TECHNICAL BID - Bharat Petroleum

G. EXECUTION OF AGREEMENT:1. Successful tender/s will be required, before undertaking the contract, to sign the Agreement, within15 days of the date of issue of the LOI and should physically place the tank-lorries at the locationwithin 30 days from the issue of Work Order. In case of failure, BPCL will have the right to reject theinduction of such tank-lorries.2. Tenderers are advised to carefully scrutinize the specimen set of Agreements Forms enclosedalong with tender documents/downloaded from our website before submitting their tender. One setshould be submitted with the tender, duly signed by the tenderer on all pages over the official seal,in token of acceptance of the terms and conditions thereof, and other set be retained with thetenderer.3. When the person signing the tender is not the authorized signatory, necessary power of Attorneyauthorizing the signatory to act on behalf of the proprietor/ firm should be produced before signingthe agreement, and an authenticated copy of the power of Attorney should be submitted for therecord of BPCL.4. Failure to execute the agreement and/ or furnish required Security Deposit within 15 days of issueof LOI and/ or physical placement of Tank lorries at the location within 30 days of issue of workorder may render the tenderer liable for forfeiture of Earnest Money Deposit and termination ofcontract without prejudice to the rights of BPCL to recover the damages under Law.5. All terms & conditions stipulated in the Notice Inviting Tender, Guidelines for Tenderers, TenderTerms & Conditions, Declarations, Agreement and other documents furnished with the Tender andrelated correspondence shall form part of the contract.H. RESERVATION:(1) The provision of reservation will be 15% (fifteen percent) & 7 ½ % (seven and a half percent) forSchedule Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) respectively on all India basis.(2) The members of SC/ ST desirous of offering the tank-lorries will have to participate in the tendersfloated by BPCL.(3) The SC/ST members should fulfill all tender conditions, and will not be eligible for any pricepreference or relaxation of standards.(4) If adequate number of tank-lorries offered by SC/ ST tenderers are not available in any particularyear, the unfilled quota may be allotted to the unreserved categories in that year. However theunfilled quota may be carried forward to the next Tender also and offered to SC/ST candidates. Ifthe quota of the previous tender is not filled even in the next tender, the unfilled quota of theprevious tender may be de-reserved and allotted to general categories.(5) The SC/ ST tenderer/s desirous of operating under partnership firm, or Private Ltd. Co., or PublicLtd. Co. or a Cooperative Society, or any other, should have all the partners or members of private /Public / Cooperative firms belonging to the same category without exception, i.e. either SC or ST asthe case may be.(6) Caste certificate for each individual member of a Partnership/ Public/ Private/ Cooperative Firmshould be enclosed as proof along with the Technical bid.(7) In the event of any of the members failing to submit the caste certificate as proof of belonging toSC/ ST category, the tender will be treated as a general category tender.(8) The registered owner/s of the tank-lorries offered by the SC or ST tenderer/s must also belong tothe same category, either SC or ST, as the case may be. In other words, if the tenderer is issuedLOI/ Work Order under SC category, all the registered owners of the tank-lorries offered against theparticular LOI/ Work Order must also belong to SC.(9) If any of the tank-lorries offered do not belong to a member of the category concerned, i.e. SC orST, as the case may be the tender will be treated as under general category.8