<p>Confident of securing the approval of the Pre-Tender Scrutiny Committee, the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has postponed the calendar of events mentioned in its February 23 tender for carrying out electrical works costing Rs 675 crore.</p>.<p>The project is part of the formation of the Shivaram Karanth Layout situated in the northern part of Bengaluru. </p>.<p>On Wednesday, the BDA issued a corrigendum stating that the calendar of events for works (BDA/2022-23/SS/WORK-Indent) has been postponed for “administrative reasons”.</p>.<p>The announcement comes days after <span class="italic">DH</span> published a report about the BDA floating the Rs 675-crore tender without getting the mandatory approval of the Pre-Tender Scrutiny Committee headed by Justice Rathnakala. The committee was set up to review the tender conditions for works that exceed Rs 50 crore.</p>.<p>Even though the Justice A V Chandrashekar committee was formed to supervise the formation of the layout, the tender pertaining to Rs 675 crore was not approved by the committee before it was published, sources said. </p>.<p>Also, BDA had not mentioned the contract value of the tender, making it difficult for bidders to understand the value of the work.</p>
<p>Confident of securing the approval of the Pre-Tender Scrutiny Committee, the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has postponed the calendar of events mentioned in its February 23 tender for carrying out electrical works costing Rs 675 crore.</p>.<p>The project is part of the formation of the Shivaram Karanth Layout situated in the northern part of Bengaluru. </p>.<p>On Wednesday, the BDA issued a corrigendum stating that the calendar of events for works (BDA/2022-23/SS/WORK-Indent) has been postponed for “administrative reasons”.</p>.<p>The announcement comes days after <span class="italic">DH</span> published a report about the BDA floating the Rs 675-crore tender without getting the mandatory approval of the Pre-Tender Scrutiny Committee headed by Justice Rathnakala. The committee was set up to review the tender conditions for works that exceed Rs 50 crore.</p>.<p>Even though the Justice A V Chandrashekar committee was formed to supervise the formation of the layout, the tender pertaining to Rs 675 crore was not approved by the committee before it was published, sources said. </p>.<p>Also, BDA had not mentioned the contract value of the tender, making it difficult for bidders to understand the value of the work.</p>
