Tender
Government Rules regarding Tender formalities/ e-Tender Procedure/ Technical Evaluation/ Financial Bid Opening/ Acceptance of Lowest Bidder/ Letter of Indent etc.
Care shall be taken to see that splitting up does not technically damage the structural soundness of the work as a whole and where such possibility exists, the work shall not be split up into smaller parts.
Governor is further pleased to direct that a Bid Evaluation Committee (BEC) be constituted under Superintending Engineers who are the tender inviting authorities for all works beyond the tender accepting power of Executive Engineers.
The bid closure time of each day has been divided into 10 slots of 55 minutes each starting from 10.00 AM and ending at 06.55 PM to prevent accumulation of bid submission at a particular time.
The Works Departments shall abolish the system of enlistment of contractors. All works of and above Rs. 5 lakh for which e-tendering is mandatory would be awarded through open e-tender.
Governor has been pleased to accord approval for disposal of scrap/ condemned/ obsolete items through e-auction portal of MSTC Limited for which upto 3% of the H1 (sale value) may be allowed to MSTC Limited as service charges.
Numerous competent bidder may be deprived off getting such MAF for any manipulating practice of any Private Company and thus objectives of having larger participation may be impaired.
Works/ Schemes/ Projects/ Procurements, which have been split to avoid the approval of the appropriate authorities and/or laid down tender norms, no payment should be released before the examination of the same by the Finance Department.
Government has decided to relax the provision of submission of hard copy of the original EMD documents to the tender inviting authority before financial evaluations of bids in case of e-tender.
West Bengal Financial Rules provided for preferential treatment by way of 10% price preference to the State Government organizations vide Note-1 below sub-rule (3) of rule 47A of WBFR.
For smooth implementation of e-Tender process by the different Departments and their sub-ordinate offices and for monitoring the project core committee constituted.