Mumbai: BMC last month canceled a tender worth 50 crore for maintenance of more than 200 parks and gardens after the contractor bid more than 40% below the cost estimate and allegedly tried to make a cartel.
The contractor has lost deposits amounting to around Rs 50 Lakh to bid so many estimates below.
BMC has floated 24 tenders for maintenance of around 200 parks and parks in their neighborhood through a one-year contract.
With the tender removed, now some parks without full-time maintenance contractors.
The decision for the tender memo and made contractors lose their deposits were taken by the commissioner of the additional city Ashwini Bhide.
Public Open Spaces Times are very important for citizens in the city who are starving in space such as Mumbai.
The need for open-maintained open space, easily accessible has become more acute after a pandemic.
This is a good step that BMC has sentenced the contractor who has an offer below forecast and finally does a bad job.
BMC must float fresh tenders at once with strict conditions and supervision to improve and beautify open space.
“Because the contractor bid more than 40% below the estimation, we have notified the contractor to lose deposits and cancel the tender.
The new tender will float next week and we will only continue with a closer tender offer with estimates.
There is no possibility of the contractor will do work Maintenance in a standard way with such a low cost, “said a civilian official.
Overall, BMC has 1,052 open plots, together with a size of 1,200 hectares.
BJP accused BMC has failed to break the contractor cartel.
“BMC now provides a short-term quote contract to the company equal to more than 50% below the cost estimate.
So, scraphing tenders and then giving work to the same company it makes no sense.
The companies whose deposits must be prohibited from taking part in the tender New.
For almost a month, without a special contractor for maintenance, these parks used by thousands of residents fall into damaged, “said BJP Corporator Vinod Mishra.
Although usually BMC floats the tender for a two-year contract, this year has planned to give it for only one year.
Commissioner of Iqbal City Chahal in his budget speech in February announced a new open spaced policy will be launched but has not happened.
Nagar, an NGO that worked on open space issues, has also written to Chahal which expresses disappointed at a 50% discount in the budget for parks and gardens.
NGOs have demanded that BMC come out with strong open space policies so that it can reduce the financial burden on BMC.
“The financial burden on BMC will decrease sufficient amounts by formulating strong open space policies with waterproof guidelines, including examinations and balances recommended by Nagar to the Department of Gardens in August 2019.
Many stakeholders and NGOs want to assume responsibility, both financially through CSR and restoration and maintenance, from this open space, as long as there is a fair policy with at least a three-year contract reviewed every year and renewable on good performance, “said Nagar Trustee Nayana Kathpalia had said in the letter to Chahal.
With the BMC open space policy which was canceled in 2016, NGOs and groups have asked BMC to track new policies quickly.
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