Responding
to medical tenders could be a tricky affair as they are different
from several general tender categories. Many medical tenders contain
indent for items that require a legal valid pharmaceutical license.
The prospective bidder has to keep this aspect in mind, while
responding to any TNMSC tender.
Tamil
Nadu Medical Services Corporation Limited (TNMSC) is a public sector
undertaking under the Health and Family Welfare Department in the
State of Tamil Nadu. It works with an objective of ensuring ready
availability of all types of essential drugs as well as medications
in the government medical institutions in the state. In its pursuit
of providing quality medication and drugs, TNMSC procures different
types of pharmaceutical products. Only enterprises that are duly
licensed by the Drug Controlling authorities in the state can provide
those materials. An example is the procurement of poison management
centres for different hospitals that require certain levels of
training and expertise on the part of the provider.
Things
to Remember
Some
of the requisites with the bidder for responding to TNMSC tenders are
as follows:
- Bidder should carefully go through the contents of the tender notification.
- Most important thing to keep note of is the dateline by which the tender should be filed with all requisite documents and details.
- The tender process is to read out all the bids made by bidders at the bid opening time.
- Bidder should make ensure inclusion of the clause for “entry tax and transportation charges to be payable by TNMSC” in the bid.
Avoiding
Bid Rejection
Some
of the main reasons leading to rejection of bids in TNMSC tenders are
as follows:
- Bidder has claimed exemption from payment of bid security on the ground that it is so exempted under the existing law of the land being a cooperative society or privileged organization. However, most of the tenders are sponsored by World Bank and no exemption is allowed. Hence bidder should ensure first whether the specific exemption allowed is applicable in case of the tender floated by TNMSC or not.
- Furnishing bank guarantee in only bank letterhead instead of non-judicial stamp paper may lead to bid rejection.
- It is important to furnish the technical compliance statement and signed copy of technical specification in respect of equipments, drugs, and medications.
Taking
care of the above factors can make the response to TNMSC tender near perfect and reducing the
chances of rejection considerably. A successful bid on tenders
floated by TNMSC could be highly rewarding.
