 9

tender may be deposited by draft/cheque etc. in favour of ICAR-Unit-NDRI payable at Karnal and submit the same with bid please.

ii) Earnest Money of Rupees Ten Thousand only should be deposited with NDRI Cashier in cash OR in shape of Demand Draft, F.D.R., Banker’s Cheque or Bank Guarantee in favour of “ICAR UNIT, NDRI, Karnal” payable at Karnal alongwith duly filled Tender document.

Please Note that the tender form without Earnest Money will not be accepted.

7. Bids, which should always be placed in sealed envelope, with the name of work and due date written on the envelopes, will be received by the Maintenance Engineer, NDRI, Karnal, up to 03:00 P.M. on 15th, January,2016and will be opened by constituted committee in the office of M.E. in the presence of contractor / representative if available on the same day at 03:30 P.M.

8. Only successful bidder shall be required to deposit an amount equal to 5% of the tendered value of the work as Performance Guarantee in the form of an irrevocable Bank Guarantee Bond of any scheduled Bank or State Bank of India in accordance with the form prescribed or in Cash or in the form of Govt. security, Fixed Deposit Receipt etc., within prescribed number of days of the issue of letter of acceptance.

9. The description of the work is as follows:-

(1)Construction of Garbage-bins at NDRI, Karnal.

Copies of other drawings and documents pertaining to the works will be open for inspection by the bidders at the office of the above mentioned officer.

Bidders are advised to inspect and examine the site and its surroundings and satisfy themselves before submitting their bids as to the nature of the ground and sub-soil (so far as is practicable), the form and nature of the site, the means of access to the site, the accommodation they may require and in general shall themselves obtain all necessary information as to risks, contingencies and other circumstances which may influence or affect their bid. A bidder shall be deemed to have full knowledge of the site whether he inspects it or not and no extra charges consequent on any misunderstanding or otherwise shall be allowed. The bidder shall be responsible for arranging and maintaining at his own cost all materials, tools & plants, water, electricity access, facilities for workers and all other services required for executing the work unless otherwise specifically provided for in the bid documents.

Submission of a bid by a bidder implies that he has read this notice and all other bid documents and has made himself aware of the scope and specifications of the work to be done and local conditions and other factors having a bearing on the execution of the work.

10. The competent authority on behalf of the President of ICAR does not bind himself to accept the lowest or any other tender and reserves to himself the authority to reject any or all of the tenders received without assigning any reason. All bids in which any of the prescribed condition is not fulfilled or any condition is put forth by the bidder shall be summarily rejected.

11. Canvassing whether directly or indirectly, in connection with tenderers / bidders is strictly prohibited and the bids submitted by the bidders who resort to canvassing will be liable to rejection.

12. The competent authority (the Director, NDRI, Karnal) reserves to himself the right of accepting the whole or any part of the bid and the bidder shall be bound to perform the same at the rate quoted.

13. The Bid for the works shall remain open for acceptance for a period of Sixty days from the date of opening of bids. If any bidder withdraws his bid before the said period or issue of letter of acceptance, which-ever is earlier, or makes any modifications in the terms and conditions of the bid which are not acceptable to the department, then the Institute shall, without prejudice to any other right or remedy, be at liberty to forfeit the said Earnest Money.

14. This Invitation for Bid shall form a part of the bid document. The successful bidder on acceptance of his bid by the Accepting Authority, shall, sign the Contract consisting of:-

The Invitation for Bid, all the Bid Documents including additional conditions, Specifications and Drawings forming the Bid as issued at the time of Invitation of Bid and Acceptance thereof together with any Correspondence leading thereto.

15.Any person who submits a tender shall fill up the usual printed form, stating at what rate he is willing to undertake each item of the work. Tenders, which propose any alteration in the work specified in the said form of invitation to tender, or in the time allowed for carrying out the work, or which contain any other conditions of any sort, including conditional rebates, will be summarily rejected. No single tender shall include more than one work, but contractors who wish to tender for two or more works shall submit separate tender for each. Tender shall have the name and number of the works to which they refer, written on the envelopes.The rate (s) must be quoted in decimal coinage, Amounts must be quoted in full rupees by ignoring fifty paisa and considering more than fifty paisa as rupee one.

