Para 8.5 — CONSULT_MANUAL

2. For a time-based contract, any arithmetical errors shall be corrected, and prices shall be adjusted if they fail to reflect all inputs that are included in the respective technical proposals. For a lump-sum contract, the consultant is deemed to have included all prices in its/his financial proposal so neither arithmetical correction nor any other price adjustment shall be made.

3. For the purpose of evaluation, the total cost shall include all taxes and duties for which the Procuring Entity makes payments to the consultant and other reimbursable expenses, such as travel, translation, report printing, or secretarial expenses as indicated in the RfP document

4. If any bidder offers conditional discounts/ rebates in his bid or suo-motu discounts and rebates after the Bid Opening (techno-commercial or financial), such rebates/ discounts shall not be considered for ranking the offer. But if such a bidder does become L1 or H-1 without discounts/ rebates, such discounts/ rebates shall be availed and incorporated in the contracts;

5. Unless announced beforehand, the quoted price shall not be loaded based on deviations in the commercial conditions. If it is so declared, such loading of a financial bid shall be done as per the relevant provisions;

6. As per policies of the Government, from time to time, the Procuring Entity reserves its option to give purchase preferences to eligible categories of Bidders as indicated in the Tender Document.

7. Financial evaluation of Bids shall include and consider the following taxes/ duties as per para 6.2: a) in the case of Services performed in India or incidental goods of foreign origin already located in India, GST & other similar duties, which shall be contractually payable, on the Services and incidental Goods, if a contract is awarded on the bidder; b) The offers shall be evaluated based on the GST rate quoted by each bidder, and the same shall be used for determining the inter-se ranking. The Procuring Entity shall not be responsible for any misclassification of HSN Number or incorrect GST rate if

8.5 Evaluation of Cost and Selection of Winning Bidder 8.5.1 Basic Considerations 1. The financial proposals shall be opened publicly in the presence of representatives of the technically qualified consultants who choose to attend. The Evaluation Committee demonstrably verifies that the financial proposals have remained sealed and then opens them. The name of the consultant, quality scores, and proposed prices shall be read aloud and recorded when the financial proposals are opened. No modification to financial proposals is permitted. The Procuring Entity shall prepare the minutes of the public opening. Format at Annexure 5 may be used for this purpose. When electronic submission of proposals is used, this information shall be posted online.

Chapter 8: RfP Evaluation and Award of Contract quoted by the bidder. Any increase in GST rate due to misclassification of HSN number shall have to be absorbed by the consultant; and c) If GST is quoted extra, but with the provision that it shall be charged as applicable at the time of delivery, the offer shall be evaluated for comparison purposes by loading the maximum existing rate of GST for the product/ HSN code.

8. Price Variation: If the bids have been invited on a variable price basis, they will be evaluated, compared, and ranked based on the position prevailing on the bid submission deadline and not based on any future date. If a Bidder submits a firm price quotation against the requirement of a variable price quotation, that bid shall be prima facie acceptable and considered further, taking the price variation asked for by the Bidder as nil.

(Rule 190 of GFR 2017) 8.5.2 Least Cost Selection (LCS) Under the LCS procedures, the financial proposals will be ranked in terms of their total evaluated cost. The least cost proposal will be ranked as L-1 and the next higher and so on will be ranked as L-2, L-3 etc. The least cost proposal (L-1) will be considered for award of contract. The CEC will put up a report on financial evaluation of the technically qualified consultants to the competent finance authority along with the recommendation that the least cost proposal (L-1) can be approved/ invited for negotiation and for final award of contract.