Few takers for its CCTV project,govt to float tenders again

The government is likely to issue fresh tenders by the end of this month based on a new financial model.

The CCTV surveillance project is likely to be delayed further with the Maharashtra government mulling over issuing fresh tenders for the third time. A senior government official said with no break-through,the government is likely to issue fresh tenders by the end of this month based on a new financial model.

In the current economic scenario,banks are not giving huge loans to IT companies for such projects. Our talks with public sector undertakings have also not yielded results. In all likelihood,the project will go in for re-tendering by the end of this month. This time we are looking at a new model for funding the project, an official said.

Following disqualification of the lowest bidder in the project of installing 6,000 CCTV cameras in Mumbai,the state was negotiating with the second lowest bidder whose original bid was Rs.1,051 crore. The lowest bidder,Gujarat-based Sai Infotech Systems bid for Rs 650 crore was disqualified after it failed to pay a bank guarantee.

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Also,talks with the second lowest bidder-AGC Networks Ltd owned by the Essar Group did not go through since the company demanded a number of changes in the tender,which were non-agreeable to the government. Following repeated inability of private operators to take up the project,the state started looking at PSUs to see if they would be able to take up the project.

The Maharashtra government was planning to place close to 6,000 CCTV cameras across Mumbai. The state estimated the project to cost Rs 864 crore.

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