Extension of Last Date for Submission of Bids

Minutes of Pre-Bid meeting

Reserve Bank of India, Chennai invites two parts tenders through e-Tender mode from eligible contractors who meets the minimum pre-qualification criteria specified below for the following work. The salient details of the work for which bids are invited and important instructions to the bidder are as under:

2. The bidders who fulfil the following minimum pre-qualification criteria shall be eligible to participate in tendering process.

(i) *Similar work shall mean ‘Installation of Coffee/ Tea Vending Machine and/or supply of Manpower for providing Coffee/Tea Services’ to Government Departments / Banks / reputed Public / Private sector institutions/organizations.

(ii) Components of work executed other than those included in definition of similar work (mentioned above) shall be deducted while calculating cost of similar work. Bidder shall submit abstract of cost of work in support of this.

(iii) Bank shall have the right to verify / cause verification of authenticity of the said documents whenever felt necessary.

(iv) Bank reserves its right to obtain the performance reports from the clients for the qualifying work(s), Banker(s) report of the Bidders directly, if so desired. The Bank on its own may also conduct inspection of their work eligible/qualifying works referred by the Bidder in their bid.

(v) It is clarified that the work executed by the applicant for their in-house or capital use will not be considered for the purpose of work experience of completion of similar works.

(vi) If the space in the format is insufficient for furnishing full details, the same information may be furnished on a separate sheet of paper strictly as per the format prescribed by the Bank duly signed with seal, scanned and uploaded along with supporting documents.

(vii) Even, if no information is to be provided in a column, a ‘Nil’ or ‘No such case’ entry should be made in that column. If any particulars / query is not applicable in case of the bidder, it should be stated as ‘Not applicable’ Tender document shall contain all the enclosures mentioned and copies shall be self-attested.

(Viii) The bid submitted by a bidder who is found to be not satisfying the above prequalification criteria will be disqualified. Bids containing false and / or incomplete information are liable for rejection.

(ix) For full details please refer Tender Document Technical Bid and Financial Bid. Further corrigendum/addendum if any, will be hosted on Bank’s website www.rbi.org.in under the link ‘Tenders’ and https://www.mstcecommerce.com/eprocn.

(X) The Bank is not bound to accept the lowest tender and reserves the right to accept either full or in part of any tender. The Bank also reserves the right to reject any one or all of the tenders without assigning any reason, thereof.