Para 8.3 — CONSULT_MANUAL

1. A substantively responsive bid is complete and conforms to the Tender Document's essential terms, conditions, and requirements, without substantive deviation, reservation, or omission. Only substantively responsive bids shall be considered for further evaluation. Other bids shall be treated as unresponsive and ignored. All bids received shall first be scrutinised to identify unresponsive bids, if any. Some important points based on which a bid may be declared as unresponsive and be ignored during the initial scrutiny are:

8.3 Preliminary and Techno-commercial Evaluation (Rule 189 of GFR 2017) Preliminary Examination of Bids - Evaluation of Responsiveness of Bids

a) The bid is not in the prescribed format or is incomplete (i.e., when the required bid formats have not been submitted) or is unsigned (or not signed as per the stipulations in the tender document); b) The required EMD has not been provided or exemption from EMD is claimed without acceptable proof of exemption; c) The bidder is not eligible to participate in the bid as per laid down eligibility criteria (example: the tender enquiry condition says that the bidder must be a registered MSE unit, but the bidder is a, say, a large-scale unit); d) The bid departs from the essential requirements specified in the tender document (for example, the bidder has not agreed to give the required performance security); or e) Against a schedule in the list of requirements in the tender enquiry, the bidder has not quoted for the entire requirement as specified in that schedule (example: in a schedule, it has been stipulated that the bidder will supply the equipment, install, and commission it and also train the purchaser's operators for operating the equipment. The bidder has, however, quoted only for supply of the equipment). f) Bidder has quoted conditional bids or more than one bid or alternative bids unless permitted explicitly in the Tender Document. g) The bid validity is shorter than the required period. However, in case of STE procurement, shorter bid validity may be accepted. h) Non-submission or submission of illegible scanned copies of stipulated documents/ declarations. i) The bid has unresolved substantive deviations (please refer to para 8.3.4 below).