Contract Bidding Open For Repairs and Replacement of gates and Cleaning ,Oiling and greasing of screw gearing shuttering of OTS and Regulators of SSG canal from Km 85.000 to 107.500 in TIRUPATHI, ANDHRA PRADESH

Tenders will be received by the Executive Engineer, NTR TGP. Division, Srikalahasti on e-procurement platform from 01-06-2026 to 08-06-2026 up to 17.00 Hours for the work ?Repairs and Replacement of gates and Cleaning ,Oiling and greasing of screw gearing shuttering of OTS and Regulators of SSG canal from Km 85.000 to 107.500? The Price Bid of those tenderers who are determined as qualified as per eligible criteria will be opened at 11.00 Hours on 09-06-2026. The Price Bid of unqualified tenderers will not be considered responsive. 1.2. The tender shall be in the prescribed form obtained from ?e? procurement Platform. The dates stipulated in the Tender Notice under Columns-8, 9, 10 are firm and remain unchanged unless officially extended. 1.3. The following documents should be uploaded along with the bid. 1. Check slip to accompany the tender (available on website) duly filled in with relevant information. Attested copy of registration certificate. ?Registered Contractor Class V (Civil) and above as per G.O.Ms.No.63, Water Resources(Reforms). Dept., dt.13.11.2025?. 2. Income tax clearance certificate and PAN Card Number. 3. E.M.D. of Rs.7,900/- to be paid in Online favour of Executive Engineer, NTR TGP Division, Srikalahasti for the specified amount towards earnest money deposit. Any short fall in the amount such tenders are treated as incomplete and shall be rejected. 4. The tenderer should produce proof of Registration under VAT and TIN number. 5. The participating bidders has to pay transaction fee at 0.03% on E.C.V (Rs.278/-) of the work inclusive of GST as prescribed on ?e?-Procurement platform to M/s.Upadhi Technology Ltd., Vijayawada at the time of bid submission electronically through payment gateway service of ICICI Bank (OR) HDFC Bank (OR) UTI Bank on ?e?-Procurement platform. The payment of transaction fee by the each participating bidder through the electronic payment gateway service is made mandatory for tenders. a) Liquid Assets/ Credit Facilities of not less than Rs?--- Lakhs from any Nationalized Bank in the form of Solvency Certificate. b) E.M.D. of Rs.7,900/- to be paid in Online in favour of Executive Engineer, NTR TGP Division, Srikalahasti.

Whereas the Government of Andhra Pradesh (herein after called the Government) are desirous of taking up the work of ?Repairs and Replacement of gates and Cleaning ,Oiling and greasing of screw gearing shuttering of OTS and Regulators of SSG canal from Km 85.000 to 107.500? and have caused an estimate of probable quantities contained in Schedule-?A?, drawings and specifications describing the work to be done to be prepared. And whereas the said Schedule-?A? drawings numbered serially 1 to ___ inclusive(Schedule-?B?) and the Special Specifications(Schedule-?C?), additional conditions for materials (Schedule-?D?), General Conditions (Schedule-?E?), detailed tender notice tender articles of Agreement have been signed by or on behalf of the parties here to. And Whereas the Contractor has agreed to the retention by the Government of earnest money for Rs./- (Rupees ____________________________ _________________ only) . (1)Paid by him _________________________________ for Rs.-/- at 1% on ECV and enclosed to the tender. (2) Paid by him ________________________________ Dt: ______________________ for Rs.__________________ (Rupees ___________________________________________ only) towards balance E.M.D. on E.C.V. at 1.5% have been produced with towards additional security for the due fulfillment of the contract to the satisfaction of Executive Engineer, and the Contractor having agreed to keep it valid till the completion of work plus twenty four months observation period. And whereas the Contractor has agreed that during the course of the Contract period and amount at the rate of 7.50% of the value of work done will be withheld from the bills where there is no lumpsum deposit of Rs.3,00,000/- and at 3.50% where there is a lumpsum deposit of Rs.3,00,000/- up to a value of Rs.50.00Lakhs, at 2% above Rs.50.00Lakhs and up to Rs.1 Crore and at 1.50% above Rs.1Crore. And whereas the Contractor has also signed the copy of the Andhra Pradesh Standard Specification and addenda volume thereto maintained in the Circle Office in acknowledgement of being bound by all the conditions of the clauses of the Standard Preliminary Specification and all the standard specifications for items of works