SEALANT PUTTY FOR BONDING METAL SURFACES TO SPECN. ICF/MD/SPECN-114, ISSUE STATUS-01,REV-02

Special Eligibility Criteria

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   Preferably manufacturers should participate. Participating traders/agents must provide tender specific authorization letter issued by the OEM or OEM authorized stockiest along with their offer. Authorization letter must be tender specific. Tender specific Authorization issued by OEM Indian office is also acceptable. Bidders must submit tender specific authorization letter along with their offer failing which the offer is liable to be ignored.

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   For placement of bulk quantity order, Minimum 80% of Net Procurement Quantity shall be placed on the tenderer having relevant past performance of at least one single purchase order of any Zonal Railway/PUs/Core for the tendered item/Similar item for a minimum of 20 percent of the tendered quantity during previous 3 years. This period of 3 years shall be counted with respect to date of tender closing. Firms should submit documentary evidence certifying proof of execution of PO, such as scanned copies of Purchase Order along with copy of I/C s and R/Notes with the offer in terms of Clause 3.4 of the Section II of 'CENTRAL RAILWAY BID DOCUMENT (Updated) JANUARY 2024'. [Copy is attached].

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   Railway reserves the right to place order for up to 20 percent of Net Procurement Quantity as developmental order in deserving cases. Firms who are otherwise not eligible for regular bulk order(s) due to their not meeting with the eligibility conditions mentioned in Para mentioned above can be considered for developmental orders provided they are able to demonstrate their Capacity-cum-Capability to manufacture the tendered item as per clause 3.5 of Central Railway IMPORTANT TERMS and CONDITIONS OF TENDER (Updated) JANUARY 2024

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   In keeping with the Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, latest revision, it has been found that there exists sufficient local capacity and competition in supply of the tendered item of required quality and therefore public procurement of the item is restricted to Class I Local Suppliers only and the vendors who do not qualify to be "Class I Local Suppliers" should not quote in the tender as their offers shall not be considered eligible for any ordering. In case any vendor who does not qualify to be a "Class I Local Supplier" for the tendered item participates in the tender, it does so at its own risk and cost and Railways shall not be liable for any loss or damage caused to the vendor.

Check List

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   This is an e-tender. Manual Offers/Bids for this tender will not be accepted under any circumstances, only electronic Offers/Bids shall be accepted
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   Have you furnished the statement of deviations, if any?
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   Have you mentioned MAKE / BRAND of OEM ?
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   Have you indicated the HSN code of your offered product?
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   Have you kept your offer validity as per "Condition for Responsiveness of Offer"?
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   Have you indicated the percentage of Local Content in the relevant column?
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   Have you attached relevant document for MSE if you claimed benefits and preferential treatment as MSE firm?
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   Have you carefully reviewed the contents of the Undertaking/Declaration regarding non-participation of sister concerns or affiliates in this tender as submission of false information/declaration could lead to rejection of the bid.

Commercial-Compliance

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   Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) shall be as per Clause 23.0 of Section II of CENTRAL RAILWAY BID DOCUMENT (Updated) JANUARY 2024. EMD is compulsory and offers without EMD, except those exempted, will be summarily rejected. Vendors (other than those appearing on Vendor Panels of Approving Agencies) seeking exemption from EMD, shall have to attach scanned copy of requisite document alongwith offer in support of their claim for exemption, failing which their offer will not be considered eligible for exemption from EMD. An Authorised Agent quoting on behalf of a manufacturer shall not be exempted from remitting EMD owing to any of the exemption claimed. Bidders claiming exemption shall understand and declare as follows:- I/We certify that, my/ our offer is eligible for exemption from submission of bid security/ Earnest Money Deposit, in terms of the tender conditions. In case my/our claim to exemption from submission of bid security/Earnest Money Deposit is not found valid as per terms of the tender, I/we understand and accept that Railways has unquestionable right to summarily reject my bid and my offer shall not be considered for ordering. Further, I/we hereby understand and accept that if I/we withdraw or modify my/our bids during the period of validity, or if I/we are awarded the contract and on being called upon to submit the performance security/Security Deposit, fail to submit the performance security/Security Deposit before the deadline defined in the request for bid document/Notice Inviting Tender, I/we shall be debarred from exemption of submitting Bid Security/Earnest Money Deposit and performance security/Security Deposit for a period of 6 (six) months,from the date I/we are declared suspended disqualified from exemption from submission of EMD/SD, for all tenders for procurement of goods issued by any unit of Indian Railways published during this period .

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   Bidders must agree to furnish SECURITY DEPOSIT as applicable @5% as per Clause 24.0 of Section II of CENTRAL RAILWAY BID DOCUMENT (Updated) JANUARY 2024. Bidders (except approved vendors for tendered item/items) claiming exemption from paying SD must upload requisite document towards such claim, alongwith the offer. Offers from firms denying to pay Security Deposit will besummarily rejected.

