Dinesh Maheshwari, J.-In the matter of awarding of contract for “Imparting Teaching in Computer Education and Maintenance of Computers, UPS and peripherals etc” by the Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur. The petitioner-tenderer has submitted this writ petition aggrieved of the rejection of his offer by the respondent-University assailing the rejection as illegal, arbitrary, capricious and the members of the tender committee acting with bias.

2. Brief facts relevant for the purpose of determination of the questions involved in this writ petition are that according to the petitioner the respondent, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur with a view to provide computer education to the students enrolled in the University, invited tenders in the year 2001 and after scrutiny, entered into agreement with four different firms namely, Vital Academy, Education Linx, E- Gurucul and Diamond Finvest. According to the petitioner, the University made payment of about Rs. 412/-per student per year to the agencies. The petitioner is stated to be a sole proprietorship firm and its proprietor Shri Ravi Bhati is stated to be having the degree of B.Sc. (Computer Science) obtained in the year 19