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"Ref. No........................ Dated 22.07.2025 The Tender Evaluation Committee Indian Oil Corporation Limited Subject: Price Justification and Clarification for Tender No. PDO1H25023 GeM Bid No.: GEM/2025/B/6196848 Work: Transportation of Propylene from IOCL-Mathura Refinery to IOCL- Paradip Refinery Respected Sir/Madam, This is in reference to your communication regarding the justification of our quoted price of Rs. 3.39 for the subject tender.
We humbly submit that this was a genuine and unintentional error, arising from a misunderstanding of the pricing format specified for GeM-based tenders. In our 40+ years of experience transporting LPG, Propylene, LNG, and related gases across India - including for IOCL, BPCL, HPCL, and several private entities - we have always quoted on a per kilometer per ton basis, which has been the traditional norm in this industry. The current requirement of quoting total BOQ-based pricing through the GeM platform is relatively new to us, and we regret not fully adapting to the revised format in this instance.
b) The petitioner in its reply, vide communications dated 06.08.2025 and 22.07.2025, clarified that the error in the format in which the rate was quoted, was genuine and unintentional mistake, arising from a misunderstanding of bid format prescribed in the GeM tenders.

c) No show cause notice was issued by IOCL prior to passing the impugned order of holiday listing the petitioner. The omission is contrary to the IOCL's own guidelines on holiday listing, which mandate the issuance of a show cause notice and even prescribe a format, which specifically requires that the noticee be informed that blacklisting action is contemplated against it.

"11.GeM Tenders In case of GeM procurements, incident Management (IIM) Policy of GeM shall be applicable Terminologies used in GeM shall be as defined in the relevant policy. Buying Unit to ensure that vendor suspended due to IOCL's incident raising is blocked in SAP for the period for which they have been put on Suspension list of GeM, and the same is also updated on IOCL e-tender portal, as is done for other holiday listed vendors."