2) SECI pushes Chitradurga 88 MW BoS commissioning to 21 months while doubling Route IIIA experience to Rs 234.50 crore
8Amendment-01 carries 47 changes, including deletion of the 0.5%-per-week delay LD and a shift of O&M start to operational acceptance.
8New pricing floors of 15% for services and 7.5% for O&M turn under-allocation into interest-free retention.
8Contractors unable to prove module causation for generation shortfall may have to fund additional capacity themselves.

3) RVPN invites Rs 136.60 crore turnkey bid for Lohawat 220 kV and 132 kV lines with Rs 2.74 crore security
8The notice fixes an 18-month programme but discloses no line lengths, tower quantities or ROW status.
8RVPN warns that last-minute portal failure will not justify any submission extension.
8Whether the schedule is production-driven or approval-constrained cannot be judged from the notice alone.

4) UPCL seeks 36 MW/90 MWh BESS across eight substations under a 12-year capacity charge and Rs 18 lakh per MWh VGF
8The Rs 180.50 crore build-own-operate package demands 95% availability, two daily cycles and 12-hour breakdown restoration.
8VGF of up to Rs 16.20 crore is released only against a bank guarantee covering the entire grant.
8Conflicting financial-closure periods and a draft BESPA awaiting UERC approval leave the contract base unsettled.

5) WBSETCL floats 222.5 CKM HTLS reconductoring with a 10% extra PBG for EPC bidders
8Five live 132 kV corridors must be restrung inside a 6 am–3 pm shutdown window with the parallel circuit charged.
8Tender wording admits annealed-aluminium HTLS broadly, yet the BOQ hard-codes solid carbon-composite core.
8Incorrect tower-loading calculations submitted with the bid trigger outright rejection.

6) MPPTCL tenders 23 units of 200 MVA autotransformers with Rs 3.45 crore EMD and cross-fail linked contracts
8Supply runs from the 8th to the 30th month, one unit per month, with 20% of value held until commissioning.
8Commissioning is stated as 75 days in one clause and 90 days in another; performance security appears as both 5% and 10%.
8Manufacturer-only eligibility with no consortium route narrows the field before the e-reverse auction begins.

7) UPCL’s Rs 115.50 crore Dehradun BESS cluster arrives with waterworks BOQ remnants and a subcontracting ban
8The 23 MW/57.5 MWh package spans seven tentative sites, each open to relocation after survey.
8A Rs 2.31 crore EMD and Rs 7.25 crore PBG precede any capacity-charge revenue.
8The tender calls itself technology-agnostic while mandating lithium-ion.

8) NTPC’s Mouda coal lot ties 50% of payment to laboratory results and reconciliation cycles
8The 0.5 MMT requirement sits inside a five-station package with sequential station-wise price opening.
8GCV below the 3,550 Kcal/kg base cuts price proportionately, then by a further 50% multiplier below 3,100.
8Sampling windows written as “eighteen (3)” and “seven (10)” days leave the testing timetable unclear.

9) MPPTCL bundles three 220 kV LILO works into one Rs 119.45 crore turnkey bid with a 3% e-auction trigger
8Bids within 3% above estimate avoid reverse auction; anything higher goes to e-RA.
8The GCC fixes performance security at 5%, but the standard guarantee form still reads 10%.
8MPPTCL may add nearby work up to 115% of contract value at the same rates.

10) UPCL’s Rs 206.30 crore Cluster C BESS carries a Rs 52 lakh EMD conflict between RFP and PQR sheet
8The 41 MW/102.5 MWh package requires 95% availability with no banking of monthly overperformance.
8VGF of up to Rs 18.45 crore sits behind a 100% guarantee and a Rs 12.92 crore PBG.
8A blanket subcontracting prohibition sits awkwardly against a multi-discipline scope.

11) NTPC Simhadri coal bid schedules the pre-bid conference before its own query deadline closes
8Queries close at 17:00 hrs on the same day the 11:00 hrs conference is held.
8NTPC may extend delivery by three months, vary quantity by ±20% and divert rakes at no cost to itself.
8ITB Clause 19.5 refers to “four stations” in a package that consistently lists five.

12) TGGENCO seeks two-year grinding-roll rate contract with no assured volume and a 10,000-hour guarantee
8The published ECV field reads Rs 1, making the 50% turnover test impossible to verify independently.
8Solvency appears as Rs 30 crore in one clause and Rs 7.20 crore in another.
8Failure of either rolls or bull ring segments is treated as failure of both.

