8TGTRANSCO's Rs 405.21 crore 80 MVA transformer tender doubles the security burden for anyone bidding on borrowed technology A manufacturer relying only on technical collaboration, without financial liability resting on the parent, must post an extra 10% bank guarantee on top of the standard 10% — a 20% total lock-up imposed through collateral rather than qualification scoring. Type and special tests fall on one transformer from each of the four lots. Positive IEEMA variation caps at 50%; negative variation has no floor.

8KPTCL's Ayyanahalli tender deleted the last technical floor under a consortium's weaker partner Amendment-I removed the 25% line-quantity contribution from each member and, separately, the clause requiring a member qualifying for neither substation nor line work to show three years of electrical execution backed by utility performance certificates. Nothing now links the qualifying credential to the member that actually mobilises stringing crews — the tender needs four 16-tonne pullers and four tension-stringing units, but names no owner. No bidder attended the pre-bid meeting.

8RRECL's 201 MW solar tender reissued its financial BOQ mid-process after a "technical error" Corrigendum-04 uploaded a replacement schedule and told bidders to cite only that one — consequential in a tender ranked plant-wise on levelised tariff, where a location-mapping slip can distort the ranking or void a bid. Parent and group credentials cannot cure a thin bidding entity, no tariff ceiling was disclosed, and the CUF penalty runs against the RERC consumer-category tariff rather than the discovered one. Two extensions have moved the deadline 35 days.

8TGTRANSCO's Rs 339.49 crore 50 MVA tender lets alphabetical lot order decide which packages a bidder can still win Where aggregate qualification falls short of the lots quoted, evaluation runs sequentially from Lot I to Lot IV — so capacity exhausted early closes off the later lots regardless of price. Lots I and II need the first unit in eight months, III and IV in twelve. Reverse auction decrements run between 0.5% and 2%, with 10-minute extensions each time a bid lands in the final ten.

8BHEL's Koderma ash tender demands the winner hand over its design software and design dossier, not just drawings The technology-transfer clause covers the dossier, the software, manuals and personnel training; a bidder's request to substitute a project-use licence was refused. Erratum-I finally settled the reverse-auction contradiction as "Not Applicable," Corrigendum-VI deleted GCC 2.15 and two TCC sub-clauses after bidders showed the insurance allocation contradicted itself, and Corrigendum-IV removed the alternative dispatch-payment and usance-LC route outright. Five extensions, 29 days. Ash must arrive at the silo at up to 300°C and leave below 150°C — inside a 350 kW auxiliary-power ceiling.