Vijay Bishnoi, J.

This writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India is filed by the petitioner-company, which is incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 and Corresponding Companies Act, 2013, through its power of attorney holder challenging the action of the respondent Central Public Works Department (for short 'the CPWD' hereinafter), whereby it has disqualified the petitioner-company vide letter dated 25.04.2017 (Annexure-1) from the bidding process pursuant to NIT (Annexure-3) issued by it.

2. Facts, which are not in dispute, are that the respondent- CPWD has floated an NIT (Annexure-3) for construction of various buildings works at Permanent Campus of IIT, Jodhpur (Phase-2) at Karwar, NH-65, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, description of which is provided in the bid document. Initially the last date for submission of tenders, EMD, e-tender, processing fee and other documents was fixed as 13.02.2017 up to 3:00 P.M. and date of opening technical bid was fixed at 3:30 P.M. on 13.02.2017, however, later on the same was extended up to 02.03.2017, which is evident from the minutes of the Pre-tender Conference shown to the court and not disputed by the petitioner. The p