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 16notarised. Merely because the bid documents were signed on 13.11.2023 by the authorized signatory Ms. Lalti Devi on the basis of the Power of Attorney executed in her favour on 07.11.2023, and the said Power Of Attorney was notarised on 14.11.2023, it could not be said that the said representative of the Appellant Company did not possess the requisite authority to submit the documents on the day when the bid documents were submitted, nor could it be said that there was any non-compliance of the mandatory requirement of the Clause 10 of the NIT as sought to be projected by the Respondent BCCL. It was nowhere stated in the NIT that the Power Of Attorney had to be notarised before signing the bid documents. As per Part-1/Cover I of Clause 10 of NIT, pertaining to the other important documents,