Reading Habit
It boggles the mind. When your montris want to make money they have ingenious ways to do that. Once before, if you remember, despite you not being great film buffs, they smothered you with IFFI. The big bucks got bigger for them despite all the reels they give us about making IFFI more about films and less about glitzy entertainment which btw, is what IFFI has turned out to be. Then they decided that entire India could do without IFFI. So, now it's going to have a retirement home at Kala Academy and live there happily ever after. A little later they decided you and I have a voracious reading habit. So, they planned a Central Library, now being built at Patto Plaza. You can bet next, they will find an equally stunning reason to convert the existing Central Library at the Institute Menezes Braganza to a mall. ADAPTIVE REUSE, they call it. Thank you very much.
Guess what, the Central Library will cost? Rs 15,95,00,629.70 and I am still trying to find out what the heck they intend to do with this monolith, so stay with me on this will you, even if you are in danger of losing the Reading Habit temporarily. This business takes time.
Booker Prize stuff
On what basis was the consultant for the project appointed? The Goa State Industrial Development Corporation, Goa's very own L&T with a difference said it appointed Architecture Autonomous (Gerard D'Cunha's outfit) on the basis of a national level architectural competition. You and I, the shareholders don't get to enjoy dividends, only the stakeholders do, if you get my drift.
GSIDC said it got 75 applications, and from that five were short listed. These five were invited to take part in a competition but only Architecture Autonomous and a Uttam C. Jain participated. This is about the only part I can't quarrel with. Oh, there's this part about the fees you may think is high. I do too. It's like this – the architect will be paid 4% for his comprehensive architectural services, 4% for interior architecture, 6% for graphic designing and 5% for landscape architecture. There was no response to the first call from GSIDC's list of empanelled project management consultants. Only Frischmann Prabhu (I) Pvt Ltd bid at the second call. Isn't it amazing, remember Garden of Eden, how even empanelled firms are reluctant to bid in Goa? I say just un-empanel them. Do we really need to invest Rs 15,95,00,629.70 cr in a building ostensibly for reading.
Museum Piece
On November 11 when I visited the Goa State Museum there were more attendants than visitors. I was the only one in fact. The visitors registered showed eight footfalls, none on 10th, 9th and 8th. Only four visited on the 7th. Need I say more?. In the so-called Christian Art Gallery there are bigger than life-size portraits of two Portuguese governors. Figure out how governors become 'Christian' art for your selves, because I can't. No single art work or portrait has details (so essential) like the period it came from, or its origin. The museum has quite a few statues with the legend 'unidentified saints.' In other words, the Goa State Museum inaugurated in June 1996 is yet to determine whether these are really saints or just some ancient craftsman's genius. A remarkable wooden Chariot Parod-Quepem 18th c AD lies there, un-restored and uncared for. In fact there are far too many huge offices in the museum and far too few historical pieces, all of which point to a criminal waste of space. And yet, right now the museum's auditorium is being renovated. Probably at great expense.
Book of Fiction
Clearly when a museum is neglected, what can you expect of the Central Library? In fact, the design plans for the Central Library to be discussed here next week duplicates some of the facilities available at the museum. Did the planners of this project also consider they might be duplicating facilities available at the Institute of Menezes Braganza, Kala Academy or even the International Centre at Dona Paula? You bet they didn't. After all why should they bother about such niggling details when they are using taxpayers' money? Do you think they also considered that the overly commercialized Patto Plaza was hardly the venue for fostering the reading habit? By a hair's breadth maybe, because, to be put up next, opposite the Central Library is Ginger, the 5-star hotel with a huge shopping mall. Of course they didn't by any breadth of measurement, because if they did, they would have built it within the huge Goa University campus. Oops do you think I am giving them ideas that will cost us further?
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Friday, November 21, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Garden of Eden - Final
Of monolithic malls
Last week you read how Rs 1,59,68,204 of your tax money is at this moment being wasted on a project mysteriously called 'renovation of the garden at Rua De Ourem' in Panjim. There is no garden really, but that's old hat now. You also read how a duct is being built at a cost of Rs 77 lakh whose only purpose is to accommodate the telecommunication cables of various agencies. That was the first part conceived for the project. The second part described here, costing all of Rs 82 lakh, was conceived to create an additional pathway for pedestrians by extending the footpath/garden by 90 cms into the creek. This will be achieved by constructing reinforced concrete cement beams and slabs. And what do you know, there still won't be a garden, which is what I have been saying in the past two columns.
