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Bid dated/published 03-09-2026.
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TENSILE FABRIC STRUCTURE WITH CORE SYSTEM INCL INSTALLATION
Indian Army · Hyderabad, Telangana9776102
Written by TenderKart AI from the documents published when it was generated. Check the tender for later corrigenda before you bid.
3 Sept 2026
24 Sept 2026
₹1.9 L
All important dates as they stand after corrigenda: publication, pre-bid/clarification deadline, bid submission deadline, bid opening, and bid validity period.
Bid dated/published 03-09-2026.
The pre-bid/site visit is stated only as ‘P day + 04 Days’ at AOC Centre, Secunderabad; no clock time, definition of P day, or calendar clarification deadline is printed. Clarifications are available only during the portal’s start/end window.
24-09-2026 at 11:00:00.
25-09-2026 at 11:00:00.
180 days from the bid end date.
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 or tender document fee is stated in the supplied tender documents. The bid notes that any estimated value is only guidance for EMD and qualification and is not a quoting benchmark.
INR 189,630 in favour of Commandant, Secunderabad. It must remain valid 45 days beyond the 180-day bid validity. Acceptable forms are insurance surety bond, account-payee demand draft, fixed deposit receipt, banker’s cheque, commercial-bank guarantee/e-BG, online payment, and the bid also expressly accepts a surety bond.
3% of contract value; the bid specifies 26 months. Submit within 15 days of GeM award. GTC requires validity through all contractual and two-year warranty obligations plus 2 months, which aligns to 26 months, and payment does not become due until security is received and verified.
No advance. For this goods contract, 100% is payable within 10 days after CRAC and online bill submission; RFP describes payment through Government Treasury/Nationalized Banks by crossed cheque or e-payment where feasible.
Quote an all-inclusive landed/site price including GST, duties, transport, loading/unloading, installation and commissioning; evaluation is total-value-wise and includes all taxes/charges.
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.
Minimum average annual turnover is INR 31 lakh for the bidder and INR 31 lakh for the OEM over the last three years ending 31 March of the previous financial year. MSE and DPIIT Startup bidders receive complete bidder-turnover relaxation; OEM turnover is relaxed only where the bidder itself is the eligible MSE/DPIIT-registered OEM.
Apply the stricter uploaded RFP/ATC requirement pending Buyer clarification: bidder/OEM must have at least 3 years’ manufacture/supply experience for similar items/works to Army, Navy or Air Force, supported by POs and completion evidence for the last three financial years. The online bid separately says 1 year and Government/PSU experience; this conflict is recorded under contradictions.
Only Class-I and Class-II local suppliers may bid. Minimum local content is 50% and 20%, respectively; non-local suppliers are ineligible. The OEM local-content certificate is required to claim purchase preference.
RFP says the firm should have an operational shop/establishment in Telangana/Hyderabad/Secunderabad, submit valid local address proof, and be engaged in subject contracts within the Defence sector only. The same clause then calls local registration a preference, creating uncertainty over pass/fail status.
Bidder must be registered on GeM, hold a valid firm registration, furnish current bank-solvency evidence, current proprietor/partner police verification, and an affidavit that no criminal case, blacklisting or concerned-service court case is pending.
Technical qualification depends on satisfactory on-site demonstration/sample inspection at the bidder’s cost within the Committee’s demanded time. The GeM disclaimer makes this clause vulnerable unless supported by an approved published departmental procurement policy; see contradictions.
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 with Competent Authority registration valid at bid submission and acceptance. False declaration/non-compliance permits immediate termination and legal action.
What is being procured: the work, supplies or services, deliverables and quantities, locations, phases, completion or delivery timelines, applicable standards, and notable exclusions.
Composite supply, installation, fixing and commissioning at AOC Centre: (i) 5,600 sq ft tensile fabric structure with core system, (ii) one tessellation job, and (iii) replacement of 4,000 sq ft PVC-coated tensile fabric plus painting at 1 Trg Bn and 2 Trg Bn.
Size 100 ft × 28 ft × 2 sides. Deliver complete structural design/engineering and fabrication drawings, stability vetting, fabricated/bent MS hollow-section framework, corrosion-protective painting, 750 GSM PVDF membrane, HF-welded 30 mm leak-proof seams, ropes/clamps/fasteners, on-site tensioning and commissioning.
Provide a regular tessellation with no gaps or overlaps and correctly resolved vertex angles, using a single regular polygon shape such as squares, hexagons or equilateral triangles. Dimensions, material and exact pattern are not stated.
Remove existing fabric and existing paint from the iron frame; apply one red-oxide primer coat and two protective enamel coats; install 750 GSM PVDF membrane with 30 mm leak-proof HF welds, GI ropes as needed, aluminium clamping strips and weather-resistant screws/fasteners; complete fixing, tensioning and commissioning.
Deliver/install at HQ AOC Centre/Hyderabad within 90 days from the effective contract date. Seller bears safe delivery and transit-damage responsibility.
Two-year free comprehensive on-site warranty from acceptance after successful commissioning; attend malfunction complaints within 72 hours, replace defective parts free, provide suitable replacement if not attended in 72 hours, and extend warranty or face ePBG deduction if unresolved beyond 15 days.
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 documents and bids online on GeM as a Two Packet Bid; the financial offer is online only and no physical price bid is allowed. If online and downloaded bid contents differ, the online bid is final.
Upload the RFP ink-signed/stamped on every page. Partnership firms require every partner’s signature on each RFP and BoQ page unless a duly constituted attorney signs; attach the partnership agreement/POA as applicable. No DSC class is specified in the supplied documents.
