What Are Qualifying Requirements?
What Are Qualifying Requirements?
What Are Qualifying Requirements?
ii)
defined.
In addition to above, the criteria regarding
satisfactory performance of woks, personnel,
establishment, plant, equipment etc. may be
incorporated according to requirement of Project
Why QRs?
The very purpose of QRs is to select the
capable bidders.
To assess the technical & financial capability
of the bidders.
STRINGENT QRs:
To see whether the QRs are stringent and
hence to avoid relaxation of QRs,
STRINGENT/RESTRICTIVE QR:
In one of the QRs for purchase of Personal
Computers, average annual turnover was
specified as Rs 50 crores although the total
value of purchase was Rs 15 crores. The QR
criteria also stipulated that the firms should
possess the ISO certification. Such QR
conditions resulted in disqualification of
reputed vendors including a PSU.
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RESTRICTIVE QR:
The condition Submission of copies of
sales/works tax registration certificate and PF
registration certificate etc if included in the
QR makes it restrictive. These are basically a
part of operational requirements of the
contract and are not required to assess the
technical or financial capability of the bidder.
By specifying such conditions in the QR, the
parties working outside the state (not local)
are being restricted to participate in the tender.
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RELAXED QR:
At one project QR for procurement of Fire
Resistant (FR) grade Conveyer Belt was
formulated without mentioning FR grade in
the QR. This resulted in qualification of a
vendor who had not earlier manufactured the
FR grade conveyor belt.
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VAGUE QR CONDITIONS:
An organization invited tenders for hiring of
DG Sets with eligibility of having 3 years
experience in supplying DG Sets. The cutoff
dates regarding work experience were not
clearly indicated. Such vague conditions
provide the ground for subjective acceptance
of the experience or in fabricating the record
of having experience of 3 years some long
years back.
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VAGUE QR CONDITIONS:
Vague QR conditions like Financial
soundness and NTPC reserves the right to
alter the QR are subjective in nature and
hence
create
scope
for
subjective
acceptance or rejection of bids. Such vague
conditions are also not desirable from the
view point of basic ethics of tendering and
transparency.
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IMPRACTICABLE QR CONDITIONS:
Submission
of
successful
completion/
operation certificate from the client is not a
practicable criteria since obtaining such
certificate from client is not always possible
and authenticity of such certificates from small
clients cannot always be guaranteed.
Moreover, such certificates also do not serve
the genuine purpose to judge the competency
of the bidders who have otherwise performed
the contract successfully.
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Revised practice
documents:
for
issue
of
tender