Supply & testing of 3. c 120

Product should be ISI marked. Firm should submit/attach/upload valid BIS license of manufacturer of their offered product for IS 7098 (Part 2) failing of which their offer will not be considered as technically valid/suitable offer, and such offer will summarily be ignored/rejected. No back reference on either side will be made or entertained in this regard.

Bulk order will be placed on the manufacturer or its authorized agent. The manufacturer firm must have satisfactorily executed at least one single purchase order for a minimum of 20 percent of the total tender quantity of Zonal Railways/ PUs/ CORE for the tendered item [OR] for the items having same specification, but of different sizes/ ratings/capacities, during 5 (five) previous financial years and current financial year up to date of tender closing. Purchase Officers can consider such firms for bulk order duly keeping in view the overall performance of the firm.

Tenderer other than manufacturer should attach/upload tender specific authorization issued by manufacturer of the offer product along with their offer failing of which offer of the firm will not be considered as a valid offer and such offer will summarily be ignored/rejected. No back reference on either side will be made or entertained in this regard.

Type Test Certificate Conforming to IS:7098 Part-II from NABL Accredited lab has to be submitted along with the offer for similar type of cable having conductor cross-sectional area not less than the mentioned size in description

EMD Clause: Tenderers are required to deposit Earnest Money equivalent to the amount mentioned in the tender document. There shall be no exemption from submission of Earnest Money for any tender or by any tenderer except as per Para 3.3 of Instructions to Tenderers for Electronic Tenders (Version: NFR-Jan 2025). All vendors, exempted from submitting EMD, irrespective of the type of tender, i.e, Single, Limited or Open, shall be required to sign a Bid Securing Declaration as per proforma available on bidders interface for payment of EMD on IREPS portal. Offers of tenderers, who do not submit Earnest Money and are also not exempted form submission of Earnest Money shall be summarily rejected.

Tenderers have to quote the FOR destination rate.

Make in India Policy: (a) This tender complies with Public Procurement Policy (Make in India) Order 201, revised on 16.09.2017, issued by department of Industrial, Promotion and Policy, Ministry of Commerce circulated vide Rly. Bd letter No. 2015/RS(G)/779/2/Pt.1, dtd. 25.09.20 or latest. (b) Please declare the percentage of local content in the material being offered. Please enter 0 for fully imported item 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 NFR Instructions to tenderers with the details of the location(s) at which the local value addition is made. (c) In case of procurement for value in access of Rs. 10 Crs. the Class-I local supplier/Class-II local supplier shall be required to provide a certificate from the statutory auditor or cost auditor of the company (In case of companies) or from practicing cost accountant or practicing chartered accounts (In respect of suppliers other than companies) giving the percentage of local content at the time of execution of the Purchase Order. In case the contractor/supplier does not meet the stipulated local content requirement and the category of the supplier changes from Class I to Class II/Non-local or from Class II to Non-local a penalty upto 10% of the contract value may be imposed as per Railway Board Circular 2020/RS(G)/779/2/ Pt. 1(E3322671) dt. 20.08.2024.

(a) MSE sources, who are interested for availing benefits under MSE act mentioned in the notification of Ministry of MSME, should upload valid document maintained under MSE act such as UDYAM Registration certificate duly marking the tendered item in the certificate otherwise claim for benefits under MSE act may not be entertained. (b) MSE source owned by SC/ST/Woman should upload necessary documents to get the benefits in regard to their category i.e. the ownership of MSE pertains to SC/ST/Other category clearly. Absence of this information in the registration certificate would be taken as MSE falling in the category of Others.

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.

Inspection by TPI

The tenderer shall submit a copy of certificate stating that all their statements/documents submitted alongwith bid are true and factual. Standard format of certificate to be submitted by the bidder is enclosed in Annexure-I. Non Submission of above certificate by the bidder shall result in summarily rejection of his/their bid. It shall be mandatorily incumbent upon the tenderer to identify state and submit the supporting documents duly self attested/digitally signed by which they/he is qualifying the Qualifying Criteria mentioned in tender document.

Warranty: Railway Standard guaranty/warranty clause as per IRS conditions of contract or as per specification whichever is higher will be applicable.

Firm should mentioned detail address of the place of inspection.

Firm to mention HSN code of the tendered item and GSTIN No.

Validity of the offer will be 120 days from the date of closing of the tender

(a) In case of any contradiction or conflict between tender schedules to that instruction to tenderers, the conditions pointed out in tender schedule will prevail.

Firm shall deposit SD @ 5% of total contract value towards Security Deposit. SD from successful tenderer should be received in purchase office within 21 days form the date of communication of acceptance with respect to the purchaser. SD shall remain valid for a period of 60 days beyond the date of completion of all contractual obligations. For details, please browse Para 12.0 of Instructions to Tenderers for Electronic Tenders (Version: NFR-Jan 2025) attached with the tender. There shall be no exemption form submission of Security Deposit for any tender or by any tenderer except:1. i) The Stores contract cases of value up to Rs.25 lakhs. ii) Other Railways and Government departments in terms of Railway Boards Letter No. 2004/RS/(G)/779/11 dated 24.07.2007. iii) Indian Ordinance Factories in terms of Railway Board Letter No. 92/RS/(G)/363/1 dated 08.04.1993. iv) PSU owned by Ministry of Railways and PSUs for the group of items that are manufactured by them in terms Railway Boards Letter No. 2003/RS/(G)/779/5 dated 10.09.2004. v) In tenders issued against PAC, OEM in whose favour PAC has been issued shall be exempted for submitting SD. KVIC and ACASH shall be exempted from SD from item supplied by them. vi)Vendors registered with Railways for the trade group of the item tendered shall be exempted from SD for orders valued up to their monetary limit of registration. vii) Vendor appearing on the approved vendor list of RDSO/PUs/CORE subject to the approval status being valid on the date of tender closing. viii) Vendors registered with Railways for supply of medicines, medical equipments and consumables are exempted from SD for these items.

Acceptance of tender: ( a ) The purchaser reserves the right to reject any or all of the tenders in part or full at his sole discretion without assigning any reason. ( b ) Railway does not pledge itself to accept the lowest or any tenders and reserves to itself the right of acceptance of the whole or any part of the quantity offered. ( c ) The decision of Railways with regard to allotment of quantity so as to insure uninterrupted supply of Sleepers will be final. (d) The acceptance of the tender will be communicated by letter of acceptance direct to the tenderers. In case where a counter offer is issued, the unconditional acceptance of counter offer will result in a validity concluded contract through formal letter of acceptance may be forwarded to the contractor at a letter date.

Undertaking for GST- We hereby declare that in quoting the basic price, we have taken into account the full effect of Input Tax Credit available under GST. We, further agree to pass on any financial gain/benefit as may become available in future in respect of all the input tax credit on the date of supply by way of reduction in price and advise the purchaser accordingly. We also undertake that we are aware of the provisions of section 171 of the CGST Act and consequences thereof if we fail to comply with the same. We shall file their GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B for transaction with Railways in due time preferably every month so that ITC benefit can be availed by Railway.

Material is to be supplied in one installment. Supply is to be completed within stipulated time of placement of purchase order.

The materials are as per Specification.

Firm to supply the material duly marked with Make/Brand and Date/Month of Manufacture.