Punjab C&W Tender for DPO Residence and DHQ Cardiac Surgery Units in Toba Tek Singh

The Communication & Works Department, Government of Punjab, Buildings Division Toba Tek Singh, invites item-rate bids through the Punjab e-Procurement System for the following works under approved/uploaded DNITs. The e-tendering invitation is issued under Notification No. SOH-I(C&W)1-49/2023/3652 dated 26 May 2023.

Eligibility: Contractors and firms must be enlisted or renewed with the Pakistan Engineering Council for 2026–27 in the relevant category and specialized codes. Contractors must produce an original PEC licence in Category C5 or above with specialized codes CE09 and CE10. Contractors without the relevant specialized code will not be entertained.

Registration and submission: Procurement will be conducted through the Punjab e-Procurement System at https://ep.punjab.gov.pk, developed by PITB for the Punjab Procurement Regulatory Authority. All applicants and contractors must register on the system to participate. Tender documents containing detailed requirements, terms and conditions are available to registered bidders through the system and the PPRA website, https://www.ppra.punjab.gov.pk. Tender documents complying with the DNIT, together with duly signed and stamped contractor documents, must be submitted electronically by the prescribed deadline. Manual bids will not be accepted.

Bid security: Bidders must submit security equal to 5% of the estimated cost electronically through the Punjab e-Procurement System in the prescribed manner. Physical financial instruments, including Call Deposit Receipts, will not be accepted. Only electronically submitted bid security will be valid under PPRA rules. The system will allow bid submission only after the required PSID has been generated and the prescribed bid security submitted.

Submission deadline: 2 December 2026 at 12:00 PM. Bid opening: 2 December 2026 at 12:30 PM. Bids will be opened electronically by the respective Tender Opening Committee in the office of the Commissioner Faisalabad Division, Faisalabad, in the presence of intending contractors or their representatives holding an attested power of attorney and a valid PEC licence. If a public holiday falls on the receiving or opening date, tenders will be opened on the next working day.

Financial bid requirements: Under PPRA Circular No. L&M(PPRA)10-1/2011-008595 dated 11 October 2024, bidders must quote rates against every DNIT/BOQ entry rather than submit a percentage rate. All rate-analysis, summary and sub-summary pages must be completed in the financial bid. Incomplete bids, including blank DNIT/BOQ entries or blank rate-analysis, summary or sub-summary pages, will be treated as non-responsive and excluded from the competition for determination of the lowest evaluated bidder. Where an item's total differs mathematically from the grand total, evaluation will be governed by the rates quoted against individual items.

Performance guarantee: Under Chapter VIII, Acceptance of Bids and Award of Contracts, Serial No. 56 of the PPRA Rules, 2014, the successful bidder must furnish a performance guarantee equal to 10% of the contract amount electronically through the Punjab e-Procurement System within 15 days, following the system's prescribed procedure. Failure to provide the guarantee within this period will result in cancellation of the lowest bidder's tender and forfeiture of earnest money in favour of the Government.

Conditional tenders will be rejected. False information or fake documents may result in disqualification under PPRA rules and ineligibility to participate in upcoming Punjab C&W tenders. Such cases will also be forwarded to PEC and PPRA for strict legal action.

The procuring agency may reject all bids or proposals at any time before acceptance under PPRA rules. On request, it will communicate the grounds for rejection to a supplier or contractor who submitted a bid or proposal, but it is not required to justify those grounds. Response time will be calculated exclusively from the publication date on the PPRA website. The PPRA tender page is https://ppra.punjab.gov.pk/ViewTender.aspx.

Issuing officers: Executive Engineer, Buildings Division, Faisalabad; Superintending Engineer, Buildings Circle No. 2, Faisalabad. Notice reference: IPL-12044.