Bid Evaluation. 1.4.1 e-Bid evaluation will be done based on the total of Summary Prices which are inclusive of GST and all other indirect taxes and duties for supply of items and site work portion as per Section D of the Tender document. To facilitate the evaluation and comparison of prices, all e-bid prices expressed in foreign currency will be converted into Indian Rupees at Bills Selling exchange rates (as established by State Bank of India) applicable on the day seven days prior to due date of submission of the e-bid. If the day seven days prior to due date of submission of bid happens to be a holiday, the exchange rates of next working day will be considered. For items sourced from abroad and directly delivered to the Purchaser’s site, wherever the ocean/air freight and marine insurance to the port of the Purchaser’s country are not mentioned, 11% of FOB prices will be considered towards ocean/air freight and marine insurance to arrive at CIF prices. For local transportation and other services including customs clearance charges, port handling, inland transit insurance etc., in India are not quoted as required, the charges towards the same will be considered as 1 ½% of CIF Value for items and materials supplied from abroad and delivered directly to the project site from Indian port of entry. Applicable IGST if not quoted will be loaded to arrive at the final price for the purpose of evaluation in case of unregistered parties. 1.4.2 For Tender where Fiscal Concessions as per SCC are available/ applicable, the following shall apply: (a) For evaluation and comparison of bids, a price preference at 15% would be given to the domestically manufactured capital goods. For this purpose, the bid price of the bidders would be increased by 15% of all such CIF components contained in their price bid including the CIF component of the imported raw materials/ components required for manufacture of indigenous items. No exchange rate variation is allowed towards the value of imported raw materials and components included in the Indigenous items. For the purposes of 15% loading as above, the base exchange rates shall be Bills Selling exchange rates (as established by State Bank of India) applicable on the day seven days prior to due date of submission of bid. If the day seven days prior to due date of submission of bid happens to be a holiday, the exchange rate of next working day will be considered. (b) Further the charges for expatriate supervision for erection and commissioning qu...
