Applicants must carefully review and accept all terms and conditions of this EOI Document before submitting the Application Form, as non-acceptance of any clause shall disqualify them from proceeding. No legal or contractual obligation shall arise between the Applicant and EODB merely from receipt, review, or partial completion of this EOI Document without submission and required payments. EODB shall ensure availability of this EOI Document for a minimum of thirty days prior to the submission deadline to enable Applicants to obtain necessary legal, financial, or technical advice.

1. The Applicant has to mention in Section B category details components; deposit Security against Piloting fees in the form of a NEFT OR UTR order drawn in favour of “EODB SERVICES OPC PVT LTD” and submit the same along with necessary documents to the office (Scanned copy of payment receipt/confirmation to be mailed office@easeofdoingbusiness.in / accounts@easeofdoingbusiness.in).

2. The application fees submitted for EoI shall be mandatory, non- refundable. As the application fees also includes evaluation process cost. In case of any refund, cancellation of application, withdrawal of application, the process will be on discretion at EoDB and written notice for same will be given within five working days The EODB RETAINS sole, unchallengeable and absolute administrative discretion to design, modify, score and finalize the criteria for evaluation.

3. The EODB reserves the right to summarily reject any application as “Non responsive: without assigning any reason or entering correspondence if the EOI lacks documentation. The Applicant on all matters relating to evaluation, eligibility, and selection, and shall not be open to challenge, appeal, or re-evaluation on merits under any circumstances.

4. The Security Against Piloting Fees once deposited by the Applicant pursuant to Clause 1 shall vest with EODB and shall be strictly non-transferable and non-assignable by the Applicant in any manner whatsoever, whether by operation of contract, novation, assignment, request, or otherwise, to any other Applicant, person, entity, or category, and the Applicant shall have no right to recall, withdraw, transfer, adjust, or deal with the Security Against Piloting Fees in any manner after deposit, save and except that upon non-selection of the Applicant. the Security Against Piloting Fees shall be retained by EODB as performance security for the duration of the Pilot engagement.

5. The detailed clauses regarding the EOI will be provided at later stage.

6. Failure to submit/non-realization of Security Against Piloting Fees shall result in rejection of the application and should be automatically considered disqualified after the due date. Return of Security Against Piloting Fees will be by cheque to their respective bank accounts without any interest or compensation. Security Against Piloting Fees is revocable after 6 months from the release of the final allocation of assets, if your application doesn’t qualify.

7. After referring to mails, terms the applicant can choose to not proceed for piloting fees.

8. There is no definite timeline for projection due to external factors involved, hence The Applicant is legally obligated to monitor the portal and their registered email daily for any Addendums or demands for later-stage documentation issued by the EoDB Authority The onus of missing a strict compliance window lies entirely with the Applicant, and automatic non-responsive rejection will apply without any administrative liability falling upon the EoDB Authority.

9. Dispute Resolution Process- The means Any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement except refund cancellation, withdrawal process shall first be referred in writing to the Director Evaluation of EODB, who shall endeavour to resolve it through mutual discussion with the authorised Director-level representative of the Applicant within thirty days of receipt of such notice, and. If the dispute remains unresolved after exhaustion of this Director-level internal resolution process, it shall be referred to and finally resolved by binding arbitration under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 . The arbitral tribunal shall consist of a Sole Arbitrator. The Company shall provide a panel of three (3) qualified, independent arbitrators to the Agency. The Agency shall be mandated to select one (1) arbitrator from this panel within thirty days of receipt. If the Agency fails to select, the Company shall choose the arbitrator from the panel.