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Bid document dated 25-08-2026; no corrigendum is present in the tender document set.
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Calcined Lime
Steel Authority Of India Limited · Sundargarh, Odisha9801134
Written by TenderKart AI from the documents published when it was generated. Check the tender for later corrigenda before you bid.
25 Aug 2026
9 Sept 2026
₹20 L
All important dates as they stand after corrigenda: publication, pre-bid/clarification deadline, bid submission deadline, bid opening, and bid validity period.
Bid document dated 25-08-2026; no corrigendum is present in the tender document set.
07-09-2026 18:00:00. The GeM configuration can auto-extend the deadline once by 3 days if fewer than 4 bids are received, so bidders should monitor the portal.
07-09-2026 18:30:00.
60 days from the bid end date. The GTC permits further extension only with mutual consent.
Tender value or estimated cost, EMD/bid security (amount, acceptable forms, validity), tender document fees, performance security, and key payment terms.
No estimated tender value is stated in the documents. No tender/participation fee is requested; the GeM bid expressly treats buyer-added tender-fee clauses as impermissible.
INR 20,00,000 (Rs.20.0 Lakhs). Accepted through online transfer, demand draft, banker's cheque, bank guarantee, fixed deposit receipt, and surety bond; bank instruments must be from a scheduled commercial bank other than co-operative or Gramin banks. EMD is to favour GM(MM)/SAIL-Rourkela Steel Plant and remain valid for 4 months unless otherwise specified.
The buyer ATC requires 3% of basic contract value (excluding taxes, duties and freight), due within 21 days of the purchase order; accepted by online transfer, DD, banker's cheque, BG or FDR. A BG must remain valid until 3 months after delivery of the last consignment and be operable at Rourkela. Payment starts only after submission. This conflicts with the GeM bid summary saying ePBG is not required; obtain written clarification before bidding.
Quote an all-inclusive firm landed price covering taxes, duties, freight, handling and related charges. Buyer ATC provides 100% payment within 30 days from GARN or bill submission, whichever is later, subject to destination weighment and submission of the GST invoice; GeM's bid summary separately refers to CRAC and online bills, creating a trigger-document ambiguity.
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.
Bidder must be a manufacturer of Calcined Lime, Quicklime or Burnt lime with minimum annual installed capacity of 32,000 T. Evidence must be a valid self-attested, company-stamped manufacturing licence, current Pollution Control Board certificate supporting capacity, or another Government-authority production certificate.
In any one of FY 2021-22 through 2025-26, or the current FY through the last day of the month preceding invitation, bidder must have successfully supplied the specified lime product to an eligible Government/PSU/corporate/autonomous/JV customer through either 3 orders of at least 4,000 MT each, 2 orders of at least 6,000 MT each, or 1 order of at least 12,000 MT.
Submit self-attested purchase orders and a financial-year-wise consolidated supply statement certified by a Chartered Accountant, showing PO, customer, invoice/challan and quantity details and bearing ICAI UDIN. Non-compliance makes the offer liable to rejection.
Only Class-I and Class-II local suppliers may participate. Minimum local content is 50% for Class-I and 20% for Class-II. Every bidder must upload an auditor/cost-auditor-certified declaration of local-content percentage, manufacturer class and value-addition location, with UDIN.
There is no relaxation from the tender's experience or turnover criteria for MSEs or start-ups. MSE purchase preference is available only to validated MSE OEM/manufacturers with valid Udyam registration; traders/resellers are excluded from MSE preference and EMD exemption for goods.
Banned or suspended firms are ineligible during the applicable SAIL ban/suspension. Bidder must disclose code-of-integrity transgressions during the last three years and pending older cases. False documents, false declarations or a specific adverse capability/performance report can cause rejection, forfeiture, banning and legal action.
