Stranded Jumper wire, Annealed Copper co [Stranded Jumper wire, Annealed Copper conductor 160 Sq. mm, 19/7/1.25 mm Dia. as per RDSO Specification no. TI/SPC/OHE/JMP/0941 or latest.

The Purchaser reserves the right to place an order for either the entire quantity or the bulk quantity (minimum 80% of the net procurable quantity) on RDSO -approved vendors, as reflected in U-VAM as on the date of tender closing, for RDSO Item ID: 3100640: Copper and Cadmium Copper Jumpers & Droppers, Sub-item ID:3100640002 : 50/105/160 sq.mm Annealed Copper Stranded Jumper Wires in terms of Clause 3.3 of Section II of the Central Railway Bid Document (updated January 2024). Developmental vendors listed in the RDSO Vendor Directory as reflected in U-VAM for RDSO Item ID: 3100640: Copper and Cadmium Copper Jumpers & Droppers, Sub-item ID: 3100640002 : 50/105/160 sq.mm Annealed Copper Stranded Jumper Wires, as on the date of tender closing, may be considered for developmental orders up to 20% of the net procurable quantity. Developmental vendors shall be eligible for consideration only if they hold unconditional approval status in U-VAM as on the date of tender closing. Developmental vendors reflected in the Vendor Directory with conditional approval/General Remarks (e.g., field trials, prototype approval, limited or temporary approval etc.) shall not be eligible for order placement. The status of the vendor (i.e. approved or developmental vendor) shall be reckoned as available in U-VAM on the date of tender closing date and not thereafter. However, cases of downgrading/removal/suspension/banning etc., after closing date of tender, shall be taken into account while considering the offers. Note: If the works address indicated in an offer is different from what is indicated in the approval certificate issued by the respective vendor approving agency or appearing in Vendor Directory reflected on U-VAM, such offer will be treated as if the same has been received from an unapproved source.

Where there are not more than three Indian suppliers categorized as Approved Vendor for a particular item, developmental vendors can be considered for placement of bulk order without any quantity restrictions. However, while considering such vendors, factors including past performance, capacity, delivery requirements, quantity under procurement, nature of item, outstanding order load etc. shall be considered in a transparent manner, subject to rates being reasonable. In such cases, the purchaser reserves the right to split the order quantity between one or more firms and Para 25.2 of Instruction to tenderers and General Conditions of tenders for supply contract [for indigenous tenders] shall be applicable. Such orders shall be treated as bulk orders. Indian Supplier shall be defined as follows: A supplier or bidder shall be considered to be from India if (i) the entity is incorporated in India, or ii) a majority of its shareholding or effective control of the entity is exercised from India, or iii) more than 50 Percent of the value of the item being supplied has been added in India.

The firms/tenderers who are not appearing in U-VAM as Approved/Developmental Vendors of nominated vendor/source approving agencies will not be considered for ordering. However, such firms willing to participate, are advised to approach the concerned Vendor Approving agency for getting their name registered as approved/developmental vendor in the vendor directory maintained in U-VAM.

In keeping with the Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order 2017, latest revision, it has been found that there exists sufficient local capacity and competition in supply of the tendered item of required quality and therefore public procurement of the item is restricted to " Class I local suppliers " only and the vendors who do not qualify to be Class I local suppliers should not quote in the tender as their offers shall not be considered for any ordering. In case any vendor who does not qualify to be a Class I local supplier for the tendered item participates in the tender it does so at its own risk and cost and Railways shall not be liable for any loss or damage caused to the vendor (in terms of Clause 5.0 of Section-II of Central Railway Bid Document (Updated) JANUARY-2024).

The order of precedence for various tender documents shall be as under:1.NIT 2. Special Condition of contract 3. Central Railway Bid Document 4.IRS condition of contract. In case of conflict, in any condition between the above documents the conditions mentioned in lower numbered documents shall prevail; for eg. If there is conflict between NIT & IRS conditions then condition mentioned in NIT will prevail, it being numbered 1, whereas IRS condition is numbered 4

TIME PREFERENCE :- Material required within 90 days. It should be noted that if a contract is placed on a higher tenderer as a result of this invitation to tender, in preference to the lowest acceptable offer, in consideration of offer of earlier delivery, the contractor will be liable to pay to the Government the difference between the contract rate and that of the lowest acceptable tenderer on the basis of final price, F.O.R. destination including all elements, of Freight, Sales tax, Local taxes, duties and other incidentals in case of failure to complete supplies in terms of such contract within the date of delivery specified in the tender and incorporated in the contract. This is in addition and without prejudice to other rights under the terms of contracts.

This is an e-tender. Manual Offers/Bids for this tender will not be accepted under any circumstances, only electronic Offers/Bids shall be accepted.

