To maintain transparency in the bidding process of highly ambitious Ultra Mega project for generating 750 MW power, online bidding would be held, said Principal Secretary of New and Renewable Energy Department Manu Shrivastava.
He was speaking on Thursday at the conclusion of the two-day training programme for e-bidding and reverse bidding for the project.
Considering the major project, provision of ‘Reverse bidding’ has been introduced in it. This means, decreasing per cost unit of electricity would be auctioned, he informed.
The process of tender would be operated through online tendering process on e-tendering portal Telecommunication India ltd. To maintain transparency online bidding has been introduced for selection of the developer.
Under different activities, site visit, road shows and two pre-bid meeting have been organised in which a number of developers participated and in the next step of bidding process, a two-day training programme on November 23 and 24, 2016 for interested bidders was organised.
In the training, representatives having presence at national level like Mahindra Sustainable, Adani Power, Essel Group, Hero Future Energy, Shapoorji Pallonji, Astro Energy, Orange Renewable, Acme Solar, NHDC and Rattan India Power participated.
Representatives of international companies Soft Bank, Sky Power, Solaray Pro Energy, AES, BlP, Nl, Azure Power and OPG Energy participated in the training.
The present representatives appreciated the training provided in e- bidding and reverse auction and told that the feasibility of the e-bidding would witness make the process of bidding easier and increase participation.
In the training session officials of Telecommunication India ltd, International Finance Corporation (IFC), MP New and Renewal Energy were present.