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SHEEL NAGU, RAJEEV KUMAR SHRIVASTAVA
Amar Goods Transport – Appellant
Versus
M. P. State Co-operative Marketing Federation – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Heard through video conferencing.
1. Present petition u/Art.226 of Constitution of India is preferred challenging action on the part of official respondents in declining to accept the acceptance of counter offer and issuing fresh NIT.
2. The foundational facts are that in response to the NIT, the petitioner made an offer which was though L-1 but the official respondents found it to be on the higher side leading to the official respondents making a cross-offer lowering the initial bid from 119% above SOR to 110% above SOR. The petitioner accepted this cross-offer. In this factual backdrop, are the official respondents justified in law to have gone in for fresh NIT ignoring the acceptance of the petitioner of the lower cross-offer.
3. Pertinently, NIT under challenge relates to Narsinghpur sector [District Narsinghpur]. For the sake of clarity, the factual matrix attending the present writ petition is detailed below in a tabular illustration:
| S.No. | Events | WP.7734.21 |
| 1 | NIT issued for transportation of select food-grains and gunny bags – cum-unloading work for | |
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