Publication / bid availability
03/09/2026. The document calls this both the Bid Start Date and Bid Document Download / Sale Start Date; no separate pre-bid meeting or clarification deadline is stated.
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REPAIRS AND WATER TIGHTENING OF ROOF OF MOTI MASJID AT AGRA FORT, AGRA SUPPLY OF MANPOWER
Archaeological Survey of India · Agra, Uttar Pradesh2026_ASI_924744_1
Written by TenderKart AI from the documents published when it was generated. Check the tender for later corrigenda before you bid.
3 Sept 2026
21 Sept 2026
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All important dates as they stand after corrigenda: publication, pre-bid/clarification deadline, bid submission deadline, bid opening, and bid validity period.
03/09/2026. The document calls this both the Bid Start Date and Bid Document Download / Sale Start Date; no separate pre-bid meeting or clarification deadline is stated.
21/09/2026 at 15:00.
Technical bid: 22/09/2026 at 15:30. Financial bid: after opening of the technical bid; no fixed financial-opening date/time is given.
120 days from the date of opening.
Tender value or estimated cost, EMD/bid security (amount, acceptable forms, validity), tender document fees, performance security, and key payment terms.
Rs. 48,29,507/- (Rs. Forty Eight Lakhs Twenty Nine Thousand Five Hundred Seven Only), stated as including GST as per rule.
Rs. 1,20,738/-. The most specific technical checklist requires FDR; an eligible exemption certificate may be uploaded instead. Original EMD must reach ASI by 21/09/2026 at 15:00. No EMD validity period or claim period is specified.
No tender document fee amount is specified in the supplied tender documents; the online instructions only refer to tender fee 'as applicable'.
10% of order/tendered amount, or the percentage under the existing rules, in an FDR of a nationalized bank hypothecated/in favour of the Superintending Archaeologist. It is required before award; the stated initial validity is one year and it must be renewed as needed.
Rates must include all taxes, including GST. The BOQ builds the daily rate from minimum wage/DA, PF at 13%, ESI at 3.25%, contractor service charge (not less than 0.01), and GST at 18%; revised minimum wages revise consequential statutory payments while service charge and consumables remain unchanged.
Manpower invoices are to be raised monthly by the 5th of the following month; ASI will endeavour to pay within 30 days after verification, subject to availability of funds. EPFO challan, ESIC challan and site-attested bank-transfer certificate must accompany the invoice. Payment is linked to satisfactory attendance/performance, and statutory deductions apply.
Every pass/fail eligibility and qualification requirement: experience and past performance, turnover/net worth, registrations and certifications, consortium/JV rules, and debarment or blacklisting conditions.
The bidder must be registered with CPWD, a State Government PWD, ASI, Railways or MES, or under the Companies Act, 2013 etc.
Valid GST, PAN, EPF, ESI and Labour Department registration are mandatory. The technical profile also asks for TAN details with supporting documents.
Income-tax returns are required for FY 2021-2022, 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 (AY 2022-2023, 2023-2024 and 2024-2025).
Average annual financial turnover during FY 2021-2022, 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 must be at least 30% of tender cost, i.e. Rs. 14,48,852/-, certified by a CA. Balance sheets are expressly not accepted for this requirement. No net-worth threshold is stated.
During the last 7 years ending the last day of the month before invitation, complete either 3 similar manpower works each at least Rs. 19,31,803/-, or 2 each at least Rs. 24,14,754/-, or 1 at least Rs. 38,63,606/-. Clients must be Government organizations, PSUs or autonomous bodies; work must relate to monuments/heritage sites.
The bidder must submit the tender acceptance, declare that it has visited the site, sign the integrity pact, and declare that it has not been blacklisted/debarred by any Government of India ministry/department or undertaking during the last 3 years as on tender opening.
A contractor may not bid where its near relative is posted in the responsible ASI office, and must disclose personnel who are near relatives of gazetted ASI/Ministry of Culture officers. The bidder must comply with the Make in India Order, 2017 (including amendment dated 16 September 2020) and GFR 2017 Rule 144(xi).
