JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Appeal filed under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent against the order dated 07.12.2021 made in W.P.No.35845 of 2019.)

Munishwar Nath Bhandari, CJ

By this writ appeal, a challenge is made to the order dated 07.12.2021, by which, the writ petition preferred by the writ appellant was dismissed.

2. The writ petition was filed to challenge the order dated 10.12.2019 rejecting the technical bid of the writ appellant. The tender was invited by the first respondent for the grant of license for Smoking Lounge and Sale Kiosk at the Chennai Airport. Pursuant to the e-tender floated by the first respondent, the writ appellant, apart from the second respondent, submitted its technical bid. After the receipt of the tender documents from both the parties, the writ appellant was declared to be technically disqualified as it failed to submit no due certificate of all the previous projects.

3. The rejection of the technical bid was despite the writ appellant having satisfied the eligibility criteria as per Clause 10 of the Notice inviting e-tenders. Clause 10 states that a company was required to have experience of operating at least 3 Smoking Lounges at Indian Airports / 5 Star Hotels /