(1) Where, in an international bidding, the bidding documents provide that the bid price may be expressed in various currencies, the evaluation and comparison of bids shall be made by converting the price of such bids into a single price according the exchange rate and currency as specified in the same documents.
(2) In evaluating and comparing a bid, comparison shall be made after fixing the quoted price by excluding the value added tax.
(3) Except as provided for in the prevailing and this Regulation, information relating to the examination of bids, the
information asked or received from the bidder in the course of such an examination and the information relating to evaluation and comparison shall not be provided to any bidder or any other person not involved officially in the decision making process.
(4) The evaluation committee shall evaluate the bids included for evaluation pursuant to sub-section (1) of Section 25 of the Act in accordance with the criteria and methods set forth in the bidding documents of such a bid.
(5) While evaluating a bid pursuant to sub-rule (4), the technical, commercial and financial aspects of the bid shall be evaluated.
(6) Bids having minor deviations without any material deviation from and serious effect on the scope, quality, characteristics, conditions, performance or any other requirements set out in the bidding documents and acceptable to the public entity shall be deemed to be substantially responsive bids, and if, in evaluating such bids, the cost is affected in any way, the evaluated price of the bid shall be drawn by ascertaining the price of such effect on an equal basis and then by adjusting the same to the quoted price of the bid.
(7) The evaluated price of a bid drawn pursuant to sub-rules
(6) and Rules 62,
63 and 64 shall be used only for the purpose of comparing the bid and shall not be included in the price of procurement contract.
(8) If any discrepancy as to price or any other matter is found in the original copy and the duplicate copy of a bid, the price or matter set out in the original copy shall be valid.
(9) The evaluation committee shall, while fixing the price of minor deviation pursuant to sub-rule (6), fix on the basis of the cost
estimate of the concerned work or prevailing market price or interest rate. Where such cost estimate, prevailing market price or interest rate is not definite, the price shall be determined on the basis of average price of the same item stated in another substantially responsive bid.
(10) A bidder shall not be consulted in respect of the justification of the price to be determined pursuant to this Rule.