Section 115
Inspection And Acceptance Of Goods
(1) The public entity shall inspect or examine, or cause to be inspected or examined, whether the
supplied goods conform to the technical specifications and quality set out in the contract or not.
(2) The inspection or examination under sub-rule (1) shall be made or cause to be made pursuant to the prevailing law relating to inspection or examination of goods, if any, and, failing such law, in accordance with the procedure set forth in the procurement contract. If there is no even such procedure, it shall be made in accordance with such procedure as the public entity considers appropriate.
(3) For the purpose of sub-rule (1), the concerned public entity may, for the purpose of such inspection or examination, designate one or more entities or authorities or form a committee consisting of a maximum of three experts in the field of concerned goods.
(4) The entity, authority or committee referred to in sub-rule
(3) shall, while inspecting or examining the supplied goods, inspect or examine the goods by comparing with the sample and characteristics kept sealed, if any, by such public entity. In so examining those goods which are consistent with such sample and specialties shall be accepted and those which are not consistent with the sample and specialties shall be returned back to the supplier.
(5) In making inspection or examination pursuant to sub-rule (4), all goods or selected sample thereof may be inspected or examined, as required.
(6) Once the inspection or examination is made pursuant to sub-rules (4) and (5), the inspecting or examining entity, authority or committee shall prepare an inspection report containing the description of the accepted and the rejected goods. Such a report shall contain the name, percentage, specifications, the result of inspection
or examination of the examined goods, and the public entity shall keep such a report as the record of the procurement proceeding.
(7) If any dispute arises between the inspecting or examining entity, authority or committee and the supplier in inspecting or examining the goods pursuant to this Rule, such a dispute shall be settled in accordance with the dispute settlement mechanism as set out in the procurement contract.
(8) Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Rule, the chief of the store section of the public entity may take over the goods the value of which does not exceed twenty-five thousand rupees after making necessary inspection or examination.