MINISTRY OF KASHMIR AFFAIRS AND GILGIT BALTISTAN, GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN vs ZK ASSOCIATES (PVT — 2021 YLR 2337 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR

Case information

Citation: 2021 YLR 2337 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan
Year: 2021
Reporter: YLR
Parties: MINISTRY OF KASHMIR AFFAIRS AND GILGIT BALTISTAN, GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN vs ZK ASSOCIATES (PVT
Subject matter: Criminal

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Judgment text as reported

MINISTRY OF KASHMIR AFFAIRS AND GILGIT BALTISTAN, GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN VS ZK ASSOCIATES (PVT.) LIMITED art. 42---Bidding process---Scope---Project Director, Project Management Unit for azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative assembly Complex invited bids for the construction of Legislative assembly Complex from eligible bidders---Respondent-firm offered its bid as joint venture and participated in the bidding process, however, its bid was declared non-responsive by the competent authority and the contract was awarded to another firm---Respondent assailed the said order before the High Court through a writ petition which was accepted and a direction was issued to the Project Director to issue the letter of acceptance to the respondent being the lowest successful bidder---Contention of appellants was that, in fact, one of the joint venture partners did not fulfil the criteria of eligibility for the project because one of its conditions was that the bidder should have completed at least one project of similar nature, within the minimum cost of 1800 millions Pakistan rupees, therefore, in order to overcome the discrepancy it associated the other partner but the joint venture partners failed to furnish the bid security in the name of joint venture---Validity---Perusal of the instructions to bidders revealed that it was essential that the bid security should be in the name of the joint venture and if the same was not as such, the principal or the employer had every right to reject the tender---Principal in such circumstances had competently rejected the bid by holding the same as non-responsive and such a rejection could not have been challenged---appeal was accepted and the order passed by High Court was set aside, in circumstances.

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