Led down the garden path
After all how much money can you make on plants etc? It is the concrete aspect that solidifies this and makes the big bucks move, if you get my drift. The funny thing as I said before, nobody uses this side of the road because it is sun drenched. Those who do walk in this rather isolated area, use the opposite footpath shaded by a long line of buildings etc. This is the side too where people park their cars because it has buildings and shops etc. Therefore, I don't see anybody using the car park planned on the other side. Why? Because, the narrow road, approximately 8-9 m wide simply won't accommodate cars parked either side. On the other hand, since drivers don't care any longer where they park, this could create one hell of a parking problem. I asked GSIDC, the perpetrators of this imbecilic idea if they had ever thought about shifting this equally misplaced parking lot to an appropriate place, they answered they had never thought of it. You won't, you simply can't when you don't appoint an architect to design a plan, but do things on your own.
Benchmark
Call it that, because KG Thomas, the contractor who apparently contrived to get this lucrative job, quoted Rs 2,60,000 to supply 13 concrete benches that will be placed on the footpath being built. So, now you will have vagabonds resting on these benches at night creating a nuisance for people waiting for the last bus to Margao. Or, the Corporation of the City of Panjim (what a glorified name for an organization that sleeps 24x7) might just be convinced to shift the radhiwallahs from the sacrosanct Azad Maidan and also persuade the cricket team of migrant workers to shift their club grounds from there to this new venue. There, could of course be worse uses for this. And meanwhile, amidst the costly extravaganza, the creek will continue to stink and be a breeding ground for mosquitoes becausing nobody thought of cleaning it.
Parsvanath, the builder of monolithic shopping malls across India announced it will build a 5-star hotel in what is left of Patto Plaza despite what EDC's MD assured me a long time ago that no hotel would be allowed to come up at Patto. This was repeated to other journalists and in other forums too. Now, Parsvanath claims it has sanction to build a hotel on 3,150.20 square meters. Here's a shocker, the Panjim PDA says it has approved plans for a mall with a food court only. Parsvanath which has already gone to great expense to fence out (and 'typically' stationed security guards inside) its huge Patto Plaza property also cleverly erected an equally huge hoarding depicting (but without actually saying it) that a huge shopping mall will be built.
Typically, because builders follow a format: First, they erect a huge fence around the land to keep away prying eyes and not to prevent dust or debris spilling out as is popularly thought. Because, when construction actually begins, they care less about that as you can see happens in Panjim even at this moment. Then, at the last moment they erect the statutory board that gives details of the construction. In this case Parsvanath has not yet put up its board. But, it will soon, after this.
So, is Panjim heading for a complete collapse of its traffic system? Consider this. Soon the starred hotel at the St Inez traffic light junction will be ready. Then there's this huge Milroc Neurekar building complex (with an impressive high-rise and impressive fence) being built near the Police Headquarters; several more about to be readied and occupied. You bet the traffic congestion will get worse.
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Last week you read how Rs 1,59,68,204 of your tax money is at this moment being wasted on a project mysteriously called 'renovation of the garden at Rua De Ourem' in Panjim. There is no garden really, but that's old hat now. You also read how a duct is being built at a cost of Rs 77 lakh whose only purpose is to accommodate the telecommunication cables of various agencies. That was the first part conceived for the project. The second part described here, costing all of Rs 82 lakh, was conceived to create an additional pathway for pedestrians by extending the footpath/garden by 90 cms into the creek. This will be achieved by constructing reinforced concrete cement beams and slabs. And what do you know, there still won't be a garden, which is what I have been saying in the past two columns.
Led down the garden path
After all how much money can you make on plants etc? It is the concrete aspect that solidifies this and makes the big bucks move, if you get my drift. The funny thing as I said before, nobody uses this side of the road because it is sun drenched. Those who do walk in this rather isolated area, use the opposite footpath shaded by a long line of buildings etc. This is the side too where people park their cars because it has buildings and shops etc. Therefore, I don't see anybody using the car park planned on the other side. Why? Because, the narrow road, approximately 8-9 m wide simply won't accommodate cars parked either side. On the other hand, since drivers don't care any longer where they park, this could create one hell of a parking problem. I asked GSIDC, the perpetrators of this imbecilic idea if they had ever thought about shifting this equally misplaced parking lot to an appropriate place, they answered they had never thought of it. You won't, you simply can't when you don't appoint an architect to design a plan, but do things on your own.
