Hiring of VPN Services for GAIL Agartala

5. Transfer of Tender
Documents:
of action or thing whatsoever arising of or under this agreement.
5.1 Transfer of Tender Documents purchased by one intending
tenderer to another is not permissible.
6. Earnest Money: 6.1 The bidder must pay Earnest Money as given in the letter /notice
inviting tenders and attach the official receipt with the tender
failing which the tender is liable to be rejected and representatives
of such tenderers will not be allowed to attend the tender opening.
Earnest Money can be paid in Demand Drafts or Bank Guarantee
or Banker’s Cheque or Letter of Credit from any Indian
scheduled bank or a branch of an International bank situated in
India and registered with Reserve Bank of India as scheduled
foreign bank. However, other than the Nationalised Indian
Banks, the banks whose BGs are furnished, must be
commercial banks having net worth in excess of Rs. 100 crores
and a declaration to this effect should be made by such
commercial bank either in the bank guarantee itself or
separately on a letter head.
The bid guarantee shall be submitted in the prescribed format .
Note: The Bank Guarantee so furnished by the tenderer shall be
in the proforma prescribed by the EMPLOYER. No interest
shall be paid by the EMPLOYER on the Earnest Money
deposited by the tenderer. The Bank Guarantee furnished in lieu
of Earnest Money shall be kept valid for a period of "SIX
MONTHS" from the date of opening of tender.(TWO MONTHS
beyond the bid due date).
The Earnest Money deposited by successful tenderer shall be
forfeited if the Contractor fails to furnish the requisite Contract
Performance Security as per clause 24 hereof and /or fails to
start work within a period of 15 days or fails to execute the
AGREEMENT within 15 days of the receipt by him of the
Notification of Acceptance of Tender.
Note: The Earnest Money of the unsuccessful tenderers will be
refunded by EMPLOYER/CONSULTANT directly to the
tenderer's within a reasonable period of time.
7. Validity: 7.1 Tender submitted by tenderers shall remain valid for acceptance
for a period of "4 MONTHS" from the date of opening of the
tender. The tenderers shall not be entitled during the said period
of 4 months, without the consent in writing of the EMPLOYER,
to revoke or cancel his tender or to vary the tender given or any
term thereof. In case of tender revoking or canceling his tender or
varying any term in regard thereof without the consent of
EMPLOYER in writing, the EMPLOYER shall forfeit Earnest
Money paid by him alongwith tender.
8. Addenda/Corrigenda 8.1 Addenda/ Corrigenda to the Tender Documents will be issued in
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