has miserably failed to justify as to how the Technical bid of the Respondent no.8 was accepted when it had not submitted the requisite important documents related to the qualification criteria as mentioned in Clause 10 of the NIT. 18. A lame submission was made on behalf of the Respondent BCCL that the Tender Evaluation Committee could call for the shortfall of documents and could not allow replacement of the documents, and that the Respondent no.8 was asked to submit the shortfall documents only. We are neither impressed nor can accept the said submissions. Further, apart from the fact that the Technical bid of the Respondent no.8 deserved to be rejected at the threshold for non-compliance of Clause 10 of NIT, there was also no legal and justifiable reason for rejecting the Technical bid of the Appellant. Admittedly when the tender documents were submitted by the Appellant, the Power Of Attorney authorising the concerned signatory to act on behalf of the Appellant was duly