Bidders responsibility for genuineness of submitted documents and information: Documents and information submitted by bidders or their agents to government authorities at the time of bid submission or afterwards are usually accepted in good faith without further verification. Accordingly, responsibility for ensuring correctness, genuineness and authenticity of information/ documents submitted against any tender solely rests upon the bidder. Bidder shall not, directly or through any other person, indulge in any willful misrepresentation of facts, submission of forged / altered/ manipulated/ fabricated documents/ information in order to induce/officials associated with the tender to act and rely upon them with the purpose of obtaining unjust advantage or causing damage to justified interest of others and /or detrimental to government interest. The above applies to information and documents submitted by the bidder/ his principal/ consultant/ his authorized representative both during bid submission or execution of contract. In the event of the bidder committing such acts as mentioned above, the purchasing authority/ organization shall have powers to undertake appropriate penal action which might include disqualification of the bidder from the ongoing tender process or terminate/ determine the contract (if such transgression are detected later), exclude the bidder from future tender process for a particular duration, banning/black listing etc. Depending on the severity of the transgression, purchasing authority reserves the right to undertake criminal action as deemed fit for such occasion. Notwithstanding the above, N.C.R. reserves the right to undertake verification either by themselves or cause such verification through a professional entity at any stage of the tendering and contracting process.
