Months after opening bids, the Central Public Works Division (CPWD) is but to allot the contract for building of the Govt Enclave, which incorporates the Prime Minister’s Workplace, with officers attributing the delay to safety considerations.
After the monetary bids for the challenge have been opened in July, Hyderabad-based DEC Infrastructure and Initiatives (India) Pvt Ltd had emerged because the lowest bidder, quoting Rs 1,189 crore as towards the CPWD’s estimated value of Rs 1,328 crore. The opposite two bidders within the fray have been Tata Initiatives Ltd, which is establishing the brand new Parliament, and Larsen and Toubro Restricted, which has the contract for the development of three buildings of the Widespread Central Secretariat — each elements of the federal government’s Central Vista redevelopment plan.
The work for the Govt Enclave is but to be awarded to DEC as a consequence of safety considerations, officers from the Housing and City Affairs Ministry in addition to the CPWD mentioned. A CPWD official mentioned the division was contemplating the choice of asking one of many different two bidders to step in as they each are already finishing up strategic tasks of the central authorities. A ministry official mentioned the issues of safety weren’t meant to exclude DEC and that the opposite corporations would solely be thought of in the event that they met the monetary bid quoted by DEC. Nevertheless, the potential for re-tendering the challenge stays. The three bidders had been chosen by way of a pre-qualification course of in June earlier than they have been invited to submit monetary bids.
DEC has not been allotted the contract and isn’t conscious of the explanation, the corporate’s DGM for HR, Sudhish Vasudevan, advised The Indian Categorical on Saturday. “It’s the authorities’s prerogative,” he mentioned.
That is the second time the CPWD had floated tenders for the challenge. In November 2021, the CPWD first invited pre-qualification bids for the Govt Enclave challenge, after which Ahluwalia Contracts India Ltd emerged because the lowest bidder in March this yr. As an alternative of allotting the contract, the CPWD then cancelled the tender, elevated the scope of labor and floated one other tender.
The challenge, which is proposed to be constructed on the south of South Block in a “excessive safety zone”, consists of the PMO, a convention facility known as India Home, the Cupboard Secretariat and the workplace of the Nationwide Safety Council Secretariat unfold over 85,282 sq. metres, in response to the tender doc.
“The Enclave shall be designed to enhance efficiency and functioning by way of rigorously deliberate formation of various departments with supporting services, this may guarantee prime safety and wonderful interconnectivity inside the Enclave and with different workplaces in Central Vista. Relocating these departments may even guarantee environment friendly safety protocols for VIPs and VVIPs with out disturbing day by day motion of the general public in and across the Central Vista,” the tender doc mentioned.