EMD hard copy must reach the Buyer within 5 working days after bid opening. The acceptance form also says the L1 bidder will provide physical true copies of required documents, but gives no separate deadline. GeM’s bid disclaimer bars physical documents other than EMD/signed Integrity Pact as a pre-qualification condition.
At technical evaluation, provide the offered product sample on site, at own cost, within the Committee’s stipulated demand period. This is not a bid document and is disputed by the GeM disclaimer unless backed by approved published policy.
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.
Online bid requires 1 year of same/similar experience and permits bidder/OEM supplies to Central/State Government/PSU; uploaded RFP requires at least 3 years for similar work specifically to Army/Navy/Air Force. For bid safety, meet the stricter 3-year Defence requirement unless Buyer confirms otherwise.
Online bid says Arbitration Clause ‘No’, while RFP Part III mandates sole arbitration and page 13 prints a different arbitration format. RFP itself says the online bid is final if contents differ, so ‘No’ should prevail, but contractual dispute machinery remains materially uncertain.
Technical specification names Sattler Austria/Sioen Belgium membrane, but GeM’s bid disclaimer says mandating a specific brand/make/manufacturer makes the bid/contract null and void except PAC buying. This is not shown as PAC; therefore the brand restriction should not prevail and equivalent-compliance treatment needs written confirmation.
RFP makes on-site samples/demonstration decisive for technical qualification, while GeM’s disclaimer prohibits seeking or approving samples during bid evaluation unless an approved published controlling-department policy permits it. No such policy is supplied; absent that policy, the sample clause should not prevail.
Part II says award/L1 is based on combined value of all items, while Part V says bidders may quote one or more items. Online bid uses total-value-wise evaluation. The safer reading is to quote all three items as one basket, but Buyer should resolve whether partial-item bids are responsive.
The same RFP clause first says the firm should have an operational local establishment and submit local proof, then says preference will be given to locally registered vendors. It is unclear whether non-local firms fail eligibility or merely lose preference; treat it as mandatory pending clarification.
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 technical qualification use the online 1-year Government/PSU criterion or the RFP’s 3-year Army/Navy/Air Force-only criterion, and will non-Defence but technically similar installations count? Request an explicit amendment because this changes bidder eligibility.
Is an operational Telangana/Hyderabad/Secunderabad shop a mandatory pass/fail condition or only a preference? Also define acceptable local address proof and explain ‘subject contracts within the Defence sector only.’
Confirm whether equivalent 750 GSM PVDF membranes and equivalent validated HF-welding equipment are acceptable instead of the named Sattler/Sioen and ‘20KW Australian’ descriptions, and state measurable acceptance tests/certificates.
Identify the approved published MoD/Army policy authorizing sample approval during evaluation, and issue the sample size, location, notice period, return/disposal terms and objective pass/fail tests. Without this, the decisive sample condition conflicts with the bid disclaimer.
Provide drawings, area/dimensions, substrate/interface, material/finish, selected polygon/pattern, structural loads and acceptance criteria for the one tessellation job; confirm foundations/civil works, electrical work, access/scaffolding and disposal of removed fabric/paint within bidder scope.
Confirm whether arbitration is excluded as the online bid states or governed by RFP pages 10/13, and provide the omitted Part IV Special Conditions referenced by the PBG form. These terms affect dispute risk and security obligations.
Confirm whether bids must cover all three items or may cover selected items, and how the ±50% option can be exercised across sq-ft items versus the single tessellation job. This materially affects pricing and capacity planning.
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.
All installation/integration is due within 90 days. Delay attracts 0.5% of delayed/undelivered value per week or part, capped at 10%; Buyer may withhold payment and terminate if non-force-majeure delay exceeds four weeks after the scheduled delivery date.
Buyer can increase or decrease award quantity by up to 50%, and later increase contracted quantity by up to 50% at contract rates. This creates procurement, manpower and material-price exposure; additional time follows a formula with a 30-day minimum in many cases.
No advance; 100% payment follows acceptance/CRAC. Payment is not due until 3% performance security is received and verified, and LD exceeding bills must be paid within 30 days or recovered by BG encashment.
Two-year onsite warranty demands response within 72 hours and suitable replacement if not attended; unresolved issues beyond 15 days extend warranty or permit deduction from ePBG. Price local support and spares accordingly.
Tessellation is only one ‘job’ with no area, drawing, substrate or final pattern, while replacement specifications omit site quantities by building, access conditions, civil/foundation interfaces and waste disposal. A lump-sum/total-value evaluation transfers substantial quantity and constructability risk to bidders.
Buyer may change/vary or withdraw the RFP at any stage without financial commitment, reject any bid without assigning cause, and requires 180-day validity. Withdrawal during validity triggers one-year suspension for this contract.
Seller cannot assign or sublet any part of the contract, limiting use of specialist membrane/fabrication or installation subcontractors unless the Buyer clarifies otherwise.
RFP says it has five parts but supplied pages jump from Part III to Part V; the PBG form references missing Part IV. Arbitration, experience, brands, sample evaluation, partial bidding and local-office status conflict elsewhere, creating rejection and post-award interpretation risk.
The inviting authority and relevant contacts: office, person, designation, address, phone and email — and which address receives physical submissions, if any.
Commandant, AOC Centre / Procurement Committee, Headquarters AOC Centre, PIN 900453, c/o 56 APO. Bids and queries are addressed to Comdt, AOC Centre; the consignee is Commandant, AOC Centre at the same postal address.
GSO1, HQ AOC Centre Personnel; email [email protected]. No phone number is printed.
HOD grievance email: [email protected]; Buyer email: [email protected].
Hard-copy EMD is to be submitted directly to the Buyer; the identified Buyer/beneficiary is Commandant, Secunderabad / HQ AOC Centre, PIN 900453, c/o 56 APO.