PATNA, India, Oct. 31 -- Patna High Court issued the following judgment on Oct. 9:

Heard the parties.

2. The petitioner in the present writ application seeks the following main relief:

"(i) Quashing of the decision of the Technical Evaluation Committee as contained in Memo No. 2469 dated 30.06.2025 (Annexure P/6) (uploaded on 01.07.2025) by which mechanically differing with the report of the jurisdictional Executive Engineer with regard to the insufficient bid capacity of the Respondent No. 6 and without assigning any reason the technical bid of the Respondent No. 6 was declared to be responsive.

(ii) Quashing of the decision of the Technical Evaluation Committee as contained in Memo No. 2477 dated 01.07.2025 (Annexure P/7) by which in the absence of any objection and on the same day on which the earlier proceeding was uploaded, without there being any chance in circumstance, the technical evaluation committee has reconvened its meeting and reiterated the earlier decision with regard to the declaration of responsiveness of the technical bid of Respondent No. 6.

(iii) Quashing of the decision of the Technical Bid Evaluation Committee bearing Memo No. 2611 dated 14.07.2025 (Annexure P/9) by which after financial bid evaluation, the Respondents have re-evaluated the technical bid of the Lowest Bidder (L-1) and subsequently, declared his technical bid responsive on account of insufficient bid capacity, and entire tender has been recommended to be canceled with the further recommendation for re-advertisement for the reason that the rates have been opened and the confidentiality of the tender stands vitiated.

(iv) Directing the Respondents to consider the Representation/ Request dated 16.05.2025 (Annexure P/10) wherein, the petitioner has requested for award of work in his favour as he was the 2nd Lowest Bidder and has consented to complete the work at the lowest evaluated price as quoted by L-1; and

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