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33.0 EXAMINATION OF BID
33.1 The Purchaser will examine the bids to determine whether they are
complete, whether any computational errors have been made, whether
required sureties have been furnished, whether the documents have been
properly signed and whether the bids are generally in order.
33.2 Prior to detailed evaluation, the Purchaser will determine the
substantial responsiveness of each bid to the bidding documents. Bids
falling under the purview of "Rejection Criteria" of the Bid Evaluation Criteria
of the bidding document will be rejected and may not subsequently be made
responsive by Bidder by correction of the inconformity.
34.0 SPECIFICATIONS:
34.1 Unless otherwise asked for, the Bids of "Maker's Design" or for
alternative specification, the Bidder must note that its Bid will be rejected in case
the tender stipulations are not complied with strictly or the goods offered do not
conform to the required specifications indicated therein. The lowest Bid will be
determined from among those Bids which are in full conformity with the required
specifications.
35. PRICE PREFERENCE FOR PRODUCTS OF SMALL SCALE
UNITS
35.1. OVL reserves its right to allow to the Indian Small Scale Sector price
preference facility as admissible under the existing policy.
36.0 CONTACTING THE PURCHASER
No bidder shall contact the Purchaser on any matter relating to its bid, from the
time of the opening to the time the contract is awarded.
F. AWARD OF CONTRACT
37 AWARD CRITERIA.
Subject to clause 41.0, the Purchaser will award the contract to the
successful bidder whose bid has been determined to be substantially
responsive and has been determined as the lowest evaluated bid.
38. PURCHASER'S RIGHT TO ACCEPT ANY BID AND TO REJECT
ANY OR ALL BIDS.
38.1 OVL reserves the right to reject, accept or prefer any bid and to annul
the bidding process and reject all bids at any time prior to award of contract,
without thereby incurring any liability to the affected Bidder or Bidders or any
obligation to inform the affected Bidder or Bidders of the ground for OVL's
action. The OVL also reserves to itself the right to accept any bid in part or
split the order between two or more bidders.
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