Pre-Bid meeting for the captioned tender was held on May 22, 2020 at 15:30 in Issue Department, RBI Lucknow. The following staff members of RBI and representatives of prospective firms/tenderers were present during the pre-bid meeting: Sr. No. | Name of RBI Officers | i) | Shri Brij Sonkar (AGM) | ii) | Shri S Saraswati (AM) | Sr. No. | Name of firm | Name of representative | i) | Currency Movers | Shri Sudhakar Raut | ii) | S & I B Services Pvt. Ltd | Shri Ranvijay Yadav | 2. The discussion held with the agencies’ representatives and clarifications arrived thereof are mentioned hereunder: Sr. No. | Query raised by agencies’ representative | Clarification given by the Bank | i) | If the firm is unable to arrange / upload some documents due to lockdown, will the firm be considered eligible to open the price bid or not? | To be eligible for part II (price bid) opening, tenderer must fulfil all eligibility criteria of part I (technical bid) and shall submit all mandatory documents. In case of non-submission of mandatory document by the tenderer, the tender will be treated as disqualified in Part-I at the sole discretion of the Bank. | ii) | It is mentioned in the tender document that work shall be allotted between L1 and L2 bidder in the ratio of 60:40. Considering the estimate of work, why whole work is not being allotted to L1 bidder? | This is without any prejudice to the capacity of L1 bidder and is only meant to reduce complete reliance on one contractor. | | |