The Times of India                29.05.2013

Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon completes technical bids for sanitation contracts

GURGAON: After a delay of over a year, the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) conducted the technical bids to award a sanitation contract for Zone-IV on Monday. According to officials, all the four companies that have participated in the technical bid have met the criteria and will take part in the financial bid that is slated for later this week. This is the first time the contracts are being given ward-wise instead of zone-wise in the MCG.

Apart from Zone-IV, the contracts are also being awarded for 19 outer colonies whose contracts have expired long ago. For the past many months, the MCG has been sending its own staff from the sanitation department to pick up garbage and sweep the streets in these colonies.

"There were four companies that were shortlisted to participate in the technical bid and all the bids of all the four have been accepted as they matched the technical specifications that we have specified. We will hold the financial bids later this week and whichever company agrees to do the job for the lowest amount will get the contract," said a senior MCG official.

"The contract will be awarded for a period of one year and it will be given ward-wise. The reason for doing so is because since the zone area is too large, we have been finding it difficult to get private agencies that have the required manpower and machinery to clean the entire zone. There are six wards in this zone and the contract will be given to different agencies so that they have the adequate manpower and resources to perform the task in a better manner," the official said.

The MCG had awarded the contract for the remaining three zones in December last year to private agencies for a period of one year. However, the contract has been given for the entire zone to a single agency and complaints have been pouring in from residents regarding the lack of sanitation in their area. MCG officials said they might award the contract ward-wise in these three zones as and when the contract period expires.