1. The petitioners, in this petition, call in question all 50 independent tenders termed as independent enquiry numbers forming part of a tender notification dated 28-03-2022 and consequently, seek re - notification of all the 50 tenders afresh in terms of Karnataka Transparency in Public Procurements Act, 1999 ('the Act' for short) and Karnataka Transparency in Public Procurements Rules, 2000 ('the Rules' for short).

2. Heard Sri Nandakumar C. K., learned senior counsel appearing for petitioners and Sri. S. Sriranga, learned senior counsel appearing for respondent.

3. Brief facts that lead the petitioners to this court in the subject petition, as borne out from the pleadings, are as follows: -
The petitioners claim to be independent proprietorship concerns doing business of repairing and servicing of electrical transformers and claim to be belonging to Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes category. The petitioners further claim that they have rich experience in undertaking all repairs of transformers and re - conditioning work of 11 KV Class single coil / multi coil conventional transformers of various capacities and they possess sufficient manpower. The respondent - Bangalore Ele