SHILLONG: A new Assembly building is set to be delayed further as contractors are not willing to take up the project because they are not happy with the bidding process.
Speaker Donkupar Roy told media persons that he was informed by the PWD (Building), which is overseeing the work, some contractors were not willing to take up the project “due to some issues in the bidding process and the issue of earnest money”.
The PWD has extended the last date for submitting bids.
Asserting that resources for the project have to be managed, Roy was hopeful that building will be ready during the tenure of the new government.
“Once the project is allotted, I am sure everything will fall in line,” he added.
Last year, the High Powered Committee on the Assembly project under the previous government was forced to scrap the tender as one of the bidders quoted a rate that was over 15 per cent lower than the bid value.
The committee has already approved the building design and an 80 acre plot was allocated in Mawdiangdiang.
It has been 17 years that the state does not have any permanent Assembly building after a fire destroyed the old Burmese teak structure.
