Getting one party to submit three different bids for a tender with different company names and addresses is common in India.
Getting a party to write the specifications for a tender document such that no one else can participate in the tender is common practice.
If by chance more parties do bid for the tender, then to disqualify others using the technical bid itself is a known ploy.
If someone still manages to pass the technical stage, then leaking sensitive price information to a favoured party is par for the course.
If the favoured party still does not win, then putting additional conditions or having a round of negotiations on financial bid to ensure that the favoured party wins is resorted to.
The whole tendering system is rigged for corruption.
It should not be surprising that a black listed company managed to win the CBSE On-Screen-Marking Tender.
This is the disease of doing business in India.
