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India: 8 Months To Go, OC Floats Fresh Tenders For Caterers
Publish Date : 20-Feb-2010
With only eight months to go for the Commonwealth Games, the organizing committee is finally looking beyond venues and consistently missed deadlines. It has now floated a tender to look for caterers for not only the Games Village but also for the various venues, including Jawaharlal Nehru stadium. And if the initial response is anything to go by, the OC may finally be getting something right. The decision, however, has drawn criticism from within the OC. Sources in the OC confirmed that a decision on selecting the firm as master caterer for the Games would only be taken in late March, after the technical and commercial bids were studied.
Thereafter, it will take another three-four months for the kitchens to be set up and the menus to be finalized. It\'s a time consuming process, said a senior OC official. With venue operations schedules going off-track due to construction delays, sources said setting up of the catering, a major component of the venue operations, needed to be in place. It\'s not just catering at the Games Village but also at sports venues and the designated accommodations that have been earmarked for the delegates. The logistics involved are huge, added the source. The late decision to go in for floating fresh tenders, added sources, could only delay the function.
