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Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai Garden Department MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF GREATER MUMBAI GARDEN DEPARTMENT To INVITE e- TENDER FOR MAINTENANCE OF VERIOUS GARDENS / PLAY GROUNDS / RECREATION GROUNDS / OPEN SPACES/ TRAFFIC ISLANDS/ CENTRAL MEDIANS ETC FOR THE K/EAST, H/EAST & H WEST ARD IN ZONE-III FOR THE PERIOD OF ONE YEAR OF GARDEN DEPARTMENT Website: (http://portal.mcgm.gov.in/tenders) Office of : Dy. Superitendent of Gardens (Z-III) 4th Floor, Garden Department K/E ward Building, Azad Road , Gunadavali Andheri East , Mumbai- 400069 1 INDEX SECTION DESCRRIPTION PAGE NO. 1 E-TENDER NOTICE 2 ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA 3 DISCLAIMER 4 INTRODUCTION 5 E- TENDER ONLINE SUBMISSION PROCESS 6 INSTRUCTIONS TO APPICANTS 7 SCOPE OF WORK 8 BILL OF QUANTITIES 9 GENERAL CONDITIONS OF CONTRACT 10 SPECTIFICATONS 11 FRAUD AND CORRUPT PRACTICES 12 PRE- BID MEETING 13 LIST OF APPROVED BANKS 14 APPENDIX 2 SECTION 1 E-TENDER NOTICE 3 MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF GREATER MUMBAI SUPERINTENDET OF GARDENS TENDER No: DySG/Z-III/103/SGMC dt – 16.04.2021 'E-TENDER NOTICE' To INVITE e- TENDER FOR MAINTENANCE OF VERIOUS GARDENS / PLAY GROUNDS / RECREATION GROUNDS / OPEN SPACES/ TRAFFIC ISLANDS/ CENTRAL MEDIANS ETC FOR THE K/EAST , H/EAST & H WEST WARD IN ZONE-III FOR THE PERIOD OF ONE YEAR OF GARDEN DEPARTMENT. The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) invites e-tender to appoint Contractor for the aforementioned work from contractors of repute, multidisciplinary engineering organizations i.e. eminent firm, Proprietary/Partnership Firms/ Private Limited Companies/ Public Limited Companies/Companies registered under the Indian companies’ act 2013 , the contractors registered with the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, (MCGM) in as per applicable Class of Old / New registration and from the contractors/firms equivalent and superior classes registered in Central or State Government/Semi Govt. Organization/Central or State Public Sector Undertakings, will be allowed subject to condition that, the contractors who are not registered with MCGM will have to apply for registering their firm within three months’ time period from the award of contract, otherwise their Bid Security i.e. E.M.D (Earnest Money Deposit) will be forfeited/recovered and an amount equal to Registration Fee of respective class will be recovered as penalty. Bidding Process will comprise of THREE stages. The application form can be downloaded from MCGM's portal (http://portal.mcgm.gov.in) on payment of amount equal to 0.09% of office estimated cost (rounded to hundred digit) with addition of GST (i.e. minimum Rs. 300/- + GST & maximum Rs.8500/- + GST). The applicants not registered with MCGM are mandated to get registered (Vendor Registration) with MCGM for e-tendering process & obtain login credentials to participate in the online bidding process. i) To download the application form, for those applicants not having vendor registration, need to apply first for vendor registration at the office of Account Officer (FAR), 3rd floor, Municipal Headquarter. ii) Followed by SRM login ID and password to be obtained from Central Purchase Department, (CPD), Office at Byculla, Bakariadda, Mumbai iii) For e-Tendering registration, enrolment for digital signature certificates and user manual, please refer to respective links provided in ‘Tenders’ tab. Vendors can get digital signature from any 4 one of the Certifying Authorities (CA's) licensed by controller of certifying authorities namely, Safes crypt, IDRBT, National informatics center, TCS, CUSTOMS, MTNL, GNFC and e- Mudhra CA. Name and location of work Con- Ward Estimated Maint. EMD Amount tract Cost for 12 in Rs. period Months To INVITE e- TENDER FOR 1 Year K/EAST 7,54,57,834 7,55,000 MAINTENANCE OF VERIOUS GARDENS / PLAY GROUNDS / RECREATION GROUNDS / OPEN SPACES/ TRAFFIC ISLANDS/ CENTRAL MEDIANS ETC FOR THE K/EAST , H/EAST & H/WEST WARD IN ZONE-III FOR THE PERIOD OF ONE YEAR OF GARDEN DEPARTMENT H/WEST 6,24,90,028 6,25,000 H/EAST 2,07,02,852 2,08,000 In terms of the 3 stage system of e-tendering, a Bidder will be required to deposit, along with its Bid, an Earnest Money Deposit (As per tender notice ) (the "EMD"), refundable in accordance to the relevant clause of bid document, from the Bid Due Date, except in the case of the selected Bidder whose Bid Security/EMD shall be retained. The Bidders will have to provide Earnest Money Deposit through the payment gateways while submitting the bids. The Bid shall be summarily rejected if it is not accompanied by the Earnest Money Deposit. The e-tender is available on MCGM portal (http://portal.mcgm.gov.in) as mentioned in the Header Data of the tender. As per THREE Packet systems, the document for Packet A & B is to be uploaded by the bidder in vendors’ document online in Packet A, B. Packet A,B & C shall be opened on dates as mentioned in header data. All the responsive and eligible bidders if they so wish can be present at the time of opening of bids, in the office of Dy. Superintendent of Gardens (Z-III). The Packet C shall be opened if bids submission in Packet A & B satisfies/includes all the requirements and same are found acceptable to the Authority. Mandatory Conditions / Instructions to Bidder: - 1. Only One Contract will be allotted to the successful bidders. 