Government tenders are governed by §8(1)(d) commercial confidence, but post-award the documents are public. Pre-award disclosure is also possible after the bid-opening date. GeM portal data is broadly public; manual tenders need RTI.

• RTI Act, 2005 §6, §7(1), §8(1)(d) (narrow, post-award disclosure).
• General Financial Rules (GFR), 2017.
• Manual for Procurement of Goods, 2022 (DoE).
• CIC blacklisted companies (2017) — blacklisting records disclosable.

To:
The Public Information Officer (PIO),
[Office name + address].

Subject: RTI under §6 — Tender Details query

Sir/Madam,

Under the RTI Act, 2005, kindly provide:

1. Tender No. [NUMBER] dated [DATE] for [WORK / SUPPLY] —
   bid documents (technical + financial) of all participating bidders.
2. Bid-opening date, list of bidders, L1 / L2 / L3 evaluation matrix.
3. Justification note for award to L1.
4. BoQ / BoM agreed under contract.
5. Running-bills / measurement-book entries (post-execution).
6. Blacklisting status of any participating bidder.

Tender stage: [pre-bid / post-bid-open / post-award / post-execution].
Rs. 10 IPO enclosed.

Yours faithfully,
[Name]
[Address + phone + email]
[Date]

• Day 31 — First Appeal.
• Day 76 — Second Appeal to CIC / SIC.
• Parallel — Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) complaint for procedural breaches.
• Parallel — High Court writ for arbitrary award.

• CIC Blacklisted Companies (2017) — Blacklisting records disclosable.
• RBI v. Jayantilal Mistry (SC, 2015) — Fiduciary defence narrowed.
• Centre for Equity Studies v. UoI (CIC, 2017) — Public-money records require proactive disclosure.

• Asking pre-bid for live bid documents — §8(1)(d) blocks.
• Filing to user-department instead of procuring authority.
• Forgetting tender number + date.

Tender notice + corrigenda yes; bidder responses no until bid-opening.

Most data is on the GeM dashboard; RTI for the rest.

• Tender RTI — PIO playbook
• File RTI online — 12 steps
• RTI — 25 questions answered

• RTI Act, 2005 — full text.
• Citation chain in body.
• Citizen Charter of the relevant authority.
• Case-law database at /cases/search.

Last reviewed: 23 April 2026.