: Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy of the Telangana High Court ruled that a person to whom a contract was awarded contrary to tender conditions is not entitled to the principles of natural justice at the time of cancellation. It has to be taken into account that the party, who approaches the court, should be fair and without any blemish.
The petitioner, being awarded a contract contrary to the tender conditions, cannot be permitted to plead violation of principles of natural justice. The judge reasoned inviting tenders for providing Integrated Hospital Facility Management Services in Government General Hospital in Nalgonda district in Telangana. The judge dismissed a writ petition filed by Sai Security Services Private Limited against the Government General Hospital in Nalgonda terminating a tender issued in its favour.
The authorities issued a tender notification in July 2022. A1 Facility and Property Managers were declared as L1 (lowest bidder 1). However, the tender was awarded to the petitioner.
The said actions were rescinded and the contract was awarded to the lowest tenderer by the proceedings in March 2024. The authorities found that L3 and L2 are the same property ownership agencies and they were blacklisted by the government for violating the tender conditions by Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Tropical and Communicable Diseases, Nallakunta, Hyderabad. It was noticed that, three sanitary employees attempted to suicide as the existing agency i.
e., Sai Security Services did not.