( 1 ) PETITIONER is a partnership firm having vast experience in the field of stevedoring shore handling and transport of cargo, stacking, loading, including liaison and having large clientele including State Electricity board, large steel and cement industries more particularly in ports of chennai, Tuticorn, Vishakapatnam, Kakinada, Paradeep and Goa. According to the petitioner-firm has come into existence in the year 1972 and having all infrastructure to carry on the said activities. R-1 is a state owned company incoiporated under the Companies Act generating electric power for re-distribution and sale.

( 2 ) AS per the notification dated 14-10-2004, R-l invited tenders for transportation of coal from Mahanadi Coal Fields Limited, Talcher in orissa to Raichur Thermal Power Station in Karnataka by rail/sea/rail route. Pursuant to the tender notification dated 14-10-2004, a tenderer was required to submit tender documents in two separate covers, cover-A is known as technical bid and cover-B contains price bid. On 16-10-2004 technical bid of all the participants were opened in their presence and petitioner's pre-qualification cover was found to be as per the speci