The tender does not state that consortium or JV bids are permitted or prescribe consortium qualifications. After award, transfer, assignment, pledge or subcontracting of contractual rights and liabilities is prohibited without ASI approval.
What is being procured: the work, supplies or services, deliverables and quantities, locations, phases, completion or delivery timelines, applicable standards, and notable exclusions.
Supply of manpower for repairs and water-tightening of the roof of Moti Masjid at Agra Fort, Agra.
BOQ quantities are 1,248 skilled labour units (Stone Cutter/Mason), 491 semi-skilled labour units (Bandhani), and 2,801 unskilled labour units (Beldar), with rates including EPF, ESI and GST. The tender does not explicitly define whether each 'Nos' unit is one person-day, although the BOQ calculates a per-person-per-day rate.
Time allowed is 210 days. The contractor must supply labour when required and as directed by the site-in-charge; the contract starts immediately upon acceptance of the work order in coordination with the site-in-charge.
Work must follow attached drawings and CPWD or ASI specifications. Skilled/semi-skilled workers must be qualified and experienced in conservation of archaeological sites/ancient monuments; deployed workers must be aged 18-60 and physically fit.
The contractor bears the cost of materials, tools and plant, water, electricity, access, worker facilities, transportation, food, medical needs, identity cards and safety measures. The archaeological site is non-smoking and non-plastic. ASI provides no medical reimbursement.
Quantities/items may increase or decrease with site requirements, and ASI may direct alterations, omissions, additions or substitutions. Additional manpower may be required at the agreed rates.
The complete checklist of documents to submit — mandatory vs conditional, with any prescribed formats, proformas or annexures — plus how to submit: portal and mode, envelope/cover structure, digital signature requirements, signing and attestation rules, and physical originals with their deadline.
Submit online only through the CPP Portal under a two-bid system: technical proposal and financial proposal separately. The financial bid must use the supplied BOQ file, with only permitted white cells completed and without changing the filename or other cells.
Use a valid CCA-recognized Class II or Class III DSC with signing-key usage. Digitally sign and upload each required document. Technical-bid uploads must be self-attested with seal and arranged in checklist sequence; Annexure III specifically calls for 300 dpi or above, despite generic 100 dpi guidance elsewhere.
No offline document is accepted except original EMD. Deliver/post/courier it to the Superintending Archaeologist's office by 21/09/2026 at 15:00; online instrument details and scan must match the physical original.
Tender forms must be legibly typed or handwritten in ink and signed by the tenderer. Alterations must be properly attested; an illiterate contractor's quoted rates/percentage must be witnessed. Prescribed letter-head forms require the authorized signatory and official seal.
Every corrigendum/addendum in order — what changed (original vs amended value), its impact, and the action for the bidder — ending with the values that finally apply.
The AI found nothing to report for this question.
Genuine conflicts within and across the documents (original vs corrigenda, clause vs annexure, tender document vs BOQ): both sides with citations, and which value prevails.
The tender gives inconsistent instrument options: the EMD section allows FDR or bank guarantee of a nationalized bank; the Hindi notice refers to bank demand draft/FDR; the technical checklist and offline-document note specify FDR. For bid compliance, use an FDR unless ASI confirms another form in writing.
Generic instructions recommend 100 dpi black-and-white scans, while Annexure-III requires the technical bid and relevant documents at 300 dpi or above. The specific Annexure-III requirement should prevail for technical uploads, subject to portal size limits.
The manpower-specific clauses require monthly invoicing and an endeavour to pay within 30 days, but the SCC provides milestone payment: at 60% progress release only 50% of work-order value/work done, then balance at 100%. These regimes cannot both cleanly govern routine monthly manpower billing. The manpower-specific monthly mechanism is more specific, but ASI should confirm which applies.
