Engagement of one contractual Radiographer through outsourcing on fixed remuneration at S. E. Railway Divisional Hospital, Kharagpur for a period of one year from the date of engagement.

The Bidders will be qualified only if they have minimum financial capabilities as below:T1 - Annual Turnover : The bidder should have an annual financial turnover not less than 1.5 times the advertised Bid value during last three previous financial years and in the current financial year up to the date of opening of the tender. The audited balance sheet reflecting financial turnover certified by chartered accountant with her stamp, signature and membership number shall be considered. T2 - Liquidity : The bidder should have access to or has available liquid assets, lines of credit and other financial means to meet cash flow that is valued at 5% of the estimated bid value net of applicant's commitments for other contracts. The audited balance sheet and / or banking reference certified by chartered accountant with her stamp, signature and membership number shall be submitted by the bidder along with bid.Banking reference should contain in clear terms the amount that bank will be in a position to lend for the work to the applicant / member of the Joint Venture / Consortium. In case the Net Current Assets (as seen from the Balance Sheets) are negative, only the banking reference will be considered. Otherwise the aggregate of Net Current Assets and submitted Banking reference will be considered for working out the Liquidity. The banking reference should be from a Scheduled Bank in India and it should not be more than 3 months old as on date of submission of bids.In case of JV firms overall liquidity of JV firm shall be assessed by arithmetic sum of liquidity of all members of JV. The bidder should upload required financial data as per the format attached under document section.

The balance sheet and all other financial documents attested / certified by CAs to substantiate fulfillment of Financial Eligibility Criteria should be with UDIN, failing which the offer is likely to be rejected without any further reference.

The bidder should have satisfactorily completed in the last three previous financial years and the current financial year up to the date of opening of the tender, one similar single service contract for a minimum of 35 % of advertised value of the bid. Definition of Similar service contract for this tender is as below :"Bidder should have provided paramedical staff (Lab Technicians / Nursing Staff / Pharmacist / Radiographer etc. ) to Hospitals / Health Care Centre / Medical units of Central Government or State Governments or ESIC or Municipal Corporation or Public Sector Units or Corporate Health Care Facilities having minimum bed strength of 100". Completed service contract includes on-going service contract subject to payment of bills amounting to at least 35 % of the advertised value of the bid. Work experience certificate from private individual shall not be accepted. Certificate from Public Listed Company / Private Company / Trusts having annual turnover of Rs. 500 crore and above subject to the same being issued from their Head Office by a person of the company duly enclosing his authorization by the Management for issuing such credentials. N .B : Copy of Work Order or Letter of Acceptance (LOA) or Contract or Agreement will not be treated as completed service / works completion certificate.

Definition of similar nature of service for this tender : "Bidder should have provided paramedical staff (Lab Technicians / Nursing Staff / Pharmacist / Radiographer etc. ) to Hospitals / Health Care Centre / Medical units of Central Government or State Governments or ESIC or Municipal Corporation or Public Sector Units or Corporate Health Care Facilities having minimum bed strength of 100".

Required education qualification & work experience of Radiographer to be engaged by the Service Provider :(A)Educational qualification : 10+2 in science with Two years Diploma or Three years B.Sc in Radiography. The degree or diploma must be acquired form a University/ Institution recognized by the Central Government or State Government.(B) Work experience :The candidate must have minimum one year working experience as a Radiographer at any Central Govt./ State Govt. / Public or Private Sector Hospital.

The service provider should have a registered office in the state of consignee i.e in West Bengal. Local office address will be considered on the basis of address mentioned in MSME or GST certificate or Trade License or any Government documents or any Government Body certification or notarized rent agreement and must be uploaded by the Tenderer along with the bid else the offer will be summarily rejected.

The tenderers shall submit an undertaking as per the attached format under document section stating that they are not liable to be disqualified and all their statement/ documents submitted along with the bid are true and factual. It shall be mandatorily incumbent upon the tenderer to identify, state and submit the supporting documents duly self attested by which he is qualifying the qualifying criteria mentioned in the tender document. Non submission of the undertaking or submission of undertaking either not properly filled in, or in a format other than the prescribed format shall lead to summary rejection of the offer.

