At APDJ Division: Electrical TRD works in connection with 'Provision of LHS/RUB in lieu of manned LC Gate No. NN-126 (UP & DN) at KM 198/7-8 between GOGH- CROA under ADEN/East/APDJ'.

Tenderer should submit PAN & GST document

I/we the tenderer (s) am/are signing this document after carefully reading the contents.

I/We the tenderer(s) also accept all the conditions of the tender and have signed all the pages in confirmation thereof.

I/we hereby declare that I/we have downloaded the tender documents from Indian Railway website www.ireps.gov.in . I/we have verified the content of the document from the website and there is no addition, no deletion or no alteration to the content of the tender document. In case of any discrepancy noticed at any stage i.e. evaluation of tenders, execution of work or final payment of the contract, the master copy available with the railway Administration shall be final and binding upon me/us.

I/we declare and certify that I/we have not made any misleading or false representation in the forms, statements and attachments in proof of the qualification requirements.

I/We also understand that my/our offer will be evaluated based on the documents/credentials submitted along with the offer and same shall be binding upon me/us.

I/We declare that the information and documents submitted along with the tender by me/us are correct and I/we are fully responsible for the correctness of the information and documents, submitted by us.

I/we certify that I/we the tenderer(s) is/are not blacklisted or debarred by Railways or any other Ministry / Department of Govt. of India from participation in tender on the date of submission of bids, either in individual capacity or as a HUF/ member of the partnership firm/LLP/JV/Society/Trust.

I/we understand that if the contents of the certificate submitted by us are found to be forged/false at any time during process for evaluation of tenders, it shall lead to forfeiture of the Bid Security and may also lead to any other action provided in the contract including banning of business for a period of upto two year. Further, I/we and all my/our constituents understand that my/our offer shall be summarily rejected.

I/we also understand that if the contents of the certificate submitted by us are found to be false/forged at any time after the award of the contract, it will lead to termination of the contract, along with forfeiture of Bid Security/Security Deposit and Performance guarantee and may also lead to any other action provided in the contract including banning of business for a period of upto two year.

I/We have read the clause regarding restriction on procurement from a bidder of a country which shares a land border with India and certify that I am/We are not from such a country or, if from such a country, have been registered with the competent Authority. I/We hereby certify that I/we fulfil all the requirements in this regard and am/are eligible to be considered (evidence of valid registration by the competent authority is enclosed)

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.

Tenderers are advised to carefully study the tender document on www.ireps.gov.in portal and then participate.

Tender conditions shall be read in conjunction with the General Conditions of Contract of April/2022 with latest Advance correction Slips, which shall be subject to amendment, addition, or overriding by the Special Conditions of Contract and specifications, if any.

In the event any tenderer whose tender is accepted shall refuse to execute the contract agreement as herein before provided and or fail to commence the work within a reasonable time (to be determined by the Engineer) after notification of the acceptance of his tender the Railway may determine that such tender has abandoned the contract and there upon his tender and the acceptance thereof shall be null and void and the Railway shall be entitled to forfeit the Earnest Money as liquidated damages for such default without prejudice to any rights or remedies.

All instructions and conditions of the tender will be followed as per GCC April2022 with latest advance correction slip or any other instruction issued by Railway Board.

The contractor is required to submit details of the execution programme within 15 days of issue of the acceptance letter.

All documents being submitted by the Tenderer(s) along with their offer shall have to be self attested by the Tenderer.

Earnest Money : The tenderer shall be required to submit the Bid Security with the tender For the due performance with the stipulation to keep the offer open till such Date as specified in the tender, under the conditions of tender. The Bid Security shall be as under: For works estimated to cost up to Rs. 1 crore - 2% of the estimated cost of the work; For works estimated to cost more than Rs. 1 crore- Rs. 2 lakh plus ½% (half percent) of the excess of the estimated Cost of work beyond Rs. 1 crore subject to a maximum of Rs. 1 crore. Note: (i)The Bid Security shall be rounded off to the nearest 100. This Bid Security Shall be applicable for all modes of tendering.

