( 1 ) IN this petition under Art. 226 of the Constitution, the petitioner-Company has prayed for a writ of mandamus and/or any other appropriate writ or order or direction quashing and setting aside Resolution Nos. 4 and 5 dated 19-3-1998 passed by the Standing Committee of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (hereinafter to be referred to as "the Corporation") and also to direct the corporation to award and accept both the contracts in question to the petitioner in respect of Atladara and Gajarawadi Sewage Treatment Plants.

( 2 ) THE facts leading to filing of the present petition, as averred by the petitioner, are as under :-

( 3 ) THE petitioner-Company is engaged in the business and activities of environmental and Solid-Liquid separation activities and DAP Fertilizers including giving treatment to Sewage-Water Treatment Plant etc. The petitioner-Company has collaboration with Dorr-Oliver Inc. of U. S. A.

( 4 ) IN July 1997 the Corporation had issued a public notice inviting tenders for repairing works of mechanical parts of Sewage Treatment Plants at Atladara/ gajarawadi and to put the said plants into operational condition. Four parties submitted their tenders in r