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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

CSIR Purchase Rules of Goods & Services-2008 & CSIR & Purchase Manual of Best Practices-2008

at Wednesday, January 21, 2009 Posted by Arvind Khanna

The Governing Body CSIR in its 172nd meeting held on 07-11-2008 have approved “CSIR Purchase Rules of Goods & Services-2008” and “CSIR Purchase Manual of Best Practices-2008”.The operation of these rules and manual will come into force w.e.f. 1st April, 2009 and shall supersede CSIR Purchase Procedure-2000 (as amended) from the said date.
The term 'Goods & Services' used in this rule includes all articles, material, commodities, livestock, general furniture/ laboratory furniture, fixtures, raw material, spares, instruments, machinery, equipment, industrial plant, chemicals, solvents, gases, glassware, stationery, liveries, and any other item meant for Research & Development both standard and non standard.
It also Includes Annual Maintenance Contracts of goods and equipment purchased or otherwise acquired for the use of CSIR Labs. and Institutes, custom clearance & cargo handling & consolidation services, exporting of goods for warranty replacements/repairs/upgradation ,Specific Scientific & Technical Services viz, Professional consultant services, Computer & Network management, Software & web design Development services, Special Storage, Communication facilities but excludes publications, periodicals for library &or outsourcing activities relating to Infrastructure, house keeping security, cleaning, horticulture, works related to engineering services, Desk top printing (DTP), scanning, outputting, printing, binding, data entry work, packing and dispatching work, empanelment of media agency including graphic designer, cartoonist, etc. for which systems are already in operation.