A.K. JAYASANKARAN NAMBIAR, J.

1. These writ appeals arise from the common judgment dated 20.5.2019 of a learned Single Judge in W.P.(C).Nos.12207/2019 and 12208/2019. By the said judgment, the learned judge set aside an order passed by a tendering authority, that rejected the technical bids submitted by the writ petitioner for two works as non-responsive, and directed the tendering authority to consider the financial bids submitted by the writ petitioner in respect of the said works, along with those submitted by the other eligible bidders. While W.A.Nos.1375/2019 and 1376/2019 are preferred by the tendering authority who was the respondent in the aforementioned writ petitions, W.A.Nos.1359/2019 and 1374/2019 are preferred by persons who were eligible bidders to the tender proceedings that were impugned in the writ petitions, but who were not made parties in the said writ petitions. The appellants in the last mentioned writ appeals are before us pursuant to the leave granted to them by this Court to prefer the said appeals.

2. The factual averments in the writ petitions filed by the petitioner, indicate that the petitioner had responded to a Notice Inviting Tender for two w