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2 ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

a) As per make in India circular only Class I & II local suppliers are eligible to quote.

b) The bidder should be an Indian Registered Company under Companies Act 1956/ Proprietorship/
Partnership firm. Copy of Certificate of Incorporation/ Registration/ Partnership Deed or any other
relevant document, as applicable, should be submitted along with a copy of address proof.

c) Average Annual Financial Turnover during the last 3 years, ending 31.03.2021, should not be less
than Rs. 3.32 Cr. (for MSE & SMEs: Rs. 2.22 Cr.). Bidders must submit Annual Reports (containing
duly audited Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Account) for the last three financial years ending
31.03.2021. Bidders are allowed to submit provisional statements for year ending March 2021 if the
final audited reports are not available.

d) The bidder should have positive net worth as on 31.03.2021. CA certificate should be submitted
against this requirement.

e) The bidder must have successfully executed/completed similar works, over the last seven (07) years
ending 31.03.2021.
i. Three successfully completed similar works of value not less than Rs. 5.23 Cr. (for MSE &
SMEs: Rs. 3.92 Cr.) each; or

ii. Two successfully completed similar works of value not less than Rs. 6.54 Cr. (for MSE &
SMEs: Rs. 5.23 Cr.) each; or

iii. One successfully completed similar work of value not less than Rs. 9.15 Cr. (for MSE &
SMEs: Rs. 7.84 Cr.).

“similar works” means “involvement in critical activities of submarine project i.e. third party
inspection involving Land/BMH/CLS survey, marine route survey, submarine cable laying/ shore end
operations including post lay inspection & burial, submarine equipment installation and acceptance
testing” including setting up of the NOC and securities for repeatered and un-repeatered fiber optic
cable system. One similar work means a single work order with all above and its completion
certificate.

f) Bidding in Consortium is allowed. A Consortium must comply the following requirements: (for a
consortium to claim the benefit of SME/MSE, all the consortium member should be SME/MSE).

(i) The consortium agreement must be submitted clearly identifying the “Lead Partner”. This
authorization shall be evidenced by submitting with the bid a Power of Attorney signed by
legally authorized signatories of all the partners. Application in consortium is permitted
subject to a maximum of Three (03) agencies.For Turnover Financial Eligibility Criteria, the
turnover of each partner shall be added for the proposed eligibility criteria. However, the
turnover of lead bidder shall not be less than 25% of average turnover requirement of bid
and must fulfil net-worth requirement criteria.

In case of consortium, the experience criteria of similar single work or at least one work out
of two similar works or at least one work out of three similar works as specified at 1.2 (e)
above in last seven years should be fulfilled by lead bidder.

Tender No: TCIL/Technical/25/N/2021 KLI IMA tender 18th May 21