A bidder from a country sharing a land border with India, or any bidder with a specified ToT arrangement with such an entity, is eligible only if registered with the Competent Authority; registration must be valid at bid submission and acceptance. False declaration/non-compliance can lead to termination, debarment and legal action.
The documents do not give tender-specific JV qualification, member-count or equity rules. If a JV/consortium participates, every JV partner/consortium member must sign the Integrity Pact. Because the eligibility clause requires the 'Tenderer' itself to be a manufacturer with capacity and experience, bidder should clarify whether member credentials may be pooled.
What is being procured: the work, supplies or services, deliverables and quantities, locations, phases, completion or delivery timelines, applicable standards, and notable exclusions.
Supply 30,000 metric tonnes of Calcined Lime, size 30-60 mm, to the Office of GM I/c Stores & Inspection, Rourkela Steel Plant, Rourkela 769011. Scope is supply of goods only; order may be split between up to two bidders in a 70:30 ratio.
Calcined lime must have CaO 90% minimum, SiO2 1.5% maximum, LOI 6% maximum, reactivity 320 cc 4N HCl minimum, and size 30-60 mm. Size distribution requires at least 85% in range, maximum 10% below 30 mm and maximum 5% above 60 mm.
Start delivery within 20 days of purchase order and complete within 4 months from start and/or the buyer's post-order schedule. Supply by road in fully covered full truckloads, FOR RSP Stores, with seller arranging freight, handling, transit insurance and transport. The GeM consignee table separately states 120 delivery days, creating a material schedule conflict requiring clarification.
Seller must appoint and pay an approved TPA to sample and analyse chemical parameters, LOI, reactivity and size at loading point, certify loading/sealing, and provide the certificate. Buyer may conduct random destination sampling; RSP results determine penalty/payment for the selected consignment.
Buyer may change bid quantity by ±25% at award and increase contracted quantity by a further 25% during the contract at contracted rates. Supply is treated complete within ±5% of ordered quantity; no payment is due for quantity exceeding +5% of the back-up order quantity.
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.
Prepare and submit the offer on the GeM portal as a Two Packet Bid. Upload technical/eligibility documents in the techno-commercial packet and quote price only in the financial bid; any price indication in the technical bid causes rejection.
Print the buyer's techno-commercial document without alteration, fill blanks, sign and seal it, and upload the scan. Annexures I and II require the authorised signatory's signature and company seal. GeM Aadhaar e-sign is treated at par with a digital signature; no separate DSC class is specified.
Upload the scanned EMD instrument/transaction proof with the techno-commercial offer, then deliver the physical original/hard copy in a sealed EMD envelope within 5 working days of tender opening. Superscribe GeM bid number, EMD, submission/opening due dates, and bidder name/address. A BG must also be sent directly by the issuing bank to Dy. Manager (MM) Purchase by registered post with A/D.
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.
GeM bid summary says ePBG is not required, while buyer ATC mandates a 3% security deposit/performance security within 21 days. The bid disclaimer identifies ATC clauses contradicting ePBG details as impermissible, while GTC generally gives ATC precedence over GTC/STC. No corrigendum resolves this. Treat as unresolved and obtain written buyer/GeM clarification before pricing or relying on exemption.
GeM consignee table states 120 days, but ATC requires commencement within 20 days and completion within 4 months from start, potentially about 140 days after order, and also permits a later buyer schedule. The more tender-specific ATC generally supersedes GTC/STC, but it does not expressly amend the GeM delivery-days field; seek confirmation of the contractual last delivery date.
ATC price-evaluation clause says quoted price includes loading-unloading, but the delivery clause says RSP will arrange unloading. The specific delivery allocation should be applied operationally, yet bidders should exclude buyer-site unloading cost only after written confirmation because the all-inclusive wording points the other way.
Both sources provide 30 days, but GeM bid summary starts the clock after CRAC plus online bill submission, whereas ATC starts it after GARN or bill submission, whichever is later. ATC is more specific but does not explain how GARN maps to mandatory GeM CRAC; bidder should assume payment only after both acceptance records and bill completion until clarified.
