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45. Notwithstanding anything stated herein above, in the matter in hand neither the procurement was pertaining to appointment of any person by the procuring entity nor was it pertaining to printing of examination paper, rather the MoU executed inter-se the parties pertained to conducting the entire recruitment/selection examination. Likewise, no contract or bid pertaining to printing of examination papers was executed.
46. Even momentarily it is assumed that the Single Source procurement was valid, the provisions of Rule 17 of the RTPP Rules, 2013 were violated in-toto. Section 17 of the RTPP Act, makes it mandatory to exhibit the invitation to bid from single source procurement portal, negotiations and to show bona-fides. However, sine qua non the aforementioned procedure the Single Source procurement could not be initiated. The said Rule is reproduced herein below: