{"id":535494,"date":"2022-11-10T11:01:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T05:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=535494"},"modified":"2022-11-10T13:06:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T07:36:17","slug":"questions-over-rs-68-crore-kptcl-tender-to-one-bidder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/questions-over-rs-68-crore-kptcl-tender-to-one-bidder\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions over Rs 68 crore KPTCL tender to one bidder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Ltd (KPTCL) has awarded a tender to a company that was the only bidder to implement an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system costing Rs 68 crore amid protests by a major software firm and a complaint to the chief minister. <\/p>\n<p>This has raised questions over the manner in which the tender was finalised, but Energy Minister V Sunil Kumar maintained that due process was followed. In May this year, KPTCL published a request for proposal (RFP) on \u2018Selection of System Integrator for Supply, Installation, Commissioning, Implementation and Support for ERP System\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Ltd (KPTCL) has awarded a tender to a company that was the only bidder to implement an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system costing Rs 68 crore amid protests by a major software firm and a complaint to the chief minister. This has raised questions over the manner in which the tender was finalised, but Energy Minister V Sunil Kumar maintained that due process was followed. In May this year, KPTCL published a request for proposal (RFP) on \u2018Selection of System Integrator for Supply, Installation, Commissioning, Implementation and Support for ERP System\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}