Youths bar contractors from dropping tender
A group of young men allegedly belonging to ruling party on Monday barred the general contractors from dropping their papers in the tender box placed at the Khulna branch of Bangladesh Bank.
Monday 10am to 12 noon was the last date and time for dropping the tenders for doing cleaning work at the branch for next two years at an estimated cost of Tk 22 lakh.
The enlisted contractors could not drop tender schedules as they were prevented by a group of unruly young men belonging to ruling party, witnesses said. However, they would not identify the youths for fear of reprisal.
Ten schedules were sold from Khulna branch of Bangladesh Bank while tender schedules were also sold separately from the head office in Dhaka.
But tender box placed in the Khulna branch office of the Bank was found empty as contractors were not allowed by the young men to drop their schedules, General Manager AKM Fazlur Rahman told this correspondent.
Proprietors of three aggrieved firms -- PM Enterprise, Jerin Security Services Private Ltd and Messers Reza Enterprise -- submitted three separate petitions on Monday afternoon to the general manager seeking re-tender of the work. They said they were prevented from dropping the tenders.
Aggrieved proprietors of seven other firms also complained 'verbally' to the general manager alleging tender scam and demanding re-tender for the work.
The general manager told this correspondent that he would form a committee to conduct a probe into the allegation before inviting re-tenders.
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