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   Goods & Services Tax (GST): As per Clause 9.0 and all sub-clauses of CENTRAL RAILWAY BID DOCUMENT (Updated) JANUARY 2024. All tenderers to quote correct HSN code and corresponding GST rate for the item/items quoted. Misclassification in HSN code, if quoted by any bidder, shall be dealt as per Clause 9.0(iv) of Section II of CENTRAL RAILWAY BID DOCUMENT (Updated) JANUARY 2024.

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   In case the successful tenderer is not liable to be registered under CGST/IGST/UTGST/SGST Act, the Railway shall deduct the applicable GST from his/their bills under Reverse Charge Mechanism [RCM] and deposit the same to the concerned tax authority

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   Bidders shall also give Declaration as below:- "I/We agree to pass on such additional input tax credit as may become available in future under GST scheme, in respect of all the inputs used in the manufacturing and/or supply of final goods/services on the date of supply by way of reduction in price and advise the purchaser accordingly".

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   The Bidder agrees to supply the tendered stores at the rates quoted by him in accordance with the Standard Governing Conditions of this tender.

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   The bidder confirms that Rates and other financial terms quoted in relevant columns of financial bid will only be ruling terms for acceptance, and such terms quoted anywhere else should be ignored. [Denial of this condition is not recommended].

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   Participation by Manufacturers is preferred. Agents/Dealers participating in tender on behalf of manufacturers must provide tender specific authorization (TSA) letter issued by the OEM. Bidders must upload above authorization letter with their offer failing which their offer will not be considered as an offer from that manufacturer and that make and shall be dealt accordingly. i) In a tender, either the authorized agent/dealer on behalf of the Principal/OEM or the Principal/OEM itself can bid, but both cannot bid simultaneously for the same item in the same tender and such bids will be summarily rejected. Further, against a particular tender, one Principal/OEM should not issue Tender Specific Authorization to more than one agent/dealer. Such offers with different terms against a particular product, if treated as ambiguous offers, the bidder(s) or their Principal/OEM will have no right to lodge any claim. ii) If an authorized agent/dealer submits bid on behalf of the Principal/OEM, the same agent/dealer shall not submit a bid on behalf of another Principal/OEM in same tender for the same item/product and such bids will be summarily rejected.

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   Bidders to submit details of location(s) where local value addition is made. In case no details are furnished, it will be presumed that works address(es) of manufacturing in India are the location(s) of local value addition.

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    All bidders shall confirm declaration as below in terms of Clause 5.15 of Section II of CENTRAL RAILWAY BID DOCUMENT (Updated) JANUARY 2024 in compliance of restrictions under Rule 144(xi) of GFR- 2017:- a) I have read the clause regarding restrictions on procurement from a bidder of country which shares a land border with India. b) I certify that this bidder is not from such a country or, if from such a country, has-been registered with the competent authority. c) I hereby certify that this bidder fulfils all requirements in this regard and is eligible to be considered. (Where applicable, evidence of valid registration by the competent authority is attached). If the bidder fails to give such declaration, as above, then it will be presumed that the contents of above declaration have been read and unconditionally agreed and accepted by the tenderer. If any tenderer is not agreeable to this declaration they have to categorically mention about the disagreement in Techno- Commercial Deviation.

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    Vendors claiming to avail benefits and preferential treatment extended to Micro and Small Enterprises [MSEs] must necessarily upload Udyam Registration Certificate with their offer in terms of Clause 4.0 of Section II of IMPORTANT TERMS and CONDITIONS OF TENDER (Updated) JANUARY 2024. The vendors/bidders who fail to submit UDYAM registration certificate number shall not be able to avail the benefits available to MSE

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    In case of an upward change in terms of investment in plant and machinery or equipment or turnover or both, and consequent reclassification, an enterprise shall continue to avail of all nontax benefits of the category (micro or small or medium) it was in before the reclassification , for a period of three years from the date of such upward change. The firm must submit relevant documents indicating date of such upward change to claim benefit under the clause

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    Please enter the percentage of local content in the material being offered. Please enter 0 for fully imported items, and 100 for fully indigenous items. The definition and calculation of local content shall be in accordance with the Make in India policy as incorporated I the tender conditions

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    Note to Bidders: Bidders are advised to carefully review the contents of the Undertaking/declaration prior to signing, as the submission of false information could lead to rejection of the bid.

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    Please enter the percentage of local content in the material being offered. Please enter 0 for fully imported items, and 100 for fully indigenous items. The definition and calculation of local content shall be in accordance with the Make in India policy as incorporated in the tender conditions.

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   Validity of offer: Validity of offer should be strictly for 120 days as stipulated in the tender document, Offers quoted with lesser validity shall be treated as commercially unresponsive and shall be summarily rejected.