Fedders Lloyd Corporation, an Indian firm that was among the five companies that bid to build the Specialty Hospital at Liliendaal, on the East Coast of Demerara, plans to protest the award of the contract to Surendra Engineering, which it said did not meet the specified criteria to participate in the bidding process.
Fedders Lloyd Senior Vice President Naresh Chandra Soral said that after an extensive review of the procurement and award process, his company plans to file an official protest of the award to the India’s Export Import (EXIM) Bank and National Procure-ment and Tender Administra-tion Board (NPTAB) here. “We have reviewed the process from the beginning and the end and cannot see why we were not awarded the contract,” Soral told Stabroek News yesterday.
The US$18,180,000 ($3,689,616,400) contract to design, build and equip the specialty hospital, under a line of credit from the Indian government, was awarded to Surendra Engineering, which is the