2. Works under reference shall be allotted for the period of 1 year, however if any plot given to the sponsorer then contract for the same plot shall be treated as cancelled. 5 3. The manpower mentioned in the scope of work is mandatory to the successful bidder. He has to submit undertaking on Rs. 500/- stamp paper in English in Packet ‘B’. Successful bidder have to pay the manpower deployed by him as per the rules & regulations of Minimum Wages Act & payment to be released before 10th of every month. The details of manpower deployed such as Name, PAN/ Adhar No. /Age etc. shall be submitted by the successful bidder on first working day of the every month and details monthly payment released to them also be submitted every month. Tenderers payment will be released only after the submission of details of Payment / Salaries, PF, ESIC, PT etc. of the deployed manpower. 4. Rates quoted by the bidder shall be reasonable and he shall be able to give proper justification for the rates failing which EMD as of whole submitted by the bidder shall be forfeited. 5. Successful bidder have to submit MOU with security agency registered with Maharashtra Security Board / Central Govt. of Security Board for providing security persons within 15 days from the allotment of work and must have to appoint the security persons from this registered security agency only. 6. Pre-Bid Meeting shall be held on 26th April 2021 on 2:30pm at conference room of Supdt. Of Gardens office, Byculla. However due to COVID – 19 physically Pre-bid meeting may be cancelled. Hence, all bidders are requested to submit any suggestion / query regarding this tender as mention below MCGM mail id on or before 3:00pm. [email protected] [email protected] The Municipal Commissioner reserves the right to reject all or any of the e- tender(s) without assigning any reasons at any stage. The dates and time for submission and opening the bids are as shown in the Header Data. If there are any changes in the dates the same will be displayed on the MCGM Portal. (http://portal.mcgm.gov.in) The Applicants interested for the above referred works may contact the Dy. Superintendent of Gardens (Z-III) at the following address on any working day during office hours. Office of : Dy. Superitendent of Gardens (Z-III) 4th Floor, Garden Department K/E ward Building, Azad Road , Gunadavali Andheri East , Mumbai- 400069 6 The applicants may wish to visit the site under reference located at concerned ward, and can collect the information of the present status from the department who have invited the bids. The MCGM reserves the rights to accept any of the application or reject any or all the application received for above works, without assigning any reasons thereof. The information regarding above subject matter is available on Website of MCGM. (http://portal.mcgm.gov.in/tenders) Dy. Superintendent of Gardens (Z-III) 7 HEADER DATA Tender Document No DySG/Z-III/103/SGMC dt – 16.04.2021 Name of Organization Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai Subject To INVITE e- TENDER FOR MAINTENANCE OF VERIOUS GARDENS / PLAY GROUNDS / RECREATION GROUNDS / OPEN SPACES/ TRAFFIC ISLANDS/ CENTRAL MEDIANS ETC FOR THE K/EAST , H/EAST , H/WEST WARD IN ZONE-III FOR THE PERIOD OF ONE YEAR OF GARDEN DEPARTMENT. Cost of Tender Payment of amount equal to 0.09% of office estimated cost (rounded to hundred digit) with addition of GST (i.e. minimum Rs. 300/- + GST & maximum Rs.8500/- + GST). Cost of E-Tender(Estimated Cost) EMD Date of issue and sale of tender 19.04.2021 at 16:00hrs Last date & time for sale of tender 05.05.2021 up to 16:00 hrs Submission of Packet A, B 05.05.2021at 16:00 hrs & Packet C(Online) Pre-Bid Meeting In conference room of Supdt. Of Gardens office, Byculla. 26.04.2021 at 14:30 hrs (Zone- III) All bidders are requested to submit any suggestion / query regarding this tender as mention below MCGM mail id on or before 3:00pm. [email protected] [email protected] Opening of Packet A 05.05.2021 after 16:01 hrs Opening of Packet B 05.05.2021 after 16:02 hrs Opening of Packet C 07.05.2021 after 11:00 hrs Address for communication Dy.
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