State Act

THE KARNATAKA TRANSPARENCY IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENTS ACT, 1999

2. Definitions.- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) ‘Construction Works’ means putting up, demolishing, repairs or renovation of buildings, roads, bridges or other structures including fabrication of steel structures and all other civil works; 2[1[(aa) ‘Contract execution management’ means activities that are undertaken by the Procurement Entity for construction works, Goods and Services after issue of final letter of acceptance to the selected bidder, which include but are not restricted to creation of milestones and activities, creation of delivery schedules, measurement, inspection, processing of bills, creation of variation orders and payment.]2 2[(ab) 'Electronic reverse auction' means an online real-time procurement technique utilized by the procuring entity to select the successful bid, which involves submission by technically qualified bidders of successively lowered bids during a prescribed period of time and the automatic evaluation of bids.]1]2 (b) ‘Goods’ means Machinery, Motor Vehicles, Equipment, Furniture, Articles of Stationary, textiles raw materials, drugs, scientific instruments, chemicals, food grains, oil and oil seeds or other commodity required for consumption, use or distribution by a Procurement Entity in discharge of its public duties; (c) ‘Government’ means the State Government; 3[(ca) 'Karnataka Public Procurement Portal' means a procurement platform of electronic media comprising of procurement process set up and managed by the State Government through integrated enabled procurement tools incorporated by customization.]3 (d) ‘Procurement Entity’ means any Government Department, a State Government Undertaking, Local Authority or Board, Body or Corporation established by or under any law and owned or controlled by the Government, and any other body or authority owned or controlled by the Government and as may be specified by it. (e) ‘Public Procurement’ or ‘procurement’ means purchase of goods, obtaining of services or undertaking of construction works by the procurement entities; (f) ‘Services’ means the action of serving, attending upon, helping or benefiting a Procurement Entity in the course of discharging its public duties and includes construction works; (g) ‘Specified goods or Services’ means the goods or services as the case may be specified in a tender and identified in the contract resulting from acceptance of a tender on account of a procurement entity; 2[(h) 'tender' means the formal offer made for supply of goods or services or construction works and includes tenders done through Electronic Reverse Auctions' in response to an invitation for tender published in the Karnataka Public Procurement Portal.]2 (i) ‘Tender Accepting Authority’ means an officer or a Committee appointed to accept tenders and a ‘Tender Inviting Authority’ means an officer or a Committee appointed to invite tenders, under section 9; 4[(j)XXX]4 4[(k)XXX]4 2[(l) "tender Document" means the set of document including in electronic form detailing the schedule of works, calendar of events, requirement of goods and services, technical specifications, procurement criteria and such other particulars, as may be prescribed for evaluation and comparison of tenders;]2 1[Provided that for the purpose of e-Procurement, the 'tender papers' means set of documents in electronic form.]1