Para 5.2 - Procurement Powers | KartavyaDesk

Original Rule Text

5.2 Schedule of Procurement Powers (SoPP) 5.2.1 There are delegations up to a low threshold value below which the evaluation of the bids and decision for award of contract may be entrusted directly (instead on a recommendation of a Tender Committee) to individual competent authority. He would himself carry out all the steps in evaluation described below, instead of the TC and directly record reasons and decision on the file itself. He may ask for a Technical Suitability report from User Departments, if so needed. In procurements above such a threshold, evaluation is carried out by Tender Committee consisting of three or more members with requisite experience and competence. Members include a Financial Adviser or his representative and a representative of the user as per SoPP. Procuring Entity should lay down a SoPP specifying such thresholds. Experts may also be called in to assist the TC. TC should not be very large as it may slow down the evaluation process. There is no need to constitute any other committee for technical evaluation, preliminary evaluation etc. The representative of user Department will work as a convener of the TC. No member of the tender committee should be reporting directly to any other member of such committee in case estimated value of the procurement exceeds Rs. 25 lakh42 . Though the GFR stipulates this provision only when the estimated value of the procurement exceeds Rs. 25 lakh, it is desirable that the same provision should be followed in the constitution of all purchase committees irrespective of the value of procurement. Every Procuring Entity is expected to clearly lay down the powers, jurisdiction and composition of different levels of Tender Committee and corresponding Accepting Authority for different categories of procurement and different threshold values of procurements. Such an arrangement ensures checks & balances in the Tender Evaluation Process. Competent authority, in direct acceptance case; and member secretary of the Tender Committee will receive the bids opened along with other documents from the tender opening officials and are

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Key Points

• •Defines the Schedule of Procurement Powers (SoPP) based on procurement value.
• •Allows individual competent authority to handle procurements below a defined threshold.
• •Mandates a Tender Committee (TC) for procurements above the threshold, including finance and user department representatives.
• •Emphasizes clear delegation of powers and composition of Tender Committees.
• •Aims to ensure checks and balances in the tender evaluation process.

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