The Tamil Nadu government has cancelled the tender to prepare a detailed project report for a proposed 74-acre campus of the Tamil Nadu Institute of Urban Studies in Mamallapuram, citing administrative reasons, according to a report by Dinamalar. Officials said a fresh tender would be invited soon.
The tender was among projects finalised during the last six months of the previous administration and is now being reviewed after the Vijay-led Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam government assumed office, the report said. Several tenders issued during the final period of the previous government have reportedly been cancelled as part of this review.
For the Mamallapuram project, financial bids had been opened before the election and the lowest bidder, or L1 firm, had already been selected. Despite that selection, the government has now withdrawn the tender for preparing the detailed project report. The stated reason for the cancellation is administrative in nature.
The project involves developing a new 74-acre campus for the state’s urban studies institution. The detailed project report would ordinarily establish the project’s proposed components, site planning, construction requirements, estimated cost and implementation framework. The supplied report does not provide the value of the cancelled consultancy tender or the name of the selected L1 firm.
The cancellation means that the project will have to move through another procurement process before the detailed planning stage can proceed. Officials quoted by Dinamalar said the government would call for a new tender shortly, but no specific date, revised project schedule or changes to the project scope were disclosed.
The decision places the procurement process, rather than construction activity, at the centre of the immediate development. Since the tender concerned preparation of the detailed project report, the cancellation affects the formal planning step required before the proposed campus can advance to later stages. The report does not state whether the 74-acre site, the proposed institutional purpose or the project’s financial allocation has been altered.
The tender review is part of a broader administrative exercise involving projects finalised near the end of the previous government’s term, according to the report. The Mamallapuram campus tender is therefore being reconsidered before implementation, even though its financial bids had already been opened and an L1 bidder identified.
The next formal step is the issue of a fresh tender for preparing the detailed project report. Further details on the revised bidding schedule and the project’s implementation timeline are expected when the new tender is released.