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.

As per Clause- 55 of the General Conditions Of Contract, with all correction slips upto date, the contractors who are working in the Establishment through contract Labour should get themselves registered wherever applicable with the Assistant Labour Commissioner, Central concerned as required under Contract Labour, Regulation and Abolition Act,1970 and the Contract Labour, Regulation and Abolition, Act 1971 and obtain a licence from the Assistant Labour Commissioner, Central concerned and produce the same to the Railway before signing of the agreement failing which the contract awarded will be terminated on the grounds that they have not complied with the legal provisions of the said act and earnest money forfeited.

Clause 55-B to GCC : Provisions of Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 1952: The Contractor shall comply with the provisions of Para 30 and 36-B of the Employees Provident Fund Scheme, 1952; Para 3 & 4 of Employees Pension Scheme , 1995; and Para 7 and 8 of Employees Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme, 1976; as modified from time to time, wherever applicable and shall also indemnify the Railway from and against any claims under the aforesaid Act and the Rules.

EPF and ESI registration would be mandatory wherever applicable and documents towards EPF and ESI registration shall be submitted before execution of the agreement failing which contract will be terminated. The labours deployed by the contractor for the entire work should have individual Bank account in the their own name. The payment to the labour by the contractor should as far as possible be made through bank accounts of the individual labour as per the latest minimum wages issued from Chief labour commissioner (C).

Payment of Earnest Money deposit (EMD) and Tender Document Cost (TDC) in respect of e-tendering should be accepted through net banking, debit/credit cards etc. only. Manual/ offline mode of payment through Demand Draft, Banker's cheque, Cash Deposit receipts etc. shall not be available against Works Tenders.

Before submitting a tender, the tenderer will be deemed to have satisfied himself by actual inspection of the site and locality of the works, that all conditions liable to be encountered during the execution of the works are taken into account and that the rates he entered in the tender form are adequate and all inclusive to accord with the provisions in clause-37 of the General Conditions of Contract for the completion of work to the entire satisfaction of the engineer.

The Railway reserves the right of not to invite tenders for any of the railway work or works or to invite open or limited tenders and when tenders are called, to accept a tender in whole or in part or reject any tender or all tenders without assigning reasons for such action.

a) The Railway reserves the right to verify all statements, information and documents submitted by the bidder in his tender offer, and the bidder shall, when so required by the Railway, make available all such information, evidence and documents as may be necessary for such verification. Any such verification or lack of such verification by the railway shall not relieve the bidder of its obligations or liabilities hereunder nor it will affect any rights of the railway hereunder. b) In case of any wrong information submitted by the tenderer, the contract shall be terminated, Earnest Money Deposit (EMD), performance guarantee (PG) and security Deposit (SD) of contract forfeited and agency barred from doing business on entire Indian Railways for 05 (Five) years.

The tenderers shall keep the offer open for a minimum period as mentioned in NIT from the date of opening of the tender, within which period the tenderers can not withdraw their offer, subject to the period being extended further if required, by mutual agreement from time to time. Any intervention of the above condition will make the tenderer liable for forfeiture of his EMD/security deposit for due performance of the foregoing stipulation.

The tenderers whose tender is accepted shall be required to appear at the office of theChief Medical Superintendent, Kharagpur S.E.Railway in person (or if a Firm orCorporation a duly authorized representative) shall so appear and to execute the contractdocuments within seven days of the call issued by Engineer. Failure to do so shall constitute a breach of the agreement effected by the acceptance of the tender in which case the full value of the earnest money accompanying the tender shall stand forfeited by the Railway without prejudice to any other rights or remedies.

In the event of any tenderer whose tender is accepted shall refuses to execute the contract documents as herein before provided, the Railway may determine that such tenderer has abandoned the contract and there upon his tender and the acceptance thereof shall be treated as cancelled and the Railway shall be entitled to forfeit the full amount to earnest money and to recover the damages for such default.

