https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=156695 Judicial review in public tender matters is confined to illegality, arbitrariness, irrationality, mala fides and public interest concerns, and courts will not re-evaluate commercial or technical assessments. Applying that restraint, the rejection of the first stretch bid was upheld because the earnest money deposit was found invalid on contemporaneous material, and the authority was entitled to treat the bid as non-responsive without further enquiry. The rejection of the second stretch bid was also upheld because the quoted rate was assessed as absurdly low and commercially unworkable, making performance unreliable. The authority's bona fide commercial judgment was therefore not open to substitution in judicial review. en-us Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:16:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=156695 Judicial review in public tender matters is confined to illegality, arbitrariness, irrationality, mala fides and public interest concerns, and courts will not re-evaluate commercial or technical assessments. Applying that restraint, the rejection of the first stretch bid was upheld because the earnest money deposit was found invalid on contemporaneous material, and the authority was entitled to treat the bid as non-responsive without further enquiry. The rejection of the second stretch bid was also upheld because the quoted rate was assessed as absurdly low and commercially unworkable, making performance unreliable. The authority's bona fide commercial judgment was therefore not open to substitution in judicial review. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=156695