Rejection of tender justified for not having GST registration when goods under Tender liable to GST

ASR Hospitals (India) Pvt. Ltd. Vs State of Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Pradesh High Court) The first allegation of arbitrariness is the disqualification of the Petitioner. Instruction No. 4 of ‘Instructions to bidder’ in the tender document required the bidders to submit copy of the certificate of registration of GST, EPF, ESI with the appropriate authority valid as on the date of submission of tender documents. It is the admitted case of all sides that the petitioner did not submit certificate of registration under the GST Act. The defence of the petitioner is that the Central Governm...