Punjab Purchase Manual

Para. 17 of the Purchase Manual (Punjab) made it mandatory that the quotations had to be submitted on the prescribed tender form; however, some exception had been made where the quotations were made on' the letter head

Special Instructions in all pro forma tenders, insisted that tenderers must quote on the prescribed invitation to the tender form

General conditions for various contracts also did not make any provision at all for submission of quotations on a letterhead

Insistence of the authorities that forms should be on the letterhead and rejection of tender/quotation on the sole ground that it was not on the letterhead of the tenderer, was violatative of Purchase Manual (Punjab) as also the general/special instructions contained in the said pro formas.