Central Coalfieds Limited vs Sll-Sml (Joint Venture Consortium) . on 17 August, 2016
[See: para-47 and 48 of Central Coalfields Limited (Supra)]. The Apex Court in
the facts of the said case found that if the employer prescribes a particular format of
the bank guarantee to be furnished, then a bidder ought to submit the bank guarantee
in that particular format only and not in any other format. However, it was also
observed that there is no inflexibility in this regard that the employer could deviate
from the bid document but only within the parameter mentioned above.