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

The Competent Authority shall have the right to make any alterations, omissions,
additions or subtractions in items, their quantities along with technical specifications
and/or BoM at the time of award of contract. The Competent Authority will give such
intimation to the successful Bidder, and additional cost/deduction in the Bid prices,
based on the price schedule submitted by him, will be worked out with the Bidder. In
case, the Bidder does not agree for such alterations, the Competent Authority will be free
to award the contract to the next eligible Bidder.
7.21 COMPETENT AUTHORITY'S RIGHT TO ACCEPT OR TO REJECT ANY OR ALL
BIDS
The Competent Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any Bid, and to annul the
Bid process and reject all Bids at any time prior to the award of Contract, without thereby
incurring any liability to the affected Bidder or any obligation to inform the affected Bidder
of the grounds for the Competent Authority's action.
7.22 Notification of Award
Notification to Bidder
Before the expiry of the period of validity of the proposal, the Competent Authority shall
notify the successful Bidder in writing by registered letter or by fax, that its bid has been
accepted. The Bidder shall acknowledge in writing receipt of the notification of award
and will send his acceptance to enter into agreement within seven (7) days.
Notwithstanding anything else contained to the contrary in this Document, the
Competent Authority reserves the right to increase or decrease quantities or even delete
some of the items altogether. The quantities can be altered without any change in the
unit price or other terms and conditions. The competent authority may even vary the
break up of overall quantities of an item in view of techno-commercial reasons. The
variation in the quantity of award shall be notified at the time of placing the order.
7.23 Signing of Contract
7.23.1 The notification of the award
The notification of the award shall constitute signing of the contract/agreement.
However, the Competent Authority may negotiate certain terms with successful
Bidder before signing of the contract/agreement. The signing of agreement will
amount to award of contract and bidder will initiate the execution of the work as
specified in the contract/agreement.
7.23.2 Discharge of Bid Security
Upon the successful signing of the agreement, competent authority shall
promptly request the Bidder to provide performance security. On receipt of the
performance security, the bid security will be released.
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