Consortium bagged the Rs550cr contract despite failing to meet criteria set by the civic body.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) functions in strange ways. The civic body has flouted the terms and condition of the road tender agreement that it had itself framed.
The BMC has awarded the new road contract to a consortium of nine companies, which has failed to adhere to the qualification criteria for bagging the contract.
The nine companies were given the contract worth Rs550 crore inspite of not having the proper equipment.
The BMC guidelines for bagging the road tender specify that every company must own fixed number of vibratory rollers, static rollers, JCB trucks, dumpers and paver blocks manufacturing units.
RP Shah Infra Project Ltd, Relcon Infra Pvt Ltd, Shantinath Roadways, Mahavir Roads and Infra Pvt Ltd & Co and Prakash Engineering, KR Pvt Ltd, Bitcom Pvt Ltd, RK Madani Pvt Ltd and Valeja Infra Projects have been awarded the contract. “The companies have been short listed after looking at the bidding rates. Supervision on the company’s assets and machines will be is done post the tendering process. The checks are a post qualification process,” said Sanjay Badve, chief engineer, road and traffic.
According to the guidelines laid down by the BMC, a company that bags the contract for laying concrete roads must have six JCB trucks, five vibratory rollers, 20 dumpers and five static rollers. The terms further require the company to have two ready-mix concrete plants having capacity of 60 cubic meter per hour and two paver blocks manufacturing units.
While a company laying asphalt road must have three JCBs, seven vibratory rollers, 20 dumpers and three static rollers.
But none of the companies in the consortium that has been awarded the contract have the required machinery.
“BMC demands that the companies’ should have the sophisticated rollers and proper functioning ready-mix plants. Some of the companies might own the required number of the rollers and dumpers required. But the officials will check and ensure that the required infrastructure is available with all the nine companies before the work starts,” Badve added.
Moreover, the qualification criteria states that there ought to be two control engineers and seven site engineers who must be graduates in civil engineering and having experience of over five years.
However the civic body hardly keeps a tab on the education qualification. “It is impossible to procure academic details of the entire staff of a company which has bagged the contract. So most of these requirements remain just on the paper,” said another senior civic official.
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
)
)
)
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}