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The tender invites e-tenders for the construction, repair, and upgradation of rural roads in Paschim Medinipur district, West Bengal. The tender is a two-cover system, with separate folders for technical and financial bids. Interested contractors must meet prequalification criteria, including prior work experience of a similar nature, and have registration in the e-procurement portal www. ***. *. * tender documents are available for download from **** 11:00 hrs to **** 14:00 hrs. The prequalification technical bids will be opened on **** at 15:00 hrs. The financial bids of technically qualified bidders will be opened after evaluation of the technical bids. The tender inviting authority reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, and to cancel the bidding process at any point prior to the issuance of the work order. Additional performance security may be required if the accepted bid value is more than or equal to 20% less than the estimated amount put to tender. The security deposit of successful bidders will be released after the defect liability period. Bidders must satisfy themselves about the alignment of the proposed road site and other site conditions by visiting the site before quoting their rates. The eligibility criteria, documents required, and important dates are detailed in the tender documents. The earnest money is 2% of the estimated cost of construction or **** lakhs, whichever is lower. All duties, GST, taxes, royalties, cess, including 1% cess under the W. B. Roadbuilding and other construction workers regulation of employment condition of service act, ****, toll, taxes, and other levies payable by the contractor under the contract to the state/central government for any other cause, shall be included in the rates, prices, and total bid price submitted by the bidder. The documents forming the contract are to be taken as mutually explanatory of one another. The priority of the documents shall be in accordance with the following sequence: form ****, notice to proceed with the works, letter of acceptance, notice inviting tender, special conditions of contract and general conditions of contract as per form ****, specifications, drawings, bill of quantities, and any other document listed in the contract data as forming part of the contract.
The bid submission end date is **** 14:00 hrs as per server clock.
The intending contractors must have completed at least one work of similar nature in a single contract as a prime contractor within last five years from the date of issue of this nit, value of which is not less than 40 of the amount put to tender or of two similar nature of work, each of minimum value of 30 of the estimated amount put to tender during last 5 year prior to issuance of this nit.
The intending bidders should satisfy himself about the alignment of the proposed road site and other site condition by visiting the site before quoting their rates.
The results of the technical evaluation shall be made public on eprocurement systems following which there will be a period of 48 hrs during which any bidder may submit complaint which shall be considered for resolution before opening the financial bid.
The estimated total value is 14,55,****.
