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M/S. Midland Engineering Contracting Company, v. Kerala Water Authority
Kerala HCWP(C)/13876/2022
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
The High Court of Kerala allowed writ petitions challenging communications of the Kerala Water Authority that directed the petitioner, a successful bidder under a QCBS tender, to reduce its quoted rate. The court held that once the tender process begins, the terms cannot be deviated mid-way, and quashed the condition to reduce the rate, directing fresh work orders at the quoted rate.
What did the court decide?
The impugned condition in the communications directing reduction of the quoted rate is quashed. A writ of mandamus is issued to the respondents to issue fresh work orders to the petitioner at their Qu