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of the receipt by him of the Notification of Acceptance of Tender.
Note: The Earnest Money of the unsuccessful bidder will be returned
by EMPLOYER/CONSULTANT, directly to the tenderer (s), within
a reasonable period of time but not later than 30 days after the
expiration of the period of bid validity prescribed by EMPLOYER.
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
duplicate prior to the date of opening of the tenders to clarify
documents or to reflect modification in design or CONTRACT terms.
9 Right of Employer to
Accept or Reject Tender:
8.2 Each addenda/ corrigendum issued will be issued in duplicate to each
person or organisation to whom set of Tender Documents has been
issued. Recipient will retain tenderer's copy of each
Addendum/Corrigendum and attach original copy duly signed along
with his offer. All Addenda/Corrigenda issued shall become part of
Tender Documents.
9.1 The right to accept the tender will rest with the EMPLOYER. The
EMPLOYER, however, does not bind himself to accept the lowest
tender, and reserves to itself the authority to reject any or all the
tenders received without assigning any reason whatsoever. At the
option of the Employer, the work for which the tender had been invited,
may be awarded to one Contractor or split between more than one
bidders, in which case the award will be made for only that part of the
work, in respect of which the bid has been accepted. The quoted rates
should hold good for such eventualities.
Tenders in which any of the particulars and prescribed information are
missing or are incomplete in any respect and/or the prescribed
conditions are not fulfilled are liable to be rejected. The Tender
containing uncalled for remarks or any additional conditions are liable
to be rejected.
Canvassing in connection with tenders is strictly prohibited and
tenders submitted by the Tenderers who resort to canvassing will be
liable to rejection.
10 Time Schedule 10.1 The WORK shall be executed strictly as per the TIME SCHEDULE
specified in TENDER/CONTRACT Document. The period of
construction given in Time Schedule includes the time required for
mobilisation as well as testing, rectifications if any, retesting and
completion in all respects to the entire satisfaction of the
ENGINEER-IN- CHARGE.
10.2 A joint programme of execution of the WORK will be prepared by the
ENGINEER-IN-CHARGE and CONTRACTOR based on priority
requirement of this project. This programme will take into account the
time of completion mentioned in 10.1 above and the time allowed for
the priority works by the ENGINEER-IN-CHARGE.
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