JUDGMENT

B.N.Mahapatra, J. This writ petition has been filed with a prayer to quash the decision taken by opposite party No.3-Superintending Engineer, Central Circle (R & B), Bhubaneswar, District : Khurda under Annexure-10 by which he rejected the bid and cancelled the tender in respect of the work “construction of 33 seated Women’s Hostel for Government Women’s College at Puri for the year 2010-11” invited vide Tender Call Notice No.9 dated 10.01.2011. Further prayer of the petitioner is to direct opposite party Nos.1 to 3 to issue work order in his favour in respect of the said work.

2. The petitioner’s case in a nut-shell is that he is a ‘B’ Class Contractor. A tender call notice bearing No.9 dated 10.01.2011 (Annexure-1) was issued by opposite party No.3 inviting online tenders from the eligible registered contractors for execution of the work in question. Pursuant to such tender call notice, petitioner along with others submitted their bids through e-tender process on 27.01.2011. The technical bid of the petitioner was treated as non-responsive on the sole ground that he had furnished wrong registration number of one of the four trucks which were supposed to be hired for execu