there was no legal or justifiable ground to reject the Technical bid of the Appellant. 20. Thus, the said action of the Respondent BCCL in rejecting the Technical bid of the Appellant on absolutely extraneous ground and accepting the Technical bid of the Respondent no.8 though submitted in utter non- compliance of the mandatory requirement of Clause 10 of the NIT, and subsequently calling upon the Respondent no.8 to furnish the shortfall of documents after the opening of technical bids of the Bidders, was totally arbitrary and illegal. 1821. There cannot be any disagreement to the legal proposition propounded in catena of decisions of this Court relied upon by the learned counsels for the Respondents to the effect that the Court does not sit as a Court of Appeal in the matter of award of contracts and it merely reviews the manner in which the decision was made; and that the Government and its instrumentalities must have a freedom of entering into the contracts. However, it is equally