16.In the case of item Rate Tenders only item wise rates quoted shall be considered. Any tender containing percentage below/above the rates quoted is liable to be rejected. Rates quoted by the contractor in item rate tender in figures and words shall be accurately filled in so that there is no discrepancy in the rates written in figures and words. However, if a discrepancy is found, the rates which correspond with the amount worked out by the contractor shall unless otherwise proved be taken as correct. If the amount of an item is not worked out by the contractor or it does not correspond with the rates written either in figures or in words, then the rates quoted by the contractor in words shall be taken as correct. Where the rates quoted by the contractor in figures and in words tally, but the amount is not worked out correctly, the rates quoted by the contractor will unless otherwise proved be taken as correct and not the amount. In event no rate has been quoted for any item(s), leaving space both in figure(s), word(s), and amount blank, it will be presumed that the contractor has included the cost of this/these item(s) in other items and rate for such item(s) will be considered as zero and work will be required to be executed accordingly.

17.All rates shall be quoted on the tender form. The amount for each item should be worked out and requisite totals given. Special care should be taken to write the rates in figures as well as in words and the amount in figures only, in such a way that interpolation is not possible. The total amount should be written both in figures and in words. In case of figures, the word ` should be written before the figure of rupees and word ‘P’ after the decimal figures, e.g. Rs.‘2.15P’ and in case of words, the word, the word, ‘Rupees’ should be precede and the word ‘Paisa’ should be written at the end. Unless the rates is in whole rupees and followed by the word ‘only’ it should invariably be up to two decimal places. While quoting the rate in schedule of quantities, the word ‘only’ should be written closely following the amount and it should not be written in the next line.

18.Service Tax will be charge extra as per rules, if applicable.

(R.M.Chayal)

Maintenance Engineer

FOR & ON BEHALF OF DIRECTOR,

NDRI, KARNAL

To

8 (Eight) firms as per list enclosed.

Cc:-

  1. Er.R.K.Bansal, ACTO, M.E. Section, Division. NDRI, Karnal
  2. Sr. F.A.O /A.F.& A.O, NDRI, Karnal, with the request to please make it convenient to present at the time of opening the tenders.
  3. The Asstt.Admn.Officer, E-V, Section, NDRI, Karnal
  4. I/C Computer, NDRI, Karnal for placing on NDRI Website – pl.(Soft copy of B.D enclosed)
  5. Guard File.

PART I

GUIDELINES TO BIDDERS

  1. General: The Employer wishes to receive bids for the following Works.

(i)Construction of Garbage-bins at NDRI, Karnal.

2. Eligibility Criteria of Bidder:

This invitation to bid is open to any bidder meeting of the following requirements:

(a) The bidder shall not be affiliated with a firm or entity that has provided consulting services related to the works to the Employer during the preparatory stages of the Works or of the Project of which the works form a part.

(b) A bidder shall be qualified for the contract as notified by the Employer.∗

(c) The bidder shall provide such evidence of their continued eligibility satisfactory to the Employer.

∗ (Note: This will need to be specified in the bidding document by the employer depending upon the nature and value of work to be executed.)

3. Cost of Bidding Document:

The bidder shall bear all costs associated with the preparation of submission of its bids and the Employer will in no case be responsible or liable for those costs, regardless of the conduct or outcome of the bidding process.

4. One Bid per Bidder:

Each bidder shall submit only one bid either by himself or as a partner in a joint venture. A bidder who submits or participates in more than one bid will be disqualified.

5. Site Visit:

The bidder is advised to visit and examine the site of work and its surroundings and obtain for itself on its own responsibility all information that may be necessary for preparing the bid and entering into a contract for conception of the work.

6. Contents of bidding documents:

The set of bidding document comprises the documents listed in the Table below and addenda, if any, issued in accordance with clause 8.

