be rejected by the Employer/NTPC Ltd as being non-responsive and returned to
the bidder without being opened.
Exemptions:
i) Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) registered with District Industries Centres or
Khadi and Village Industries Commission or Khadi and Village Industries Board or
Coir Board or National Small Industries Corporation or Directorate of Handicrafts or
Udyog Aadhar registered vendor and Handloom or any other body specified by
Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises as per MSMED Act 2006,for goods
produced and services rendered, shall be issued the bid documents free of cost and
shall be exempted from paying Earnest Money Deposit.
ii) IIMs/IITs/NITs/IISc./CBRI/CPRI/GSI/CWPRS/CWC and other Govt. Institutes/agencies
(excluding PSUs) are also exempted from submission of EMD.
Further, In case of tenders where splitting of quantity is not possible, participating MSEs quoting price
within price band of L1 + 15 percent shall be allowed to execute the package by bringing down their
price to L1 price in a situation where L1 price is from someone other than a Micro and Small
Enterprise. The award shall be made as follows:
a) Award shall be given to L1 bidder if L1 bidder is a MSE.
b) In case L1 bidder is not a MSE, then all the MSE vendor(s) who have quoted within the
range of L1 + 15%, shall be given the opportunity in order of their ranking (starting with the
lowest quoted MSE bidder and so on) to bring down its price to match with L1 bidder.
Award shall be placed on the MSE vendor who matches the price quoted by L1 bidder.
c) If no MSE vendor who has quoted within range of L1 + 15% accepts the price of L1 bidder
then the award shall be made to the L1 bidder.
The benefit as above to MSEs shall be available only for Goods/Services produced & provided
by MSEs. MSEs seeking exemption and benefits should enclose a attested/self-certified copy of
registration certificate as a part of his bid, giving details such as stores/services, validity (if applicable)
etc. failing which they run the risk of their bid being passed over as ineligible for the benefits applicable
to MSEs.
TECHNO COMMERCIAL BID:
Techno Commercial bid is to be submitted in the e-procurement portal of
NTPC(GePNIC). It is suggested that the bidder may fill the techno commercial bid
well in advance to avoid last minute problems/rush in the system.
Techno Commercial bid is to be filled online after carefully examining the
documents / conditions and the schedule of work. All the prices are to be filled in at
the relevant fields in attached BOQ Excel sheet. Bidder shall also upload all the
required documents as required including scanned copy of i) Tender fee, ii) Bid
Security, iii) Power of Attorney,i v) NIL deviation certificate in relevant folder online.
5.0 NTPC reserves the right to reject any or all bids or cancel/withdraw the Invitation for
Bids (IFB) for the subject package without assigning any reason; whatsoever, and in
such case no bidder/intending bidder shall have any claim arising out of such action.
6.0 Issuance of bid documents to any Bidder shall not construe that such bidder is
considered to be qualified.