The tender permits immediate termination without reasons, 3 days' notice for breach, 10 days' notice during the contract, and one month's notice during the contract. Context partly distinguishes breach from convenience, but the 10-day, one-month and immediate convenience provisions conflict. No single clause states a hierarchy.
Performance security is described as a one-year FDR renewable as needed and elsewhere as releasable once the final bill is accepted; security deposit is retained through the 12-month defect period and until labour clearance. Because the tender uses performance security/security deposit imprecisely, bidders should price for the longest retention until ASI confirms whether these are separate securities.
Only critical, tender-specific pre-bid queries that could materially change bid/no-bid, pricing, eligibility or contractual risk. Skip generic or obvious questions the documents already answer clearly.
Will ASI accept a nationalized-bank BG or demand draft, or is FDR mandatory? Also specify the required EMD validity/claim period and confirm whether any security-deposit exemption applies.
For this manpower contract, do monthly verified invoices payable within 30 days apply, or the 60%/100% milestone schedule? Confirm documentary cut-off and whether fund non-availability can defer otherwise approved monthly bills indefinitely without interest.
Confirm that 1,248/491/2,801 'Nos' are person-days, and provide the expected trade-wise daily deployment/phasing across 210 days. This materially affects supervision, accommodation, statutory payroll and idle-time pricing.
State the exact currently applicable performance-security percentage instead of '10% or as per existing rules', and clarify whether performance guarantee and security deposit are one instrument or separate, with the final release date/conditions.
Identify the applicable notice period for termination for convenience and for breach, and whether verified wages/statutory dues and demobilization costs are payable if ASI terminates immediately or at 3/10/30 days.
Commercial, legal and execution risks a bidder should weigh: liquidated damages and penalties, unusual or one-sided clauses, tight timelines, and payment or security risks.
Delay compensation is up to 1% per month, computed per day, capped at 10% of accepted tender value (or sectional value). Milestone amounts may be withheld automatically without notice and without interest; compensation may be set off against sums under this or any other Government contract.
No advance is paid. The contractor must pay labour by the 7th regardless of ASI payment, while ASI's 30-day payment language is only an endeavour and subject to funds; fund withdrawal can cause interest-free delay. This creates potentially material payroll, PF/ESI and GST financing exposure.
Breach, false documents, prohibited malpractice, failure to start, or failure to furnish security can trigger EMD/performance-security forfeiture, termination and further damages. Security may remain tied up through final-bill acceptance, a 12-month defect period and labour clearance.
ASI claims overlapping rights to terminate without reason immediately or on 3, 10 or 30 days' notice, with no stated demobilization compensation. This is a material unrecovered-overhead and workforce-liability risk.
ASI may increase/decrease quantities and require additional manpower at the agreed wage rates. Minimum-wage/statutory components adjust, but contractor service charge and consumables stay unchanged, limiting recovery for inflation, inefficiency and fragmented deployment.
The bidder is deemed to know the site and cannot claim extra charges for misunderstanding. It must fund access, T&P, water/electricity, worker facilities, transport, food, medical and safety, and bears injury/loss and damage liabilities at a protected monument.
Time is of the essence. One clause requires extension application within 30 days of hindrance, while the SCC requires rescheduling/extension request within 14 days and a revised programme when progress falls more than 10% behind. Missing these steps risks compensation and forfeiture.
DG ASI appoints the arbitrator; arbitration is in Uttar Pradesh, while another clause specifies competent courts at Agra. Several ASI/Competent Authority decisions are stated as final, increasing dispute-control risk.
The inviting authority and relevant contacts: office, person, designation, address, phone and email — and which address receives physical submissions, if any.
The Superintending Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India, Agra Circle, Agra.
O/o The Superintending Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India, 22 Mall Road, Agra, Uttar Pradesh - 282001. This is the address for communication and delivery of original EMD.
Phone: 0562-2227261. Email: [email protected].
For portal submission issues: mobile +91 8826246593; telephone 0120-4200462 and 0120-4001002.