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The procurement was processed in five parts by splitting the Annual Requirement in financial year 2022-23 in violation of GFR Rule 149(vi).
i) BID No. GEM/2022/B/2227549
ii) BID No. GEM/2022/B/2307377
iii) BID No. GEM/2022/B/2429763
iv) BID No. GEM/2022/B/2994410
v) BID No. GEM/2022/B/2994455
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The procurement on GeM was done by customising the Bid (BOQ) in spite of fact that the product category was available in GeM Portal, which is in violation of GeM guidelines.
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BOQ / Customized bidding is strictly forbidden for procurement below the value of Rs. 5,00,000, whereas it is found that a total of four procurement proposal below the value of Rs. 5,00,000=00 were processed under BOQ / Customized bid by the GeM buyer secondary without specific approval of GeM Buyer Primary in collusion with Pay and Accounts Officer.
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The procurement Bid was customized (BOQ) in such a way that only known vendors could become eligible.
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The eligibility conditions were customized in such a way that only OEM authorized vendors could be treated as eligible.
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All known manipulated vendors were considered as qualified.
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OEM authorization certificate accepted during this procurement transaction of M/s M.S. Corporation (L-1) was examined by me and found to be defective for following reasons :
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The L-1 bidder had submitted certificate from M/s Lexmark International, Inc. |
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The certificate should have been given on behalf of M/s Lexmark International India Private Limited. |
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M/s M.S. Corporation (L-1)
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In view of above defects, the OEM Authorization Certificate of all other qualified bidders were also examined and on the contrary these certificates were found to be purportedly issued by Indian Office of OEM. This further raised doubt on purported Certificates of Indian based OEM. Detail and Copies of Authorization Certificate of other bidders are enclosed as follows:
M/s Mayur Computers (L-2)
M/s Shri Sai Enterprises (L-3)
M/s Nalwa Enterprises (L-4)
M/s Mangalam Shri (L-5)
M/s Harvinder and Company (L-6)
M/s Saini Enterprises (L-7)
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Many of Kyocera Printers were found non-functional due to use of fake cartridges and the Authorized Service partner gave Report that Toner damaged + Empty and Developer Unit faulty due to duplicate toner use which was ignored by GeM Buyer Primary, GeM Buyer Secondary and GeM Pay and Accounts Officer.
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The matter was taken with the Original Equipment Manufacturer M/s Lexmark International India Private Limited vide my letter No. Z-21/4/419/2022-E-II dated 18-05-2023. (Click here)
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The reply of OEM M/s Lexmark International India Private Limited dated 04-07-2023 declaring all OEM certificates as fake was received. (Click here)
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Fake Cartridges and assessment of annual requirement and method of purchase of Cartridges are under investigation with two different Committees and both the Committees seems indecisive since last two-three months as if they are buying time.
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Re-furbished junk material was being purchased and the users were pressurized to consume these junk items.
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Many of our Doctors and Medical and Para-Medical Staff of Hospital use to purchase indispensable consumable stationery items and get their printer cartridges refilled at their own cost in order to run the working of Hospital.
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The conniving elements in order to pursue this mode of corruption made three costly Toshiba Photocopier machines unutilized so that consumption of fake laser printer cartridges could be increased. The Toshiba Photocopier machines were also not covered under any AMC / CMC.
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Neither Computer peripherals nor printers were covered under AMC / CMC so that the issue of fake printer cartridges could not be detected.
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During Committee Meetings these fake (L-1) OEM Certificates were called for and entertained with the title of Proprietary Article Certificate, whereas, from nowhere it was Proprietary Article Certificate.
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The target was to syphon away unlawful money to the tune of 60 to 70 percent of L-1 bided value. |