IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.SIRI JAGAN TUESDAY, THE 19TH AUGUST 2008 / 28TH SRAVANA 1930 WP(C).No. 19353 of 2008(D) -------------------------- PETITIONER: ---------------- N.SANTHOSH, N.S.MANDIRAM, KADAVIL, MURUKKUMPUZHA P.O, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. BY ADV. SRI.SUNNY ZACHARIA RESPONDENT: ----------------- THE DEPUTY GENERAL MANAGER (HR), HINDUSTAN LATEX LTD, PEROORKADA, TVM-695005. BY ADV. SRI.E.K.MADHAVAN FOR R1 SRI.V.KRISHNA MENON FOR R1 SMT.P.VIJAYAMMA FOR R1 SRI.DEVIDAS.U.K FOR R1 THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 19/08/2008, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: S. SIRI JAGAN, J. ------------------------------------ W.P.(C)No.19353 OF 2008 ---------------------------------------- Dated this the 19th day of August, 2008 JUDGMENT The petitioner submitted a tender pursuant to Ext.P1 notification inviting tenders issued by the respondent. The petitioner's grievance in this writ petition is that the petitioner's price bid has been returned without specifying the reasons for refusing to accept the petitioner's techno commercial bid. 2. The respondent has filed a statement stating that as per the notification inviting tenders, the tenderers have to produce a certificate showing their experience along with the technical bid. As per the tender conditions, the experience required is one year's experience. The petitioner has produced an experience certificate, which proves only experience of six months. 3. According to the petitioner, the petitioner has produced Ext.P6 agreement and Ext.P7 extension of work order, which would show that the petitioner had the requisite experience with the Hidusthan LATEX Limited itself. But the petitioner does W.P.(c)No.19353/08 2 not dispute the fact that the experience certificate, which he had produced along with the tender proves only six months' experience. It is settled law that the tender conditions have to be strictly complied with. When the tender notification stipulates that the tenderer shall produce an experience certificate for the experience prescribed in the tender notification, without such an experience certificate, his tender cannot be considered, for which Exts.P6 and P7 is of no assistance to the petitioner. I am satisfied that the petitioner has not complied with the tender conditions and therefore, the petitioner's tender is not liable to be considered. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed. S. SIRI JAGAN, JUDGE Acd W.P.(c)No.19353/08 3