LAWS(CAL)-2014-4-174

RASHMI METALIKS LIMITED Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL

Decided On April 29, 2014
Rashmi Metaliks Limited Appellant
V/S
STATE OF WEST BENGAL Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This writ petition is directed against an order dated September 11, 2013 of the Executive Engineer, Resources Division, Public Health Engineering Directorate, Govt. of West Bengal (hereafter the engineer and the department, wherever the context so requires). By the said order, the first petitioner has been suspended from participating in tenders on e-tender platform of the department for three years w.e.f. May 16, 2013.

(2.) The basic facts are undisputed. A tender notice dated February 19, 2013 was issued by the engineer on behalf of the department for supply and delivery of ISI marked centrifugally cast (spun) ductile iron pressure pipes (hereafter DI Pipe). It contained, inter alia, the following clauses :

(3.) The intending bidders were, therefore, required to be careful as well as candid in their response, or else consequences as stipulated were likely to follow.