Service of Hospitality & Stewardship of Baripada, Chakulia, Bangriposi Camp office, AXEN/C/BPO Office & Dy. CE/Con- II/KGP Office, under the jurisdiction of Dy. CE/Con- II/KGP, S.E. Rly of Kharagpur .

Financial standing: The Bidders shall be qualified only if they have minimum financial capabilities as below: (i)T-1 Annual Turnover: The bidder should have an annual financial turnover not less than 1.5 times the advertised Bid value during the last three financial years and in the current financial year upto the date of opening of tender. The Audited Balance sheet reflecting financial turnover certified by the Chartered Accountant with their stamp, signature and membership number shall be considered. (ii)T-2 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 his/her stamp, signature and membership number shall be submitted by the bidder along with bid. Banking references should contain in clear terms the amount that bank will be in a position to lend for this 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 references will be considered. Otherwise the aggregate of the Net Current Assets and submitted Banking references will be considered for working out the liquidity. The banking references 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

Evaluation of Financial Bid The financial proposal shall be evaluated to determine the lowest bidder. In case, the evaluated financial offers of two or more technically qualified bidders are Lowest and same, then the Bid of the bidder who is technically more sound (having scored higher marks in evaluation of technical bid as per clause Annexure- I) shall be considered as the lowest. If the marks in the evaluation of technical bids of the lowest bidders are also found to be equal, then the bid of the bidder with the higher cumulative annual financial turnover over the last three years and the current financial year shall be considered as the lowest.

Similar Nature of Work: - "Similar service contract means Any Housekeeping work"

Work Experience: The bidder should have satisfactorily completed in the last three financial years and the current financial year upto the date of opening of the tender, one similar single service contract for a minimum value of 35% of advertised value of the bid. 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. (Authority Para2.6.1.1 of GCC for Services, 2018)

Evaluation of Technical Bid Bidder's Credentials: The bidder shall submit along with the Bid document, documents in support of their claim to fulfil the minimum eligibility criteria as mentioned in the bid. In two packet system of bidding, each bidder shall be assigned score for their technical bid. The score of technical bid should be more than or equal to minimum qualifying marks as mentioned in bid document. The system of assigning score shall be as per the bid document. The system of assigning score shall be as per Annexure I of the Bid document. Bidders who's score shall be 60 (Sixty) or above (as per Annexure I of GCC for Service, Jan'18 and Tender Document) shall be qualified for consideration of their financial bids. Bidders who do not meet the minimum qualifying score of 60 (Sixty) shall not be considered further for opening of their financial bids and their bids shall not be considered further for award of the tender.

Apart from eligibility criteria, Bid evaluation technical criteria based on weightage of different components of Technical Criteria, documentation required and Score against each weightage technical criteria has been uploaded in document upload Tab which is as per GCC of Services 2018. Bidders are required to upload supporting documents in connection with Bid evaluation-Technical Criteria. Minimum qualifying score against the Bid evaluation-Technical Criteria should be 60 marks.

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 the authorization by the Management of issuing such credentials. Notes: The bidders shall submit details of work executed by them in the prescribed format along with bid for the service contracts to be considered for qualification of work experience criteria clearly indicating the nature /scope of contract, actual completion cost and actual date of completion for such contract. (Authority Para 2.6.1.1 of GCC for Services, 2018.

The tenderer has to opt for taking payment through letter of credit (LC)as per Railway Board's letter no. 2018/CE-I/CT/9 dated 4.6.18.

Tenderers are required to upload copy of Permanent Account Number, GST registration & Mandate.

Tenderes are required to upload ESI & EPF registration certificate

Tenderers are required to furnish a valid and functional email ID and mobile no. to which communication can be done by the Railway Administration

Micro and Small Enterprises (MSME) registered with District Industries Commission, Khadi and Village Industries Board, Coir Board, National Small Industries Corporation Directorate of Handicraft and Handloom. Any other body Specified by Ministry of MSME are exempted for payment of cost of tender document & Earnest Money deposit. Documentary evidence/certificates in this regard should be uploaded for such exemption. Authority: As per Railway Boards letter no 2016/CE-I/CT/3/MSME, Dated 29- 08-2016

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.

GCC for Services, 2018 issued by Ministry of Railways with upto date correction Slip will be binding to the instant tender. GCC for Service, 2018 is available on website and can be downloaded as PDF File. Tenderer should download the PDF file and go through the provision of it and comply with all the stipulations of the GCC. Tenderer should go through GCC for Services, 2018 and quote their rates after carefully examining all the aspects such as Qualification Criteria, Bid Evaluation system Annexure-I, Minimum Eligibility Criteria, PVC clause and various other provisions as made in the said GCC.

The Earnest Money and cost of tender document should be paid through online payment only as per the Payment Gateway provided in the IREPS website. Manual payment of EMD and cost of tender document is not allowed. In case the tenderer withdraws his offer within the validity period of his offer or fails to undertake the contract after acceptance of his tender the full earnest money shall be forfeited. If the tender is accepted the amount of earnest money will be retained and adjusted as security deposit for the due and faithful fulfillment of the contract. The earnest money of the unsuccessful tenderers shall save as here-in-before provided be returned to the unsuccessful tenderers within a reasonable time but the Railway shall not be responsible for any loss or depreciation that my happen to the security for the due performance of the stipulation to keep the offer open for the period specified in the tender documents or to the earnest money while in their possession nor be liable to pay interest thereon.

The Railway reserves the right of not to invite bids for any of Railway Service/s and when bids are called to accept a Bid in whole or in part or reject any bid or all bids without assigning reasons for any such action. It shall not be obligatory on the said authority to accept the lowest Bid or any other Bid and no Bidder/s shall demand any explanation for the cause of rejection of their bid nor the Railway to assign reasons for declining to consider or reject any particular bids.

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

If the tenderer/s expires after the submission of his/their tender or after the acceptance of his tender, the Rly. shall deem such tender as cancelled. If a partner of a firm expires after the submission of their tender or after the acceptance of their tender, the Railway shall deem such tender as cancelled unless the firm retains its character.

Performance Guarantee will be dealt with in terms of Para 4.11 of GCC for Services, 2018 issued by Ministry of Railways with upto date correction Slip.

Minimum Eligibility criteria has been prescribed as per Para 2.6.1 of GCC for Services, 2018 issued by Ministry of Railways with up to date correction Slip

Evaluation of Technical Bid and Financial Bid will be done as per Para 2.6.2 &2.6.3 of GCC for Services, 2018 issued by Ministry of Railways with upto date correction Slip

Bid Evaluation Technical Criteria will be done in terms of Annexure-I of GCC for Services, 2018 (PDF file uploaded in Documents upload).

Variation in quantities during execution of Service Service Contracts will be dealt with as per Clause no. 5.3.4 of GCC for Service Contracts, 2018.

Extension of Time shall be dealt with in accordance with Para 5.1 of GCC of Service Contract 2018.

Care in Submission of Tenders: (a) (i) 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 condition liable to be encountered during the execution of the works are taken into account and that rates he enters in the tender forms are adequate and all inclusive to accord with the provisions in GCC of Service Contracts for the completion of works to the entire satisfaction of the Engineer. (ii) 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 Service 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. (iii) The successful tenderer who is liable to be registered under GST/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.

GCC Para 2.5 regarding Employment/Partnership etc of Retired Railway Employees should be gone through properly and adhered to strictly. Documents as required should be uploaded in support of the clause.

Reduce the Performance Guarantee for services contracts, as given in para 4.11 of GCC for services, from 10% to 5% vide letter no.2017/EnHM/25/11 Dated: 24.05.2024.