C.A.V. JUDGMENT

Date : 30.05.2019

The present writ petition has been filed for quashing the email message dated 24.08.2018, whereby the petitioner was intimated about the rejection of his technical bid, which was submitted by the petitioner for award of contract of transportation of petroleum products belonging to the respondent Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (hereinafter referred to as the ‘BPCL’). The petitioner has further prayed for declaring the reasons assigned by the respondent BPCL in the impugned email message for rejecting the petitioner’s technical bid to be highly technical and, therefore, unsustainable in the eyes of law.

The brief facts of the case, as per the petitioner herein, are that the respondent Corporation had published a notice inviting tender seeking applications from the intending applicants for award of contract of transportation of Bulk Product, Ex. Barauni Terminal, of the respondent BPCL through tank lorries. The petitioner had applied by submitting the application along with all the required documents on 16.12.2017, which was submitted online and all the documents were scanned and enclosed with the said application as attachments. The petitioner is