competent to dispose of the tenders shall have the right of rejecting all or any of the tenders without assigning any reasons ... tender rate rests with the competent authority who does not bind himself to accept the lowest tender or any other tender or to assign
contending that the work could not have
been assigned to one agency without there being tender
notification. The first respondent has also taken ... work is being assigned as fresh work contract in favour
of the petitioner by private negotiation without calling
for tender. As already noticed above
tender is accepted and it is
assigned work. A direction is also sought in this
writ petition to the first respondent to award
contract ... others
participated in the tender process. The tender
notification reveals that the tender will be
evaluated on two scores i.e., technical evaluation
and financial
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documents pertaining to extension of the period of contract
were produced and marked as Exs.M-1 to M-24. Though ... Corporation would
create false and fabricated tender documents, agreements and
correspondence regarding assignment of contracts pertaining to
generation and maintenance work of power stations
impugned at Annexure-A.
2. By the said order, the contract work which had
been awarded in favour of the petitioner is cancelled ... necessary to notice that the work
assigned to the petitioner is under a tender process and
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contract has been entered into between the parties
entrusted to 3rd parties ignoring the understanding
reached and the contract assigned.
7. Counsel for the respondents takes me
through the statement of objections ... cannot have any right to
prevent the respondents from assigning the contract
to the eligible tenderer, after the expiry of the duration
for which
tender process, pursuant to the tender document
at Annexure-A and it was the successful tenderer.
The petitioenr was assigned work of undertaking milk
packaging ... from 2011 to
2013. The contract assigned to the petitioner ends by
May 2013. Condition No.11 of the tender document
reads thus
total value of the contract is Rs. 64,79,000/- The contract was assigned after the acceptance of tender. The tender rates were quoted ... likely to be effected from the bills relating to the other contract works. Therefore, sought for relief of declaration that the impugned letter is illegal
students, has unilaterally cancelled the contract. The
impugned termination of contract does not substantiate valid
grounds to cancel the contract. The petitioner was declared ... that authorities must have valid
reasons for cancelling the contract. Discharging tender without
assigning any reasons is not sustainable in law. Except vague
allegations
difference between the parties in
terms of clause 4.1 of the tender contract dated
25.01.2010 entered into between the petitioner and the
respondent evidenced ... tender process pursuant to the
tender notification, was declared the successful bidder and
consequently entered into a contractual obligation to
execute the assigned work. However