AJAY RASTOGI. J.

1. The instant writ petition has been filed at the instance of one of the bidder petitioner who had participated in the e-tender initiated at the instance of the Director, State Council of Educational Research and Training, Tripura (for short “SCERT”) from such of the firms of the Indian origin and operating within India having sufficient multicolour printing, binding and supply facilities for printing multicolour/bi-colour cover pages and inner pages of textbooks of Classes-I to XII for the academic session-2019 dt.24th July, 2018 in online bidding process but the bid of the petitioner was declared technically non-responsive/disqualified by the Tender Screening Committee/Tender Evaluation Committee in its meeting held on 28th August 2018 on the premise that the petitioners failed to upload the “factory registration certificate”.

2. The indisputed facts, in brief, which are delineated for the present purpose, are that the Director of State Council of Educational Research and Training, Tripura (SCERT) invited an item wise e-tender from the firms of the Indian origin and operating within India having sufficient multicolour printing, binding and supply facilit