https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=313022 Judicial review of tender evaluation is limited to illegality, irrationality, procedural impropriety, arbitrariness, mala fides, bias, or perversity, and courts must ordinarily defer to the tendering authority's interpretation of its own bid conditions. In infrastructure contracts, restraint is especially important because interference can delay public works and increase costs. Applying that standard, the evaluation committee's view that a bidder's bank guarantee did not conform to the prescribed bid security format, and its acceptance of the successful bidder's technical bid, did not disclose manifest illegality. The High Court's interference was therefore unwarranted, and the award of the contract to the appellant was upheld. en-us Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:52:21 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=313022 Judicial review of tender evaluation is limited to illegality, irrationality, procedural impropriety, arbitrariness, mala fides, bias, or perversity, and courts must ordinarily defer to the tendering authority's interpretation of its own bid conditions. In infrastructure contracts, restraint is especially important because interference can delay public works and increase costs. Applying that standard, the evaluation committee's view that a bidder's bank guarantee did not conform to the prescribed bid security format, and its acceptance of the successful bidder's technical bid, did not disclose manifest illegality. The High Court's interference was therefore unwarranted, and the award of the contract to the appellant was upheld. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=313022