Supreme Court of India
West Bengal State Electricity Board v. Patel Engineering Co. Ltd. and Ors.
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What the Court ordered
In the result, we uphold the impugned order of the Division Bench insofar as it relates to quashing of communication and letter dated December 18, 1999 and set aside that part of the impugned order giving direction to the C appellant to permit respondent Nos. 1 to 4 to correct bid documents and to consider their bid after correction along with other bids.
Judgment, page 24
From the headnote
Government Contracts; Tender-Bids-Correction of-State Electricity Board invited tenders for a proposed power project-The Instructions to Bidders (/Tf!), iter alia, provided that in case of discrepancy between the unit rate and the line item total resulting from multiplying the unit rate by the quantity, the unit rate as quoted would govern-After su.bmission of bids, one of the bidders informed the Board that there was "a repetitive systematic computer typographical transmission failure" and requested that it be corrected-It was further pointed out that the Indian Rupee unit stated in the
Where later benches applied it
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Of those, 2 relied on · 3 referred to
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