At- Katihar Division:- Installation of smart pre-paid/pre-payment, single phase/Three phase energy meter with facility of cashless payment / online payment over Katihar Division.

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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.

The tenderer is advised to study the tender document in www.ireps.gov.in portal carefully.

These Conditions of tender shall be read in conjunction with General Condition of Contract /2022 subject to modification, additions or supersession's by Special Condition of Contract and Specification if any.

General Condition of Contract and Specification for material and works of the N.F. Railway can be seen at the office of DRM(Electrical) KIR N.F.Railway.

Tenderer whose tender is accepted shall be required to appear at the office of DRM(Electrical) KIR N.F.Railway in person or if a firm or corporation a duly authorized representative shall so appear and execute an agreement in the form for carrying out the works according to the General and Special Condition of Contract and Specification 2022 for the work within seven days after notice to him that the contract documents are ready. Failure to do so shall constitute a breach of the agreement effected by the acceptance of the tender in which case of earnest money accompanying the tender shall stand forfeited without prejudice to any rights or remedies.

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.

JOINT VENTURE will only be permitted in the tender value of Rs.10 (Ten) crore and above.

Contractor has also to submit execution programme within 15 days of issue of Acceptance letter or at the time of signing CA whichever is earlier.

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

The earnest Money and tender documents cost in respect of e- tendering will be accepted through net banking on payment gate way. The Bid Security shall be deposited either in cash through e payment gateway or submitted as Bank Guarantee bond from a scheduled commercial bank of India or as mentioned in tender documents. The Bank Guarantee bond shall be as per Annexure-VIA and shall be valid for a period of 90days beyond the bid validity period.

Fixed Deposit Receipt (FDR) will not be accepted as EMD for tender invited on IREPS (e-tender portal). (Authority Railway Boards Letter No. 2014/CE- 1/WP/5 of 01.09.16

The earnest Money deposited by the Contractor with his tender will beretained by the Railways as part of Security for the due and faithful fulfillmentof the contract by the contractor. The balance to make up the securitydeposit, the rate of recovery should be @ 10 Percent of the bill amount till thefull security Deposit of 5 Percent of the contract value is recovered.

Every tenderer shall state in the tender his postal address fully and clearly. Any communication sent in time to the tenderer by post at the said address shall be deemed to have reached the tender duly and in time. Important documents shall be sent by Registered post.

The tenderer shall deposit their earnest money 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 condition of Tender The earnest money shall be 2 Percent of the Tender face value in the name of FA and CAO/N. F. Railway/MLG as indicated in the Tender notice. The earnest Money shall be rounded to the nearest Rs.100/-

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

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 (five 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 release only after expiry of the maintenance period and after passing the final bill based on No Claim Certificate? from the contractor.

Eligibility criteria for works tender in respect of 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 may be 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.

c ) Should a tenderer or Contractor being an individual, have member(s) of his family or in the case of partnership firm/ company / joint venture (JV) / registered society / registered trust etc. one or more of his partner(s)/shareholder(s) or member(s) of the family of partner(s)/shareholder(s) having share of more than 1%in the tendering entity employed in gazetted capacity in the Engineering or any other department of the railway, then the tenderer at the time of submission of tender, will inform the authority inviting tenders the details of such persons.

Note: -If information as required as per 17.1, 17.2, 17.3 above has not been furnished, contract is liable to be dealt in accordance with provision of clause 62 of the Standard General Condition of contract.

In these Conditions of tender the terms shall have the meaning assigned to them in the N.F.Railway Electrical Department. General Condition of Contract/2022 as amended from time to time hereinafter referred to as the General Condition of the Contract except where the context otherwise requires.

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

Rates are inclusive of all taxes/octroi, license fee, royalty charges etc. legally leviable by State, Central Govt. and/or any other local authority.

In addition to General condition of contract 2022 and Indian Railways Unified standard specification Works Materials Volume I II 2010, revised upto date, special condition attached shall also apply.

Sales tax/Business tax will be recovered as per extant instruction on the subject.