described by a Standard Specification number in Schedule-?A?. And whereas Contractor has agreed to execute upon and subject to the conditions set forth in the Preliminary Specification of the Andhra Pradesh Standard Specifications and such other conditions as are contained in all the specifications forming part of this contract (herein after referred to as ?the said conditions?) the work shown upto the drawing and described in the said specifications and set forth in Schedule-?A? as the ?Probable quantities? and comply with the rates of progress noted at the end of this articles of Agreement of a sum of Rs._/- (Rupees ___________________________ __________________ only) or such other sum as may be arrived at under the Clauses of the Standard Preliminary Specifications relating to payment on lumpsum basis or by final measurement at unit rate. Now it is hereby agreed as follows : 1. In consideration of the payment of the said sum Rs._____/- (Rupees ______________ ____________________________ only) or such other sum as may be arrived at under the Clauses of the Standard Preliminary Specifications relating to payment on lump sum basis or by final measurement at unit rate, the Contractor will, upon and subject to the said conditions, execute and complete the works shown upon the said drawing and described in said specifications, and to the extent of the probable quantities shown in the Schedule-?A? with such variations by way of alterations of additions to, or deduction from, the said works and method of payment there for as are provided for in the said works and the conditions. 2. The term ?Executive Engineer? in the said conditions shall mean the Works Officer-in-Charge of the NTR TGP Division, Srikalahasti having jurisdiction for the time being over the work, who shall be competent to exercise all the powers and privileges reserved herein, in favour of the Government with the previous sanction of or subject to the ratification by the Superintending Engineer, I&CAD.Irrigation Circle, Chittoor herein after called Superintending Engineer in case where such sanction or ratification may be necessary. 3. ADJUDICATION OF DISPUTES : Except as otherwise provided in the contract, any disputes and differences arising out of or relating to the contract shall be referred to adjudication as follows : 1) (i)Settlement of all claims up to Rs.50,000/- in value and below by way of Arbitration to be referred as follows : (a)Claims up to Rs.10,000/- : Superintending Engineer, in value. TGP&GNSS Circle,Tirupati. (b)Claims above Rs.10,000/- : Chief Engineer, and up to Rs.50,000/- in value. NTR TGP, Tirupati. The arbitration proceedings will be conducted in accordance with provisions of the Arbitration Act., 1940 as amended from time to time. The arbitrator shall invariably give reasons in the award. ii) Settlement of all claims above Rs.50,000/- in value : 1. All claims above Rs.50,000/- in value shall be decided by the Civil Court or competent jurisdiction by way of a regular suit and not by arbitration. 2. A reference for adjudication under this clause shall be made by either party to the contract with in six months from the date of intimating the Contractor of the preparation of final bill or his having accepted payment. 3. The relevant Clause of Andhra Pradesh Standard Specifications Stand modified to the extent provided in this Clause. 4. Time shall be considered as of the essence of the agreement and the Contractor hereby agrees to commence the work as soon as the agreement is accepted by the competent authority as defined by the Andhra Pradesh Public Works Department code and the site (or premises) is handed over to him as provided for in the said conditions and agrees to complete the work with in 6 Months from the date of such handing over the site (or premises) and to show progress as defined in the tabular statement ?Rate of progress? below, subject to nevertheless to the provisions for extension of time contained on Clauses-59 of the Standard Preliminary Specifications. 5. The said conditions shall be read and construed as forming part of this agreement and the parties hereto will respectively abide by the submit themselves to the conditions and stipulations and perform the agreements on their parts, respectively. 6. Upon the terms and conditions of this agreement being fulfilled and performed to the satisfaction of Executive Engineer, the security deposited by the Contractor as herein before recited or such portion thereof as he may entitled to under the said condition shall be returned to the Contractor as provided in Clause-3 of Schedule-?E?.

