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Due Date Extended (28-09-2023)
Due to some issues in accessing the portals, all the tenders due for closing on 28-09-2023 from 16.30 Hrs to 18.55 Hrs have been extended by 24 hours as per System Malfunction Procedure. Inconvenience caused is deeply regretted. |
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Kind Attention Dept Officials regarding Visibility of bid documents to bidders and Public Domain
Kind Attention TIAs- Visibility of bid documents to bidders and Public Domain has been made configurable. During Tender Creation in workitems page a drop named Show Bid Details in Public Domain stage is made available where Tender Creator can select the tender stage at which the bid information would be disclosed to the public domain and in the bidder login.Until that stage the bid information will be displayed only to the department users.The default value for the field Show Bid Details in Public Domain should be Technical Bid Opening
While creating the tender, if the value for the field Show Technical bid to competitors is given as Yes, technical documents will be visible to all the participating bidders and vice versa.
If the value for the field Show Financial bid to competitors is given as Yes, financial documents will be visible to all the participating bidders and vice versa. |
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Kind Attention Dept Officials regarding the guideline issued by PRD on window advt from eproc system for tenders above 5 Lakhs done twice a week.
The Tender Reference Number has to be appended with( /N) for Malayalam and English National circulation and( /S) for Malayalam and English State circulation and if the actual Tender Reference Number is given with out appending anything the advertisement will be published only in Malayalam.
The Length of Work Item Title should be within 165 characters and the length of Tender Inviting Authority address should be within 65 characters. |
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Steps for Payment Verification when amount is debited from account and not reflected
Verification of the payment is required. For verifying the payment select the (Pay online) and then (SBI MOPS) Click on the (payment verification) button on the top of the terms and condition page then verify the payment,
Note- Bidders who are using SBI MOPS other banks Internet Banking are requested to make online payments 72 hours in advance. The Maximum time to update the payment success or failure status is 72 hours.
The Maximum time to update the payment (success or failure) status is 72 hours. |
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Instruction to Bidders for Tender cum Auction
The document on Instruction to Bidders for Tender cum Auction is published for the benefit of the bidders, who wants to participate in the Tender cum Auction. The document can be downloaded from the download link provided. |
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Removal of 2 of 2 bid Openers
As announced earlier in this portal, the 2 of 2 Bid opener option will be disabled from 1st July 2021. To ensure trouble
free decryption, all the users are advised to configure 2 of 4 Bid opener Option. This will help in handling any emergency situation and also make sure that
the bid opening process gets completed smoothly. So, the Department users are hereby informed that the option of 2 of 2 bid opener will be disabled for all
all tenders and it will not be available from 1st July 2021. |
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Kind Attention From 1st January 2021 only Class 3 DSCs will be issued by default. The presently registered class 2 DSCs will continue to work till expiry.
Kind Attention From 1st January 2021 only Class 3 DSCs will be issued by default. The presently registered class 2 DSCs will continue to work till expiry. |
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Guide Lines for Tender Fee and EMD Exemption
Bidders are requested to go through the file in the case of Tender Fee and EMD Exemption |
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Regarding publishing window advertisements for departmental eTenders via PRD
NIC Kerala is preparing PRD report on the first working day of every week for the tenders above 5 lakhs. Since it is an automated process, no need to send requests for publishing in the dailies. The departments approved by PRD for the same is attached for reference. Henceforth, please do not send publishing requests to NIC / KSITM / PRD. For those departments which are not included in the list may contact KSITM for including them in the PRD List |
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Attention TIAs - Retaining Encryption Certificate during DSC Renewal
All TIAs are advised to retain their previous Encryption certificate including Private Key associated with the DSC device even after the renewal of DSCs. This is necessary as the same is needed to decrypt the Bids (Tender Opening) encrypted with previous certificate. |
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