Benchmark
Call it that, because KG Thomas, the contractor who apparently contrived to get this lucrative job, quoted Rs 2,60,000 to supply 13 concrete benches that will be placed on the footpath being built. So, now you will have vagabonds resting on these benches at night creating a nuisance for people waiting for the last bus to Margao. Or, the Corporation of the City of Panjim (what a glorified name for an organization that sleeps 24x7) might just be convinced to shift the radhiwallahs from the sacrosanct Azad Maidan and also persuade the cricket team of migrant workers to shift their club grounds from there to this new venue. There, could of course be worse uses for this. And meanwhile, amidst the costly extravaganza, the creek will continue to stink and be a breeding ground for mosquitoes becausing nobody thought of cleaning it.
Parsvanath, the builder of monolithic shopping malls across India announced it will build a 5-star hotel in what is left of Patto Plaza despite what EDC's MD assured me a long time ago that no hotel would be allowed to come up at Patto. This was repeated to other journalists and in other forums too. Now, Parsvanath claims it has sanction to build a hotel on 3,150.20 square meters. Here's a shocker, the Panjim PDA says it has approved plans for a mall with a food court only. Parsvanath which has already gone to great expense to fence out (and 'typically' stationed security guards inside) its huge Patto Plaza property also cleverly erected an equally huge hoarding depicting (but without actually saying it) that a huge shopping mall will be built.
Typically, because builders follow a format: First, they erect a huge fence around the land to keep away prying eyes and not to prevent dust or debris spilling out as is popularly thought. Because, when construction actually begins, they care less about that as you can see happens in Panjim even at this moment. Then, at the last moment they erect the statutory board that gives details of the construction. In this case Parsvanath has not yet put up its board. But, it will soon, after this.
So, is Panjim heading for a complete collapse of its traffic system? Consider this. Soon the starred hotel at the St Inez traffic light junction will be ready. Then there's this huge Milroc Neurekar building complex (with an impressive high-rise and impressive fence) being built near the Police Headquarters; several more about to be readied and occupied. You bet the traffic congestion will get worse.
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Friday, November 7, 2008
Garden of Eden - II
The Main Opera
Last week you read of Rs 1,59,68,204 being spent to renovate the existing footpath that none uses because it is on the creek side of Rua De Ourem in Panjim; and also the existing garden or so-called garden. Nobody walks on that side because each and every building or public utility is on the other side and as a result protects pedestrians from the sun. It therefore makes no sense renovating that side. What should surprise you even is the fact that GSIDC did not think it was necessary to consult the Town and Country Planning Department. Because it says there was no building construction involved. It just went ahead on a whim.
Earlier, Garden of Eden -1 explained how an entire charade was enacted to appoint a contractor. The actors were a Mumbai contractor who, the first time bought tender forms, but did not bid. There were two reluctant bidders in fact. The second time he tendered so high, he was bound to be rejected, which happened, forcing a third call. At the second call also, a Panjim contractor came on stage, made sure his bid was faulty and was rejected. At the third and final call, the same error- prone Panjim contractor, another Mumbai contractor and the eventual winner KG Thomas all bought tender forms, but only Thomas bid. The stage was set for the main opera. You say you suspect the other actors perhaps didn't exist? You could be right, you know. Only, there's also a modern word for it – cartelization.
Duct to nowhere
So, why would anybody want to spend so much money? It's like this. There is really no garden. There never was. It's all about spending money somehow and there's opportunity here. The entire project was cleverly divided into two parts. One part almost entirely consists of laying a duct to accommodate telecommunication cables of the various agencies. The duct could in future house electrical cables, broadband cables etc. The width of the duct varies from 1.2 to 1.7 mt depending on space availability. The duct is being built with concrete walls with moveable slabs made of glass fibre, reinforced concrete to cover it. The total length of the duct is 870 mt. Looks impressive on paper. But, at both ends of the duct, the cables emerging from it will be exposed (for eternity perhaps?) as they are everywhere else in Panjim. Because, the CCP has bigger problems confronting it, with very little spending money in the kitty.
