Tender Reference No.: NH/PP-II/P&C/Pkg. No. DHEP-10/2022/9141                         Dated: 25.10 .2022

SECTION–0: NOTICE INVITING E-TENDER (NIT)

Online electronic “Item Rate bids (e-tenders) under two cover system are invited on behalf of Parbati H.E. Project (Stage-II), NHPC Limited (A Public Sector Enterprise of the Government of India) from domestic bidders registered in India on Open Tender basis for “Supply, Installation, Testing, Commissioning and Annual Maintenance of Early Warning System (EWS) at Dugar HE Project” (Package No. DHEP-10).

Tender Specification No.: NH/PP-II/P&C/Pkg. No.-DHEP-10/2022

Tender document can be viewed and downloaded from NHPC Limited website www.nhpcindia.com and Central Public Procurement Portal (CPPP) at https://eprocure.gov.in/eprocure/app.

The bid is to be submitted online only on https://eprocure.gov.in/eprocure/app up to last date and time of submission of bids. Sale of hard copy of tender document is not applicable.

1.0               Brief Details & Critical Dates of Tender:

1.1       Brief Details of Tender:

1.2              Critical Dates of Tender:

2.0      Eligibility Criteria for Bidders:

2.1       Bids of those Bidders who have not submitted the requisite Cost of bidding document and EMD (as per Instructions to Bidders (ITB) Clause 3.0 & 4.0) shall not be considered for evaluation,

           The bidders must fulfil the following minimum Qualifying Criteria :-

1. Bidder shall be Class-I/Class-II Local Supplier under Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) order for Goods/ Services/ Works issued by Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry Order No. P-45021/2/2017-PP (BE-II) dated 04th June, 2020. Further, Local content/ Class-I/Class-II local supplier etc. defined in ITB clause 2.2.4, in this regard bidders must submit undertaking as per Annexure- X of ITB.

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1. The bidders should have successfully executed/completed contract as mentioned below for similar items during last Seven years ending last day of month previous to the one in which tenders are invited:
   1. One Contract of at least 80% of estimated cost i.e. Rs. 24.60 Lakhs
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   3. Two Contract(s) each costing at least 50% of estimated cost i.e. Rs. 15.38 Lakhs
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   5. Three Contract(s) each costing at least 40% of estimated cost i.e. Rs. 12.30 Lakhs.

The bidder shall provide with their Techno-Commercial Bid, notarized copy of Letter of Award/Supply Order, Bill of Quantities and execution/ completion certificate issued by the Employer against above contract. In case Employer issuing execution/ completion certificate is non-government entity, the bidders shall also submit notarized copy of TDS.  

Similar items referred above shall mean “Supply, Installation and Commissioning of Flood Warning system or Early Warning System or Measuring/monitoring instrumentation work at Dam/Barrage/Tunnel”.

1. Average Annual Turnover during last 3 years, ending 31st March 2021 should not be less than 30% of the estimated cost i.e. Rs. 9.23 lakh . The bidder shall submit duly notarized copy of Auditor’s reports/audited Balance sheet & Profit Loss account for the last three financial years or Certificate from Chartered Accountant in respect of Annual Turnover during last 3 years, ending 31st March 2021 along with copy of ITR to prove financial standing of the bidder.
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3. The reference date for considering the period for eligibility/qualification requirements above shall be the last day of the month previous to the one in which tenders are invited.
4. The bidder should submit copy of PAN Card and Goods, Services Tax Identification No. (GSTIN) and Employee Provident Fund (EPF) registration.
5. The bidder should submit copies of original documents defining the constitution or legal status, place of registration and principal place of business and notarized copy of power of attorney of the signatory of the Bid to commit the Bidder.

2.3       The Bidder should not have been banned / de-listed / black listed / debarred from business or declared ineligible on the grounds mentioned in ITB Cl. No. 12.0 (d) or para 6 of Guidelines on Banning of Business Dealings (Annexure-A) to Integrity Pact, ITB Clause 8.0. Self-declaration in this regard is to be submitted as per enclosed Annexure-III.

