Installation of Track mounted automatic Gauge face lubricator(Electronic type) on curves 61 Nos under the jurisdiction of Sr.DEN/West and DEN/South over Sambalpur Division.

(i) T1- Annual Turnover: The bidder should have an aggregate financial turnover not less than 1.5 times the advertised Bid value during the last three previous financial years and in the current financial year up to the date of opening of the tender. The audited balance sheet reflecting financial turnover certified by Chartered accountant with her stamp, signature and membership number shall be considered. 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.

(ii) T2-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 her stamp, signature and membership number shall be submitted by the bidder along with bid. Banking reference 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 reference 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.

Definition of Similar Work :- As per Railway Board's letter No. 2023/Track - I(P) /RDSO dated 17-02-2023, "Only RDSO approved/Development vendors for Track based Lubricators, can participate with this tender. Copy of approval certificate with validity date is to be submitted along with this tender".

Tenderers are required to quote their Permanent Account Number in the tender document.

The tenderer should submit the Annexure-I given in the enclosed tender document duly filled-in, signed and stamped regarding non- Employment of retired manager or officer in gazetted rank with their firm, no relation with Railway employees, nonviolation of labour laws, details of termination of earlier contracts, non- imposing of penalty in earlier contracts, nonblaklisting of the firm by any central Govt or Railway including undertaking for genuineness of the above information.

The tenderer should submit the Address form given as Annexure-VII in the enclosed tender document should be filled in with sign and stamp.

(i)The tenderer shall clearly specify whether the tender is submitted on his own (Proprietary Firm) or on behalf of a Partnership Firm / Company / Joint Venture (JV) / Registered Society / Registered Trust / Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) /Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) etc. The Tenderer(s) shall enclose the attested copies of the constitution of their concern, and copy of PAN Card along with their tender. Tender Documents in such cases are to be signed by such persons as may be legally competent to sign them on behalf of the firm,company, association, trust or society, as the case may be. (ii) The Other documents to be submitted in support of the above as per GCC-2018 for services. (iii) 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. (iv) After opening of the tender, any document pertaining to the constitution of Sole Proprietorship Firm / Partnership Firm / Registered Company/Registered Trust / Registered Society / HUF/LLP etc. shall be neither asked nor considered, if submitted. Further, no suomoto 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. (v) A tender from JV shall be considered only where permissible as per the tender conditions. (vi) The Railway will not be bound by any change of power of attorney or in the composition of the firm made subsequent to the submission of tender. Railway may, however, recognize such power of attorney and changes after obtaining proper legal advice, the cost of which will be chargeable to the Contractor.

The tenderer whether sole proprietor / a company or a partnership firm / joint venture (JV) / registered society/registered trust / HUF / LLP etc. if they want to act through agent or individual partner(s), should submit along with the tender, a copy of power of attorney duly stamped and authenticated by a Notary Public or by Magistrate in favour of the specific person whether he/they be partner(s) of the firm or any other person, specifically authorizing him/them to sign the tender, submit the tender and further to deal with the Tender/Contract up to the stage of signing the agreement except in case where such specific person is authorized for above purposes through a provision made in the partnership deed /Memorandum of Understanding / Article of Association /Board resolution, failing which tender shall be summarily rejected. A separate power of attorney duly stamped and authenticated by a Notary Public or by Magistrate in favour of the specific person whether he/they be partner(s) of the firm or any other person, shall be submitted after award of work, specifically authorizing him/them to deal with all other contractual activities subsequent to signing of agreement, if required. Note: A Power of Attorney executed and issued overseas, the document will also have to be legalized by the Indian Embassy and notarized in the jurisdiction where the Power of Attorney is being issued. However, the Power of Attorney provided by Bidders from countries that have signed the Hague Legislation Convention 1961 are not required to be legalized by the Indian Embassy if it carries a conforming Appostille certificate. The tenderer should have to submit Power of Attorney along with his offer stated above.

Employment/Partnership etc. of Retired Railway Employees: (a) Should a bidder be a retired Manager of the Gazetted rank or any other Gazetted officer working before her retirement, whether in the executive or administrative capacity or whether holding a pensionable post or not, in any department of any of the railways owned and administered b y the President o f India for the time being, or should a bidder being a partnership firm have as one of its partners a retired Manager or retired Gazetted Officer as aforesaid, or should a bidder being an incorporated company have any such retired Manager or retired officer as one of its Directors or should a bidder have in her employment any retired Manager or retired Gazetted Officer as aforesaid, the full information a s t o t h e date of retirement of such Manager or Gazetted Officer from the said service and in case where such Manager or Officer had not retired from Government service at least 2 years prior to the date of submission of the tender 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, or to take the employment under the contractor, has been obtained by the bidder or the Manager or Officer, as the case may be from the President of India or any officer, duly authorised by her in this behalf, shall be clearly stated in writing at the time of submitting the bid. Bids without the information above referred to or a statement to the effect that no such retired Manager or retired Gazetted Officer is so associated with the bidder, as the case may be, shall be rejected. (b) Should a bidder or contractor being a n 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 her shareholder(s) or a relative(s) of the shareholder(s) employed in gazetted capacity in the any department of the Railway, the authority inviting tenders shall be informed of the fact at the time o f 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 provision i n Clause 7.4 of Standard General Conditions of Contract.

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.

