Heard Mr. Anil Kumar Sinha, Senior counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner assisted by Mr. Abhay Prakash, Advocate.

2. Heard Ms. Aprajita Bhardwaj, counsel appearing on behalf of the respondent-State.

2. This Writ petition has been filed for the following relief :-

“Quashing the decision dated 11.04.2018 (Annexure-5) of the Tender Committee of the Drinking Water and Sanitation Department, Government of Jharkhand, Ranchi pursuant to Invitation of the BIDS having Tender reference no. Dhanbad – 1/O & M/ - 14/2017-18 (5th Call) by the respondent Department, whereby and where under the respondents have arbitrarily rejected the technical bid of the petitioner solely on the reason that Joint Venture (JV) partners does not have experience related to similar nature of works in terms of clause 4.5 A (b) of the Bid Document ITB (Instruction to Bidders).

(b) Quashing the subsequent Tender Notice dated 26.04.2018 (Annexure-6) having reference no. Dhanabad – 1/O&M/14/2017-18 (6th call) issued by the Executive Engineer, Drinking Water and Sanitation Division-1 Dhanbad published on 28.04.2018 is daily news paper inviting bids for same work, caption as “Operation and Maintenance of 77 M