JUDGMENT

The captioned writ petitions are filed by two companies, stated to be having decades of experience in general construction industry and specific experience in constructing various types of Water Treatment Plants (WTP), who have participated in the tender invited by the Kerala Water Authority from its registered ‘Class A’ contractors in respect of the works “Construction of Intake well cum Pump house, supplying, Laying, Testing and Commissioning of Raw Water Pumping Main, Construction & Commissioning of 100 MLD Water Treatment Plant and allied structures at Koolimadu, Substations and Allied Electrics at Intake and WTP, Raw Water and Clear Water pumpsets, Supplying, Laying, Testing and Commissioning of M.S. Clear Water Pumping Main from WTP To Reservoir at Thanikkodumala, Clear Water Transmission Main from Reservoir at Thanikkodumala to various Service Reservoirs, Construction of Sump cum Pump House at Kizhakkoth and online Booster Station at Puthuppadi", and “Construction and Commissioning of 100 MLD Water Treatment Plant at Peruvannamuzhi, Floating Intake Structure, Raw Water Pump Sets, Raw Water Pumping Main, Transformers, Substation and Clear Water Transmission Main from