Earnest Money and Tender Document Cost: -All the tenderers / Contractors have to deposit full earnest money and tender document cost as stipulated in the tender document through net banking or payment get way. Note: The Bid Security shall be deposited either in cash through e payment gateway or submitted as Bank Guarantee bond from a scheduled commercial bank of India or as mentioned in tender documents. The Bank Guarantee bond shall be as per Annexure-VIA and shall be valid for a period of 90days beyond the bid validity period. In case, submission of Bid Security in the form of Bank Guarantee, following shall be ensured: (i) A scanned copy of the Bank Guarantee shall be uploaded on e-Procurement Portal (IREPS) while applying to the tender. (ii) The original Bank Guarantee should be delivered in person to the official nominated as indicated in the tender document within 5 working days of deadline of submission of bids. (iii) Non submission of scanned copy of Bank Guarantee with the bid on e-tendering portal (IREPS) and/or non submission of original Bank Guarantee within the specified period shall lead to summary rejection of bid. (iv) The Tender Security shall remain valid for a period of 90 days beyond the validity period for the Tender. (v) The details of the BG, physically submitted should match with the details available in the scanned copy and the data entered during bid submission time, failing which the bid will be rejected (vi) The Bank Guarantee shall be placed in an envelope, which shall be sealed. The envelope shall clearly bear the identification "Bid for the ***** Project" and shall clearly indicate the name and address of the Bidder. In addition, the Bid Due Date should be indicated on the right hand top corner of the envelope. (vii) The envelope shall be addressed to the officer and address as mentioned in the tender document. (viii) If the envelope is not sealed and marked as instructed above, the Authority assumes no responsibility for the misplacement or premature opening of the contents of the Bid submitted and consequent losses, if any, suffered by the Bidder.

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.

Eligibility criteria for works tender in respect of partnership firms:-

In case the tenderer is a partnership firms , 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.

For Standard Financial criteria and Standard Technical criteria - Tenderers are required to submitted authenticated certificate along with the tenders from officers of government or semi- government/public sector undertakings under whom the work has been executed indicating there in the name of work executed, value of works/payment details and period during which completed. Such certificates should have signature and seal of the concerned officer. In the absence of such certificate the tender may not be considered.

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 tenderers 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 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 22ndday after the date of issue of LOA. Further, if the 60thday 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 Bid Security and other dues payable to the contractor against that particular contract, subject to maximum of PG amount. In case a tenderer has not submitted Bid Security 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) amounting to 5% of the original contract value and Additional Performance Guarantee as per clause 16(4)(h) in any of the following forms- (i) A deposit of Cash; (ii) Irrevocable Bank Guarantee; (iii) Insurance Surety Bond as per Annexure-XVII Note:- In case of extension of Date of Completion, selected bidder needs to submit extended Insurance Surety Bond/Fresh Insurance Surety Bond/fresh Performance Security, in any form as given above, before expiry of existing Insurance Surety Bond. (iv) Government Securities including State Loan Bonds at 5% below the market value; (v) Pay Orders and Demand Drafts tendered by any Scheduled Commercial Bank of India; (vi) Guarantee Bonds executed or Deposits Receipts tendered by any Scheduled Commercial Bank of India; (vii) Deposit in the Post Office Saving Bank; (viii) Deposit in the National Savings Certificates; (ix) Twelve years National Defence Certificates; (x) Ten years Defence Deposits; (xi) National Defence Bonds and (xii) Unit Trust Certificates at 5% 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. Clause 16(4)(h) of IR GCC 2022 (Advance Correction Slip No.- 11) - If a tender is accepted on the quoted rates of bidder which is below the advertised tender value, an additional performance security shall be submitted by the bidder as below: If Bid quoted in % of advertised cost is Below 0- 5% (inclusive) then Additional Performance Guarantee (%) is Nil & if Bid quoted in % of advertised cost is Below 5% then Additional Performance Guarantee (%) is 5 %.

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 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.

The value of PG to be submitted by the Contractor is based on original contract value and shall not change due to subsequent variation(s) in the original contract value.

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 release 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 Performance Guarantee already submitted for the contract shall be encashed.

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 there 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 mave to next valid tenderer as per document submitted