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Bid document dated 25-08-2026.
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Chlor-Alkali Bulk Chemicals- CAUSTIC SODA FLAKES”
Damodar Valley Corporation · Jharkhand, West Bengal9786563
Written by TenderKart AI from the documents published when it was generated. Check the tender for later corrigenda before you bid.
25 Aug 2026
12 Sept 2026
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 calendar deadline or pre-bid meeting date is stated. Clarifications must be raised through GeM, and queries after the cut-off specified in the bidding documents will not be entertained.
12-09-2026 11:00:00.
12-09-2026 11:30:00.
90 days from the Bid End Date, per the explicit GeM bid field. The uploaded SBD separately says 180 days from bid opening; this unresolved conflict is reported under contradictions.
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 supplied tender documents. No tender/document fee is specified; the GeM bid disclaimer states that asking for a tender or bid-participation fee through buyer ATC is impermissible.
Not required; consequently no amount, form, validity or claim period applies.
The GeM bid field says ePBG is not required. The uploaded SBD nevertheless calls for 3% security, so bidders should obtain written clarification before pricing; the direct conflict is detailed under contradictions.
100% payment, including applicable taxes and duties, within ten (10) days of CRAC and online bill submission; part payment against part delivery applies. Bills are processed by the respective consignee station, through the DVC vendor bill-tracking portal.
Prices are firm and fixed, evaluated on total landed FOR-destination cost. Rates on GeM must include freight, packing/forwarding and GST; ex-works rate, GST, freight and packing/forwarding must also be shown separately in the breakup.
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.
Participation is limited to M/s Grasim Industries Limited, Gujarat Alkalies & Chemicals Limited, Andhra Sugars Limited, TGV SRAAC Ltd, Orient Paper Mills and Chemfab Alkalis Limited, or their authorised dealers. Dealer authorisation must be tender-specific; the listed manufacturer must guarantee quality, and any award to a dealer must be supplied only from that listed manufacturer with supporting documents throughout the contract.
Only Class-I and Class-II local suppliers may bid: minimum local content is 50% or more for Class-I, and 20% to less than 50% for Class-II. Below ₹10 crore, self-certification of local content is required; above ₹10 crore, certification by the specified auditor/accountant is required.
The supplied documents state no numerical experience, past-performance, turnover or net-worth threshold. MSE bidders receive complete relaxation from any GeM experience and turnover criteria, subject to meeting quality/technical specifications and uploading proof of the exemption; startup relaxation is not available.
Upload entity-registration evidence (company registration, partnership/proprietorship affidavit as applicable), GST, PAN, ESI and other applicable statutory documents. GST registration is specifically required for payment of admissible GST.
A bidder from a country sharing a land border with India—and a bidder with a specified technology-transfer arrangement with such an entity—is eligible only if registered with the Competent Authority; registration must be valid at bid submission and acceptance.
No consortium size or equity thresholds are stated. A bidder may not submit multiple bids individually or through a JV/consortium/associate or controlled entity. If a JV/JVC/associate/consortium bids, every stakeholder must sign the Integrity Pact. One agent cannot represent two manufacturers, and one manufacturer may authorise only one agent.
Disqualification applies for false or misleading qualification submissions, specified poor-performance records across DVC during the last five years, current DVC debarment, or a live ban/suspension by any DVC establishment, Ministry of Power, or Department of Expenditure as displayed on CPPP. False local-content declarations may lead to debarment up to two years.
Bidders must have no controlling/common-control, common-agent, information-access/influence, specification-consultancy or multiple-bid conflict. Non-compliance can reject the bid and trigger debarment treatment.
What is being procured: the work, supplies or services, deliverables and quantities, locations, phases, completion or delivery timelines, applicable standards, and notable exclusions.
Centralised procurement of 178 metric tonnes of caustic soda flakes for DVC power stations under a one-year (365-day) contract.
CTPS, Bokaro: 60 MT; KTPS, Koderma: 8 MT; MTPS, Bankura: 100 MT; RTPS, Purulia: 10 MT. Delivery is to the consignee addresses shown in the GeM bid.
Supply is staggered, as and when required, within 07 days of each consignee's email intimation throughout the 365-day contract. Material must arrive by road in the manufacturer's original, sealed 50 kg polythene-lined HDPE bags, with transit-safety measures.
Pure-grade caustic soda flakes must meet the Annexure III limits: NaOH min 99.50%; NaCl max 0.10%; Na2CO3 max 0.40%; Na2SO4 max 0.10%; SiO2 max 0.02%; Fe max 20 ppm; Cu max 2 ppm; Mn max 1 ppm; chlorates/perchlorates as NaClO3 max 10 ppm; water-insoluble matter max 0.05%. Material must be free from dirt or visible impurities.
Each consignment must carry MSDS, Manufacturer's Test Certificate and Guarantee Certificate. Joint sampling produces two sets: DVC tests one and retains one referee sample; non-conforming consignments are rejected, and disputed referee testing is at a DVC-accepted NABL laboratory at the supplier's expense.
Material is guaranteed for 02 (two) months from delivery/acceptance against qualitative deterioration; defective or non-conforming material must be replaced free of cost and risk to DVC. The tender-specific period overrides the generic one-year GeM warranty.