2.4       To improve transparency and fairness in tendering process and/or during execution of work undertaken, the Purchaser Employer is implementing Integrity Pact as per Clause No. 8.0 of the ITB. The bidder must submit the Integrity Pact as per Proforma (Annexure-II) duly signed as per Clause 8.0 of ITB.

            Pre-contract Integrity Pact is to be executed on plain paper with NHPC Ltd. at the time of submission of Bids. The successful bidder (Contractor) shall submit duly executed Integrity Pact on Non-Judicial Stamp Paper of appropriate value prior to signing of Contract Agreement.

     To oversee the compliance under the Integrity pact, Sh. Sutanu Behuria, IAS (Retd.)  & Sh. Rakesh Kumar  Agrawal, CES (Retd.) have been appointed as Independent External Monitor (IEM) by the Employer. The Contact Address of IEM is as under :-

2.5       Bids of only those Bidders who are meeting the Eligibility Criteria specified above will be considered for evaluation and award of the contract. Bidders will submit duly notarized requisite supporting documents and testimonials with their Bids to prove their credentials and claim of meeting the Eligibility Criteria.

3.0       In the event of the specified date for the submission of offline documents being declared a holiday for the Employer, the hard copies of the documents will be received up to the specified time on the next working day. However, the date and time for online submission of the bids shall continue to be the date and time specified above or any amendment for the same.

4.0       Online submission of the Bids (incl. attachments) will not be permitted on the portal after expiry of submission time and the Bidders shall not be permitted to submit the same by any other mode. In such case, even if the bidder has submitted the specific documents in hard copy (ies) in original within the stipulated deadline, its bid shall be considered as late and shall not be considered at all any further. Offline documents, if received by the Employer after the deadline for submission of hard copies, then it will be considered as late bid even if the bidder has uploaded the bid online within the deadline. In such a case, the bid uploaded on the portal shall not be considered at all any further.

5.0       At any time prior to the deadline for submission of bid, the Employer may amend the Tender Document by issuing corrigendum/addenda/amendment which shall be notified on portal http://eprocure.gov.in/eprocure/app & NHPC website www.nhpcindia.com. Therefore, the bidders are advised to visit the site regularly before deadline for submission of bids. Bidder is required to acknowledge the receipt of any such amendment from the CPP Portal. It will be presumed that the amendment has been accepted and the information contained therein has been taken into account by the Bidder in its bid. The bidders are requested to see the web site once again before the due date of tender submission/ opening to ensure that they have not missed any corrigendum/ addendum uploaded against the said tender after downloading the tender document.

The responsibility of downloading the related corrigendum/ addendum, if any, will be that of the downloading firm/prospective bidder.

6.0       Bids will be opened as per the schedule at the aforesaid venue. In case the office of Employer happens to be closed or in-advertent condition of non-availability/ non-working of Central Public Procurement (CPP) portal or for any other reason on the date of opening of bid as specified, the bid will be opened on the next working day at the same time and venue.

7.0       Tenderer who has downloaded the tender from the NHPC website www.nhpcindia.com or Central Public Procurement Portal (CPPP) website http://eprocure.gov.in/eprocure/app, shall not tamper/modify the tender document including downloaded price bid template in any manner.  In case if the same is found to be tempered/ modified in any manner, tender will be completely rejected and EMD would be forfeited and tenderer is liable to be banned from doing business with NHPC.

8.0       The details/ information regarding online tendering i.e. Registration on CPP portal, Preparation of Bid and Submission of bid are available in the tender document and as well as on CPP Portal under “Bidders Manual Kit”.

9.0       NHPC reserves the right to reject any or all tenders and shall not be bound to assign any reason for such rejection.

For & On behalf of NHPC Ltd.

Dy. General Manager (P&C)

Parbati HE Project, Stage-II