T.S. Thakur, J.

1. In terms of a tender notice dated 15th May, 2007, respondent No. 1 Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited invited bids for what was described as B-22 Field Development Project requiring among other works Surveys, Design, Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, Transportation, Installation of submarine pipeline and modifications on existing facilities, as described in the bidding documents. The notice inviting the bids stipulated certain broad conditions regulating the submission of the bid documents and inter alias provided that the bidding documents could be purchased on payment of US$1000 for foreign bidders and Rs. 45,000/- for Indian bidders and that the bids could be submitted to the authority nominated for the purpose by 24th July, 2007. The notice further provided that the bidding documents would consist of four separate parts in which Part-I would deal with instructions to bidders, Part-II with general conditions of contract, Part-III with appendices and Part-IV with the scope of work, specifications and drawings etc. What is significant is that the tender documents were available for review and download from the website of the respondent corpora