The bidder shall submit his response through Bid submission to the tender on eProcurement platform at www.apeprocurment.gov.in by following the procedure given below. The bidder would be required to register on the e-procurement market place https://tender.apeprocurement.gov.in and submit their bids online. Offline bids shall not be entertained by the Tender Inviting Authority for the tenders published in e-procurement platform. The bidders shall submit their eligibility and qualification details, Technical bid, Financial bid etc., in the online standard formats displayed in eProcurement web site. The bidders shall upload the scanned copies of all the relevant certificates, documents etc., in support of their eligibility criteria/technical bids and other certificate/documents in the eProcurement web site. The bidder shall sign on the statements, documents, certificates, uploaded by him, owning responsibility for their correctness/authenticity. The bidder shall attach all the required documents for the specific tender after uploading the same during the bid submission as per the tender notice and bid document. The Bidder shall also ensure prior to Final Bid submission that the Encryption certificate present in the DSC Key token is the same as that mapped into his Profile page in the Eprocurement system. Service provider shall not be responsible for Non-submission of Bid in case there is a variance in the Encryption certificate between the Key token and the Uploaded certificate in the Bidders profile in the Eprocurement system. Registration with eProcurement platform: For registration and online bid submission bidders may contact HELP DESK. https://tender.apeprocurement.gov.in Digital Certificate authentication: The bidder shall authenticate the bid with his Digital Certificate for submitting the bid electronically on eProcurement platform and the bids not authenticated by digital certificate of the bidder will not be accepted on the eProcurement platform. For obtaining Digital Signature Certificate, you may please Contact: You may please Contact Registration Authorities of any Certifying Authorities in India. The list of CAs are available by clicking the link https://tender.apeprocurement.gov.in/digital-signature.html# 3. Hard copies: i) Vide ref. G.O.Ms.No.174, I&CAD dept dated:1-9-2008, submission of original hard copies of the uploaded scanned copies of Proof of online Payment (Remittance)/BG towards EMD by participating bidders to the tender inviting authority before the opening of the price bid is dispensed forthwith. ii) All the bidders shall invariably upload the scanned copies of Proof of online Payment (Remittance)/BG in eProcurement system and this will be the primary requirement to consider the bid responsive. iii) The department shall carry out the technical evaluation solely based on the uploaded certificates/documents, Proof of online Payment (Remittance)/BG towards EMD in the eProcurement system and open the price bids of the responsive bidders. iv) The department will notify the successful bidder for submission of original hardcopies of all the uploaded documents Proof of online Payment (Remittance)/BG towards EMD prior to entering into agreement. v) The successful bidder shall invariably furnish the original Proof of online Payment (Remittance)/BG towards EMD, Certificates/Documents of the uploaded scan copies to the Tender Inviting Authority before entering into agreement, either personally or through courier or post and the receipt of the same within the stipulated date shall be the responsibility of the successful bidder. The department will not take any responsibility for any delay in receipt/non-receipt of original Proof of online Payment (Remittance)/BG towards EMD, Certificates/Documents from the successful bidder before the stipulated time. On receipt of documents, the department shall ensure the genuinity of the Proof of online Payment (Remittance)/BG towards EMD and all other certificates/documents uploaded by the bidder in eProcurement system. In support of the qualification criteria before concluding the agreement. 4. The GO. Ms. No. 174 -I&CAD dated: 1-9-2008 Deactivation of Bidders If any successful bidder fails to submit the original hard copies of uploaded certificates/documents, Proof of online Payment (Remittance)/BG towards EMD within stipulated time or if any variation is noticed between the uploaded documents and the hardcopies submitted by the bidder, as the successful bidder will be suspended from participating in the tenders on eProcurement platform for a period of 3 years. The eProcurement system would deactivate the user ID of such defaulting bidder based on the trigger/recommendation by the Tender Inviting Authority in the system. Besides this, the department shall invoke all processes of law including criminal prosecution of such defaulting bidder as an act of extreme deterrence to avoid delays in the tender process for execution of the development schemes taken up by the government. Other conditions as per tender document are applicable. The bidder is requested to get a confirmed acknowledgement from the Tender Inviting Authority a proof of Hardcopies submission to avoid any discrepancy. 