Have you furnished the statement of deviations, if any

Have you furnished the statement of deviations, if any

Have you mentioned MAKE / BRAND of OEM

Have you indicated the HSN code of your offered product

Have you kept your offer validity as per "Condition for Responsiveness of Offer

Have you indicated the percentage of Local Content in the relevant column

Have you uploaded Udyam Registeration Certificate

Have you quoted price on the basis of free delivery to destination, indicating the break up

Have you submitted the details of location(s) where local value addition is made

Have you attached relevant document for MSE if you claimed benefits and preferential treatment as MSE firm

Have you submitted authenticated copy of the document authorizing the signatory to submit offer and commit on behalf of tenderers

Have you quoted price on the basis of free delivery to destination, indicating the break up

Have you carefully reviewed the contents of the Undertaking/Declaration regarding non-participation of sister concerns or affiliates in this tender as submission of false information/declaration could lead to rejection of the bid.

Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) 1) EMD shall be submitted by tenderer as specified in tender schedule, along withtheir online offer. There shall be no exemption from submission of EMD for any tender or by any tenderer exceptthose exempted following: a] EMD shall normally not be called against Limited Tenders with estimated value up toRs. 25 Lakhs (including Single tenders, Global limited tenders) (b) Micro & small Enterprises (MSEs) registeredwith UDYAM. (c) Other Railways and Government Departments (d) Indian ordinance Factories (e) PSUs ownedby Ministry of Railways and PSUs for the group of items that are manufactured by them in terms of Railway (f)Vendors registered with Railways for the trade group of the item tendered (g) Vendors appearing on the approvedvendor lists of RDSO/PUs/CORE, subject to approval status being valid on the date of tender closing. (h) Vendorsregistered with Railways for supply of medicine, medical equipment and consumables shall be exempted fromsubmission of EMD for these items. (i) In tenders issued against PAC, OEM in whose favor PAC has been issuedshall be exempted from submitting EMD. (j) KVIC and ACASH shall be exempted from EMD for items supplied bythem. 2) Offers submitted without EMD except for cases under valid exemption shall be summarily rejected. 3) EMD amount will be as (Rounded off to nearest higher Rs 10 (Ten)- (i) For Estimated value of tender above Rs. 25 Lakhs and upto Rs. 50 Cr. EMD will be @ 2% of the estimated value of the tender subject to Max. Rs 20 Lakhs (ii)For Estimated value of tender above Rs. 50 Cr. EMD will be Rs. 50 Lakhs. 1.4 All vendors exempted fromsubmission of EMD as per above paras, shall be required to sign a bid security declaration in IREPS as follows-I/we hereby understand and accept that if I/we withdraw of modify my/or bid during the period of validity, of if I/we are awarded the contract and on being called upon to submit the performance security/Security Deposit, fail to submit the performance security/Security Deposit before the deadline defined in the request for bid document/Notice Inviting Tender, I/we shall be debarred from exemption of submitting Bid Security/Earnest Money Depositand performance security/Security Deposit for a period of 6 (six) months, from the date I/we are declareddisqualified from exemption from submission of EMD/SD, for all tenders for procurement of good issued by anyunit of India Railways published during this period.

SECURITY DEPOSIT (SD): 1) All successful tenderer shall deposit Security Deposit (SD) amount @ 5% ofcontract value rounded off to nearest higher Rs.10, subject to maximum Rs. 50 lakhs for contract value up to Rs50 Cr. In case of contract value above Rs.50Cr., SD will be Rs 1 Cr.2) There shall be no exemption fromsubmission of Security Deposit (SD) forany tender or by any tenderer except following: i. The Contract value up toRs.25 (twenty-five) lakhs. ii. Other Railways and Government Departments. iii. Indian Ordnance Factories. iv.PSUs owned by Ministry of Railways and PSUs for the group of items that are manufactured by them. v. Intenders issued against PAC, OEM in whose favour PAC has been issued. vi. KVIC and ACASH for items suppliedby them. vii. Vendors registered with Railways for the trade group of the item tendered for orders valued upto their monetary limit of registration. viii. Vendors appearing on the approved vendor lists of RDSO/PUs/CORE, subject to approval status being valid on the date of tender closing. ix. Vendors registered with Railways for supply of medicine, medical equipment and consumables for these items. 3) Security Deposit (SD) shall remain valid for a period of 60 days, beyond the date of completion of all contractual obligations. 4) SD from successful tenderer should be received in purchase office within 21days from the date acceptance letter issued by purchaser. In the event of successful tenderer (s) failing to deposit/submit SD in acceptable form within the prescribed period as aforesaid, the EMD submitted by such successful tenderers shall be automatically adjusted towards SD. In casewhere available EMD amount is less than required SD and the successful tenderer does not deposit the balanceSD amount within stipulated time, then EMD shall be forfeited and case be dealt with as that of withdrawal of offer by the tenderer.5) Wherever SD has been exempted, for any reason, and the supplier fails to supply goods as per conditions of contract, as amended from time to time, Purchaser shall have right to levy damages from the supplier for failing to comply with the contractual conditions, not by way of penalty, an amount equal to SD amount, as would have been applicable if the contract was with a non-exempted vendor. These damages shall be treated as recoveries out standing against the vendor and dealt with accordingly. 6) Apart from claiming damages from vendors, in case of failure to comply with the contractual obligations, Railways shall record poor performance of the vendors for taking suitable penal action.7) SD can be submitted in following format: a. DD in the name of Sr.DFM/Bhusawal. b. Fixed Deposit Receipt duly discharged and stamped in favour of Sr.DFM/Bhusawal, c. Bank guarantee: In case Bank guarantee is submitted by supplier/ contractor, the same should be in the proper prescribed format.