If the tenderer(s) deliberately give/gives wrong information in his/their tender or create/creates circumstances for the acceptance of his/their tender, the Railway reserves the right to reject such tender at any stage.

If the date of opening happens to be a BANDH or Holiday or Natural calamities, the tender will be opened at the same time on the following working day.

The tenderer(s) must keep themselves updated through the website www.ireps.gov.in regarding corrigenda, if any, to the Notice Inviting Tender along with tender documents, which shall be uploaded in the same website and also published in the newspaper.

The tenderer shall submit along with the tender document, documents in support of his/their claim to fulfil the eligibility criteria as mentioned in the tender document. Each page of the copy of documents/ certificates in support of credentials, submitted by the tenderer, shall be self-attested/ digitally signed by the tenderer or authorized representative of the tendering firm. Self attestation shall include signature, stamp and date (on each page). Only those documents which are declared explicitly by the tenderer as "documents supporting the c laim o f qualifying t h e la id d o w n eligibility criteria", w ill be considered for evaluating his/their tender.

The Railway reserves the right to verify all statements, information and documents submitted by the bidder in his tender offer, and the bidder shall,when so required by the Railway, make available all such information,evidence and documents as may be necessary for such verification. Any such verification or lack of such verification, by the railway shall not relieve the bidder of its obligations or liabilities hereunder nor will it affect any rights of the railway there under.

In case of any wrong information submitted by tenderer, the contract shall be terminated, Earnest Money Deposit (EMD), Performance Guarantee (PG) and Security Deposit (SD) of contract forfeited and agency barred for doing business on entire Indian Railways for 5 (five) years.

Subsequent to the enactment of GST Act-2017, Railway board vide letter no. 2017/CE-I/CT/4/GST, Dated 23-06-2017 following changes in para (a) of clause 6 have been made to the Indian Railway Standard General Condition of Contract. The revised Para shall be read as under:-

6. Care in submission of tender:- (a)(i) Before submitting a tender, the tenderer will b e deemed t o have satisfied himself by actual inspection o f the site and locality of the works, that all conditions liable to be encountered during the execution of the works are taken into account and that the rates he enters in the tender forms are adequate and all inclusive t o accord with the provisions in Clause-37 o f the Standard General Conditions of Contract for the completion of works to the entire satisfaction of the Engineer.

ii) Tenderers will examine the various provisions of The Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017(CGST)/ Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017(IGST)/ Union Territory Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017(UTGST)/ respective state's State Goods and Services Tax Act (SGST) also, as notified by Central/State Govt & as amended from time t o time and applicable taxes before bidding. Tenderers will ensure that full benefit of Input Tax Credit (ITC) likely to be availed by them is duly considered while quoting rates.

(iii) The successful tenderer who is liable to be registered under CGST/IGST/ UTGST/SGST Act shall submit GSTIN along with other details required under CGST/IGST/ UTGST/ SGST Act to railway immediately after the award of contract, without which no payment shall be released to the contractor. The contractor shall be responsible for deposition of applicable GST to the concerned authority.

(iv) In case the successful tenderer is not liable to be registered under GST/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 authority.

Contractor is to abide by the provisions of Payment of Wages act & Minimum Wages act in terms of Indian Railways General Condition of Contract In order to ensure the same, an application has been developed and hosted on Website 'www.shramikkalyan.indianrailways.gov.in'. Contractor shall register his firm/company etc. and upload requisite details of labour and their payment in this portal. These details shall be available in public domain. The Registration/ updation of Portal shall be done as under:-

(a)Contractor shall apply for onetime registration of his company/firm etc. in the Shramikkalyan portal with requisite details subsequent to issue of Letter of Acceptance. Engineer shall approve the contractor's registration in the portal within 7 days of receipt of such request.

(b)Contractor once approved by any Engineer, can create password with login ID (PAN No.) for subsequent use of portal for all LoAs issued in his favour.