5. Payment of EMD: It is mandatory for all participant bidders to electronically pay EMD Online by utilizing the 'Payment Gateway Service on E-Procurement platform'. The Electronic Payment Gateway accepts all Master and Visa Credit Cards issued by any bank and Direct Debit facility/Net Banking/NEFT payment modes through ICICI Bank and/or Axis Bank Payment Gateways to facilitate the transaction. This is in compliance as per G.O.Ms. 08 dated 08.05.2016. A GST of 18.00% + Bank charges on the transaction amount payable to APTS shall be applicable. In addition to this, Bidders can also pay the EMD through Download of PDF format of RTGS Challan for respective Payment gateway and pay the EMD through their Parent Bank account. Once the EMD is received by the EProcurement application, Bidders can automatically continue with their Bid Submission online. IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING EMD PAYMENT: 1. Bidders are encouraged to use only Net banking facility for payment of EMDs as far as possible for faster refunds in case of unsuccessful Bids for the Tender. 2. Bidders are advised not to use RTGS Challan downloads at the penultimate hour of Bid submission closing as any delay by their banker would not enable Bid submission on the platform. Please allow a minimum of 60 minutes for enabling 'Continuation of Bid Submission' from the time the Pool Account receives credit of the EMD from the Bidders Bank for both NEFT and RTGS Transfers. For RTGS Transfers, the Pool Account can get immediate credit whereas NEFT transfers would follow RBI Payment Cycle time. 3. Bidders are advised to pay EMD Online atleast T-1 or T-2 days before Bid submission closing date (T= Bid submission closing date) to avoid last minute delays and denials of successful Bid submission and to take care of any delays in Banking procedures. Un Successful Bidder EMD Refund process: - The bid is declared unsuccessful, under the following circumstances. Bid submitted by the bidder is not the lowest bid. Upon Finalization of the L1 Bid. Technical Disqualification of the Bid in case of 2 cover system. EMD paid but bid not submitted EMD refund will be initiated by the Tender Inviting Authority directly and through Online only and through the same payment channels as EMD received by the Department. (RTGS / NEFT /Credit Card /Debit Card refund), within 30 days from the date of publishing the Decision / Result. However, Service Provider /GoAP will not be held responsible for the delays occurring due to banking channels/procedures/processes of the respective vendor. IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING EMD REFUNDS: Bidders are requested to use discretion in their choice of payment channel for remittance of EMD. Time taken for Refunds under Ideal conditions: 1. Net Banking / NEFT / RTGS Challan: One (1) Banking Business Day from time of initiation of refund by Tender Inviting Authority subject to RTGS/NEFT timings of RBI. 2. Credit card/ Debit card: 7-10 working days from time of initiation of refund by the Tender Inviting Authority. However, this may be longer in case of certain bank cards. In case of delays, bidders are requested to contact the Card issuing Bank for faster resolution. 6. Payment of Transaction Fee: It is mandatory for all the participant bidders from 1st January 2006 to electronically pay a Non-refundable Transaction fee to M/s. APTS , the service provider through 'Payment Gateway Service on E-Procurement platform'. The Electronic Payment Gateway accepts all Master and Visa Credit Cards issued by any bank and Direct Debit facility/Net Banking of ICICI Bank, Axis Bank to facilitate the transaction. This is in compliance as per G.O.Ms. 13 dated 07.05.2006. A GST of 18.00% + Bank charges on the transaction amount payable to APTS shall be applicable. The participating bidders will pay a transaction fee @ 0.03% of ECV (estimated contract value) with a cap of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand only) for all works with ECV upto Rs.50 crores, and Rs.25,000/- (Rupees twenty five thousand only) for works with ECV above Rs.50 crores, at the time of bid submission electronically. For tenders wherever ECV is not available i.e., for goods and services, the transaction fee shall be calculated on quoted value. GST as levied by the GOI on transaction fee, electronic payment gateway charges shall be borne by the bidders. 7. Corpus Fund: As per GO MS No.4 User departments shall collect 0.04% of ECV (estimated contract value) with a cap of Rs. 10,000 (Rupees ten thousand only) for all works with ECV upto Rs.50 Crores, and Rs. 25,000/- (Rupees twenty-five thousand only) for works with ECV above Rs.50 Crores, from successful bidders on eProcurement platform before entering into agreement / issue of purchase orders, towards eprocurement fund in favour of Managing Director, APTS . There shall not be any charge towards eProcurement fund in case of works, goods and services with ECV less than and upto Rs. 10 lakhs 8. Tender Document: The bidder is requested to download the tender document and read all the terms and conditions mentioned in the tender Document and seek clarification if any from the Tender Inviting Authority. Any offline bid submission clause in the tender document could be neglected. The bidder has to keep track of any changes by viewing the Addendum/Corrigenda issued by the Tender Inviting Authority on time-to- time basis in the E-Procurement platform. The Department calling for tenders shall not be responsible for any claims/problems arising out of this. 9. Bid Submission Acknowledgement: The bidder shall complete all the processes and steps required for Bid submission. The system will generate an acknowledgement with a unique bid submission number after completing all the prescribed steps and processes by the bidder. Users may also note that the bids for which an acknowledgement is not generated by the e-procurement system are treated as invalid or not saved in the system. Such invalid bids are not made available to the Tender Inviting Authority for processing the bids. The Government of AP are not responsible for incomplete bid submission by users.