Arun Mishra, J.

1. Petitioner Glodyne Technoserve Ltd. has prayed for quashment of letter dated 29.4.2010 received by the petitioner on 27.5.2010 rejecting its bid on the ground of not qualifying the eligibility criteria.

2. On 12.12.2009 the State Government through Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection (FCS) issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for appointment of Vendor for District Mechanism for Public Distribution System (PDS). The last date of submission of bid was 7.1.2010 which was extended till 17.2.2010.

3. Section 3.1 of RFP provides that the bidder/one partner in the consortium must possess a valid certification in the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level 3 or above. The bidder/all the partners of consortium (in case of Consortium) should have an active (valid at least till June 2010) ISO 9001:2000 certification at the time of submission of the bid. Section 7.1 of RFP provides for the bidders check list. On 18.1.2010, first corrigendum to RFP was issued and pre qualification criteria was changed to the aforesaid effect. On 5.2.2010, second corrigendum was issued. On 17.2.2010 the petitioner submitted his bid. In all six bids were submitted namely;