The government of India invited "The tender for fitting of drip irrigation system in the garden". The tender will be awarded through eProcurement. A committee has been formed to revise the applications. After a consensus among the committee member two bidders, Mr. X and Mr. Y were finalized for the next stage. They both were given some special instructions.
- The instructions:
- Bidder should do Online Enrolment in the Portal. Then the Digital Signature enrollment has to be done with the e-token, after logging into the portal.
- The e-token that is registered should be used by the bidder and should not be misused by others.
- DSC once mapped to an account cannot be remapped to any other account. It can only be inactivated.
- The Bidders can update well in advance, the documents such as certificates, purchase order details etc.
- The BOQ template must not be modified/replaced by the bidder and the same should be uploaded after filling the relevant columns, else the bidder is liable to be rejected for that tender.
- Bidder, in advance, should prepare the bid documents to be submitted as indicated in the tender schedule and they should be in PDF/XLS/RAR/DWF formats. If there is more than one document, they can be clubbed together.
- The bidder should arrange for the EMD as specified in the tender. The original should be posted/couriered/given in person to the Tender Inviting Authority, within the bid submission date and time for the tender.
- The bidder reads the terms and conditions and accepts the same to proceed further to submit the bids.
During this stage, Mr. X was rejected for the tender. Which of the following mistake might have been done by Mr. X that led to his disqualification?
1
After submitting all the documents he updated purchase order details.
2
After filling the required information he uploaded the same template.
3
He prepared the bid documents to be submitted as indicated in the tender schedule and submitted it in docx format on the portal.
4
The documents submitted by him were infected with a virus hence the Tender Inviting Authority could not open the files and it decided to cancel his application.
5
He did not submit the EMD directly to the Tender Inviting Authority, he submitted it through a private parcel provider.