SHILLONG, AUG 28: The All Meghalaya Contractor & Supplier Association (AMCSA) has said it would be forced to approach the court to seek the latter’s intervention if the proposed Asian Development Bank sponsored project for Supporting Human Capital in Meghalaya is not review.
“We will not allow this project to go ahead and that we may be forced to approach the judiciary for seeking redressal on the matter and for which this may cause undue delay towards fulfilling the goal and objectives of this project in Meghalaya,” AMCSA general secretary BL Nongbri said in a recent letter to the ADB Head S Chakravarti.
Nongbri said, “We strongly object the procedural execution of the proposed implementation of the “Asian Development Bank sponsored project for ‘Supporting Human Capital Development in Meghalaya.”
The project aims at upgradating all the secondary school buildings in the state of Meghalaya. According to the association, the project can also provides various business opportunities under civil construction work and supply to the large number of educated youths of the state who are eligible, capable and have legitimately chosen contract and supply work as their career.
Contractors from across the state under the banner of the All Meghalaya Contractors & Supplier Association (AMCSA) have been demanding that the Meghalaya government must reduce the criteria for applying bid with regards to its project proposed for improving the infrastructural standards of more than 127 secondary schools in the state.
The demand came after the state government under the ‘Supporting Human Capital Development in Meghalaya Project’ funded by Asian Development Bank (ADB), had proposed to float the first phase of the tender which is Rs 40 crores for 25 schools.
“The bid criteria by the ADB has totally failed to address the technical issues,” Nongbri said while informing that the association in a meeting held earlier has also sought the relaxation of some of the criteria set by the ADB saying that the bank attempt to implement this project with the present criteria is nothing but a clear suppression to the small contractors who will not be able to participate in the bids, since the package margin is much beyond their capacity.
Demanding that the project be kept in abeyance, the AMCSA further suggested the need to review the criteria of the present project. “If this project is allotted to one single contractor in terms of breaking or splitting the package through ratio of 1:1 School/Contractor, so that this will not only lead to a delay in terms of completing the project since by giving this opportunity it will create wider avenue for all the contractors to participate in the bid,” Nongbri said in the letter to the ADB.
The association further demanded that the said project should be allow to compete amongst the qualified local contractors only-under one school one contractor basis, since this project can easily be executed by the local contractors under the guidance of the concern executing agency. –By Our Reporter
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