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 on the GeM portal using the bidder's GeM Seller ID and password. The procurement is single-stage, two-envelope/two-packet with separate Techno-Commercial and Price Bids, followed by reverse auction.
Merge supporting documents into four (04) PDF files, as applicable, and put the respective heading at the top of the first page of each PDF.
The bid must be signed by the authorised person/DSC holder with authority binding the bidder. The Integrity Pact must be signed at every page by the same authorised signatory, at the designated places, with bidder witness signature on the last page; all JV/consortium stakeholders must sign. Bid documents and correspondence must be in English, with English translations for other-language literature.
The final techno-commercially compliant L1 bidder must produce original/self-authenticated and Public-Notary-attested supporting documents for the original Letter of Bid, Power of Attorney, Bank Certificate with cancelled cheque, and the original ₹10 non-judicial-stamp-paper affidavit within 10 days of notification. No additional time is allowed. DVC may demand originals from any bidder at any stage.
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 GeM bid specifies 90 days from the bid end date, while the uploaded SBD requires 180 days from bid opening and rejects shorter validity. In the absence of a corrigendum, the explicit GeM bid-detail field is treated as the operative portal value, but bidders should seek written confirmation because the SBD is unequivocal.
The GeM bid says ePBG is not required, but the SBD requires 3% performance security. The GeM disclaimer says buyer ATCs contradicting the ePBG field are invalid, so the portal's ‘No’ should prevail unless DVC formally amends the bid. The SBD itself also conflicts on timing: 14 days for submission, but a separate default remedy refers to failure within 30 days; GeM GTC says 15 days.
GeM GTC gives a standard one-year warranty unless a specific Bid/RA says otherwise; the SBD specifically gives only 02 months against qualitative deterioration. The specific SBD period prevails under the GTC's own exception.
The specification PDF says ‘Specification of hydrochloric acid’ although the tender and the same page's analytical table are for caustic soda flakes. The tender title and caustic-soda characteristic table should prevail, but DVC should correct the heading.
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.
Please confirm whether the binding bid validity is 90 days from Bid End Date (GeM field) or 180 days from bid opening (SBD), and amend one document so a compliant validity can be offered.
Please confirm that no ePBG/performance security applies, or formally amend the GeM ePBG field and state the exact 3% instrument, submission deadline (14/15/30 days), validity and claim-expiry period. This materially affects financing and bid pricing.
Please confirm that bidding is strictly limited to the six source-standardised manufacturers and their tender-specifically authorised dealers, notwithstanding the GeM MSE experience/turnover relaxation language, and confirm whether an MSE outside that list is ineligible.
Please issue a clarification that the ‘hydrochloric acid’ wording is a typographical error and that the caustic-soda-flakes analytical table on the same page is the complete governing specification.
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.
Each staggered call-off must be delivered within 07 days of consignee email. Late delivery attracts LD at 0.5% of the delayed quantity's contract value per week or part, normally capped at 5% of total contract value and up to 10% for inordinate delay; delay beyond 25% of the completion period is ‘inordinate’.
Every consignment is subject to DVC-lab testing and can be rejected for non-conformity. Disputed referee testing is at a DVC-approved NABL lab at supplier cost. Rejected goods receive no payment and must be removed within 10 days or incur storage charges/disposal at supplier risk and cost.
Payment uses the lower of the bidder-end and consignee-end recorded weights, binding both parties. Bidders bear loss from transit shortage or scale variance.
DVC may increase or decrease bid quantity by up to 25% at contract placement and increase contracted quantity by another up to 25% during the contract. The order may be split between up to two bidders, normally at minimum 60:40 after L2 matches L1.
The contract price is firm and fixed except statutory variation. FOR-destination pricing includes freight and packing/forwarding, and the supplier must cover transit to each consignee under DVC's open insurance policy and bears inadequate-packing/transit-loss risk.
The SBD says no payment is due until performance security is accepted, while the GeM bid says ePBG is not required. If DVC enforces the SBD after award, this creates unpriced security cost and payment-block risk.
Failure to perform within the delivery period permits cancellation of the unsupplied portion, forfeiture of performance security and possible GeM debarment. The bid says no arbitration/mediation; the SBD routes unresolved disputes through IE/CCIE, shares CCIE costs equally and expressly denies arbitration after failed CCIE.
The inviting authority and relevant contacts: office, person, designation, address, phone and email — and which address receives physical submissions, if any.
General Manager–PG-III, C&M Department, 3rd Floor, Damodar Valley Corporation, DVC Towers, VIP Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700054, India. This is also the address stated for communication and the post-bid/original-document process.
Piyush Kr. Srivastava, Dy. Manager (M): [email protected], 8906782344. Alok Kumar, Sr. Manager (M): [email protected], 7908468019. Office: C&M Department, DVC Headquarters, DVC Towers, Kolkata.
Tarak Nath Konar, Sr. Manager (M), PPG: [email protected], 8250953634. Kumud Kumar Singh, DGM, PPG: [email protected], 7903886223. Office: PPG, DVC Headquarters, PIN 700054.
Shri Nilesh Kr. Shaw, Finance Department, 3rd Floor, DVC Towers, Kolkata-54, is the paying-authority contact for all stations.
HOD grievance email: [email protected]. Buyer email: [email protected].