JUDGMENT :

1. The present writ petition has been filed to seek the quashing of invitation to tender dated 12.02.2021 bearing No. GEM/2021/b/1032762 issued by Respondent No.1 i.e. Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti on the portal of Government E-Market Place (GEM), and in particular, letter dated 29.06.2021 issued to the Petitioner.

2. Briefly stated the facts as per petitioner giving rise to filing of the present writ petition are as under.

3. The Petitioner is a partnership firm dealing in trading and supplying of information and technological goods. Petitioner No.2 is one of the partners of Petitioner No.1.

4. The Respondent No.1 Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) is an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Education/ Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of School, Education and Literacy, Govt. of India. The Chairman of Respondent No.1 is the Minister of Education. The Respondent No.1 functions through the Executive Committee, under the Chairmanship of the Minister of Education and the Executive Head of the Administration is the Commissioner.

5. Respondent No.1 issued invitation to tender for supply of 68,940 tablets on the online trading portal of the Government of India, i.