7. Clarification of Bidding Documents:

To assist in the examination, evaluation and comparison of bids, the Employer may at its discretion, ask any bidder for clarification of its bid, including breakdown of unit, rate. The request for clarification and the response shall be in writing, but no change in the price or substance of the bid shall be sought or offered or permitted except as required to confirm the correction of arithmetic errors discovered by the Employer in the evaluation of the bids.

8. Amendment of Bidding Document:

At any time prior to the deadline for submission of bids, the Employer may amend bidding documents by issuing addenda.

Any addendum thus issued, shall be part of the bidding document and shall be communicated in writing to all bidders of the bidding document.

To give perspective bidders, reasonable time in which to take an addendum into account in preparing their bids, the Employer shall extend as necessary the deadline for submission of bids.

9. Language of the Bid

All documents relating to the bid shall be in the English language.

10. Bid Prices:

Unless stated otherwise in the bidding document, the contract shall be for the whole Work based on the unit rates and prices in the Bill of Quantities submitted by the bidder.

The bidder shall fill in rates and prices for all items of the Work described in the Bill of Quantities.

All duties, taxes and other levies shall be payable by the contractor under the contract, or for any other cause, as of the date four days prior to the deadline for the submission of the bids.

11. Currency of Bid and Payment

The unit rates and prices shall be quoted by the bidder entirely in Indian rupees.

12. Bid Validity:

Bid shall remain valid for the period of 60 days after the date of bid opening. In exceptional circumstances prior of the original bid validity period, the Employer may request that the bidders extend the period of validity in a specified additional period. The request and the responses thereto shall be made in writing.

13. Bid Security (Earnest Money)

The Bidder shall furnish as a part of his bid, a Bid security as mentioned in the invitation to bid.

14. Bid Submission:

In case of Item Rate tenders, the Rate shall be quoted by the contractor for every item in words and also in figures and shall match with the amount figure. If rates in words do not tally with rates in figure then the rate which corresponds to the amount shall be taken as correct. If the amount of an item is not worked out by the contractor or it does not correspond with the rates written either in figure or in words then the rate quoted by the contractor in words shall be taken as correct.

The bidder shall seal the bid document and the envelop shall be addressed to the Employer at the address provided in the bidding document. It should also be written on the envelop the time and date for the bid opening. Bid shall be received by the Employer at the address specified and not later than the time and date stipulated in the bidding document.

The Employer may in exceptional circumstances and at its discretion, extend the deadline for submission of the bids by issuing an Addendum.

Any bid received by the Employer after the deadline for submission of the bids will be returned unopened to the bidder.

15. Bid Opening:

The Employer will open the bids in the presence of bidders’ designated representatives who choose to attend, at the time, date and location stipulated in the Bidding Document. The bidders’ representatives, who are present, shall sign a register evidencing their attendance.

Bids not opened and read out at bid opening shall not be considered further for evaluation, irrespective of the circumstances. The Employer shall prepare minutes of the bid opening including the information disclosed to those present.

16. Examination of Bids and Determination of Responsiveness:

Information relating to 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 initially concerned with such process until the award to the successful bidder has been announced. Any effort by a bidder to influence the Employer processing of bids or award decisions may result in the rejection of the bidder’s bid.

A substantially responsive bid is one that conforms to all the terms and conditions and specifications of the bidding document without material deviation or reservation. A material deviation or reservation is one which is inconsistent with the bidding documents, or which affects in any substantial way the scope, quality, or performance of the work and which limits in any substantial way the Employer’s rights or the bidder’s obligations under the contract, or whose Rectification would affect unfairly the competitive position of other bidders presenting substantially responsive bids. If a bid is not substantially responsive, it will be rejected by the Employer and may not subsequently be made responsive by correction or withdrawal and the non-conforming deviations or reservations.

17. Award criteria

The employer shall award the contract to the Bidder whose Bid has been determined to the responsive to the bidding documents and who has offered the lowest evaluated Bid Price.