CONTENTS - Central Public Works Department

112 SECTION 18
SECTION 18
SALE OF TENDER DOCUMENTS
18.1 General
(1) The tender documents should be prepared and kept ready for sale to the tenderers before the
Notice is actually sent to the press or is pasted on the Notice Board. Every contractor desiring to
purchase the tender documents shall be asked to give a written application. It is the responsibility
of the Executive Engineer/Assistant Engineer to see that tender documents are made available
to the contractors as soon as the application is made. The application may be made by the
contractors in the prescribed form shown at Appendix 21.
(2) The tender documents should be sold to only those contractors who fulfill the eligibility criteria set
out in the notice, and who are not near relatives of the Divisional Accountant or the Superintending
Engineer or Executive Engineer or Assistant Engineer/Junior Engineer of the Circle in which the
work is to be executed.
Note: A near relative includes wife, husband, parents, in-laws, children, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts
and cousins.
(3) Any tender form that is issued, either for sale or for office use, should be issued under the signature
of the Divisional Officer or the Sub-Divisional Officer, as the case may be.
(4) Para 17.1 may be seen regarding posting of tender notice on the website.
18.2 Sale of tender documents to registered contractors (for normal works)
18.2.1 Tenders shall be sold to eligible contractor those fulfill the criteria as stipulated in the tender
Document.
18.2.2 Sale of tenders to contractors with a blemished record
(1) (i) If the Executive Engineer concerned receives adverse report against any non-CPWD
contractor, either from the Department in which he is enlisted or from any other Department,
he should stop issue of tenders to that contractor on the basis of such a report. The
Executive Engineer should, however, communicate the information to his Superintending
Engineer for record and for approval of the action taken or proposed to be taken by him.
(ii) On receipt of a case of adverse performance/ misbehaviour/threatening of site
staff or any other such reasons, the CE, shall issue show cause to such contractors
and after considering their reply, he shall have full powers to debar non-CPWD
contractor for a period as decided by him. Such debarred non-CPWD contractor
shall be ineligible to take up any work in CPWD, MoEF, PWD (Govt. of Delhi) etc.
all over India during the period of debarring.
The Chief Engineer shall endorse a copy of such order to CE(CSQ) who shall post names
of such contractors on CPWD website so that every field unit of CPWD/MoEF/ PWD
(Govt. of Delhi) becomes aware and does not issue tender to such debarred contractors.
(Modified as per OM/MAN/233)
(2) In case a contractor is removed from the approved list of contractors maintained by CPWD
for any reason including that of inactivity, such a contractor shall not be eligible to take up
works in CPWD on the basis of his enlistment in any other Engineering Department. However,
if the NIT approving authority not lower than the rank of Superintending Engineer is satisfied
that it is in the interest of the Government to allow a contractor who has been removed from
the approved list for reason of inactivity, to participate in the tendering process for getting
competitive tenders, he may do so.