Salem Division: Outsourcing the Pump manning duty of Cauvery Pump House and MRS Pump house at Erode for a period of three years.

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 his/her stamp, signature and membership number shall be considered. Balance sheets that are not audited shall not be accepted

Liquidity: The bidder should have access to or have 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. Liabilities on work on hand (Certified by Chartered Accountant, if available), should be uploaded to calculate net liquidity. If there are no works on hand, this should be specifically declared by a signed statement. Banking reference should contain in clear terms the amount t h a t 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.

Work experience : The bidder should have satisfactorily completed in the last three previous financial years and the current financial year up to the date of opening of the tender, one similar single service contract for minimum 35% of advertised value of the bid. The Work experience certificate from private individual shall not be accepted. Certificate from public listed company /private company/Trusts having annual turnover of Rs. 500 crores and above, subject to the same being issued from their head office by a person of the company duly enclosing his authorization by the management for issuing such credentials. The bidder shall submit details of work executed by them in the prescribed format (Annexure - II) along with bid for the service contracts to be considered for qualification of work experience and technical criteria clearly indicating the nature/scope of contract, actual completion cost and actual date of completion for such contract. This has to be supported with work completion/ progress certificates. It is requested that completion documents of non-similar works may NOT be uploaded.

Similar Nature of work adopted for this tender is "The bidder should have executed any work of manning/operation of Electrically driven motor pumps,DG Sets,Lifts, Escalators and Substations" Authority CEGE/S.Rly Ltr No:E.252/I/8/G Dated:15/07/2024.

A copy of the valid Electrical license as applicable to this work, issued by State Electricity licensing Board . The Electrical license which has to be uploaded should be in the name of Contractor/firm or permanent employee of the Firm. Note: A declaration must be submitted that "Permanent employee", in whose name Electrical license is attached, is working in the firm

The Contractor shall submit a statement to the effect that no retired Engineer or retired Gazetted Officer is associated with the tenderer as per Annexure-D. Tenders without the information above referred to or a statement to the effect that no such retired Engineer or retired Gazetted Officer is so associated with the tenderer, as the case may be, shall be rejected.

The components of ESI, EPF, PMSBY and PMJJBY (wherever applicable) have been provided separately in the tender as different schedules and shall be paid on a reimbursement basis. The contractor shall submit all necessary documents related to the payment of ESI, EPF, PMSBY and PMJJBY ( wherever applicable) and subsequently claim reimbursement for the same in the bill. The contractor shall submit documentary evidence of payment of EPF, ESI, PMSBY and PMJJBY (wherever applicable) for the employees along with each bill. Otherwise subsequent bill will not be passed.

I/We also hereby agree to abide by the updated Regulations of Tenders and Contracts and General Conditions of Contract- services of Indian Railways along with correction slips issued from time to time and to carry out the work according to the Special Conditions of Contract as laid down by Railway in the Annexed Special Conditions / Schedule of Work for the present contract.

GST shall be applicable only on the taxable portion, i.e., basic wages + VDA + contractor's profit/service charges. Statutory components such as EPF, ESI, Bonus, PMSBY, and PMJJBY shall be excluded from the GST base value.

I/We also hereby agree to abide by the Indian Railways Standard General Conditions Of Contract, with all correction slips up-to date and to carry out the work according to the Special Conditions of Contract Services and annexed Special Conditions/Specifications, Schedule of Rates with all correction slips up to date for the present contract

I/We have read the various conditions to tender attached hereto and agree to abide by the said conditions

I/We also agree to keep this tender open for acceptance for a period of 90 days from the date fixed for opening the same

I/We offer to do the work for Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer, Electrical General, Salem Division, Salem, at the rates quoted in the attached schedule and hereby bind myself/ourselves to complete the work in all respects within the period of completion stipulated in the tender document, from the date of commencement of work of the tender. The amount as stipulated in the tender document is herewith forwarded as earnest money. The full value of the earnest money shall stand forfeited without prejudice to any other right or remedy in case my/our tender is accepted and if : (a) I/We do not execute the contract documents as stipulated in the performance guarantee clause of GCC/Services 2018 as detailed in the general instructions. (b) I/We do not commence the work within seven days after receipt of LOA/orders to that effect.

