No Tender shall ordinarily be treated as valid unless it is accompanied either by the earnest money specified in the Tender notice or by a receipt in token of the party having remitted the amount of the earnest money into the Panchayat Office concerned. A separate list of all sums deposited as earnest money shall be maintained under the signature of the Officer opening the Tender.
18. Tender from the register, Contractors —Only Tenders from the registered Contractors shall be considered. This condition shall not be enforced in the case of capital works the value or amount of which exceeds rupees fifty thousand in the case of steel work, or in cases in which the Assistant Engineer (Rural Development) or Block Engineer certifies that the work, requires the use of special plant of materials and specially trained labourer and that Tenders from un-registered Contractors may be considered. In the case of capital works, the value or amount of which exceeds rupees fifty thousand, Tenders from engineering Firms of standing and from Contractors registered in or outside the Village Panchayat or Panchayat Union or District Panchayat area for such capital works may be considered. A Tender Register shall be maintained in the Village Panchayat, Panchayat Union and District Panchayat Offices respectively in Form II as appended to these Rules and such Register shall be treated as confidential.