Chandigarh, May 6 - Aimed to provide a single window for contractors to bring in transparency and ease to doing business, the State Cabinet which met under the Chairmanship of the Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal here today accorded approval to a proposal regarding Registration Rules for Contractors-2022, Haryana for registration of Contractors willing to work with the State Government.

As per the Rules, I.D creation of contractors on the Haryana Engineering Works (HEW) Portal will be mandatory. However, registration will also be preferable so as to have a ready list of competent contractors to minimize the requirement and time for verification of credentials at the time of calling tenders. Simultaneously, the Contractor's performance will be evaluated against each completed work by awarding marks and generating a dynamic ‘Rating’.

Whereas the application by Contractors for Registration is optional but each contractor working in any of the Department, Board, Society, etc. of the Haryana Government is mandatorily required to create a Profile on the HEW portal by entering some basic information. This is required to establish a Unique Contractor ID of each contractor working anywhere in Haryana. All contractors will create Login Account and get the ‘Profile Summary’ document.

The registered qualified contractors will be benefitted since they will be exempted from paying Earnest Money Deposit (EMD). Contractors not registered on HEW Portal can also participate in the tender, but they will not be eligible for the EMD exemption benefit and those contractors shall furnish, as part of the Bid, an EMD for the amount as specified in a particular work. The performance of the contractor shall be monitored and evaluated after the completion of each work.

Any registered contractor falling below the threshold limit score (i.e., 70 percent in their performance score) will be auto de-registered on HEW Portal. The list of registered contractors will be made available on the HEW Portal (works.haryana.gov.in) for information related to any of the Department, Board, Society.

Profile Summary Document will be included as a mandatory condition in each bid document and made part of tenders to be invited in the future. Therefore, all contractors as part of the technical evaluation for each submitted bid must enclose the ‘Profile Summary’ document of the HEW Portal for all tenders to be invited after the launching of HEW Portal. In case, a contractor fails to submit or upload a copy of the ‘Profile Summary’ document along with the bid, the submitted bids will be rejected for all tenders to be invited after the launch of the HEW Portal.