I/We hereby Confirm that the rates, rebates and/or other financial terms, if any, quoted by us in the relevant fields of the Financial Bid page will only be the ruling terms for deciding the inter-se ranking, and any such condition having financial repercussions, if quoted by us anywhere else including attached documents shall not be considered for deciding inter-se ranking. However, Railways shall have the right to incorporate any such condition quoted by us, in the contract, at their discretion, if contract is placed on us.

I/We have read the various conditions attached/ referred to in this tender document, and agree to abide by the said conditions.

All the tenderers/Contractors have to deposit full earnest money and tender document cost as stipulated for the tender, through online modes as permitted in IREPS application through multiple banks net banking, debit and credit cards only. On failing which offer will be summarily rejected.

The Tenderer should submit a copy of GST/PAN and NEFT Form.

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.

Payment of EMD and Tender form cost should be made on line only.

GCC/Services 2018-All GCC clauses (updated, including all correction slips on date) are applicable.

i)For all the tenders having advertised cost of Rs. 10 lakh or above, the contractor shall have the option to take payment from Railways through a letter of credit (LC) arrangement. (ii)This option of taking payment through LC arrangement has to be exercised in IREPS (Indian Railway Electronic Procurement System - the e-application on which tenders are called by Railways) by the tenderer at the time of bidding itself, and the tenderer shall affirm having read over and agreed to the terms and conditions of the LC option.(iii)The option so exercised, shall be an integral part of the bidder's offer.(iv)The above 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.(v)In case tenderer opts for payment through LC, following shall be the procedure to deal release of payment through LC:(a)The LC shall be a sight LC.(b)The contractor shall select his Advising/Negotiating bank for LC. The incidental cost towards issue of LC and its operation thereof shall be borne by the contractor.(c)SBI, New Delhi, Main Branch will be the nodal branch for issue of LCs based on online requests received from Railway Accounts Units for tenders opened in financial year 2024-25. SBI branches where the respective Railway Accounts Office has its Account (local SBI branch) will be the issuance/reimbursing branch for LC issued under this arrangement. The Bank shall remain same for this tender till completion of contract. The incidental cost @ 0.15 % per annum of LC value, towards issue of LC and operation thereof shall be borne by the contractor and shall be recovered from his bills. (d)The LC shall be opened initially for duration of 180 to 365 days in consultation with contractor. The LC shall be extended time to time as per the progress of the contract, on the request of the contractor. The value of LC to be opened initially as well as extended thereafter shall be finalised by the engineer in consultation with the contractor on the basis of expected progress of work.(e)The LC terms and conditions shall inter-alia indemnify and save harmless the Railway from and against all losses, claims and demands of every nature and description brought or recovered against the Railways by reason of any act or omission of the contractor, his agents or employees, in relation to the Letter of Credit (LC). All sums payable/borne by Railways on this account shall be considered as reasonable compensation and paid by Contractor.

(ii)The LC terms and conditions shall inter-alia provide that Railways will issue a Document of Authorisation after passing the bill for completed work, to enable contractor to claim the authorized amount from their bank. (g)The acceptable, agreed upon document for payments to be released under the LC shall be the Document of Authorisation. (h)The Document of Authorisation shall be issued by Railway Accounts Office against each bill passed by Railways. (i)On issuance of Document of Authorisation, a copy of Document of Authorisation shall be posted on IREPS for download by the contractor. A digitally signed copy of Document of Authorisation shall also be sent by Railway Accounts Office to Railway's bank (Local SBI Branch). (j)The contractor shall take print out of the Document of Authorisation available on IREPS and present his claim to his bank (advising Bank) for necessary payments as per LC terms and conditions. The claim shall comprise of copy of Document of Authorisation, Bill of Exchange and Bill. (k)The payment against LC shall be subject to verification from Railway's Bank (Local SBI Branch). (l)The contractor's bank (advising bank) shall submit the documents to the Railways Bank (Local SBI Branch). (m)The Railway's bank (issuing bank) shall, after verifying the claim so received w.r.t. the digitally signed Document of Authorisation received from Railway Accounts Office, release the payment to contractor's bank (advising bank) for crediting the same to contractor's account. (n)Any number of bills can be dealt within one LC, provided the sum total of payments to contractor is within the amount for which LC has been opened. (o)The LC shall shall be closed after the release of final payment including PVC amount, if any, to the contractor. (p)The release of performance guarantee or security deposit shall be dealt directly by Railway with the contractor i.e., not through LC