Rajasthan floats global tender to procure one crore doses | Jaipur News

Bidders can submit their bids till May 20 (5pm). International manufacturers, whose vaccine has been approved by the Government of India, can participate in the tender process.
“The government of Rajasthan intends to procure Covid-19 vaccine on urgent basis to manage Covid-19 pandemic. Global EOI is hereby invited from foreign-based international manufacturers/their authorised agents/direct importers for procuring ten million doses of Covid-19 vaccine. The offered Covid-19 vaccine must be duly approved from competent authority of Government of India,” the global EOI order, issued by mission director NHM, stated.
“Interested bidders may submit their duly filled bids in prescribed formats and documents as per EOI checklist to the mission director, NHM, Jaipur. Bidders have to submit their bids only through mail at email: md-nhm-rj@gov.in latest by May 20 (5 pm).
The international manufacturers (from outside India) of Covid vaccines or their authorized distributors/importers with appropriate licence to import the vaccines are eligible to participate in the EOI.
Bidders must possess the following: first, the Covid vaccine to be supplied must be as per the guidelines/approval issued by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) and Government of India; second, the vaccine manufacturer should have own manufacturing licence from the vaccine manufacturing country and should hold valid World Health Organization-Good Manufacturing Practices (WHO-GMP) certificate issued by the licensing authorities for all the premises, from where the quoted product is being manufactured.
Third, for imported drugs, labels and product literature of all quoted product(s) must be submitted with WHO-GMP certificate which is at par with WHO-GMP issued by the authorities of exporting countries like US FDA or equivalent authorities of other countries etc.
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Conditions for the procurement are as follows
1. The bidders are not required to pay the cost of the bidding document and may download it from the departmental website www.raiswasthya.nic.in and https://sppp.raiasthan.gov.in.
2. The bidders are not required to submit any bid security for this EOI.
3) The successful bidder(s) shall not be required to submit any performance security.
4) The bidders should not have been blacklisted/ debarred to participate in the bids for medical supplies from any government department/public sector undertakings of India.
5) The bidders shall submit an undertaking that ”That the quoted vaccine for COVID—19 has been manufactured/imported by us. We do not have any conflict of interest in the said bidding process.
6) No advance payment shall be made, without the bank guarantee of an equivalent amount.
7) The payment shall be given on prorata basis, corresponding to the delivery of the vaccines made or as per the conditions mutually agreed upon.
8) The rate quoted must be rate per dose of vaccine in INR, inclusive of all taxes, duties, license fees, logistics and transportation charges etc. up to the designated point of supply in Jaipur, Rajasthan.
9) The bid validity for the bids quoted shall be for a period of 90 days from the date of opening of bids.
10) Price approved through this bid process shall be valid for six months from the date of issue of supply order.
11) The duly filled bids, with copies of the documents…