B. SUDERSHAN REDDY, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioner s Company is engaged in the manufacture and sale of Veterinary Medicines and has registered itself as a Small Scale Industry with the Government of Andhra Pradesh. It is one of the Rate contract supplier of Veterinary medicine. The petitioner claims that it has a net-work of selling Veterinary medicine outside the State also, throughout country. There has been never any complaint against the quality of standard of the Veterinary medicine supplied by the petitioner is the claim of the petitioner.

( 2 ) THE Department of Animal Husbandry, Government of Andhra Pradesh appears to have evolved the system of maintaining a panel of Rate Contract supplier every year for the purpose of purchasing veterinary medicine and Therapeutics at the specified rates subject to such terms and conditions specified in the contract. The second respondent herein through tender notification in the newspapers invited tenders for registration of rate contract supplier for the year 1997-98. The last date for submission of tenders was 28-4-1997. According to the notification, the tender should consist of technical bid (dealing with the technical evaluation) and a price

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