Based on this, the petitioner submitted that the respondent No.4 would not have been eligible for participating in the subject tender because it would not have fulfilled the minimum criteria of Rs 75 lakhs as stipulated in the later part of clause 5.1 which required one completed consultancy work of any nature costing not less than Rs. 75 lacs with some Central Government Department / State Government Department / Central Autonomous Body / Central Public Sector Undertaking. The women‟s hostel at NIT, Warangal, was a Central Government project and, therefore, the respondent No.4 had to show that it had completed the consultancy work for the said women hostel costing not less than Rs 75 lakhs. A break-up of the work given by NIT, Warangal, in response to the RTI query through its letter dated 10.07.2015 indicates the architectural consultancy fee as Rs 14,74,505/- and the Project Management Consultancy Fee as Rs 39,74,920/-. The learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that taken together these amounts would not have entitled the petitioner to qualify for the minimum amount of Rs 75,00,000/even if, as per clause 5.2, the 7% simple interest benefit were to be taken into account. However, this aspect of the matter has been clarified by NIT Warangal, through its letter dated 10.09.2015 addressed to the DDA. The said letter reads as under:-