(c)The contractor once registered on the portal, shall provide details of his Letter of Acceptances (LoA) / Contract Agreements on shramikkalyan portal within 15 days of issue of any LoA for approval of concerned engineer. Engineer shall update (if required) and approve the details of LoA filled by contractor within 7 days of receipt of such request.

(d)After approval of LOA, contractor shall fill the salient details of contract labours engaged in the contract and ensure updating of each wage payment to them on shramikkalyan portal on monthly basis.

(e)It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to ensure correct and prompt uploading of all salient details of engaged contractual labour & payments made thereof after each wage period.

While processing payment of any 'On Account bill' or 'Final bill' or release of 'Advances' or 'Performance Guarantee / Security deposit', contractor shall submit a certificate to the Engineer or Engineer's representatives that "I have uploaded the correct details of contract labours engaged in connection with this contract and payments made to them during the wage period in Railway's Shramikkalyan portal at 'www.shramikkalyan.indianrailways.gov.in' till ____Month, ____Year

Before submitting a tender, the tenderer will be deemed to have satisfied him self by actual inspection of the site and locality of the works, that all conditions liable to be encountered during the execution of the works are taken into account and that the rates he entered in the tender form are adequate and all inclusive to accord with the provisions of the General Conditions of Contract(Services) 2018 for the completion of work to the entire satisfaction of the engineer.

This tender is governed by General Condition of Contract (Services)-2018 issued by Railway Board with latest amendment and Special condition of contract. The General Condition of Contract(Services)-2018 can be seen on Railway board directorate website www.indianrailways.gov.in.Considering that GCC is a voluminous document, important clauses of GCC (Services) are uploaded in Document Section of this tender. The special condition of contract is uploaded in Document Section of this tender. Wherever the terms of GCC contradicts the Special condition of Contract, in such case Special condition of contract will prevail. Tenderer must go through these conditions before quoting this tender.

The bidders will have to make payment towards tender document cost and earnest money through online payment modes only like net banking, debit/ credit cards etc. available on IREPS portal.

The rates to be quoted are inclusive of GST and all other charges and taxes levied by the state as well as Central Govt. from time to time

EPF and ESI registration would be mandatory wherever applicable and documents towards EPF and ESI registration shall be submitted before execution of the agreement failing which contract will be terminated. The labours deployed by the contractor for the entire work should have individual Bank account in the their own name. The payment to the labour by the contractor should as far as possible be made through bank accounts of the individual labour as per the latest minimum wages issued from Chief labour commissioner (C).

Performance Guarantee- The successful bidder shall have to submit a Performance Guarantee (PG) within 21(Twenty one) days from the date of issue of Letter of Acceptance (LOA). Extension of time for submission of PG beyond 21 (Twenty one) days and upto 60 days from the date of issue of LOA may be given by the Authority who is competent to sign the contract agreement. However, a penal interest of 12% per annum shall be charged for the delay beyond 21(Twenty one) days, i.e. from 22nd day after the date of issue of LOA. Further, if the 60th day happens to be a declared holiday in the concerned office of the Railway, submission of PG can be accepted on the next working day. In all other cases, if the Contractor fails to submit the requisite PG even after 60 days from the date of issue of LOA, the contract is liable to be terminated. In case contract is terminated railway shall be entitled to forfeit Earnest Money Deposit and other dues payable against that contract. In case a tenderer has not submitted Earnest Money Deposit on the strength of their registration as a Startup recognized by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) under Ministry of Commerce and Industry, DIPP shall be informed to this effect. The failed Contractor shall be debarred from participating in re-tender for that work.

