Para 5.7 — CONSULT_MANUAL

2. As far as the bidders who have participated in a tender (participating bidders), for purpose of transparency, comparative summary of Technical (compliance details) and of Financials bids (including QCBS calculations, wherever applicable) should also be accessible to them, but not necessarily to public at large, unless sought and is permissible under the RTI act.

5.7 Transparency and Protecting Third-Party Rights of Bidders 1. Objectives of transparency in eProcurement are amply served if all data relating to the Tender and Award of Contract are accessible to public.

3. Bidders may have genuine concern about Techno-commercial and operational trade secrets, if their full technical and financial bids are accessible to their competitors or public at large. This concern may get aggravated in complicated EPC/ PPP/ Consultancy procurements. Technical/ financial bids should not be made accessible to public at large, and a call needs to be taken based on sensitivity of details in the bids to restrict access of even participating bidders to full technical/ financial bids of their competitors. Decision of procuring Entity to share or not share the full technical bids with other participating bidders, should be clearly brought out in the Tender Documents.

4. However, a clause may be added to the tender documents reserving right of the Procurement Entity and the eProcurement portal to provide access to bidders’ technical/ financial bids to other participating bidders, in addition to comparative summary of Technical and financial bids of all participating bidders.