Para 4.2.1 — GOODS_MANUAL

4.2.1 Terms and Conditions 1. There should be no restriction on participation by prospective bidders who meet the eligibility criteria. Especially prior registration with the Procuring Entity should not be insisted upon. However, bidders who are already registered are also free to participate. 2. Advertisements in such cases should be given on the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) as well as on GeM- Central Public Procurement Portal (CPPP) at www.eprocure.gov.in . An organisation that has its own website should also publish all its advertised tender enquiries on the website. The procuring entity should also post the complete tender document on its website and GeM- CPPP to enable prospective bidders to make use of the document by downloading it from the website. The advertisements for the tender invitations should give the complete web address from which the tender documents can be downloaded. While it is no longer mandatory to issue advertisements in newspapers, there is no bar to issuing such advertisements if the procuring entities consider them necessary. To promote wider participation and ease of bidding, no cost of tender documents may be charged for the tender documents downloaded by the bidders.; 3. The sale/ availability for downloading of tender documents against NIT should not be restricted and should be available freely. Tender documents should preferably be sold/made available for download up to the date of tender opening. 4. The tender documents should be prepared based on the relevant approved MTD for the procurement category. Further details on preparing tender documents are provided in Chapter 5.

5. In offline tenders, the procuring entity shall maintain proper records about the number of tender documents sold, the list of parties to whom sold, details of the amount received through sale, and the number of unsold tender documents, which are to be cancelled after the opening of the tenders. 6. In domestic tenders, bids can be submitted only in INR, and any bid in foreign currency should be summarily rejected. Foreign bidders can also participate if they submit a bid in INR. However, purchase preference for local content as per the PPP-MII shall apply (Please refer to para 1.11.3). 7. In the case of domestic open tender for projects (including turnkey projects), allowing consortium bidding, a foreign bidder can be a consortium member, subject to the condition that the consortium as a whole meets the minimum local content criteria, as per the Make in India Order, 2017. The leader of the consortium can be a foreign party, and the bids are to be solicited in Indian Rupee only, i.e., no payment can be made in foreign currency to the foreign consortium member.