The successful bidder shall submit the Performance Guarantee PG in favour of FA & CAO, S.E.Railway/Garden Reach Kolkata in any of the following forms, amounting to 5 percent of the contract value: i . A deposit of Cash i i . Irrevocable Bank Guarantee iii.Government Securities including State Loan Bonds at 5 percent below the market value iv. Deposit Receipts, Pay Orders, Demand Drafts and Guarantee Bonds. These forms of Performance Guarantee could be either of the State Bank of India or of any of the Nationalized Bank. v.Guarantee Bonds executed or Deposits Receipts tendered by all Scheduled Bank. vi.A Deposit in the Post Office Saving Bank. vii.A Deposit in the National Savings Certificates. viii. Twelve years National Defence Certificates. ix.Ten years Defence Deposits. x.National Defence Bonds and xi.Unit Trust Certificates at 5 percent below market value or at the face value whichever is less. Also, FDR in favour of FA & CAO free from any encumbrance may be accepted. NOTE: The instruments as listed above will also be acceptable for Guarantees in case of Mobilization Advance.

The Performance Guarantee shall be submitted by the successful bidder after the Letter Of Acceptance LOA has been issued, but before signing of the contract agreement. This P.G. shall be initially valid up to the stipulated date of completion plus 60 days beyond that. In case, the time for completion of work gets extended, the contractor shall get the validity of P.G. extended to cover such extended time for completion of work plus 60 days.

The value of PG to be submitted by the contractor will not change for variation upto 25 percent either increase or decrease . In case during the course of execution, value of the contract increases by more than 25 percent of the original contract value, an additional Performance Guarantee amounting to 5 percent for the excess value over the original contract value shall be deposited by the contractor.

The Performance Guarantee PG shall be released after physical completion of the work based on Completion Certificate issued by the competent authority stating that the contractor has completed the work in all respects satisfactorily. The Security Deposit shall, however, be released only after expiry of the maintenance period and after passing the final bill based on No Claim Certificate from the contractor.

Whenever the contract is rescinded, the Security Deposit shall be forfeited and the Performance Guarantee shall be en-cashed. The balance work shall be got done independently without risk cost of the failed contractor. The failed contractor shall be debarred from participating in the tender for executing the balance work. If the failed contractor is a JV or a Partnership firm, then every member/partner of such a firm shall be debarred from participating in the tender for the balance work in his/her individual capacity or as a partner of any other JV/partnership firm.

The tenderers shall keep the offer open for a minimum period as mentioned in NIT from the date of opening of the tender, within which period the tenderers can not withdraw their offer, subject to the period being extended further if required, by mutual agreement from time to time. Any intervention of the above condition will make the tenderer liable for forfeiture of his security deposit for due performance of the foregoing stipulation.

VARIATION IN QUANTITIES OF ITEMS OF CONTRACTS :- LIMITS and RATES- i. Railway reserves the right to vary the quantities of works in excess of or less than the agreemental quantity. 1.Individual NS items in contracts shall be operated with variation of plus or minus 25 percent and payment would be made as per the agreement rate. For this, no finance Concurrence would be required.

VARIATION IN QUANTITIES OF ITEMS OF CONTRACTS- LIMITS and RATES : 2. In case an increase in quantity of an individual item by more than 25 percent of the agreement quantity is considered unavoidable, the same shall be got executed by floating a fresh tender. If floating a fresh tender for operating that item is considered not practicable, quantity of that item may be operated in excess of 125 percent of the agreement quantity subject to the following conditions:- a. Operation of an item by more than 125 percent of the agreement quantity needs the approval of an officer of the rank not less than S.A. Grade i. Quantities operated in excess of 125 percent but upto 140 percent of the agreement quantity of the concerned item, shall be paid at 98 percent of the rate awarded for that item in that particular tender. ii. Quantities operated in excess of 140 percent but upto 150 percent of the agreement quantity of the concerned item shall be paid at 96 percent of the rate awarded for that item in that particular tender. iii. Variation in quantities of individual items beyond 150 percent will be prohibited and would be permitted only in exceptional unavoidable circumstances with the concurrence of associate finance and shall be paid at 96 percent of the rate awarded for that item in that particular tender. b. The variation in quantities as per the above formula will apply only to the Individual items of the contract and not on the overall contract value. c. Execution of quantities beyond 150 percent the overall agreemental value should not be permitted and, if found necessary, should be only through fresh tenders or by negotiating with existing contractor, with prior personal concurrence of FA and CAO or FA and CAO-C- and approval of General Manager.

