A consortium of Soma Infra-China Gezhouba Group Company has been chosen as the lowest price bidder (L1) for the Indira Sagar Polavaram project tender which opened today.
Soma-CGGC consortium has outbid the L2 consortium of SEW Infra-Patel Constructions.
Others in the fray include Gammon-Chirkey Gesstroy (Russia)-AMR joint venture, IVRCL-Farab (Iran), Madhucon-Sinohydro (China) and Transstroy (India)-JSC Engineering Center (Russia).
The bids will further be scrutinised by a high-powered committee, consisting of experts, and headed by the State Chief Secretary, Ms Minnie Mathew.
Soma consortium offered a tender price of Rs 4,599.99 crore and the SEW consortium Rs 4,653.99 crore. These were against Government’s project estimate of Rs 4,717 crore.
The last time tenders were called, SEW Construction had won. However, the tender process was cancelled and a re-tender was announced.
The financial bids of the four consortia were found to be lacking in some of the mandatory requirements.
After evaluation by an expert committee headed by Ms Minnie Mathew, the State Government approval would be taken before awarding the contract.
Keywords: Polavaram project tender, Soma Infra-China Gezhouba Group Company, EW Infra-Patel Constructions
Comments:
naidu is over smart in making kadiam sree hari , the ace separatist to issue statement to scuttle polavaram project. Why did not ask erram naidu to issue the statement? TDP trying to scuttle the polavaram project from day one as it instigated chattishgarh to go to court on the issue.
The escaltion of bid prices are justified as labour cost/cement cost/steel cost have gone up and the bid prices may go up to 1.5 times the earlier one . Government should ignore the criticism of opposition.
The farmers should undertake fast to force 25 MPS of AP to withdraw support to centre as congress high command is behind the scene trying to scuttle the project on some alibi or other.Rosiah and kiran did this earlier under pressure.jairam ramesh and the congress lady union minister (from tamil nadu ) are trying to scuttle the project using their infuence at delhi.
only fast will produce the desired result, congress seem to be not learning a lesson inspite of recent defeat.
jayanthi natarajan and jairam ramesh should be dropped from central cabinet. jairam gets elected from AP and stabs AP in the back. It is high time for farmers to undertake fast to force 25 MPS from AP to withdraw support to centre in parliament if it or any of its ministers try to scuttle polavaram tender like it had done last time putting pressure on rosayya and kiran kumar
The congress high command game is very clear now with some congress ministers coming out openly against tender. Congress high command led by sonia and rahul want to stop this tender by instigating its ministers to speak against the tender finalised by technical committee. LAst time high command forced rosayya and kiran kumar to get the tender cancelled and it is doing the same again inspite of losing recent bypolls in AP.
Time has come for the people/farmers to get organsied and force all the MLAs and MPS from region to withdraw support to both state government and central government and force mid term elections to teach a lesson to congress party which is the main force behind all this drama.
we will elect jagan in all assembly and parliament segments to teach this cheating congress which did not learn lesson inspite of clear cut verdict against it in by polls due to its anti polavarm stand .
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