Running Contract for Manufacture & Supply of PSC sleepers for Level crossing to Drg. No.T-4148.

Special Eligibility Criteria

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   Qualifying criteria for evaluation: Firms to quote minimum 50% quantity for tendered item. Firms failing to quote minimum quantity of the tendered item will be treated as unresponsive for the tender item.

   Confirmation required
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   1 .Only Concrete Sleeper Plants (CSPs) certified by RDSO for undertaking production of PSC Main Line /Special sleepers for IR will be considered eligible for placement of o r d e r s against this tender. 2. Existing manufacturers quoting for supply from a new location after shifting their existing plant should have prior approval for supply from new location as per instructions of Railway Board vide letter No. 2004/Tk-II/22/11/5 dated 22.02.2006. Plants, which have already been permitted for shifting of location but have not shifted/started production from new location, even after lapse of one year or more from date of issue of permission letter, shall not be eligible to quote from old location. They will be eligible to quote from new location only if they have already obtained the RDSO certification of Plant at new location, before the date of tender opening. 3. Those plants will be considered "closed", which have not manufactured any type of sleepers (mainline, Turnout, special sleepers) for more than five years reckoning from the date of tender opening. Such plants will not be eligible for tender. 4. Tenderers must mention the name and address of Concrete Sleeper Plant from where manufacture and supply of sleepers are to be done. CSPs which are under control of other railway (Not controlled by NWR) to mention the name of FOR station as defined in para 04 of special condition of NIT.

   Document required

Commercial-Compliance

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   Tenderers are required to submit details of similar supplies completed against last Five Years and details of supplies along with documentary evidence.

   Document required
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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.

   Document optional

General Instructions

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   1.Clarifications, if any, regarding specifications etc. may be obtained from Office of PCMM/HQ/NWR 2.A copy of relevant specifications and drawings can be obtained on payment by the tenderers from the Director General (Track), RDSO, Manak Nagar, Lucknow. The relevant drawings and specifications can be seen in the office of PCMM/HQ/NWR
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   The Standard Technical requirement STR for PSC sleepers 2025 shall be referred at" Schedule of Technical Requirement" document appended with this tender.
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   The Specification IRS T-39 6th rev March 2021 for Level Crossing Sleepers Specification shall be referred at" IRS Specifications for PSC" document appended with this tender.
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   The contractor shall be GST complaint and claim the applicable GST in their bills, which will be paid by the Railways.

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   The bidders are instructed to quote ZERO freight charges since the tender is meant for FOR station delivery as already defined in NIT . In case freight element is quoted by any firm despite these instructions, Railway will not consider the freight for the purpose of inter-se ranking and offers will be financially evaluated purely on inter-se ranking ignoring the freight element.

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   1.Any financial elements indicated in the remarks column will not be taken for ranking/ evaluation and will be summarily ignored. Tenderers are therefore advised not to enter any financial element in the remarks column available in the Financial Rate page 2.The Tenderers are required to quote their rates in the space earmarked in the tender schedule. Any deviation in this regard will lead to summarily rejection of offer 3.Offers shall be as per terms and conditions given in the tender documents. However, deviations, if any, may be brought out in a separate "deviation form" provided with e-tender, detailing clause number of the tender document, stipulation as per the clause and deviation asked for, otherwise the tenderer shall be deemed to have accepted all provisions of the tender documents. The purchaser, however reserves the right to accept or reject these deviations and Purchaser's decision thereon shall be final. Tenders with any kind of technical deviation will be summarily rejected 4.Any offer with longer delivery period or not agreeing with the delivery schedule specified in the tender, will be summarily rejected. 5.Any offer with different PVC formula or quoting different base month or linkage with different indices or fixed rate etc. as compared to PVC formula provided in the tender or offers different formula/scheme for input tax credit as compared to provisions of SCC, will be summarily rejected 6. Offers without Earnest Money shall be summarily rejected, if not under valid exemptions. 7.The validity of offer should be for a minimum of 120 days effective from the date of opening of tender. Offers with validity less than 120 days shall be summarily rejected.

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   Bidders to note that the consignee mentioned under heading item detail-"ANYWHERE IN JODHPUR DIVISION OF NWR" shall be read as -SSE/CSP concerned. The complete address and quantities to be delivered to each of the consignees and the bill passing/paying officers will be mentioned in the purchase/supply order.