Extension of Date for Submission 1. The captioned meeting was held at 1100 Hrs on January 28, 2021 at RBI Chandigarh. Sh Dharmender Singh AGM (P&S) presided over the meeting. Sh Gaurav Bajpai, AM and Sh Bibek Ranjan Prusty, Assistant, P&S Cell were also present in the meeting. Representatives of the following tenderers participated in the meeting: - -
Apex Fire Guard Engineers, SCO 3040, Top Floor, Sector-22, Chandigarh -
Modern Agencies, SCO 107, Sector-35c, Chandigarh 2. Sh Dharmender Singh, AGM (P&S) welcomed the participants and briefed about the requirements, schedule and other important points of the tender. Most of the queries raised by the representatives were addressed during the meeting. Some of the changes made in the conditions of the tender document are placed below and will be applicable to all the bidders. | Sl. No. | Queries | Query Raised by | Clarification and Change | | 1. | Check list Sr. no 13 and 14
Labour Licence required when the contractual employees are more than 20 Numbers. kindly exempt this point.
3.7 Certificate of Registration of Establishment.
The Agency should be in possession of a valid certificate of registration of Establishments under Punjab Shop and Commercial Establishments Act 1958 from Chandigarh Labour Administration and any other applicable Act such as Labour Department under Contract Labour (R&A) Act 1970 and Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) act, Factories Act, etc
The same is required for shops/ establishments performing trading practices or services involved directly with customers from its own premises.
As per the requirements of the supplied at RBI premises and no direct services are to be provided from contractor premises. | Modern Agencies
Apex Fire Guard | As mentioned at checklist point No. 14, labour license is to be submitted along with the experience/ completion certificate, where applicable, i.e., only where the supplied manpower was 20 or more. No exemption can be given in respect of this point.
As mentioned at checklist point No. 13 and para 3.7 of Section-III of the tender document, exemption cannot be granted for registration of establishment to any bidder as this is a statutory requirement. | | 2. | Whereas registration certificate of enlistment as contractor with Punjab government department can be provided for the above clause (para 1 above) which may be accepted by the department and request for the same approval is requested. | Apex Fire Guard | This cannot be a substitute for Certificate of Registration of Establishment, and therefore, shall not be accepted. | | 3. | Check list Sr. No 21
Any one or more of the Certificates - ISO 9001 / SA8000 / OHSAS 18001, any other applicable
The same is issued by the competent authority to the firm where job activities(like industrial products are manufactured/ construction sites) are carried at firm premises for creation of work job, where as in case of this tender workplace belong to the RBI and all standards are set by the RBI which has to be followed by the contractor since its only a supply of manpower and no job is being is created at site by the firm using tools or material exception is requested for the same. | Apex Fire Guard | It has been decided that the bidders are not required to mandatorily submit the ISO certificate.
However, the ISO certificate, if any, submitted by a bidder shall be considered for assigning of extra weightage as mentioned in the evaluation matrix (part B of Section-IV) of the tender document. | | 4. | Check list Sr. No 25 {Banker’s Certificate (Certificate of Credibility) issued by the tenderer’s banker specifically for this work for an amount of ₹36 lakh or above.}
We are already enlisted contractors of RBI Chandigarh and Bank solvency for amount of 50 lacs has already been submitted to RBI. So kindly exempt this point also.
We are already enlisted contractor for the RBI Chandigarh and solvency for amount of 50 lacs has already been submitted to RBI for current active enlistment. So exception is requested in this clause as bank charges are too higher end for Solvency Certificate which are non-refundable by the bank. | Modern Agencies
Apex Fire Guard | The bidders who are currently empaneled with Estate Dept. or any other Dept. of Chandigarh RO for a value of more than ₹36 Lakh are now exempted from submission of Financial Credibility Certificate from Banker. The bidders are required to upload a copy of current empanelment document.
The bidders who are not currently empaneled with Chandigarh RO are required to submit the Financial Credibility Certificate from Banker. | | |