Reserve Bank of India, Chennai invites e-Tender for the following work. The tendering process will be done only through the e-Tendering portal of MSTC Ltd. (https://www.mstcecommerce.com/). All interested bidders shall, register themselves with MSTC Ltd, through the above-mentioned website to participate in the tendering process. The salient details of the work for which bids are invited and important instructions to the bidder are as under: | 1 | e-Tender number | RBI/Chennai Regional Office/Others/5/25-26/ET/809 [Bulk Supply of Medicines and Door-Step Delivery] | | 2 | Name of Tender | Bulk Supply of medicines to Bank Dispensaries in Chennai and Door-Step Delivery (Retail) against Credit Slips to Retirees, Employees, and Eligible Dependents, residing in the State of Tamil Nadu & Union Territory of Puducherry | | 3 | Mode of Tender | e-Procurement System (Two-part tendering) Online Part I – Techno-Commercial Bid and Part II - Price-Bid, through (https://www.mstcecommerce.com/) | | 4 | Date of the Tender available to view / download on RBI and MSTC website | January 06, 2026, 05:00 pm (Tuesday) | | 5 | Date of availability of Tender for submission of Techno-Commercial bid and Financial bid | January 06, 2026, 05:00 pm (Tuesday) | | 6 | Pre-Bid meeting | January 12, 2026 11:00 am (Monday)
Location: RBI, Chennai | | 7 | Estimated gross annual procurement value | ₹8,00,00,000/- (Rupees Eight Crore only) approximately | | 8 | Earnest Money Deposit (2% of estimated gross annual procurement value) | ₹16,00,000/- (Rupees Sixteen Lakh only)
EMD by way of credit through NEFT
IFSC Code: RBIS0CNPA01 (Please read fifth and tenth letter as ZERO)
Beneficiary Name: RBI CHENNAI
A/C No. 186003001
Non-submission of EMD would be considered as unresponsive and bid is liable to be rejected. | | 9 | Transaction Fee
Please note that the bidders will have the access to online e-Tender only after payment of transaction fees online | Payment of transaction fee through MSTC Gateway/NEFT/RTGS in favor of MSTC Limited, as advised by M/s MSTC Ltd.
This will be borne by the applicant. | | 10 | Last date for submission of EMD | January 19, 2026, 04:00 pm (Monday) | | 11 | Date of closing of submission of Techno-Commercial bid and Financial bid | January 20, 2026, 12:00 noon (Tuesday) | | 12 | Date of opening of Techno-Commercial bid at Bank’s Premises | January 20, 2026, 03:00 pm (Tuesday)
(A representative may be nominated by the Bidders to be present on the occasion) | | 13 | Date of Opening of Financial bid | Financial bids (Part II) submitted by the bidders who were found to be successful in the Techno-Commercial bids (Part I) will only be considered for evaluation and the same will be opened electronically in the premises of the Bank on a later date. Intimation in this regard will be shared with the bidders successful in Part I through the e-mail IDs provided by the bidders.
(A representative may be nominated by the Bidders to be present on the occasion) | | 14 | Address for Communication | The Regional Director
Central Establishment Section
Reserve Bank of India
Fort Glacis, 16, Rajaji Salai,
Chennai - 600 001 | 2. For full details please refer Tender Document. Further corrigendum / addendum if any, will be hosted on the Bank’s website https://www.rbi.org.in/ under the link ‘Tenders’ and https://www.mstcecommerce.com/. The Bank is not bound to accept the lowest tender and reserves the right to accept either full or in part of any tender. The Bank also reserves the right to reject any one or all of the tenders without assigning any reason, thereof. The Regional Director
Reserve Bank of India
Chennai | |