The Chhattisgarh State Beverages Corporation ltd (CSBCl) had finalised purchase price of foreign liquor for the years 2014-15 and 2015-16 at higher rates in violation of terms and conditions of tender as well as directives of Board of Directors resulting in extension of undue benefit of
Rs112.87 crore to the suppliers of foreign liquor, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report observed.
As per clause 5 (a) of the terms and conditions of Rate offer, the suppliers were to submit purchase price with ‘Ex Distillery Price’ (EDP) for these products, which they want to sell in State in the prescribed format of ‘Annexure A’ to the tender document, it observed.
However, none of the suppliers had submitted EDP for the years 2014-15 and 2015-16 because the format of ‘Annexure A’ was not having any column to indicate EDP though a specific column for submitting EDP in the format of ‘Annexure A’ was included upto 2012-13, it observed.
Obtaining the EDP was important as it helps the company to ascertain what are the indirect charges after EDP being loaded by the suppliers to arrive at a purchase price and whether the same are
reasonable or not, the report observed.
