Frequently asked questions

Individuals, partnership firms and companies. You register with your PAN, GSTIN, identity proof and address, and partnership firms and companies also list their partners or directors. The Department verifies your KYC before you can take part.

A valid Class 3 Digital Signature Certificate of the signing and encryption type, in the name of your authorised signatory. The name on the DSC must match the name on your bidder profile. Only the most recently enrolled DSC of an account works.

Bidding Document: Ann. help, item 6

With your registered mobile number, the characters in the image, and the one-time code we send by SMS.

The bid document fee (₹ 5,000) to download the bid document during the sale period, and for each lot you bid for, the participation fee (₹ 5,000) and the EMD by Day 20, 5:00 PM. All payments are made online. The document fee is not refunded.

Bidding Document: Cl. 1.10, 8.2, 8.3, 11

EMD is 10% of the reserve price of the lot, rounded to the nearest ₹ 10,000. A single individual who has submitted an SC, ST or OBC certificate at registration deposits half. The reduction does not apply to firms or companies.

Bidding Document: Cl. 5.2.5, 5.2.6, 14.2

Unsuccessful bidders get the EMD back, without interest, as promptly as possible. The successful bidder gets it back after paying the first quarterly contract money or dead rent. EMD can be forfeited in the cases listed in Clause 14.6, for example an offer below the reserve price or withdrawing a bid.

Bidding Document: Cl. 14.3, 14.4, 14.6

For each lot, one PDF with all technical documents named in the Bidding Document, and a sealed Initial Price Offer (IPO) in rupees per cubic metre, signed with your DSC. A bid counts as submitted only when the IPO is submitted.

Bidding Document: Ann. help, item 4

Yes, any number of times until the bid due date. The last offer you submit is the one that counts.

Bidding Document: Ann. help, item 4(B)

The reserve rate of the lot: its reserve price divided by the minimum extractable quantity (MEQ). An offer below it is not accepted.

Bidding Document: Cl. 8A(b), 14.6(a)

You must pass the eligibility check, score 50 or more marks out of 100 in the technical evaluation, and have an IPO at or above the reserve price. Score sheets are published with the list of qualified bidders, and objections can be raised within 3 working days.

Bidding Document: Cl. 5.3.3, 5.3.6

250 days from the bid due date. If no successful bidder is declared within that time, the e-auction is annulled and the bid document fee is refunded.

Bidding Document: Cl. 13.11

No. Each notice says which stage decides. Most notices go on to a Stage-II live e-auction among the technically qualified bidders. A notice may instead be decided on the Initial Price Offers alone: the e-Auction Committee approves the highest accepted offer as the preferred bidder, and the notice says whether a single qualified bidder may be awarded.

Bidding Document: Cl. 8A(c), 8A(d)

Only technically qualified bidders, and only when there are at least two of them. With fewer than two, the auction of that lot is annulled. The highest IPO among qualified bidders is the floor price.

Bidding Document: Cl. 8A(d), 8B(1)

60 minutes. If 2 or more bids arrive in that time, closing moves out by 5 minutes, and again after each 5-minute extension in which 2 or more bids arrive. Otherwise the auction closes.

Bidding Document: Cl. 8B(7), 8B(8)

Bids are in rupees per cubic metre, in steps of ₹ 1, and are signed with your DSC. A bid cannot be withdrawn. If two bids are equal, the earlier one stands. You cannot outbid your own highest bid.

Bidding Document: Cl. 8B(3), 8B(5), 8B(10)

As corrigenda on the notice page and under Notices & corrigenda. A corrigendum is part of the Bidding Document, and the bid due date may be extended to allow for it.

Bidding Document: Cl. 13.8, 13.9

Yes, until the last date for queries in the notice's schedule. Answers are published without naming who asked.

Bidding Document: Cl. 7, 11