The tenderer shall hand over the hard copies of Tender documents to the Executive Engineer, R&B Division, Mylavaram authorized representative directly or through his agent or by registered post or by courier service, so as to reach one day before opening of the price bid. The tenders will be opened by the Executive Engineer, R&B Division, Mylavaram or his nominee at his office in the presence of tenderers or their authorized representatives, on the dates mentioned in NIT. If the Office happens to be closed on the dates, the opening of tenders gets automatically postponed to the next working date, the time being unaltered, unless extended by a notification published in News papers or sent through Fax / telegrams to all those who purchased the tender documents. 1.1.1 The successful tenderer is expected to complete the work within the time period specified in the NIT. 2. Firms Eligible to Tender: 2.1 The Firms who i) possess the valid registration in the class and category mentioned in the NIT and satisfy all the conditions therein . ii) are not blacklisted or debarred or suspended by the Government for what ever the reason, prohibiting them not to continue in the contracting business iii) have complied with the eligibility criteria specified in the NIT. are the eligible tenderers. 2.2 Firms Ineligible to Tender: i) A retired officer of the Govt. of AP or Govt. of India executing works is disqualified from tendering for a period of two years from the date of retirement without the prior permission of the Government. ii) The Tenderer who has employed any retired officer as mentioned above shall be considered as an ineligible tenderer. iii) The contractor himself or any of his employees is found to be Gazetted Officer who retired from Government Service and had not obtained permission from the Government for accepting the contractor??s employment within a period of 2 years from the date of his retirement. iv) The Contractor or any of his employees is found at any time after award of contract, to be such a person who had not obtained the permission of the Government as aforesaid before submission of the tender or engagement in the Contractor??s service. v) Contractor shall not be eligible to tender for works in the division / Division where any of his near relatives are employed in the rank of Assistant Engineer or Assistant Executive Engineers and above on the Engineering side and Divisional Accounts Officer and above on the administrative side. The Contractor shall intimate the names of persons who are working with him in any capacity or are subsequently employed. He shall also furnish a list of Gazetted /Non-Gazetted, State Government Employees related to him. Failure to furnish such information tenderer is liable to be removed from the list of approved contractors and his contract is liable for cancellation. Note: Near relatives include 1. Sons, step sons, daughters, and step daughters. 2. Son-in-law, and daughter-in-law. 3. Brother-in-law, and sister-in-law. 4. Brothers and Sisters. 5. Father and Mother. 6. Wife / Husband. 7. Father-in-law and Mother-in-law 8. Nephews, nieces, uncle and aunts 9. Cousins and 10. Any person residing with or dependent on the contractor. 3. Qualification data of the Tenderers 3.1 The tenderer shall furnish the following particulars in the formats enclosed, supported by documentary evidence as specified in the formats. a) Attested copies of documents relating to the Registration of the firm, Registration as Civil Contractor, Partnership deed, Articles of Association, Commercial Tax Registration, / Commercial Tax clearance certificate ., and PAN card Note: The Partnership firms, which are registered as Contractors shall intimate the change in partnership deed, if any, as per GO Ms No.58, I & CAD, dt.23.4.2002 within one month of such change. Failure to notify the change to the registration authority in time will entail the firms to forfeit their registration and their tender will be rejected. The intimation of change of partners if any and the acceptance by the Registration authority may be enclosed.. a) Note: 1)Availability of the Key personnel i. Graduate Engineer or 1 No. ii. Diploma Holder with adequate experience 2No. 3.2 Even though the tenderers meet the above qualifying criteria, they are liable to be disqualified / debarred / suspended / blacklisted if they have ?? Furnished false / fabricated particulars in the forms, statements and /annexures submitted in proof of the qualification requirements and/or ?? Not turned up for entering into agreement, when called upon. ?? record of poor progress such as abandoning the work, not properly completing the contract, inordinate delays in completion, litigation history or financial failures etc. and/or ?? participated in the previous bidding for the same work and had quoted unreasonably high tender percentage and ?? even while execution of the work, if found that the work was awarded to the Contractor based on false / fake certificates of experience, the Contractor will be blacklisted and work will be taken over invoking clause 61 of PS to APSS. 3.3 Tenders with an excess of above 5% of the estimated contract value shall summarily be rejected. 3.4 For tenders up to 25% less than the estimated contract value of work, no additional security deposit is required. But for tenders less than 25% of the estimated Contract Value of work, the difference between the tendered amount and 75% of the estimated contract value, shall be paid by the successful tenderer at the time of concluding agreement as an additional security to fulfill the contract through a Bank Guarantee or Demand Draft on a Nationalised Bank in the prescribed format valid till completion of the work in all respects. 3.5 . b) A tenderer submitting a Tender which the tender accepting authority considers excessive and or indicative of insufficient knowledge of current prices or definite attempt of profiteering will render himself liable to be debarred permanently from tendering or for such period as the tender accepting authority may decide. The tenderer overall percentage should be based on the controlled prices for the materials, if any, fixed by the Government or the reasonable prices permissible for the tenderer to charge a private purchaser under the provisions of clause-6 of the hoarding and profiteering prevention ordinance of 1943 as amended from time to time and on similar principle in regard to labour supervision on the construction. 4. One Tender per Tenderer: 4.1 Each Tenderer shall submit only one Tender for the work. A Tenderer who submits more than one Tender will cause dis-qualification of all the Tenders submitted by the Tenderer. 5. Cost of Tendering 5.1 The Tenderer shall bear all costs associated with the preparation and submission of his Tender and the tender inviting authority will in no case be responsible and liable for those costs. 6. Site Visit. 6.1 The Tenderer, at the Tenderers own responsibility and risk is advised to visit and examine the Site of Work and its surroundings and obtain all information that may be necessary for preparing the Tender for entering into a contract, for construction of the work. The costs of visiting the site shall be at the Tenderers own expense.