MARGAO
Will the Margao Municipal Council find takers for the long-delayed multilevel parking facility project in the commercial capital?
This question has come to the fore as the MMC has re-tendered the project once again on Saturday, as the previous 2-3 attempts to get a contractor to build the facility had come a cropper.
The project tendered at an estimated cost of Rs 6.57 crore mandated the successful bidder to complete the facility in 540 days.
Ever since the MMC had laid the foundation stone for the parking project in 2015, bidders have shied away from taking up the multi-crore project for reasons best known to them.
When the project was first tendered around 2016-17, a bidder had expressed his willingness to execute the same. The contractor, however, later backed out of the project after the GST regime came into force.
Attempts to retain the contractor came a cropper after he opted out of the project, saying he would suffer a huge loss if the GST is not excluded from the project cost.
The proposal then dragged on for the last three years in the corridors of the civic body over the issue of calculations and to obtain the sanction from the government authorities.
The project was tendered earlier this year, but not a single bidder expressed their willingness to take up the project. The project was tendered again last month, but had to be abandoned over procedural wrangles.
