Pune Cantonment Board tightens pay-n-park tender norms

PUNE: In the wake of the attack on the PCB-appointed vehicle entry tax contractor Vivek Yadav and his employees in Khadki on February 13, the Pune Cantonment Board has made its tender process of inviting bids from prospective contractors for running the pay and park scheme more stringent.
The PCB in a public notice published in a section of the media has imposed conditions that include that the contractor should not be convicted for any criminal offence by any competent court of law in or outside India.The notice further reads that the contractor should not have faced any trial in a criminal case, the family members of the contractor must not be employees or elected members of the PCB.
The notice also states that the contractor should not have court case against the PCB and the contractor should not be debarred from participating in the tendering process by any government department, local authority, municipal corporation etc anywhere in India.
PCB chief executive officer K V Nagireddy on Tuesday said, "The tender notice and documents are more or less the same as notified during the pay and park tendering. These would be reverified."
PCB vice-president Aarti Mahajan said, "We have incorporated stringent conditions for the first time in the pay and park contract because we don't want to face any untoward incidents."
The notice states that the tenders will be available at the PCB till March 22. The contractors wishing to participate in the bidding process will have to file tenders with earnest money of Rs 5 lakh by March 25 till 12 noon. The tenders will be opened in the presence of the parties on the same day and the list of qualified tenderers will be prepared the next day.
It may be noted that the Khadki police on Feburary 13 had booked Kuldeep Bagwe, son of former minister of state for home Ramesh Bagwe, Khadki Cantonment Board (KCB) vice-president Manish Anand and others for allegedly attacking Yadav and his employees over a dispute of buying the vehicle entry tax tender form the KCB.
Bagwe and Anand and others are still on the run even as the city police commissioner Gulabrao Pol has transferred investigations to the crime branch.
Four bail pleas filed
Four absconding suspects involved in the alleged attack on Vivek Yadav have filed anticipatory bail pleas fearing arrest at the district and sessions court here. The bail pleas have been kept for hearing on March 7 and 8 respectively.