a. The tender should be in the prescribed forms which can be obtained from 'e' procurement platform from the date of electronic publication up to the time and date indicated in the tender notice. The intending bidders shall enroll themselves on the 'e' procurement market-place www.apeprocurement.gov.in. Only those contractors who registered themselves in the 'e' procurement market place can participate in the tender. b. Intending bidders can contact office of the O/o Superintending Engineer/O&M/Stge-II/Dr.NTTPS, Ibrahimpatnam, Krishna Dt-521456 for any clarification/ information on any working day during working hours. c. The bidders who are desirous of participating in e-procurement shall submit their technical bids, price bids etc., in the standard formats prescribed in the tender documents, displayed at 'e' market place. The bidders should invariably upload the statement showing the list of documents etc., in the 'e' market place in support of their Technical bids. The bidder should upload scanned copies of DD/BC/BG towards EMD and all other relevant certificates. The bidder shall sign on all the statements, documents, certificates, before uploading, owning responsibility for their correctness / authenticity. d. The Bidder shall authenticate the bid with his digital certificate for submitting the bid electronically on e-Procurement Platform and the bids not authenticated by Digital certificate of the bidder will not be accepted on the e-Procurement platform. e. The Department shall carry out the technical bid evaluation solely based on the uploaded documents, DD/BC/BG towards EMD in the e-procurement system and open the price bids of the qualified bidders. f. The Department will notify the successful bidder for submission of original hard copies of all uploaded documents, DD/BC/BG towards EMD prior to entering into agreement g. The successful bidder shall invariably furnish the original DD/BC/BG towards EMD, Certificates/documents of the uploaded scanned copies to the Tender Inviting Authority before stipulated time given to him, 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 DD/BC/BG towards EMD, certificates/documents, from successful bidder before the stipulated time. On receipt of documents, the Department shall ensure the genuinity of the DD/BC/BG towards EMD and all other certificates documents uploaded by the bidder in e-procurement system in support of the qualification criteria before placing the Order / issuing of LOI. h. If any successful bidder fails to submit the original hard copies of uploaded certificates/documents, DD/BC/BG towards EMD within the stipulated time or if any variation is noticed between the uploaded documents and the hard copies submitted by the bidder, the successful bidder will be suspended from participating in the tenders on e-procurement platform for a period of 3 years. i. The e-procurement system would deactivate the user ID of such defaulting successful 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 of the deterrence to avoid delays in the tender process for execution of the development schemes taken up by the Department.