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 tenderers shall submit a copy of certificate in case of other than Company/Proprietary firm, Annexure-V(A) shall be submitted by each member of a Partnership Firm/Joint Venture (JV)/Hindu Undivided Family (HUF)/Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) etc. as the case may be. Non-submission of above certificate(s) by the bidder shall result in summarily rejection of his/their bid. Note: If the certificate of Annexure-V(A) has not been submitted separately as per the same content in the given format of enclosed general conditions, the offer shall be summarily rejected.

For all tenders having advertised cost of Rs.10 lakh or above, the contractor shall have to submit the option to take payment from Railways through a letter of credit (LC) arrangement. The tenderer shall affirm having read over and agreed to the terms and conditions of the LC option. The option of taking payment through LC arrangement, once exercised by tenderer at the time of bidding, shall be final and no change shall be permitted, thereafter, during execution of contract. (The tenderer have to submit the option to take payment from Railway through a Letter of Credit arrangement)

The Tenderer/Tenderers have to mention his/their ESI Code & EPF Code with his/their offer.

Please submit your bank details in the enclosed Annexure (Form No.E-5) NEFT/ECS (Credit Clearing) Model Mandate Form

Please submit the certificate of familarisation to the work as per the Annexed document, Failing which the offer shall be summarily rejected.

Indian Railways Standard General Conditions of Contract for Services, January-2018 with all up to date correction slip and amendments.

Tenderers will examine the various provisions of The Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017(CGST)/Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017(IGST) / Union Territory Goods and Services Tax act, 2017(UTGST) / respective state State Goods and Services Tax act, 2017(SGST) also as notified by Central / State Government & 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.

Contractor shall be liable to pay/refund the amount collected as GST to the Indian Railways along with interest and penalties, if any imposed by the authorities, in case GST input tax credit of Indian Railways is denied/rejected by the tax authorities due to reasons mentioned below but not limited to: Wrong/incorrect invoices issued by Contractor ; No-filing of GST returns. Nonpayment of GST collected from Indian Railways to the authorities. Any other non-compliance done by Contractor. General Indemnity: Contractor hereby agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Indian Railways from and against any and all losses, including loss on account of Input Tax Credit and all losses incurred by the Indian Railways relating to or arising out of or in connection with any actual or threatened claim, legal action, proceedings, prosecution or inquiry by or against the Indian Railways arising out, directly or indirectly, of failure by the contractor to comply with the provisions of GST and related laws, or based upon or arising from any failure by the Contractor. Retention Money: Any payment liable to be paid by Indian Railways to contractor against the goods or services or both supplied by such contractor to Indian Railways shall be kept on hold in case supplier makes any non- compliance of any of the GST law provisions including non-reporting of invoices in GST returns. Such payment shall be released after proper verification of records and availability of ITC to Indian Railways as per provisions of GST Law.

The tenderer shall submit along with the tender document, documents in support of his/their claim to fulfill the eligibility criteria as mentioned in the tender document. Each page of the copy of documents/certificates in support of credentials, submitted by the tenderer, shall be self-attested/digitally signed by the tender or authorized representative of the tendering firm. Self- attestation shall include signature stamp and date (on each page). Only those documents which are declared explicitly by the tenderer as "documents supporting the claim of qualifying the laid down eligibility criteria", will be considered for evaluating his/their tender or as decided by Railway.

If the tenderer(s) 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. 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 information submitted by tenderer is found to be false forged or incorrect at any time during process for evaluation of tenders, it shall lead to forfeiture of the tender Earnest Money Deposit (if applicable)besides banning of business for a period of up to five years. In case of any information submitted by tenderer is found to be false forged or incorrect after the award of contract, the contract shall be terminated. Earnest Money Deposit (EMD)(if applicable), Performance Guarantee and Security Deposit available with the railway shall be forfeited. In addition, other dues of the contractor, if any, under this contract shall be forfeited.

Standard General Conditions of Contract for Services January- 2018 corrected upto date of the closing of tender is part of the tender document.

No manual tenders sent by Post/Fax/Courier or in person will be accepted.

As per Railway Board letter No. 2015/CE-I/CT/5/1 dtd. 31.08.2016, payment of Bid Security should be made by tenderers through net banking or payment gateways or submitted as Bank Guarantee bond from a scheduled commercial bank of India or as mentioned in tender documents. No other manual means like submission of DD, Banker Cheque, TDR/FDR etc. towards EMD will be accepted.

Tender offer should accompany with scanned copies of all the required documents.

No post tender correspondences shall be entertained after closing of the tender even suo motto post tender letters of the tenderers shall be treated as null void.

The authority for the acceptance of the tender will rest with the Railway. It shall not be obligatory on the said authority to accept the lowest tender or any other tender, and tenderer(s) shall neither demand any explanation for the cause of rejection of his/ their tender nor the Railway to assign reasons for declining to consider or reject any particular tender or tenders. If the tenderer(s) expire(s) after the submission of his / their tender or after the acceptance of his / their offer, the Railway shall deem such tender 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.

If the lowest bidder(s) withdraw his/their bid within bid validity period or if awarded the tender and on being called upon to submit the Performance Guarantee/Performance Security fail to submit the same within the stipulated time period mentioned in tender documents or on being called upon to sign the contract agreement fail to sign the same within stipulated period mentioned in tender documents, the full value of bid security shall stand forfeited without prejudice to another right or remedies.

It is mandatory before bill passing of the contractor that along with the monthly bills, contractors must submit a Notarised Affidavit signed by all persons deployed by him during the bill period, clearly declaring that they have been paid monthly wages, other payments, contribution remittance towards ESI,EPF etc.