EOI issue / publication date
EOI issued/published on 25.08.2026.
- EOI No. URC/645/24/2026-27; Date: 25.08.2026.
- No corrigendum is present in the tender folder; this date is unchanged.
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EOI for Empanelment of Manpower Agencies/Firms for Providing Technical Experts/Professional Manpower Services to RCUES, Lucknow
Regional Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies-Lucknow · Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh2026_RCUES_923603_1
Written by TenderKart AI from the documents published when it was generated. Check the tender for later corrigenda before you bid.
25 Aug 2026
24 Sept 2026
All important dates as they stand after corrigenda: publication, pre-bid/clarification deadline, bid submission deadline, bid opening, and bid validity period.
EOI issued/published on 25.08.2026.
Last date for receiving pre-bid queries: 01.09.2026 by 17:00 hrs.
Pre-Bid Conference on 03.09.2026 at 15:00 hrs, online through Zoom.
Bid Due Date and Time: 10.09.2026 by 17:00 hrs; online only on e-Procurement Portal.
Opening of Technical Bid: 14.09.2026 at 15:00 hrs (online through e-Procurement portal / Zoom, as applicable).
Date and time of Technical Presentation to be communicated by e-mail to technically eligible bidders.
Technical Bid validity: 180 days from the Bid Due Date and Time.
Tender value or estimated cost, EMD/bid security (amount, acceptable forms, validity), tender document fees, performance security, and key payment terms.
No estimated cost, tender value or project value is stated for this EOI/empanelment stage.
Non-refundable processing fee of Rs. 11,800/- payable to RCUES Lucknow Axis Bank account.
No Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) or bid security amount, form or validity is prescribed in the EOI or NIT.
No performance security is fixed at the EOI/empanelment stage; PS may apply later under individual Work Orders/Agreements.
RCUES fixes monthly honorarium; agency is paid only service charges plus applicable taxes, with TDS deducted; payment may be back-to-back with client receipts.
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 legally constituted entity (company/LLP/partnership/other eligible entity) registered/in existence for at least five years as on bid submission date.
Bidder must have a valid GSTN certificate.
Minimum average annual turnover of Rs.30 Crores for FY 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
Positive net worth certificate required for each of FY 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 (10 technical marks; CA Certificate).
Pass/fail experience on advisory/consulting professional-supply projects to Govt/ULB/PSU/autonomous/public sector clients in last 5 FYs, in any one of three value bands.
Pass/fail experience supplying professionals on advisory/consulting contracts to eligible public clients in last 3 FYs, in any one of three headcount bands.
Profit and Loss statement must show a profit-making firm for the preceding last 3 financial years before release of this EOI.
Bidder must not be blacklisted/debarred under any contract by any Government / any ULB / Corporation Company till the last date of bid submission.
JV/Consortium shall not be allowed.
Bidder must have Head Office/Branch Office in Lucknow, with documentary evidence.
Work orders/agreements/client certificates required to prove eligibility and experience; firm profile, key personnel and one-page past-works summary also required.
Minimum 75 marks out of 100 in technical evaluation required for empanelment.
What is being procured: the work, supplies or services, deliverables and quantities, locations, phases, completion or delivery timelines, applicable standards, and notable exclusions.
Empanelment of firms/agencies to provide technical experts/manpower services to RCUES, Lucknow as and when required — not award of a priced works contract at this stage.
Provide technical manpower across listed professional categories (and any other technical manpower as needed).
Deployment for RCUES Lucknow at different departments and cities of Uttar Pradesh.
Agency is fully liable for its staff, statutory compliance, licenses, no subcontracting (as drafted), and indemnifies RCUES for schedule failures attributable to it.
No fixed quantities, phases or overall completion period are set at EOI stage; deployment timelines arise under each Work Order/Agreement.
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.
Online-only Technical Bid via Government e-Procurement Portal https://eprocure.gov.in/eprocure/app; no Financial Bid at this stage.
Submit using valid DSC of the authorised signatory as required by the portal.
All Technical Bid documents to be signed and stamped by authorised signatory; paginated with signed Index; EOI pages signed/stamped with date as acceptance where required.
Submit authorisation letter or valid Power of Attorney for the person signing on behalf of the company/firm.
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.
Technical scoring awards marks for a single order of '10 professionals' or 'more than 11 and up to 25', leaving 'exactly 11 professionals' unstated.
Clause (d) appears to say the agency shall not perform the assignment by itself or through franchise/associates, then forbids subcontracting — likely a drafting error.
NIT calls it 'Bid Processing Fee' while EOI Data Sheet calls it 'EOI Processing Fee'; both are Rs. 11,800/- non-refundable — amount is aligned, label only differs.
Page 6 table is titled 'Revised Schedule' even though the workspace has no corrigendum/addendum documents and metadata lists zero corrigenda.
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.
Ask how Rs. 11,800 must be paid (portal vs NEFT to Axis Bank) and whether UTR/receipt must be uploaded, since bank details are given but proof is not listed as a mandatory document.
Request clarification of Past Experience A marks for a single order of exactly 11 professionals (gap between '10' and 'more than 11').
Ask the validity/tenure of empanelment and the method for allocating subsequent Work Orders among empanelled agencies (rotation, limited competition, rates, etc.).
Ask how service charges will be fixed/competed at Work Order stage and confirm whether all assignments use client-linked back-to-back payment.
Seek corrected wording of Terms and Conditions (d), which currently appears to prohibit the agency from performing the assignment itself.
Ask typical/PS amount, form and claim period for subsequent Work Orders, since EOI only says PS may apply 'if applicable' without stating percentage.
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.
Empanelment creates no right to work, minimum quantum or value; RCUES may modify/cancel EOI and reject bids without liability for bidder costs.
For Work Order delays solely attributable to the agency: LD at 0.1% of applicable annual Service Charges per day, capped at 10% of those annual Service Charges.
Where payment is linked to RCUES receiving client funds, agency payment clock starts only on RCUES receipt — extended receivables risk.
Agency bears all labour/statutory compliance and must indemnify RCUES for costs, claims, consequential loss and legal fees from deficiencies solely attributable to the agency.
Broad grounds to suspend/remove from panel or terminate WOs (false documents, corruption, insolvency, repeated failure, unqualified personnel, material breach, reputational harm, etc.).
Agency must replace personnel within RCUES-prescribed timelines; frequent/unjustified replacements can attract WO-level penalties within the overall LD ceiling.
Rs.30 Cr average turnover, multi-project experience, Lucknow office, no JV, profit for 3 years, and 20-mark presentation create bid/no-bid and scoring risk.
Rs. 11,800 non-refundable processing fee is required; no EMD stated; PS terms deferred to unknown future WO conditions.
The inviting authority and relevant contacts: office, person, designation, address, phone and email — and which address receives physical submissions, if any.
Regional Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies (RCUES), Lucknow — Adjacent Registrar's Office, University of Lucknow Campus, Lucknow-226007, Uttar Pradesh.
Tushar Gupta, Assistant Accounts Officer, RCUES Lucknow — email [email protected].
Online Zoom pre-bid on 03.09.2026 at 15:00 hrs — Meeting ID 84094510102, Password 123456.