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| Tenders invited for supply of cattle, poultry feed come under cloud as prospective bidders accuse of foul play | | Allegations of violation of financial codes come to fore | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Jan 10: Recent allotment of tenders by State Level Purchase Committee for supply of various items to Animal and Sheep Husbandry departments in state has come under a serious question since some of the prospective bidders have accused committee members of foul play in the allotment of tenders.
Sharing views one of the prospective bidders told Early Times that there was no competition once the tenders were invited by the purchase committee. The prospective bidder said that the committee violated the finance codes by limiting the number of prospective bidders below three as has to be followed according to the norms.
On 26-10-2013, Chairman State Level Purchase Committee invited bids from prospective bidders with respect to two tenders issued for supplying various items for Animal and Sheep Husbandry Departments. The tenders were invited with respect to supply of yellow maize in whole grains, poultry feed ingredients, poultry feed concentrates and compounded cattle feed.
Chairman SLPC invited e-tenders for tender notice 10436-49 under which bids were invited for supply of Compounded Cattle Feed (Pelleted) Type-II Mark IS: 2052-1979, Compounded Cattle Feed (Pelleted)-Urea Free and White Bran. While the first two items were supplied in the sample unit of one bag of 50 kilograms each, the third item was supplied in the sample unit of one bag weighing 40 kilograms.
Chairman SLPC invited e-tenders for tender notice 10450-63 under which bids were invited for the supply of yellow maize in whole grains (sample item), poultry feed ingredients and poultry feed concentrates. Interestingly, there was no mention of sample quantity of items for which bids were invited. Both the tenders were to be opened on November 27, 2013 and the bidders had to bid through electronic means.
Both the tender notices could not materialize as one of the prospective bidders raised the objection that every bidder has to attach CDR of one lakh rupees even if the supplier could supply only one of the items. The process was also stalled due to the fact that there was no competition since three Jammu based companies belonging to the same owner applied for the tenders. The two bidders from Srinagar who also submitted their bid could not qualify the requirements set out by the Chairman SLPC.
Chairman SLPC cancelled the two tender notices issued on 26-10-2013 and following this two fresh tender notices under tender notice numbers 12577-90 and 12561-74 were issued on 6-12-2013. However, this time too there was no change in the format as there was no mention of the sample quantity in one of the earlier tenders and no relief with respect to the submission of one lakh rupees as CDR.
"Financial codes were not followed while the tender was awarded to the Jammu based group. There should have been atleast three bidders but in this case there was nothing of that sort. The tender was awarded to Langer/Supreme/Chinar group of companies despite the fact that these companies are run by the same person. First time around three bids were rejected, but I fail to understand the mantra behind the awarding of tender second time around since no change took place in the overall format," said one of the prospective bidders.
Chairman SLPC, Dr. Sham Lal Bhagat told Early Times that no wrong has been done since the tender has been awarded to the bidder whose sample was found to be the best by the technical committee. Dr. Bhagat said that the group that has been awarded the tenders would have to supply the items at the lowest quoted rates. |
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