Outsourcing the duties of AC coach accompanying staff in the trains primarily maintained at the coach maintenance depot at Nagercoil and Ernakulam for a period of two 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 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 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.

Liabilities on work on hand if applicable, 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 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.

Work Experience: The bidder should have satisfactorily completed in the three previous financial years and current financial year up to the date of opening of tender, one similar single service contract for a minimum of 35% of advertised value of bid. Completed service contract includes on- going service contract subject to payment of bills amounting to at least 35% of advertised value of bid.

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 his authorization by the management for issuing such credentials.

The bidder shall submit details of work executed by them in the prescribed format as per Annexure III along with bid for the service contracts to be considered for qualification of technical criteria clearly indicating the nature / scope of contract, actual completion cost and actual date of completion 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.

Definition of Similar nature of work: "Escorting, Operation and Troubleshooting of Power Cars over Indian Railways" OR "Escorting, Operation and Troubleshooting of RMPUs in AC coaches over Indian Railways/ Metro Railways" OR "Annual / Comprehensive Maintenance Contract of RMPUs along with control panels of AC coaches running over Indian Railways/ Metro Railways" OR "Annual / Comprehensive Maintenance Contract of AC package unit (Centralized, Cassette, Multi (VRF) types) in Indian Railways/ Metro Railways/ Central Government / State Government/ PSUs of Central Govt. or State Govt./ Public listed Company, Private Company, Trust having annual turnover of Rs.500 Crore and above".

Other Technical Criteria: In order to ensure minimum qualification / skill level of outsourced staff, the deployed contractual staff should be ITI passed as Electrician / Electronics / Refrigeration & Air-Conditioning OR a Diploma holder In Electrical / Electronics from a recognized institution with minimum 1 year experience in RMPU coach maintenance. Tenderer shall ensure that he/she is in a position to deploy such qualified staff if the tender is awarded to them. Details of the staff to be deployed with education qualification/ work experience shall be furnished after awarding of the work.

"Restriction regarding Personnel Deployed: The quoted rates shall not be less than the minimum wage fixed/notified by the State Government - where the service is performed and shall include all statutory obligations. However bids without any element of cost over and above such minimum wage (or below it) shall be treated as 'Nil' price quotation and would be rejected. The service provider shall be liable for all kinds of dues payable in respect of all personnel provided under the contract and the Procuring Entity shall not be liable for any dues for availing the services of the personnel. The service provider should ensure that persons to be deployed are not alcoholic, drug addict and not indulge in any activity prejudicial to the interest of the Procuring Entity. The service provider shall ensure to get the Police verification for all the manpower deployed by them and the contractor should ensure that the manpower deputed should bear good moral character."

List of Documents to be uploaded with service tenders 1. Audited Balance sheet of last three financial years (fourth year allowed if balance sheet of previous year has not been prepared/audited) certified by Chartered Accountant with his/her stamp, signature and membership number. 2. Banking Reference signed by authorized signatory of any scheduled bank in India and certified by CA, issued within last three months and specifically mentioning the position of the bank to lend to the bidder for this work 3. Tenderer's liability in existing contracts in hand showing agreement value, executed value and value of bills passed 4. Work Experience details (for similar work having value of 35% of this tender value) in Annexure-III of tender document supported with completion reports/ performance reports/ work progress certificates/ Bills on the work already executed (part bill submitted) for the work already completed but not released if available (certified copy from executing agency/CA) 5. Statement regarding Retired Railway employee being the bidder/ bidder's employee 6. Affidavit on a stamp paper(as per format enclosed with the tender) to the effect that all the documents submitted by his/her along with his/her bid are true

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 . All documents related to Partnership deed/Joint venture/ Consortium/ MOU, duly signed by the notary public, should be uploaded failing which offer will be summarily rejected.

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 and Specifications of materials and works as laid down by Railway in the annexed Special Conditions of contract , General Instructions and conditions , explanatory notes of schedule of work and Annexures.

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.

Manual submission of EMD and cost of tender form cannot be entertained/Considered and hence no need of uploading the scanned copy of financial instruments

Whether GST registration available or not?

The contractor has to submit the EPF Code as per the EPFO Act and also has to submit a statement in this regard before signing the contract agreement.

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.