Unable to find an eligible contractor or company to set up Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations, the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has decided to mellow down the terms and conditions of the contract and issue a fresh tender in December, said the officials.
The civic body has decided to establish 22 EV Charging stations with over 100 charging points across Pimpri-Chinchwad. In the past year, the civic body has issued the tender three times but to no avail. The central vigilance committee guidelines of having a minimum experience of three years and overall turnover included in the contract have made almost all the contractors ineligible for the contract.
Pradeep Jambhale Patil, additional municipal commissioner of PCMC, informed that in a year the same tender has been issued three times. Initially, it was issued for individual parties to run different EV stations and the second time a consolidated tender for a single entity to run all the EV stations was floated.
