By the Court.—HCIL and HCLL (JV) a Joint Venture of M/s. Harish Chandra (India) Ltd. and M/s. Hardik Construction & Leasing Ltd. and others have approached this Court questioning the validity of the decision dated 25th July, 2013 taken by the Tender Evaluation Committee constituted by the Chief Engineer (Construction), North Central Railway, Bhagirathi Building, Allahabad whereby the Pre-qualification Bid of petitioners have been rejected and further prayer has been made that the Pre-qualification Bid be accepted as responsive and their Techno-commercial Bid be considered and thereafter contract in question be awarded, accordingly, to the petitioners.

2. Brief background of the case is that Railways proceeded to float tender notice dated 25th April, 2013 inviting tenders for executing civil work of construction of road over bridge at NHAI Chainage 315142m Railway Chainage 4050m near Etawah on NH-2 Express Highway consisting of Reinforced Earth, Retaining Wall, RCC Boxes on approaches and construction of Railway span with RCC Boxes in connection with New BG Rail Line between Etawah and Mainpuri. In the top sheet of the tender documents approximate cost of the work was quoted