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Tagged With: tender

‘A new choregraphy’

Chairman, PACT Lucknow has sent a backdated letter to our bankers. Very strange.  How can a government body send backdated letters? It is backdated because our postal department is not so bad that a letter would take more than three months to travel from Lucknow to Delhi.  Misuse of power. Misuse of the government stamp. … Continue reading »

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Becoming to being

The first day of the week. The targets for this week are: the newsletter, uploading of the Mumbai ward maps and cropped images, checking the integration of the payment gateway and finalization of the presentation for a site in Mumbai with of course the ‘management of payments’. The management of ‘people’ and of ‘money’ seems … Continue reading »

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As it is

First it is an EOI in the advertisement for a certain work in the Greater Noida Authority.Then it becomes a tender with a huge EMD. The cost of the tender document was quite a sum and yet it had no details regarding the last date for submission, the name in which the DD for the … Continue reading »

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We exist

And lo behold, we are back. Our online death seems to have coincided with our corporate one. I mean what with the banks breathing down our back (not again!) and the office lease being over, there is mayhem all around. We lost a tender yesterday over a micro difference of Rs. 2000=00. What is Rs. … Continue reading »

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Hanging between time and money

The pressure is building up and the next two days are going to be very critical. The bank is being very agressive due to the impending closing (September 30) as also because the TOD taken for the ‘Yashi project’ still stands uncleared. The front of the car is all mangled and there is a huge … Continue reading »

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To be content

Shivaji went to the bank today and the situation has become very grim and serious. The TOD we had taken for executing the Yashi project has become a gullitone around our neck. We have been given an ultimatum to clear it by September 10 else they will find ‘ways and means’ to recover it. I … Continue reading »

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The mirage of SSI

Register as an SSI unit. And then you are a first generation enterpreneur. And then you are a woman. Bahut benefit milega. Mil hi raha hai!   I mean, it is stipulated that an SSI unit need not deposit EMD (earnest money deposit) as deposit for various government tenders. They are exempted from this to … Continue reading »

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The right direction

My daughter has put me on facebook. I really do not know why she is so keen on having me on facebook. It is a social networking site and I am a completely non-social person. But I guess, she wants me to have friends outside of my work circle and so there I am , … Continue reading »

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Update

We are co-bidding in a tender with Genesys. Which is nice. Its just that the power equation is unbalanced and they are of course a larger entity with more resources,money and power with them. So on the face of it there is an agreement but the underlying economics of the relationship cannot be ignored. In … Continue reading »

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Walking the walk

We need an accountant. And we need a marketing guy. And we need funds. So what’s really new here guys. There was a tender with Jalandhar Municipal Corporation and since the investment was high, we decided to go ahead with a lead partner, Genesys. It was all smooth till they asked for our company details … Continue reading »

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