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2025 (4) TMI 55

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..... r procurement of brochures, leaflets, books, souvenirs, for printing and supply. It was a rated contract for two years. Annexure-1 is the e-Tender. 3. Petitioner participated in the e-Tender and was declared a successful bidder vide Annexure-2 dt. 09.12.2021 and was invited to furnish copies of Memorandum of Understanding in two sets duly printed on a non-judicial stamp paper and furnish it with the Procurement Cell. 4. Thereafter, though the Purchase Orders were issued on 10.10.2022 and 28.10.2022 to the petitioner, it did not supply till December 2022 after the supply dates had expired. 5. Therefore, petitioner was issued show-cause notice on 02.12.2022 to show cause why the supplies were not made and warned that process of blacklistin .....

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..... dents for supply of books and medical records checklists, etc. and when same was also not supplied within time specified, a notice was issued to the petitioner on 16.04.2024. 10. Petitioner again sent an email (Annexure-8) in reply to the same contending that there were 09 items against which, it had supplied Sl. No.1 part and Sl. No.6 fully. For rest of items, sample copy has been approved by the respondents' office on 24.01.2024. Only Sl. No.8 has not been approved, as proof has been submitted, and for a 2nd Purchase Order No.5045, there were 08 items, against which 07 items have been approved on 24.01.2024 and Sl. No.7 has not been approved as there are some corrections in it. For rest of items, printing has been completed and binding p .....

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..... e petitioner on 10.10.2022 and 28.10.2022 specifying timelines for such supplies of 45 days and 30 days respectively, but the timelines were not adhered to by the petitioner. The petitioner, instead, was complaining about certain discrepancies in the Purchase Orders with the tender. Similar delay occurred in supply pursuant to the purchase order dt. 24.11.2023. 16. If the petitioner was not supplying the materials pursuant to purchase orders within the timelines, and the respondents had issued show-cause notice for blacklisting, and considered the explanation offered by the petitioner and then decided to blacklist the petitioner for 03 years on 19.07.2024, the action of the respondents, in our consideration opinion, cannot be found fault w .....

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