IPS Officers Roopa & Nimbalkar In War Of Words Over Tender Process In Bengaluru Safe City Project
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- čas přidán 26. 12. 2020
- IPS Officers Roopa & Nimbalkar In War Of Words Over Tender Process In Bengaluru Safe City Project...,
IPS officer Hemant Nimbalkar on Sunday said that the tender process in the multi-crore Bengaluru Safe City Project was not biased amid allegations of irregularities in the tender process. Karnataka Home Secretary D Roopa on Saturday had alleged that there were irregularities in the tender called for the project, particularly that Hemant Nimbalkar was trying to favour a private company.
Hemant Nimbalkar is the chairman of both the Tender Inviting Committee and the Tender Scrutiny Committee for the project. EY is a multinational professional services network, which was preparing the request for proposal document (tender document) in consultation with the tender committee.
In a press conference on Sunday, Hemant Nimbalkar stated that the tender process is not biased, "There is no bidder (for the project) at the moment since the final date (for submission of bids) is January 8. After the bid submission, technical bids will be opened and quality and cost will be considered. Then pre-qualification and technical qualification will be checked and they will be asked to give a proof of concept."
Speaking about the first two tender processes, he said, "BEL did not compete in Call 1 as a bidder. Three bidders who came forward did not qualify beyond the pre-qualification process and were not considered for the technical qualification process. So there is no question of bias coming here. Then in Call 2, three companies qualified in June - Larsen & Tourbo, Matrix and BEL. BEL's bid was accepted," he said.
"After this, it was decided by the tender committee that Chinese-made products should not be considered and decided to cancel the second tender," he said.
"I am not prepared to speak about personal statements or statements made in social media as the matter stands in court," he added.
In response, Roopa D said that the press conference by Hemant Nimbalkar did not answer questions of irregularities in the tender process. "He has called the tender with many irregularities. He has been misleading and giving misinformation to higher ups in the government upto the highest level. Today, (27-12-2020) he held a press conference but did not answer the questions of irregularities and the complaints that led to cancellation of tender two times," Roopa D said.
Roopa had earlier mentioned that the tender (request for proposal) was eventually dropped following a complaint made to the Prime Minister’s office by Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), a Ministry of Defence company, which had also placed a tender for the project but lost out to a private company. A letter by the company written to the Bengaluru Police Commissioner in November 2019 highlights that the terms and conditions for the request for proposal were in favour of one or two companies.
Roopa shared an official memorandum dated June 30 2020 by the Ministry of Commerce and Industries stating that the tender process will not be finalised before grievances raised by a company are not disposed off. She shared another letter by the vigilance wing of the Karnataka Government seeking a report from the Tender Committee on the irregularities.
She also said that there were irregularities even in the latest tender (call 3). According to her, one violation is related to the finance department. "The minimum annual turnover of a bidder must be 2-times the value of tender. Here tender value is Rs 620 Crores but minimum turnover fixed is Rs 250 Crores. Even with the latest amendment the minimum requirement is 100% of tender value or amount payable in the first year. Even that is about Rs 500 crores," Roopa stated.
She further alleged that BEL had pointed out that the company which the tender supposedly favored was providing Chinese cameras. She added that rules under the Karnataka Transparency in Public Procurement too were not followed in the tender process.
The Bengaluru Safe City Project also known as the Nirbhaya Project involves setting up 7,500 cameras and other surveillance measures as a means of crime prevention against women and children in the city.
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We are all with you Madam👍
WOW... WHAT A SONG... 💯🤩😌
Time to Expose NIMBALKAR and gang. He is involved in many scams!
What is this is our karnataka govt existing. Shame shame yeddi government.
Yeddyurappa cheated north Karnataka.
He didn't improved anything.
Not raising anything related mahadayi river (may be waiting for election days).
His family is safe!!! His son become next minister.
Savage taunt!
Being in a police departement...u shouldn’t be giving this kind of statements...government should intervene and stop these two to give any kind of statements....
Hemanth is corrupted officer
Nyi police
Roopa medam 👍👍👍
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Roopa is very Corrupt Officer many people don’t know about it but it’s true
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