Costly experiment
The GSIDC engineer I spoke to could not explain (no fault of his) the linkage of this duct with all such cables running through Panjim. He opined that the duct could be used as a model for laying other ducts elsewhere in Panjim. Yeah, right! Problem is, this experiment is costing you Rs 77 lakh. Or Rs 8850.57 per running meter. That's a lot for 870 mt worth of gain. GSIDC also said maintenance would be transferred to the CCP and it was up to them to maintain or prepare a model for maintenance. No wonder the GSIDC did not involve the Town and Country Planning Department (see Garden of Eden-1.) But, it made sure it got the CCP's NOC for this. GSIDC also did not appoint a consultant and drew up the proposal and plan itself. Clever! In the Congress' wisdom, this would fall in the category of its much 'beloved word' development.' You of course would be right if you wondered why this money was not spent in constructing even a single sub-way for Panjim so you could cross a busy road without fear of a hands-free driver crushing you. BTW a hands-free driver is one who holds his mobile in the right hand, gesticulates with his left trying to explain to himself what the listener can't understand, all the while thinking his vehicle is on auto drive. This strange syndrome, the thinking is, afflicts only men, and its intensity increases proportionately with the length and breadth of each corner or curve in the road. Nobody as yet knows why.
Do read next week and discover how the rest of the moneys is being spent and there still won't be a garden.
(Next week: Garden of Eden -111 and last)
(Feedback: 6658606, lionroars.goa@gmail.com)
Last week you read of Rs 1,59,68,204 being spent to renovate the existing footpath that none uses because it is on the creek side of Rua De Ourem in Panjim; and also the existing garden or so-called garden. Nobody walks on that side because each and every building or public utility is on the other side and as a result protects pedestrians from the sun. It therefore makes no sense renovating that side. What should surprise you even is the fact that GSIDC did not think it was necessary to consult the Town and Country Planning Department. Because it says there was no building construction involved. It just went ahead on a whim.
Earlier, Garden of Eden -1 explained how an entire charade was enacted to appoint a contractor. The actors were a Mumbai contractor who, the first time bought tender forms, but did not bid. There were two reluctant bidders in fact. The second time he tendered so high, he was bound to be rejected, which happened, forcing a third call. At the second call also, a Panjim contractor came on stage, made sure his bid was faulty and was rejected. At the third and final call, the same error- prone Panjim contractor, another Mumbai contractor and the eventual winner KG Thomas all bought tender forms, but only Thomas bid. The stage was set for the main opera. You say you suspect the other actors perhaps didn't exist? You could be right, you know. Only, there's also a modern word for it – cartelization.
Duct to nowhere
So, why would anybody want to spend so much money? It's like this. There is really no garden. There never was. It's all about spending money somehow and there's opportunity here. The entire project was cleverly divided into two parts. One part almost entirely consists of laying a duct to accommodate telecommunication cables of the various agencies. The duct could in future house electrical cables, broadband cables etc. The width of the duct varies from 1.2 to 1.7 mt depending on space availability. The duct is being built with concrete walls with moveable slabs made of glass fibre, reinforced concrete to cover it. The total length of the duct is 870 mt. Looks impressive on paper. But, at both ends of the duct, the cables emerging from it will be exposed (for eternity perhaps?) as they are everywhere else in Panjim. Because, the CCP has bigger problems confronting it, with very little spending money in the kitty.
Costly experiment
The GSIDC engineer I spoke to could not explain (no fault of his) the linkage of this duct with all such cables running through Panjim. He opined that the duct could be used as a model for laying other ducts elsewhere in Panjim. Yeah, right! Problem is, this experiment is costing you Rs 77 lakh. Or Rs 8850.57 per running meter. That's a lot for 870 mt worth of gain. GSIDC also said maintenance would be transferred to the CCP and it was up to them to maintain or prepare a model for maintenance. No wonder the GSIDC did not involve the Town and Country Planning Department (see Garden of Eden-1.) But, it made sure it got the CCP's NOC for this. GSIDC also did not appoint a consultant and drew up the proposal and plan itself. Clever! In the Congress' wisdom, this would fall in the category of its much 'beloved word' development.' You of course would be right if you wondered why this money was not spent in constructing even a single sub-way for Panjim so you could cross a busy road without fear of a hands-free driver crushing you. BTW a hands-free driver is one who holds his mobile in the right hand, gesticulates with his left trying to explain to himself what the listener can't understand, all the while thinking his vehicle is on auto drive. This strange syndrome, the thinking is, afflicts only men, and its intensity increases proportionately with the length and breadth of each corner or curve in the road. Nobody as yet knows why.
