Judgment :

Puneet Gupta, J. :

The case of the petitioners is that the respondents floated the tender for road transport of Bulk Petroleum for advanced winter supplies for bulk Oil Storage and handling location in J&K (UT) vide tender No.RCC/NR/PSO/OPS/PT-141/20-21 for a period of three years with option for extension upto further two years at the sole discretion of the company. As per the clause of 1.4 of the NIT, the tenderer has to offer minimum three number of TTs in case of General and General MSE tenders and minimum two numbers in case of SC/ST. The petitioners participated in the tender process and their rates were also found as L-1 as the rates were quoted per K-1/Km. In the Reverse Auction process the tenderers was allowed to place his offer in terms of %age of the departmental estimate displaced on the portal and the band allowed for the same was 0% to -10%) of the departmental estimate. In terms of Clause 1.11 the evaluation of tenders was placed in Lot-1 and Lot-2 as per the ranking in terms of highest number of TTs offered by a particular bidder. The above process was to be continued till the requirement of the trucks is fully met against this tender. It was mentioned in