Your guidance on my email is solicited urgently please

Can the builder issue allottment letters for these 2 parking lots after society is formed?

PLS Let me know I am planning to pay money to the builder for this.

Regards

Parthesh

I take reference to afore subject tenders invited by MCGM. I have come to know there has been no competition involved in this tender due to the typically monopolistic qualification norms put in Gundavali Tunnel

1. The Gundavali to Bhandup Tunnel is a part of Prestigious ”Middle
Vaitarna” Project to bring 455 MLD water into the Mumbai city.

2. The Tunnel starts from outskirts of Thane City and ends at Bhandup Complex (in Mumbai). (Outside City Limits)

3. The Diameter of the Tunnel is 6.25 mtr and is to be drilled around 120 mtr below ground level using specialized Tunnel Boring Machines.

4. This is a highly specialized work involving extreme engineering. In India only limited companies such as Patel Engr, HCC, Gammon, Dwvidag, Soma etc have experience of these kind of projects involving Shaft and Tunnel Boring Machines.

5. The Total Length of this Tunnel is around 15 Kms. MCGM had floated this tender in two packages of 8.8 Kms & 6.5 Kms each for a estimated cost of Rs 750 Cr & Rs 670 Cr. Respectively.

6. The combined estimated cost of this project is around 1200 Cr.

7. MCGM in the past has already successful executed similar tunneling projects which involved companies like HCC, Patel Gammon, Pratibha.

8. All the earlier tenders were floated on “International Competitive Bidding (ICB)” concept in which a platform was created for number of International players to either associate with Indian Companies or Bid directly.

9. Since such large diameter have never been bored in India(max dia bored in India is 4 Mtr), hence the consultants (M/s Motts) had earlier proposed
a “Tri-partite JV” which involved the bidder to bring atleast one International Tunneling company who had experience of carrying out similar diameter work. Reasons being….

a. The Cost of the TBM is very high (close to 100 Cr). Hence it was preferred that the company should have the machine in procession. Such machines are available with European and Japanese companies.

b. Volume of Escavation, Concreting etc is very high, hence
infrastructural built up required is huge.

10. Currently, certain vested interest have once again interfered with the standards norms set by MCGM.

11. The new set of proposed qualification in the tender allowed only Indian companies to form JV and bid. In this JV, the lead partner is expected to be once again fulfill all qualifying criteria and is expected to be a tunneling company while the role of support partner is not defined at all. The support partner can be any “Indian Construction Company”.

12. This JV can form a MOU with a International Company who has done similar projects but in URBAN Environment. It is clarified that a project which is being executed 100 Mtr below ground has no relevance of Urban or any other condition.

13. In short, the qualification are formulated to trade off the projects to subcontractors. Current Status post receipt of Bids
Inspite of repeated requests from the bidders (approx 18 Tenders were sold), the department refused to re-consider the stringent criteria. Repeated plea from the bidders that why was the department stressing on the condition of the work having been done in urban environment when the work of Tunneling was to carried out about 100 mtr below ground and that to almost outside city limits.

This resulted in only receipt of Two bids in favor of a. M/s Unity-IVRCL JV and M/s Soma. Both these companies have no previous experience in TBM based tunneling and have intended to qualify based on qualifications of the associated specialized agency (Common party viz – Shanghai Tunneling Corporation has been proposed by both)

These bids received are almost 65% above the department estimate
Sr. noPackage NoEstimated CostQuote received (Lowest Bidder)
1Package 1750 Cr1078 Cr
2Package 2680 Cr950 Cr
1430 Cr2028 Cr
(Excess – 600 Cr over and above dept estimate)

As per the tender condition, each bidder shall receive only a maximum of one package. As a result, both these bidders are assured of one package each.

There were only two bidders in this tender who are inexperienced to carry out tunneling with TBM have been qualified with a backup support from the same Chinese company who was meeting the technical criteria for tunnel boring activities and joined hands together to drain the Corporation revenue by quoting nearly double the estimated cost. This is a clear case of misuse of powers by certain officials of MCGM in framing the qualification criteria with malafide intentions with vested interests.
Besides, MCGM is risking its own people and the labors at large to any malfunction in the performance of such high-tech underground project at the hands of such inexperienced contractors.
I request your immediate intervention in the matter and ensure that any further process on this tender is cancelled and the bids are re-invited with competitive qualification criteria so that experienced construction companies can actively participate.

Regards,

BUSINESS ASSISTANCE

Dear Sir,

Good day! my name is Mr. Andrew Slovo, the Chief Auditor of First National Bank of South Africa (FNBSA), I am the accountant officer to Late Mr. Andreas B. Smith, a Citizen of your Country; he was a Miner at Kruger Gold Company of South Africa.

My client was involved in a Motor Accident on the 10th March 1990, and died the same day. Since his death, nobody have make contact to our bank to claim his US$18,000,000.00 (Eighteen Million United States Dollars) deposited with our bank and I have made several enquires with your country Embassy here in South Africa to locate any of his relatives but all in vain.

The fact that our bank management is ready to transfer the US$18,000,000.00 (Eighteen Million United States Dollars) to anybody from your country who apply for claim as the Next-of-Kin to Late Mr. Andreas B. Smith; and I have decided to take this opportunity with you, if you indicate your interest towards this transaction and assure me that this money will be intact in your account until my physical arrival in your country for sharing of the money.

At the conclusion of this transaction you will be given 25% (US$4,500,000.00) for your assistance, 70% (US$12,600,000.00) will be for me, while 5% (US$900,000.00) will be for expenses that we might incur during the process of this transaction.

Please if you are interested to do this transaction with me, I will like you to send me your Private Phone Number & Fax Number for Easy Communication including your Bank Account Details where this money will be transfer (Your Bank Name, Bank Address, Account Number, Account Holder’s Name, Copy of Your Identity Card and Home Address) to enable me use it obtain Government Approval Documents on your name as the Next-of-Kin of this US$18,000,000.00 (Eighteen Million United States Dollars) for smooth/immediate transfer of the money into your bank account.

Finally, please do not hesitate to get back to me immediately you receive this mail-message for more information.

Thanks and may our Almighty God bless you and your family.

Yours faithfully,

MR. ANDREW SLOVO.
(Chief Auditor First National Bank of South Africa )