After repeated criticism of project planning in several infrastructure projects, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways on Friday revised the framework of evaluating bids for project plans prepared by consultants for National Highway projects.
Under the new framework, deficiencies in the work done by consultants will feature prominently in the bid evaluation process by the ministry’s agencies such as the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
The Centre will give an 80 per cent weighting to the value of technical proposals sent by bidding project consultants as against the previous 70 per cent.