The earnest Money and tender documents cost in respect of e- tendering Will be accepted through net banking or payment gateway only OR Bid Security may be submitted by the bidders in the Bank Guarantee as per Clause 3 of Bid Security of GCC April/2022.

The earnest Money deposited by the Contractor with his tender will Be retained by the Railways as part of Security for the due and faithful Fulfillment of the contract by the contractor. The balance to make up the security deposit, the rate of recovery should be @ 6 Percent of the bill amount till the full security Deposit of 5 Percent of the contract value is Recovered .

It may be noted that submission of complete and accurate information is The responsibility of the tenderer. The Tender Inviting Authority reserves the Right to verify, in any manner at its sole discretion, the accuracy of the Information furnished by the Tenderer and if it is revealed that the Tenderer had submitted incorrect information to derive undue benefits, his Tender may be summarily rejected on these grounds

Employment/Partnership etc. of Retired Railway Employees: (a) Should a tenderer i) be a retired Engineer of the gazetted rank or any other gazetted officer working before his retirement, whether in the executive or administrative capacity or whether holding a pensionable post or not, in the Engineering or any other department of any of the railways owned and administered by the President of India for the time being, OR ii) being partnership firm / joint venture (JV) / registered society / registered trust etc have as one of its partners/members a retired Engineer of the gazetted rank or any other gazetted officer working before his retirement, OR iii) being an incorporated company have any such retired Engineer of the gazetted rank or any other gazetted officer working before his retirement as one of its directors and in case where such Engineer or officer had not retired from government service at least 1 year prior to the date of submission of the tender THEN the tenderer will give full information as to the date of retirement of such Engineer or gazetted officer from the said service and as to whether permission for taking such contract, or if the Contractor be a partnership firm or an incorporated company, to become a partner or director as the case may be ,has been obtained by the tenderer or the Engineer or officer, as the case maybe from the President of India or any officer, duly authorized by him in this behalf, shall be clearly stated in writing at the time of submitting the tender. b)In case, upon successful award of contract, should a tenderer depute for execution of the works under or to deal matters related with this contract, any retired Engineer of gazette rank or retired gazetted officer working before his retirement in the Engineering or any other department of any of the railways owned and administered by the President of India for the time being, and now in his employment, then the tenderer will ensure that retired Engineer or retired gazetted officer had retired from government service at least 1 year prior to the date of his employment with tenderer and in case he had retired from service within a year then he possesses the requisite permission from the President of India or any officer, duly authorized by him in this behalf, to get associated with the tenderer.

Should a tenderer or contractor being an individual on the list of Approved Contractors, have a relative(s) or in the case of partnership firm or company of contractors one or more of his shareholder(s) or a relative or the shareholder(s) employed in Gazetted capacity in the any department of the N.F. Railway, the authority inviting tenders shall be informed of the fact at the time of submission of tender, failing which the tender may be disqualified/rejected or if such fact subsequently comes to light the contract may be rescinded in accordance with the provision in clause 62 of the General Conditions of Contract.

For those conditions for which standard formats have been given in The uploaded document titled-Formats for uploading of various formats. The information should only be submitted in these standard formats.

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 Banks.

Any Conditional offer will be summarily rejected.

All tenderers are expected to submit full credentials with their tender To establish their capacity to undertake and successfully complete the Tender work.

The Tenderers should ensure that the information given in this part of The tender clearly establishes his capacity to successfully execute the tender Work. It may be noted that the Tender Inviting Authority does not have any Obligation to seek clarification on the information furnished or the information furnished is incomplete/inadequate to establish the tenderer's capacity, the tender is likely to be rejected on these grounds. No plea made by the tenderer on this account by submitting additional information, etc. shall be entertained by the Tender Inviting Authority.

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 (Sixty) 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. In case the contractor fails to submit the requisite PG even after 60 days from the date of issue of LOA, the contract shall be terminated duly forfeiting EMD and other dues, if any payable against that contract. The failed contractor shall be debarred from participating in re tender for that work.

