MPED-X-Routing-Tender20080721 - Madhya Pradesh State Excise

deviation, provided such a waiver does not prejudice or affect the relative ranking of
any Bidder.
7.16.3 Prior to the detailed evaluation, pursuant to Clause 7.17, the concerned
Committee will determine the substantial responsiveness of each Bid to the bidding
documents. For purpose of these Clauses, a substantially responsive Bid is one,
which conforms to all the terms and conditions of the bid documents without material
deviations.
7.16.4 If the concerned Committee determines that a Bid is materially deviating from
the prescribed terms and conditions, then the matter shall be referred to the
Competent Authority, who shall decide whether the deviations of the Bid are material
or not. Decision of the Competent Authority regarding this shall be final and binding.
7.16.5 The Committee’s determination of a Bid's responsiveness is to be based on the
contents of the Bid itself without recourse to extrinsic evidence.
7.16.6 If a Technical Bid is determined as not substantially responsive, the Competent
Authority will reject it and in such a case Commercial Bid will not be opened.
7.16.7 Bid Presentations: The committee may invite each Bidder to make a presentation
to the Competent Authority at a date, time and location decided by the Competent
Authority. The purpose of such presentations would be to allow the Bidders to present
their proposed solutions to the committee and the key points in their Bids.
7.17 Evaluation and Comparison of Bids
Criteria for Evaluation and Comparison of Pre qualification Bids
A three-stage procedure will be adopted for evaluation of proposals, with the pre
qualification being completed before the technical evaluation and thereafter-financial
proposals being opened and compared.
A consortium of companies duly backed up by an Agreement (to be submitted along with
Pre-Qualification bid) is also eligible to participate subject to the following two conditions
and satisfaction of the Tender Evaluation Committee during the evaluation of the tender.
In the event of consortium being unacceptable to the competent authority, the Prime
Bidder may be given an option of going on its own:
• The lead partner of this consortium shall be liable for adherence to all provisions of
this Agreement.
• The consortium will draw upon human, technical and other resources of all the
members during implementation and maintenance of the MPED Project. The
Technical Bid shall include exact details in this regard, so that a consortium is not
artificially created only to improve the score in Technical Bid.
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