Do read next week and discover how the rest of the moneys is being spent and there still won't be a garden.
(Next week: Garden of Eden -111 and last)
(Feedback: 6658606, lionroars.goa@gmail.com)
Garden of Eden - 1
Laying it on thick
You need to have an imagination for what I am about to reveal, and imagination you have. You just gotta to have it in Goa. Imagine just how little it would take to renovate a garden of 570 sq m. Then imagine, your government is currently spending Rs 1,59,68,204.24 to renovate it because of the Panjim MLA Manohar Parrikar. Now after this colossal figure was conjured and configured, the imagination (this time) of the planners in government went into overdrive. For those who live deep south or up north, the garden is at Rua De Ourem, at Panjim's old entrance and exit road. This once popular area of Panjim is now used by pedestrians to exit and enter the KTC bus stand. Nothing more!
This is how the garden deal unfurled. On 24 April 2008 the scheduled date of opening the tender, there were no responses for the first call though two bidders, one who came from Mumbai; bought tenders forms. They were My Associates of Andheri (W) Mumbai and Bhella Constuctions of Ponda. At the next call, two bidders purchased the tender forms: My Associates (again) and A. Ponnuraj of Panjim. Now, why would My Associates try a second time when it refused to bid the first time despite buying the tender forms? Beats me.
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
On 5 May 2008 the scheduled day of the second call, A. Ponnuraj was disqualified as his EMD (earnest money deposit) was not submitted as per rules. Surprise, surprise! We have here an experienced contractor (the rule states a contractor must completed pre-specified high-worth jobs in the last 5 yrs) who appears incapable of completing a mere EMD formality! This time however My Associates after appearing to be reluctant the first time, quoted Rs 2,00,63,649.50. The figure brought down 2.5 % by the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC) to Rs 1,95,62,058. It was however still 68.48% higher than the GSIDC estimated cost of Rs 1,16,10,674 and 39.24% above the reasonable (of GSIDC again) amount of Rs 1,40,48,719.97. If you have not comprehended this jargon, estimated cost is what the GSIDC knows is the estimated cost going by market calculations. Reasonable cost, I guess is, if the contractor is unreasonable enough to quote above the estimated, it requires GSIDC to be reasonable and make unreasonable look reasonable. Remember, I warned you to wear your imagination cap before you read this. So, don't blame me, if this sounds weird. It is. As a result, My Associates' bid was rejected because it was too high.
Beyond The Call Of Duty
Now, this is where your imagination truly gets stretched like India rubber. In response to the third call, A. Ponnuraj made a second comeback. This time however KG Thomas of Panjim and New Park Sun Gardens of Mahim, Mumbai join the game. But on the scheduled day of the opening 28 May 2008, mysteriously only KG Thomas bids. Does this not stretch your imagination? You have Mumbai's My Associates who drops by twice (1st & 2nd call) but does not bid the first time. The second time, it bids so high, it is bound to be rejected. Then you have A. Ponnuraj who buys the tender forms twice (2nd & 3rd call) makes a silly (tactical perhaps?) error the first call, then does not bid at the 3rd call. You would think Ponnuraj would want to make amends. No? Finally, you have New Park Sun Gardens from Mumbai who suddenly enters the field at the fag end (3rd call) but does not bid. Not to mention Bhella Constructions, who apparently didn't want to play ball at all.
The Games Begin
The tactical maneuvering done, KG Thomas waltzes into the scene, and there's a chest full of silver dollars to be dug out of the garden. The only bidder left now is him. He bids Rs 1,72,62,923.50, then agrees to negotiate his quote despite being the only bidder left in the arena. Blows my mind away! So, he reduces his bid by 7.5 % and his quote is now Rs 1,59,68,204.24. The negotiated offer is 9.94% above the reasonable amount of Rs 1,45,24,697.48 and 37.53% above the estimated cost put to tender (pun not intended) that is Rs 1,16,10,674. This makes GSIDC really pleased because it promptly claims the offer made in the third call is Rs 35,93,854 (Rs 1,95,62,058 minus Rs 1,59,68,204) lesser than the offer it received in the second call. Do make a note also that GSIDC's reasonable amount has by now risen from Rs 1,40,48,719.97 to Rs 1,45,24,697.48. It doesn't end here.
