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MSRDC scraps tenders to monitor toll collection points
Publish Date : 26-Apr-2016
The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) has cancelled tenders to appoint contractors to monitor real-time toll collections at five entry points of the city and the Mumbai-Pune Expressway (MPE) citing conflict of interest between the company that was short-listed as the lowest bidder and the company that collects tolls on the expressway.
Earlier in November 2015, the MSRDC had announced tenders, inviting private companies to develop real-time data collection software to monitor toll collection at every MSRDC tollbooth in the state.
After receiving bids from around 10 companies, a company named Kent Intelligent Transportation Systems was short listed as the lowest bidder to develop software with the help of Wide Area Network (WAN) connectivity, and all WAN servers were to be connected with the main server at MSRDCs head office in Mumbai, which will not allow the contractors to under-report the traffic data.
Radheshyam Mopalwar, managing director, MSRDC said, After evaluating we found out that the company which is short-listed provides services or deals with the Ideal Road Builder (IRB) which is one of our contractors for collecting tolls at the expressway. Hence, there is a conflict of interest here between the company and the contractor and so we decided to scrap the whole tendering procedure.
Now, the MSRDC plans to announce fresh bids to appoint contractors for the same by the end of month.
D. A. Salunke, chief engineer of toll monitoring unit (TMU), MSRDC said, We have every right to decline offer by the bidders at any point of time without giving any reason as that is in the power of the authority.