The successful bidder shall submit the Performance Guarantee (PG) in any Of the following forms, amounting to 5% of the contract value: (i) A deposit Of cash : (ii) Irrevocable Bank Guarantee: (iii) Government Securities Including State Loan Bonds at 5% 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 Other Nationalized Banks: (v) Guarantee Bonds executed or Deposits Receipts tendered by all Scheduled Banks: (vi) A Deposit in the Post Office Saving Bank: (vii) A Deposit in the National Savings Certificates: (viii) Twelve Years National Savings certificates: (ix) Ten years Defence Deposits: (x) National Defence Bonds and (xi) Unit Trust certificates at 5% below market value or at the face value whichever is less. Also FDR in favour of FA & CAO, N. F.Railway, Maligaon may be accepted.

The Performance Guarantee shall be submitted by the successful bidder After the letter of Acceptance (LOA) has been issued. This P.G. shall be Initially valid upto 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.

Whenever the contract is rescinded, the Security Deposit shall be forfeited And the Performance Guarantee shall be encashed. The balance work shall be got done independently without risk & cost of 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.

No post tender correspondence will be done with participant tenderer(s) For submission of document for the deficiencies noted during the scrutiny Of tender/offer. Offer of tenderer(s) will be strictly decided on the basis of The downloaded documents like credential, earnest money and tender cost etc. as found uploaded by the tenderer(s) with their respective offer. Hence tenderer shall not be asked to submit any additional document after opening of tender. In case of submission of incomplete document by tenderer, tender offer will be rejected and tender committee can move to next valid tenderer as per document submitted.

Compliance of EPF & MP Act 1952: (a) The contractor shall have Provident Fund Code No. (If applicable) and ensure compliance of EPF & MP Act- 1952. All the workers deployed by the contractor should be enrolled as members of Provident Fund and should be given a universal account number (Aadhaar linked). At the time of clearing bills the contractor will submit a certificate stating that all workers engaged by him/her directly or indirectly are registered under employees provident fund organization (EPFO) and due contribution has been credited in their account. (b) Payment to the workers employed by the contractor should be made through banks.

In terms of provisions of the contract labour (R&A) Act 1970 and minimum wages Act, 1948 contractor should pay minimum wages to the labourers/workers employed for the work through bank. The contractor must quote rate considering all breakup costs as applicable for payment to the labourers as per notification of chief labour commissioner(C), Govt. of India. The rate for labourers should not be less than unskilled category worker in any case

Tenderer should have to give details before execution of work, Name of The Engineer/ Diploma holder: - (i) One qualified Graduate Engineer when the Cost of the work to be executed is rupees two hundred (200) lakhs and above &(ii) One qualified Diploma Holder (Engineer) when the cost of the work to be executed is more than rupees twenty five (25) lakhs, but less than rupees Two hundred (200) lakhs .

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 thereunder

For the tenders due to open before roll out of GST- All the bidders/tenderers while quoting the rates should clearly indicate the rate of applicable duties and taxes included in the prices quoted by them. Any variation in tax structure/rate due to introduction of GST, shall be dealt with under Statutory Variation Clause.

For the tenders opening after roll out of GST- All the bidders/tenders should ensure that they are GST compliant and their quoted tax structure/rates are as per GST Law.

Eligibility criteria for works tender in respect of partnership firms:

in case the tenderer is a partnership firm s , the experience, solvency and turn over shall be in the name and style of the firm only.

If the tenderer is a partnership firm, all the partners shall be jointly and severally liable for successful completion of the work and no request for change on the certification of the firm shall be entertained.

During the currency of the contract, no partner of the firm shall be permitted to withdraw from partnership business and in such and event it shall be treated as breach of trust and abandonment of the contract.

Any Conditional offer will be summarily rejected.

Railway Board vide L/No. 2020/ACII/9/6/e dt.07/04/22 and 2025/F(X)-II/10/14 dated 17/10/2025 & 7/11/25 issuedinstruction on "Online BG Verification Through IPAS". This instruction should be followed.