VARIATION IN QUANTITIES OF ITEMS OF CONTRACTS : LIMITS and RATES - 3. In cases where decrease is involved during execution of contract:- a. The contract signing authority can decrease the items upto 25 percent individual item without finance concurrence. b. For decrease beyond 25 percent for individual items or 25 percent of contract agreement value, the approval of an officer not less than rank of S.A. Grade may be taken, after obtaining No Claim Certificate from the contractor and with finance concurrence, giving detailed reasons for each such decrease in the quantities. c. It should be certified that the work proposed to be reduced will not be required in the same work. 4. The limit for varying quantities for minor value items shall be100 percent as against 25 percent prescribed for other items . A minor value item for this purpose is defined as an item whose original agreement value is less than 1 percent of the total original agreement value. 5. No such quantity variation limit shall apply for foundation items. 6. As far as SOR items are concerned, the limit of 25 percent would apply to the value of SOR schedule as a whole and not on individual SOR items. However, in case of NS items, the limit of 25 percent would apply on the individual items irrespective of the manner of quoting the rate single percentage rate or individual item rate .

Other conditions : i) Medical Department of Kharagpur Division, South Eastern Railway invites open e-tender from eligible agencies for the work of "Outsourcing of one post of Radiographer on contract basis for a period of 12 months for Divisional Hospital, S. E. Railway, Kharagpur". ii) This is a vacant post in the sanctioned cadre and is usually filled by Railway through direct recruitment or by transfer from other units. Hence, if any such candidate is posted / joined against this vacancy, the contract will be terminated with immediate effect. iii) The scheme and validity of period of said engagement of contractual staff is governed by the Railway Board's policy. Hence, contract period shall be as per the guidelines issued from Railway Board from time to time. At present the scheme is valid till 15-10-2026 (Ref: Railway Board's L/No. E(NG)II/2005/RC- 4/SC/2 Pt.I dt. 30-06-2025). iv) Contractor will not have the right to terminate the service of any candidate who is finally deployed at Divl. Railway Hospital/KGP without the consent of Chief Medical Superintendent/Kharagpur or representative nominated by him except in extraordinary situations like police/court cases, etc. and such instances should be reported as soon as possible to Divl. Railway Hospital/Kharagpur administration with documentary proof.v) Copy of the appointment letter with all the terms and conditions agreed between the Contractor and Staff/Person proposed to be deployed by the Contractor should be submitted to the Office of Chief Medical Superintendent/Kharagpur for verification and confirmation by competent authority nominated by Chief Medical Superintendent/Kharagpur prior to joining duty by concerned staff.vi) Unless otherwise specified in special conditions, the contract shall be governed by Indian Railway Standard General Condition of Contract for Services - 2018 (GCC for Services - 2018) with latest amendments if any and special conditions of the contract given in the bid document. Where there is any conflict between the special conditions of the tender and General Conditions of Contract for Service - 2018, the former shall prevail.

1.The work should be commenced within 30 days from the date of issue of LOA/work order.2.The service provider should employ only sober personnel with clean habits to work. The staff engaged should not have any criminal back ground and Police verification certificate should be submitted. 3.The Railways in no case will be responsible for any legal matter, any State or Central Govt. laws arising out of in the matters of employment of staff by the service provider.4.The Railways will not be responsible for payment of any compensation to the staff engaged by the service provider in case of any accident or any other reason. 5.The service provider will be responsible for theft or loss of Railway property caused by the staff employed by him. Recovery will be made from service provider's bill for all losses incurred to the Railways.6.The staff engaged will be entitled for off day once in a week. However in case of emergency or exigency, the staff may be engaged for duty after scheduled working hours. No extra remuneration will be paid for this purpose.