Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 796 · Decided 29 November 2013
Maa Binda Express Carrier and ANR. v. Northeast Frontier Railway and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 796 · [2013] 12 S.C.R. 529
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 10751/2013
- Decided
- 29 November 2013
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, VIKRAMAJIT SEN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Government Contracts: A B Tenders - Cancellation of tender process for deficiencies c therein - Held: Submission of a tender in response to a notice inviting such tenders is no more than making an offer which the State or its agencies are under no obligation to accept - Bidders- process cannot, therefore, insist that their tenders should be accepted simply because 0 a given tender is the highest or lowest depending upon whether the contract is for sale of public property or for execution of works on behalf of Government - All that participating bidders are entitled to
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