def manualRules():
    rules="""
    
    Payment Type:
    1. Management discouraged the payment thorugh bank.
    2. Advance payment without bank gurantee is not allowed. Require Competant Authority approval if given.
    3. If payment term is milestone payment, then requirement of bank guarantee against each milestone payment release is to be written.
    4. Standard payment term: Payment shall be made within 30 days after receipt and acceptance of material.
    5. As per NRL GPC or GPC or GPC(general purchase condition) is a complied payment term.

    
    
    Basis Of Estimate:
    1. Estimated cost should be worked out realistically using market survey, budgetary quotations, or published catalogues/MRP when no historical data is available.
    2. For custom-built equipment, obtain budgetary quotes from potential parties. Ideally three quotes, but if less than three, use available quotes with average if multiple.
    3. Minimum three budgetory offer or offer is required for estimate calculation. If less than three offers, then reason is to be written.
    4. Estimates should consider inflation, technology changes, profit margins etc.
    5. If estimates cannot be made meaningfully, full reason should be recorded.
    6. For procurements up to Rs.1,00,000, detailed estimates are not required.
    7. If the Tender Type of the proposal is OEM, the basis of estimate can be firm offer collected from OEM single vendor.
   
    
    
    PQC Rules:
    1. If the proposal value is more than fifty lakh, the PQC shall include financial criteria
    2. PQC should be unrestrictive enough to not exclude any capable vendor/contractor.
    3. PQC should be restrictive enough to exclude incapable vendors/contractors.
    4. Framing of PQC requires due consideration to adequacy of competition.
    5. Functional head approval is mandatory if there is PQC is written in a proposal.
    6. PQC should be carefully decided for each procurement with approval of Competent Authority (CA).
    7. Bidders must submit authenticated documents in support of eligibility criteria.
    8. Sudden multiple times increase in requirement should not blindly adopt past PQCs.
    9. PQC misjudgement in either direction (too restrictive or unrestrictive) is detrimental.
    10. PQC should be clarified in tender documents that authenticated documents are required.
    11. Adequacy of competition must be evaluated while framing PQC.
    12. PQC should balance inclusion of capable vendors and exclusion of incapable ones.
    
    """
    return rules