E-Tender No: RBI/Kolkata Regional Office/HRMD/6/24-25/ET/589 [Supply of medicines at RBI Kol] Reserve Bank of India, Kolkata, (hereinafter called “the Bank”), invites Open e-tender under Two – Bid system (Techno-commercial & Financial Bid) from suppliers / stockists / chemists / Druggists (hereinafter refer to a Chemists for brevity) for procuring medicines for the Bank’s dispensaries at Kolkata during the period April 01, 2025 to March 31, 2028. The contract for supplying medicines would be awarded for a period of one year from April 01, 2025 to March 31, 2026. Subsequently, the contract may be renewed annually on mutual consent for a period of one year at a time, extendable up to a maximum period of two years on same terms and conditions, subject to satisfactory performance of the supplier, as evaluated by the Bank from time to time. The contract may be terminated by giving three months’ notice period by the either side. 2. The Tender process will be executed through the e-Tendering portal of MSTC Ltd. (https://www.mstcecommerce.com/eprocn/). Interested tenderers must register themselves with MSTC Ltd. through the aforementioned website to participate in the tendering process. The tenderers shall submit their e-tender (both Part I and Part II i.e., Techno-commercial and Financial bids), as per the instructions regarding e-Tender, along with all supporting documents, complete in all respects, on or before December 26, 2024 (Thursday) up to 02:00 P.M. Tenders submitted only through the portal, will be accepted for the captioned process. Tenders, if received (in any mode) after the said date and time, will not be accepted by the Bank. The tenderers shall remit refundable Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) of ₹24 lakhs (Twenty-Four Lakhs) on or before December 26, 2024 (Thursday) up to 12:00 P.M The techno-commercial bid (Part I) will be opened electronically on December 27, 2024 (Friday) 11:30 A.M onwards in presence of prospective bidders (either physically or online via webex). In the event of tender opening date indicated above being declared a holiday, tender shall be opened on the next working day. 3. The Tender document can be downloaded from the RBI website ‘www.rbi.org.in’ and ‘www.mstcecommerce.com’. Any amendment / corrigendum / clarification with respect to this tender shall be uploaded on the Bank’s website / MSTC e-portal only and will not be published in the newspaper. The tenderer should regularly check the above website / e-portal for any amendment / corrigendum / clarification/addendum and submit the bid after verification of the same. The Bank reserves the right to reject any or all the tenders without assigning any reason thereof. Regional Director Reserve Bank of India Kolkata SCHEDULE OF TENDER (SoT) A | E-tender no. | RBI/Kolkata Regional Office/HRMD/6/24-25/ET/589 [Supply of medicines at RBI Kol] | B | Name of Tender | Supply of medicines at the Bank’s Dispensaries under the purview of RBI Kolkata RO for the period April 1, 2025 – March 31, 2028 | C | Mode of Tender | e- Procurement System (Online - Part I - Techno-Commercial Bid and Part II - Price/Financial Bid through MSTC E-Commerce (https://www.mstcecommerce.com/eprocn/)) | D | Date of Notice Inviting E-tender available for viewing/download on RBI website | November 20, 2024 | E | Date of Pre-Bid meeting (Hybrid mode both offline and online Webex mode) | December 12, 2024 at 03:00 PM | F | Venue of Pre-Bid meeting for Offline | RBI Main Building, 15 Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Road, Kolkata-700001 | G | Pre-Bid (online Webex mode) | Vendors who would like to join pre-bid meeting via online mode may send in their email ids, where they would like the Webex link to be shared, at barkhagupta@rbi.org.in; and aparya@rbi.org.in, on or before December 11, 2024 | H | Estimated value of tender i.e., Annual procurement | ₹12,00,000,00/-(Annually) (Twelve Crores) approximately | I | Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) | ₹24,00,000 (Twenty-Four Lakhs) (being 2% of the total contract value shall be deposited by each bidder) in the form of NEFT/Demand Draft/Bank Guarantee (prepared as per enclosed format) issued by a Scheduled Bank drawn in favour of Reserve Bank of India, Kolkata. | Beneficiary account no: | 186003001 | IFSC: | RBIS0KLPA01 (Numeric Zero at 5th and 10th place from left) | Beneficiary name: | Reserve Bank of India, Kolkata | Demand Draft and Bank Guarantee has to be in favour of “THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR, RBI, Kolkata” payable at Kolkata Note: There is no exemption to MSME/UDYAM registered bidders from the payment of EMD. The proof of having remitted EMD is to be uploaded on MSTC portal and a confirmation mail with necessary details to be mailed at ceskolkata@rbi.org.in; barkhagupta@rbi.org.in and apayra@rbi.org.in on or before December 26, 2024. | J | Last date and time of submission of EMD | On or before 12 P.M of December 26, 2024 | K | Transaction fees | Payment of Transaction fee as mentioned in the MSTC portal through MSTC payment gateway through/NEFT/RTGS in favour of MSTC LIMITED or as advised by M/s MSTC Ltd. Please do not transfer the transaction fee to the Reserve Bank of India, Kolkata. | L | Date of Starting of online submission of E-tender (Technical Bid and Financial Bid) at (https://www.mstcecommerce.com/eprocn/). | November 20, 2024, 6 P.M onwards | M | Last date of availability of E-tender on website | December 26, 2024 till 02:00 P.M | N | Date & time of closing of online submission of E-tender (Techno-commercial Bid and Financial Bid). | December 26, 2024 till 02:00 P.M | O | Date & time of opening of Part-I (Techno-commercial Bid) | December 27, 2024, 11:30 AM onwards | P | Date of opening of Part-II (Financial Bid) | Part-II (Financial Bid) will be opened electronically of only those bidder(s) whose Part-I (Techno-commercial Bid) is found acceptable by RBI, Kolkata. Such bidder(s) will be informed regarding date of opening of Part-II (Financial Bid) through valid e-mail IDs provided by them. | Q | Email query, if any, may be sent to | ceskolkata@rbi.org.in | | |