https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=273846 Tender cancellation was held arbitrary where the authority ignored its own governing methodology, which treated justification rates as the primary benchmark for assessing bid reasonableness. The petitioners' bids were below those justified rates, yet the authority compared them with abnormally low rates from adjacent works and treated them as excessive without a proper basis. The court held that general reasonableness guidelines and internal finance checks could not displace the specific contractual benchmark already built into the tender process. The impugned cancellations were quashed, and the bids were directed to be processed in accordance with law. en-us Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:56:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=273846 Tender cancellation was held arbitrary where the authority ignored its own governing methodology, which treated justification rates as the primary benchmark for assessing bid reasonableness. The petitioners' bids were below those justified rates, yet the authority compared them with abnormally low rates from adjacent works and treated them as excessive without a proper basis. The court held that general reasonableness guidelines and internal finance checks could not displace the specific contractual benchmark already built into the tender process. The impugned cancellations were quashed, and the bids were directed to be processed in accordance with law. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=273846