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.
Confirm whether any security deposit/performance security is payable despite 'ePBG Required: No'. If yes, confirm 3% calculation base, 21-day deadline, allowed instrument, and validity/release terms; if no, confirm ATC Clause E.13 and Annexure-III are inapplicable.
Confirm whether final delivery is due 120 days after order, or within 4 months after a 20-day start window, and provide any monthly/phased schedule. This affects kiln capacity, transport planning, LD exposure and the right to treat one missed phase as breach of all remaining schedules.
State whether JV/consortium bids are permitted and, if so, whether manufacturer status, 32,000 T installed capacity and past-supply thresholds must be met by each member, the lead member or collectively, and provide member/equity/lead-liability rules.
Confirm that RSP bears buyer-site unloading notwithstanding the all-inclusive loading-unloading wording, and identify whether GARN, CRAC or both start the 30-day payment clock.
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.
CaO and SiO2 penalties apply independently and cumulatively. CaO below 80% or SiO2 above 3% attracts 50% of basic price for the affected lot/consignment; excess under/oversize receives no payment for the excess fraction. Buyer destination random analysis can determine these deductions.
Out-of-spec material beyond acceptable range is rejected but not returned for operational reasons; payment is restricted to 50% of basic price per trailer/consignment. This leaves the seller bearing a large deduction without recovering the material.
LD is 0.5% per week or part thereof, capped at 10% of contract value. After 15 days beyond a missed delivery period, buyer may risk-purchase/divert quantity; one missed phased schedule may be treated as breach of the entire contract, including quantities whose delivery dates have not expired.
Buyer can divert unsupplied quantity, recover the alternate-procurement price differential from pending/future bills across RSP/other SAIL plants, and proportionately forfeit/invoke security. These remedies are additional to other contractual action.
ATC blocks payment until the 3% security is submitted and imposes 0.2% of original security per completed day of delay, capped at 5% of that security. Separately, 30-day payment runs only after GARN/CRAC and complete online bills, while the trigger conflict can extend working-capital duration.
Buyer can reduce award quantity by 25%, expand it by 25% at award and again increase contracted quantity by up to 25% during contract at fixed rates. Buyer also pays nothing for supplied quantity above +5% of the back-up order quantity, so production and dispatch must be tightly controlled.
A specific adverse report on bidder capability/performance can cause rejection even after price-bid opening. SAIL may suspend, cancel, terminate, short-close or divert an order for consistently poor/unsatisfactory performance without compensating claimed loss or damage.
Withdrawal/modification during validity, failure to honour award or furnish security, or false/misrepresented documents can forfeit EMD; Annexure-II also accepts six-month suspension from future unit tenders if the bidder withdraws/modifies or fails to sign/furnish performance security.
The inviting authority and relevant contacts: office, person, designation, address, phone and email — and which address receives physical submissions, if any.
Materials Management Purchase, Rourkela Steel Plant, Steel Authority of India Limited, Rourkela-769011, Odisha. HOD grievance email: [email protected]; buyer email: [email protected]. No phone number is stated.
Deputy Manager (MM-Purchase), Fifth Floor, MM-Purchase, Room No. 521, Administration Building, Rourkela Steel Plant, Steel Authority of India Limited, Rourkela-769011, Odisha. This address receives the sealed EMD hard copy/original within 5 working days of tender opening.
Subodha Pattnaik, Office of GM I/c Stores & Inspection, Rourkela Steel Plant, Rourkela-769011. No consignee phone or email is printed.
Independent External Monitors: Ms Aradhana Johry ([email protected]), Sh. Arun Kumar Sharma ([email protected]), and Sh. Praveen Sinha ([email protected]). Integrity Pact Secretariat: [email protected], 16th Floor, SCOPE Minar, Laxmi Nagar District Centre, Delhi-110092.