The captioned tender was published at 12:00 PM on January 15, 2025 on RBI Website and MSTC Portal (RBI/Lucknow Regional office/Others/1/24-25/ET-756). The Pre-Bid Meeting was held on January 21, 2025 at 10:00 A.M. at Reserve Bank of India, Lucknow-226024 to clarify the queries of prospective bidders. 2. The meeting was attended by the representative of five(05) vendors and officials of RBI, Lucknow as under: | S. No. | Name of The Firm | Name of the Representative | | 1. | M/s Firstman Management Services Pvt. Ltd. | Shri Manoj Srivastava | | 2. | M/s Tiger 4 India Ltd. | Q.M. Khalid | | 3. | M/s Security Solution Services Pvt. Ltd. | Shri SS Chauhan | | 4. | M/s A.P. Securitas Pvt. Ltd. | Shri Nirmal Mishra, Shri Parikshit Dwivedi | | 5. | M/s Sainik Security | Shri Jai Ram Yadav | | S. No. | List of RBI Officials | Designation | | 1. | Capt. Bharti Bhalla | Assistant General Manager | | 2. | Capt. CM Uniyal, | Manager (Security) | | 3. | Lt Cdr Namrata Ola | Manager (Security) | | 4. | Shri Dharmendra Kumar Swami | Assistant Manager (Security.) | | 5. | Ms. Suruti Saloni Verma | Assistant Manager (Admin.) | The meeting was held to brief the tender conditions, clarify any queries thereof and to sensitize about submission of e-tenders on RBI portal of MSTC website. Further, the queries raised by the representatives of participating firms, vis-à-vis our clarification are as under: | S. No. | Queries raised by the Representatives of the firm | Clarification given by the Bank | | 1. | Representative of M/s Tiger 4 India Ltd. raised the query regarding client certificate | It was clarified that the conditions regarding client certificate is as per Section III, clause 5.1 & 5.2 and the format of which should be as per annexures of Tender document. | | 2. | Query regarding validity/timeline of experience certificate | It was clarified that the agency should be continuously in business (for providing security guards) for past five years as on December 31, 2024. | | 3. | Regarding Audited Balance Sheet | It was clarified that the Audited Balance Sheets of FY 2021-22, FY 2022-23, FY 2023-24 are required. All documents should be self-attested. | | 4. | Regarding minimum service charges | Reference may be made to point no 11 of “Wage analysis” stating, “the Service charge less and equal to 0% shall not be accepted and it shall be reasonable and workable.” | | 5. | Representative of M/s Firstman Management Services raised the query regarding exemptions of certain provisions under MSMED Act | Such exemptions are not applicable. | -
The above minutes of pre-bid meeting shall form part of the tender document/agreement. -
The terms & conditions and, specifications of the uploaded tender document shall continue to remain same. -
The above amendments/clarifications are being issued for the information of all the intending bidders. -
The submission of bid by the firm shall be construed to be in conformity to the bid document and amendments/clarifications given above. | |