https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=193506 A tender document is only an invitation to offer and does not, by itself, create a contract or an arbitration agreement. Where the bid documents separate the tender stage from the contract stage, and the arbitration clause in the general conditions is intended to operate only after a purchase order is issued, disputes arising before placement of such order remain outside arbitration. As the claim concerned alleged loss from non-placement of further purchase orders and no contract had come into existence for the disputed quantity, the Section 11(6) application was not maintainable and the claim could not be referred to arbitration. en-us Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 22 Aug 2023 16:18:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=193506 A tender document is only an invitation to offer and does not, by itself, create a contract or an arbitration agreement. Where the bid documents separate the tender stage from the contract stage, and the arbitration clause in the general conditions is intended to operate only after a purchase order is issued, disputes arising before placement of such order remain outside arbitration. As the claim concerned alleged loss from non-placement of further purchase orders and no contract had come into existence for the disputed quantity, the Section 11(6) application was not maintainable and the claim could not be referred to arbitration. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=193506