Goods & Services Tax (GST): As per Clause 9.0 and all sub-clauses of CENTRAL RAILWAY BID DOCUMENT (Updated) JANUARY 2024. All tenderers to quote correct HSN code and corresponding GST rate for the item/items quoted. Misclassification in HSN code, if quoted by any bidder, shall be dealt as per Clause 9.0(iv) of Section II of CENTRAL RAILWAY BID DOCUMENT (Updated) JANUARY 2024.

Authorized agent quoting on behalf of a manufacturer shall not be exempted from remitting EMD, owing to any of the above exemptions as stipulated at Para 23.1 (a) to (i) of Clause 23.0 of Section II of CENTRAL RAILWAY BID DOCUMENT (Updated) January-2024.

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 tax authority

Bidders shall also give Declaration as below:- "I/We agree to pass on such additional input tax credit as may become available in future under GST scheme, in respect of all the inputs used in the manufacturing and/or supply of final goods/services on the date of supply by way of reduction in price and advise the purchaser accordingly".

The tenderers in their bids shall indicate the details of their jurisdictional Assessing Officers (Designation, address & email id).In case of a contract award, a copy of the LOA/Purchase Order shall be immediately forwarded by Purchaser to the jurisdictional Assessing Officer mentioned in the Tenderers bid.

Bidders must strictly adhere to the Base Month and the formula. Offers deviating from the specified formula, Base Month,or indices, or quoted on a firm price basis will be summarily rejected under Clause 32.0 (ii) of the Central Railway Bid Document (Updated) JANUARY-2024.

Bidders are advised to carefully review the contents of the undertaking/declaration prior to signing, as the submission of false information could lead to rejection of the bid.

An Indian Agent quoting in INR on behalf of a foreign Principal/OEM should submit a copy of Invoice/Proforma Invoice from OEM alongwith their offer as well as should undertake to furnish all import documents and should comply to Clause 22.0 of Section-II of Central Railway Bid Document (Updated) JANUARY-2024.

Participation by Manufacturers is preferred. Agents/Dealers participating in a tender on behalf of manufacturers must provide Tender Specific Authorization (TSA) issued by the OEM. Bidders must upload above authorization letter along with their offer failing which their offer will be summarily rejected (i) In a tender, either the authorized agent/dealer on behalf of the Principal/OEM or the Principal/OEM itself can bid, but both cannot bid simultaneously for the same item in the same tender. Further, against a particular tender, one Principal/OEM should not issue Tender Specific Authorization to more than one agent/dealer. Such offers are to be summarily rejected. (ii) If an authorized agent/dealer submits bid on behalf of the Principal/OEM, the same agent/dealer shall not submit a bid on behalf of another Principal/OEM in same tender for the same item/product and such bids will be summarily rejected. (iii)Trader/Authorised Dealer should mention name of Manufacturer, make and complete address in their bid for inspection of material at OEM works

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 benefits of MSME Policy in respect of a particular item shall be given only to those MSEs which are registered for that item/group under Udyam Registeration such that 2/4/5-digit NIC code/Description covers the broad description of the tendered item or the manufacturing process of the tendered item broadly.

Vendors which are Large Scale Industry or consortia of MSEs formed by NSIC, must upload with offers, quantum of sub contracts given to Micro and Small Enterprises (in percent of order value) for goods to be supplied against this tender.

Bidders to submit details of location(s) where local value addition is made. In case no details are furnished, it will be presumed that works address(es) of manufacturing in India are the location(s) of local value addition.

LAND BORDER: All bidders shall confirm declaration as below in terms of Clause 5.15 of Section II of CENTRAL RAILWAYBID DOCUMENT (Updated) JANUARY-2024 in compliance of restrictions under Rule 144(xi) of GFR- 2017:- a) I have read the clause regarding restrictions on procurement from a bidder of country which shares a land border with India. b) I certify that this bidder is not from such a country or, if from such a country, has been registered with the competent authority. c) I hereby certify that this bidder fulfils all requirements in this regard and is eligible to be considered. (Where applicable, evidence of valid registration by the competent authority is attached). If the bidder fails to give such declaration, as above, then it will be presumed that the contents of above declaration have been read and unconditionally agreed and accepted by the tenderer. If any tenderer is not agreeable to this declaration they have to categorically mention about the disagreement in Techno-Commercial Deviation.

Vendors claiming to avail benefits and preferential treatment extended to Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) must necessarily upload relevant documents with their offer in terms of Clause 4.0 of Section II of CENTRAL RAILWAY BID DOCUMENT (Updated) JANUARY-2024. Vendors claiming MSE benefit, despite upward re-classification, must upload MSE document for the financial year not older than 03 years from the date of reclassification/upgradation to claim benefit, otherwise status of such vendors shall not be considered as MSE.

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.