(Next week: Garden of Eden -11)
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You need to have an imagination for what I am about to reveal, and imagination you have. You just gotta to have it in Goa. Imagine just how little it would take to renovate a garden of 570 sq m. Then imagine, your government is currently spending Rs 1,59,68,204.24 to renovate it because of the Panjim MLA Manohar Parrikar. Now after this colossal figure was conjured and configured, the imagination (this time) of the planners in government went into overdrive. For those who live deep south or up north, the garden is at Rua De Ourem, at Panjim's old entrance and exit road. This once popular area of Panjim is now used by pedestrians to exit and enter the KTC bus stand. Nothing more!
This is how the garden deal unfurled. On 24 April 2008 the scheduled date of opening the tender, there were no responses for the first call though two bidders, one who came from Mumbai; bought tenders forms. They were My Associates of Andheri (W) Mumbai and Bhella Constuctions of Ponda. At the next call, two bidders purchased the tender forms: My Associates (again) and A. Ponnuraj of Panjim. Now, why would My Associates try a second time when it refused to bid the first time despite buying the tender forms? Beats me.
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
On 5 May 2008 the scheduled day of the second call, A. Ponnuraj was disqualified as his EMD (earnest money deposit) was not submitted as per rules. Surprise, surprise! We have here an experienced contractor (the rule states a contractor must completed pre-specified high-worth jobs in the last 5 yrs) who appears incapable of completing a mere EMD formality! This time however My Associates after appearing to be reluctant the first time, quoted Rs 2,00,63,649.50. The figure brought down 2.5 % by the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC) to Rs 1,95,62,058. It was however still 68.48% higher than the GSIDC estimated cost of Rs 1,16,10,674 and 39.24% above the reasonable (of GSIDC again) amount of Rs 1,40,48,719.97. If you have not comprehended this jargon, estimated cost is what the GSIDC knows is the estimated cost going by market calculations. Reasonable cost, I guess is, if the contractor is unreasonable enough to quote above the estimated, it requires GSIDC to be reasonable and make unreasonable look reasonable. Remember, I warned you to wear your imagination cap before you read this. So, don't blame me, if this sounds weird. It is. As a result, My Associates' bid was rejected because it was too high.
Beyond The Call Of Duty
Now, this is where your imagination truly gets stretched like India rubber. In response to the third call, A. Ponnuraj made a second comeback. This time however KG Thomas of Panjim and New Park Sun Gardens of Mahim, Mumbai join the game. But on the scheduled day of the opening 28 May 2008, mysteriously only KG Thomas bids. Does this not stretch your imagination? You have Mumbai's My Associates who drops by twice (1st & 2nd call) but does not bid the first time. The second time, it bids so high, it is bound to be rejected. Then you have A. Ponnuraj who buys the tender forms twice (2nd & 3rd call) makes a silly (tactical perhaps?) error the first call, then does not bid at the 3rd call. You would think Ponnuraj would want to make amends. No? Finally, you have New Park Sun Gardens from Mumbai who suddenly enters the field at the fag end (3rd call) but does not bid. Not to mention Bhella Constructions, who apparently didn't want to play ball at all.
The Games Begin
The tactical maneuvering done, KG Thomas waltzes into the scene, and there's a chest full of silver dollars to be dug out of the garden. The only bidder left now is him. He bids Rs 1,72,62,923.50, then agrees to negotiate his quote despite being the only bidder left in the arena. Blows my mind away! So, he reduces his bid by 7.5 % and his quote is now Rs 1,59,68,204.24. The negotiated offer is 9.94% above the reasonable amount of Rs 1,45,24,697.48 and 37.53% above the estimated cost put to tender (pun not intended) that is Rs 1,16,10,674. This makes GSIDC really pleased because it promptly claims the offer made in the third call is Rs 35,93,854 (Rs 1,95,62,058 minus Rs 1,59,68,204) lesser than the offer it received in the second call. Do make a note also that GSIDC's reasonable amount has by now risen from Rs 1,40,48,719.97 to Rs 1,45,24,697.48. It doesn't end here.
(Next week: Garden of Eden -11)
(Feedback: 6658606, lionroars.goa@gmail.com)
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