The Rajasthan High Court has disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking direction to the respondents to sou motu disclose all tender related documents (including Request for proposal, Notice Inviting Bid (NIB), all scope of work, terms and conditions, minutes of prebid meetings, all technical & financial bids, documents submitted by successful bidder, all work orders, work completion certificates/documents, payment sanctions, minute of meetings of all purchase committee and sanction of budget) of tenders of all Government Departments, All state Government undertaking, and Government Corporations on their website within a period of one week of Generation of the document.
The PIL filed by Public Against Corruption further seeks directions to the respondents to fully compliance with Section 17 of the Rajasthan Transparency in Public Procurement Act 2012 otherwise, the tender must be automatically stand canceled.
In compliance to the notice issued by the Court, reply has been filed wherein it is clearly stated that the provisions as contained in Section 17 of the The Rajasthan Transparency Public Procurement Act, 2012 are being fully complied with. The documents are being regularly uploaded on the State Public Procurement Portal. The instructions issued in this regard have also been mentioned and copies thereof have been appended along with reply.
In light of the above, the Jaipur Division Bench of Chief Justice Augustine George Masih and Justice Sameer Jain is of the view that the prayers made in the petition have been fully addressed and have been complied with.
“A direction in any case is issued to the respondents to adhere to the mandate of Statute and follow the same”, the Bench directed.