JUDGMENT :

NELSON SAILO, J.

1. This Order will dispose of both the writ petitions. The parties in both the writ petitions are one and the same except Surya Roshini Ltd., who was found to be L2 in the price bid is not a party in the second writ petition filed by the petitioners. The writ petitions were initially filed in the Principal Seat at Guwahati but later on they were transferred to the Aizawl Bench of the Gauhati High Court and renumbered. The grievance projected by the petitioners is that the Notice Inviting e-Tender (NIT) dated 10.11.2023 has been arbitrarily and illegally settled in favor of the respondent No. 8 in violation of the terms and conditions of the NIT and that the petitioners being the third lowest tenderers and duly qualified to undertake the work in terms of the NIT should be allotted the work.

2. Brief facts of the case is that the respondent Nos. 1 to 6 floated NIT dated 10.11.2023 for Supply, Fixing, Testing and Commissioning (SITC) of LED Flood Light in Dampa Tiger Reserve Forest (DTRF) area from near BP No. - 2313 to near 2305/2-RI along Indo-Bangladesh Border in Mizoram State for approximate length of 60 Km. The estimated cost of the work was Rs. 53,93,97,