A pilot project, the online tender-floating procedure is part of BMC's e-governance plan, which will put an end to all conspiracies to rig contracts worth crores of rupees by a handful of contractors, said additional municipal commissioner (projects) Anil Diggikar. According to civic data, as many as 2,000 tenders are floated every year for various infrastructure and civic projects, but only a cartel of contractors collude to inflate the cost of a wide range of contracts, officials said.
On the web, the procedure will be closely guarded and a vendor will not even know who his competitors are. The bidders, who will get an authorised user ID and password, can submit his amount. During the process, the vendor will be able to see all the items for which a bid is submitted and the vendor can thereafter enter the price
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Sharad Vyas
Quelle/Source: The Times of India, 15.11.2008
