The Madras High Court on Monday restrained the Tamil Nadu Textbook and Educational Services Corporation from finalising the tender for installing, testing, commissioning and maintaining hi-tech laboratories in 3,090 government high schools and 2,939 government higher secondary schools under a scheme sponsored by the Centre.
The interim order was granted on a writ petition filed by ITI Limited, one of the bidders.
According to the petitioner, the TNTESC invited bids for supply of computers, accessories, projectors, multifunction printers, UPS, Local Area Network, cabling, WLAN, firewall, webcam and other accessories for establishing hi-tech laboratories in schools.
As per the tender conditions, the successful tenderers should maintain and operate the entire lab in working condition during the contract period of three years. Technical bids for the tender were opened without intimation to the petitioner company, it alleged and sought to restrain the corporation from awarding the tender to any other firm.
