Para 5.5.6 — CONSULT_MANUAL
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5.5.6 Withdraw/ Amendments / Modifications to Bids by Bidders The bidder, after submitting its bid is permitted to substitute/ alter/modify it, superseding earlier bid, so long such revised bid is uploaded/ received duly sealed and marked like original bid, up to the bid submission deadline. Resubmission of a bid shall require uploading of all documents, including financial bid afresh. The system shall consider only the last bid submitted as the valid bid. The bidder may withdraw his bid before the bid submission deadline, and it shall be marked as withdrawn and shall not get opened during the Bid opening. Any such action after that deadline is not permitted. Withdrawal/ amendment/ modification/ alteration/ impairment/ derogation of a bid, in any respect, by its bidders between the deadline for submission of bids and expiration of the period of bid validity, his bid security/ EMD shall be forfeited besides imposition of any other punitive remedy available to the procuring entity. In such cases, tender evaluation shall be proceeded with in terms of para 8.2.6-3) below.
5.5.7 Sealing/ Marking of Bids in off-line Tenders The tender document should indicate the manner of submission/ uploading of bids. In case of off-line tenders, total number of bid copies (for example, in duplicate or in triplicate, and so on) required to be submitted. The bidder is to seal the original and each copy of the bid in separate envelopes, duly marking the same as "original", "duplicate," and so on, and printing the address of the purchase office and the tender reference number on the envelopes. Further, the sentence ''NOT TO BE OPENED" before (due date and time of tender opening) is also to be printed on these envelopes. The inner envelopes are then to be put inside a bigger outer envelope, which will also be duly sealed marked, and so on, as above. If the outer envelope is not sealed and marked properly as above, the procuring entity does not assume any responsibility for its misplacement, premature opening, late opening, and so on.