13) OPTCL extends Baisinga 2×500 MVA substation bid by 17 days while its IFB still carries the old dates
8The portal shows 28 March closing, but the BDS and physical-submission clauses retain 11–12 March.
8Performance security stacks a 10% contract-level guarantee with a further 10% on named equipment.
8The scope stray-references a 220/33 kV Parjang substation and 200 MVA transformers in a 400/220 kV package.

14) BHEL grants fifteenth extension on Talabira ash-handling EPC, moving the deadline 115 days in total
8Corrigendum 19 shifts submission and opening to 15 September without altering any other term.
8Bidders need Rs 222 crore turnover, Rs 100 crore liquidity support and ash, civil and structural credentials.
8No reason for any of the 15 movements has been stated.

15) DVC stretches DTPS switchyard R&M from 360 days to 21 months after six deadline extensions
8Price-variation ceilings for cables and instrument transformers rise from 10% and 20% to 30% each.
8GIS service continuity relaxes from LSC 2B-PM to LSC 2A-PM, but online PD monitoring stays mandatory.
8Cable-tray quantities are capped at BOQ figures with no extra payment for design overrun.

16) NSPCL restores 24 pump assemblies after cutting them to three, amid 13 extensions on Durgapur mill R&M
8Fixed LD of Rs 6.8975 lakh per day gives way to 0.5% per week on uncommissioned mills.
8Mills must deliver 24 Tph with new elements and 90% of that with near-worn ones.
8Shutdown-extension LD still reads “Rs xxxxxx” in the SCC.

17) RRECL adds revolving letter of credit to 201 MW VNM solar tender after three deadline pushes
8Generation below 17% CUF draws a penalty while output above 19% goes unpaid. Parent-company credentials are rejected; the bidding entity must qualify on its own balance sheet.
8Beneficiary load data will reach only successful bidders, after tariffs are locked.

18) KPCL’s Rs 134.20 crore Naini-to-RTPS coal transport tender appears on the portal as a “computer lab” job
8The portal names a different procuring entity, an earlier deadline and 90-day validity against the NIT’s 180 days.
8Bidders must commit 80 tippers, two payloaders and a Rs 33.55 crore bank line with no guaranteed tonnage.
8KPCL warns its own GST-inclusive ranking may differ from what the portal displays.

19) EPI extends Mormugao cruise-terminal balance works by nine days after adding marine scope post-publication
8Corrigendum-01 introduced berths, dolphins, link spans and inventory lists eight days after the NIT went out.
8No mobilisation advance, no secured advance, and RA payments flow only when MPA pays EPI.
8The offline EMD deadline was never expressly moved with the online date.

20) KSEBL rejects hybrid-GIS credentials while rewriting cable and switchgear specs across seven corrigenda
8The Rs 106.64 crore TransGrid package gained 31 days but kept its 24-month execution clock.
8A 2% GIS-manufacturer guarantee sits above the contractor’s own 10% security.
8A narrow final-kilometre approach road was raised by a bidder and answered only by clause reference.

21) UJVNL dismantles Tiuni Plasu’s value-based qualification after 17 deadline shifts totalling 181 days
8Rs 103.84 crore to Rs 207.68 crore completed-work thresholds are gone, replaced by equipment credentials.
8Two OEMs may now back one bid, but manufacturer-backed bidders face Rs 260 crore turnover and 15% security.
8Corrigendum 04 once set a technical-opening date before its own submission deadline.

22) RVUN extends Rs 358 crore LSHS procurement twice, reaching 28 days without touching a single commercial term
8Only refinery-owning manufacturers with rail-loading capacity and Rs 358 crore turnover may bid.
8Plant-wise landed-rate evaluation could split 37,600 MT among several refiners.
8RVUN may divert, defer or cancel quantities with no supplier compensation.

23) WBSEDCL closes 2020 PCC-pole rate contract in 2026 with 67 “L1” awards at zero value
8Itemwise spreads between L1 and L3 ranged from 0.1% to 0.6% across four pole-region combinations.
8Bagaria Enterprises led both South Bengal items; PCM Concrete and Baba Loknath took North Bengal.
8The portal’s zero-value entries obscure how much of the Rs 235 crore programme actually reached any supplier.