Fabrication, supply & Replacement of steel bridge girder of span of Br No No.126 DN (1x76.2m) at km 137/3-4 between JMK-JGJN section and Br No.157 UP (1x30.5m) at km 175/1-2 between HWX-LKG section.

The tenderer must have minimum average annual contractual turnover of V/N or 'V' whichever is less, where V= Advertised value of the tender in crores of Rupees N= Number of years prescribed for completion of work for which bids have been invited. The average annual contractual turnover shall be calculated as an average of "total contractual payments" in the previous three financial years, as per the audited balance sheet. However, in case balance sheet of the previous year is yet to be prepared/ audited, the audited balance sheet of the fourth previous year shall be considered for calculating average annual contractual turnover.

The tenderers shall submit requisite information as per ANNEXURE-IX, along with copies of Audited Balance Sheets duly certified by the Chartered Accountant/ Certificate from Chartered Accountant duly supported by Audited Balance Sheet.

The tenderer must have successfully completed or substantially completed any of the following during last 07 (seven) years, ending last day of month previous to the one in which tender is invited: Three similar works each costing not less than the amount equal to 30% of advertised value of the tender, or Two similar works each costing not less than the amount equal to 40% of advertised value of the tender, or One similar work each costing not less than the amount equal to 60% of advertised value of the tender.

Definition Of Similar Work : - Bridge work involving fabrication, assembling, launching/Re-girdering of open web steel girder/Steel Truss Girder/Bow String Girder.

Work experience certificate from private individual shall not be considered. However, in addition to work experience certificates issued by any Govt. Organisation, work experience certificate issued by Public listed company having average annual turnover of Rs 500 crore and above in last 3 financial years excluding the current financial year, listed 1.1.1 on National Stock Exchange or Bombay Stock Exchange, incorporated/registered atleast 5 years prior to the date of closing of tender, shall also be considered provided the work experience certificate has been issued by a person authorized by the Public listed company to issue such certificates.

In case tenderer submits work experience certificate issued by public listed company, the tenderer shall also submit along with work experience certificate, the relevant copy of work order, bill of quantities, 1.1.2 bill wise details of payment received duly certified by Chartered Accountant, TDS certificates for all payments received and copy of final/last bill paid by company in support of above work experience certificate.

The following documents should be specified for submission along with tender:

His capacity to undertake and carry out the work satisfactorily with details about the transport equipments, construction tools & plants etc. required for the work, maintained by him.

Detailed particulars of works he/they have executed in the last three years should be submitted along with the Tender.

List of present workload in hand has to be submitted along with the tender.

List of technical personnel proposed to be engaged in this work.

Please provide your bank details to facilitate payment through ECS.

GST Registration certificate and PAN to be submit

Tenderer/bidder has to submit his bid capacity duly certified by the chartered Accountant along with the attachments. The tender/technical bid will be evaluated based on bid capacity formula detailed as Annexure-A in the tender Document 1.6.1 (Reference-Annexure-VI, Para 10.3 & 17.15.3 of Tender Form (Second Sheet) of Annexure I of ITT) . In case, the tenderer/s failed to submit the above statement along with offer, their/his offer shall be considered as incomplete and will be rejected summarily.

The tenderers whether sole proprietor, a limited company or a partnership firm he/they should submit authentic proof in terms of partnership deed, proprietorship documents etc. along with the tender (Not required if one or more partners are authorized in Partnership deed to sign on behalf of the firm.). If he/they want to act through agent or individual partners should submit a power of attorney duly stamped and authenticated by Notary Public or by Magistrate in favour of specific person whether he/she/they are partners of the firm or any other person specifically authorizing him/her name to submit the tender, sign the agreement , receive money, witness measurements, sign measurement books, compromise, settle, relinquish any claims, preferred by firm and also sign No Claim Certificate and refer all or any disputes arbitration. The above power of attorney shall be submitted even if such specific person is authorized for above purposes through partnership deed/Memorandum of Understanding/Article of Association or such other document, failing which tender is liable to be rejected.

If it is NOT mentioned in the submitted tender that tender is being submitted on behalf of a Sole Proprietorship firm /Partnership firm / Joint Venture /Registered Company etc., then the tender shall be treated as having been submitted by the individual who has signed the tender.

After opening of the tender, any document pertaining to the constitution of Sole Proprietorship Firm / Partnership Firm /Registered Company/ Registered Trust / Registered Society/HUF etc. shall be neither asked nor considered, if submitted. Further, no suo moto cognizance of any document available in public domain (i.e., on internet etc.) or in Railway's record/office files etc. will be taken for consideration of the tender, if no such mention is available in tender offer submitted.

"No post tender correspondence will be done with the participant tenderer(s) for deficient documents/credentials noted during scrutiny of tender/offer nor any document/credential will 2.2.1 be accepted after opening of the tender and the offer shall be decided on the basis of submitted documents/Credentials downloaded with offer only".

All the mandatorily documents to be uploaded by the bidder against any compliance condition shall be opened as part of 2.2.2 technical bid and will be considered for technical bid evaluation. Non-Submission of the document shall consider as incomplete and will be rejected summarily.

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.

In case of any difficulty, help desk available on the website of IREPS may be approached.

Bid Security:- The tenderer(s) is required to deposit a stipulated amount as Bid Security for the performance of the tender who will keep the offer open for a period three times the tender notice period from the date fixed for opening of tender, it being clearly understood that the tenderer(s) after submitting his tender will not withdraw from his offer or modify the rates, items and conditions thereof, failing which the aforesaid amount shall be liable to be forfeited to the Railway. 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-XXIII of Tender Document and shall be valid for a period of 90days beyond the bid validity period. Details may seen in Tender Documents.

The Bid security deposited with the tender of successful tenderer will be retained as part of security deposit which will be 5 percent of the value of work awarded. The balance amount of security deposit will be recovered from on account bills of the work @ 6 percent till it reaches upto 5 percent of the value including bid security.

MAINTENANCE PERIOD - The tenderer/s shall be required to maintain the work effectively for the specified period from the date of completion as per Clause No.47 of the General Conditions of Contract, April 2022 and no part refund of Security Deposit shall be permitted during the maintenance period mentioned above.

Subsequent to the enactment of GST Act, para (a) of Clause 6 (Care In submission Of Tenders), Part-I of General Conditions of Contract are revised and shall be read as under:

Tenderers will examine the various provisions of The Central Goods and Service Tax Act, 2017 (CGST)/ Integrated Goods and Service 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 to 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.

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.

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 authority.

Joint venture will be permitted in the tender value more than Rs.10.00 Crs.

Certificate from private individuals/firms for whom such works are executed/being executed shall not be considered.

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 enters in the tender forms are adequate and all inclusive to accord with the provisions in Clause-37 of the Standard General Conditions of Contract for the completion of works to the entire satisfaction of the Engineer.

Tenders other than in form of e-Tendering shall not be accepted against this tender. For this purpose, tenderers are required to register themselves with IREPS. Registration requires procurement of Class III Digital Signature Certificate and Digital Encryption Certificate.

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.

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

Any Conditional offer will be summarily rejected.

Tender will be opened at the specified time and date. In case the specified date is declared a holiday, the tender would be opened at the same time on the next working day.

Tenders have been invited for and on behalf of the President of India for the work mentioned as per NIT.