Question 2.

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Case Attached: Transmission Line Part 1 and II

1.
a. The transmission division in India faces numerous difficulties, the
majority of which need to do with getting licenses, arrive obtaining,
administrative and ecological clearances and so forth. The Right of Way
law for transmission lines decides the rules for the concerned powers
including pay for land securing. Each temporary worker offering for the
procedure must be reviewed deliberately, as there have been numerous
occurrences where unpracticed contractual workers made and won
unviable ventures, just to understand their habit mostly prompting to slow
down undertakings. Henceforth one of the chief errands required to be
done is checking for the budgetary practicality. On the off chance that the
venture is practical and the temporary worker chooses to proceed with the
venture, then go for endorsements. Cost benefit analysis must be led
considering money streams anticipated from wheeling charges, premium,
deterioration, leap rate and cost of capital. Venture can proceed just if it's
observed to be fiscally or deliberately achievable. Scope has to be defined
and after that the boundary cross points should be defined. Feasibility
study of not just financials, but also other feasibility studies have to be
done such as Technical feasibility, social feasibility, resource feasibility,
project feasibilities.
Approvals required are:
Specialized Approval: Central Electricity Authority conducts framework
investigations of the power framework in the nation and checks the
consonance of the venture with the nationwide framework.
Ministry of Power: Point of view planning, Policy formation, preparing of
tasks for investments decision, observing of the execution of force
undertakings, preparing and labor advancement and the organization and
authorization of enactment with respect to power era, transmission and
distribution.
Business Approval: This must be given by State Electricity Regulatory
Commission which will later affirm the Annual Revenue Requirement
presented by Transco and incorporate these charges in the sum paid by
the buyers. Recognizable proof of partners and bearers of development
cost is finished. A portion of the recipients of the line are specific/general
clients and generators. Now and then line is required to transmit force of
generator or to supply energy to a specific modern buyer. At that point

add up to line costs can't be charged on overall population. On the off

chance that the line is worked for expanding effectiveness and nature of
force supply, charges can be stacked on all buyers. For this to work in
reasonableness, business usage of the line must be clear with the goal
that weight can be on some specific consumer. For this reason,
transmission benefit assertion must be agreed upon.
Detailed Project Report : This is a compilation of the reports discussed till
now prepared all departments of engineering and design to arrive at Land
acquisition cost, Contingencies, Funds to pay interest, scope of project,
design details, cost estimates based on past data/ basis of costs and
compensation for forest land.
Social Impact Assessment: The quantity of individuals influenced, affect
report and moderation arranges including remuneration are checked by
the state government. In the event that the course of the line asses over
phone lines, airplane terminals, social destinations and railroad tracks,
fundamental consents are required from the relating powers.
Forest Approval: This endorsement is issued by Govt. of India or the
Supreme Court as rent for a long time in light of the region and nature of
woods. Based upon the size of the land, the authority that gives approval
changes. For example, if it is greater than 100 acres, then Supreme Court
has to give the nod.
Financial support Procedures:
The financing organizations has Asian improvement bank, Rural
Electrification Corporation and the Power Finance Corporation. This
procedure can be begun alongside the systems for required endorsements
and the specialized and money related suitability of the venture and
capacity of Transco to reimburse the advance are checked by these
powers. Government to advance infra activities may finance up to 30% of
the venture making the advance procedure less demanding by expanding
believability. Here and there even the cost of capital may descend at a 1%
commission of venture cost.
Below shown are the steps involved and estimated time taken too finish
each of the step:
Steps involved

Project Scope identification

Feasibility analysis
Project Planning and Designing the Project
Estimated Time taken for Approvals
Pre bidding Preparation

Duration
(months)
1
4-6
4-5
6-8
2-3

Funds arrangement
Gazette Notification
Total time estimated is around 22-30 months

2 i)

4-6
1

Stakehold
er

CEA

Responsible
for power
system in the
country

Regulation
adherence
and
completion

Direct

Medium

Power
&
Influe
nce
High

Transco

Need to
construct and
maintain the
line profitably
and reliably
Could be a
major
shareholder
of the
Transco apart
from public
welfare
Sets the
tariffs

Financial
Viability of
the Project

Direct

High

High

Adherence
to
standards
and
completion

Direct

High

High

Adherence
to
standards
and
completion
Environme
nt Viability

Direct

High

High

Direct

Medium

High

Low tariff,
power
supply

Indirect/
direct

High

Mediu
m

Compensat
ion in
return

Direct

High

Mediu
m

State
Governme
nt

State
Electricity
Regulatory
Commissio
n
NGOs

Consumers

People
affected by
project

Reason

Protests on
different
issues
Will better
power supply
or load
enhancement
By getting
displaced
and may
protest

Interest

Involvem
ent

Impact

Stakeholder
Displaced People

NGOs

Political parties

3.

Reason
for
Resistance
Agitate
for
not
receiving compensation
and
may
demand
higher compensation
May oppose by showing
environmental concerns

Mitiggation Plan

Include in terms and

involve
state
government and other
bodies
Need to take steps to
mitigate damage to
environment
May
show
various Need to diligent
reasons
such
as
environment,
embezzlement, to stop
projects

In order to reduce compensation costs and damages, there is a need to

engage locals and local bodies and the government while decision making
so as to reduce risk in the later stages.
Long and tall Towers can be utilized for the development of line to reduce
cutting of trees yet must be in accordance with the directions in regards to
regulations. As prerequisites for hall are gigantic, the tree cutting may
represent an enormous ecological challenge prompting to tremendous pay
costs.
Any kind of political tumults ought to be managed strategically and in a
politically amend form. Besides, local people ought to be incorporated into
choices that influence them. To influence them, they could be given work,
financed power or utilities or open structures can be built for them.
The resistance and restriction to the venture by different gatherings can
be better overseen by conveying sincerely and transparently with every
one of the partners, keeping them educated and picking up their trust.
Certifiable concerns like land procurement and ecological and social
concerns ought to be tended to persistently.
To address local acquisition related concerns sufficient remuneration ought
to be given wherever required. To address resettlement issues a Land
Acquisition and Resettlement Plan for the venture can be readied.
Natural Management Plan can be attracted to address the effects from
development and earth moving exercises.
The greater part of this ought to be finished by skilled people s who have
involvement in managing resettlement issues and know about the
neighborhood traditions and conventions in order to better comprehend
their worries and issues.

a.
i. The scope of the project are defined below:

Design and Fabrication of Towers as per various Standards and in line with
TransCos design
The Tower designs to be done and all the BOQ to be freeze well before in
time
The foundation designs to be done for different soil classifications like
normal, submerged, hard rock, fissured rock etc and provisional quantities
to be indicated in the BOQ.
Construction of S/C line through a combination of Overhead line on double
circuit towers and UG cable
Fitting of Insulators & hardware fittings and Construction of foundation
(Civil Work) for the towers, 4 poles structure and DPs.
Erection of Isolator with earth switches and Erection of DP structure and 4Pole structure with required Insulators and H/W fittings, Lightning
Arrestors. And other such elements
Procurement, construction and other works must be done in compliance with
ADB guidelines

ii. The contents of the techno-commercial tender should have:

Specific and clearly mentioned quality standards and various checks and
balances
Environmental and Safety metrics
Form of contract
Safety practices
Non-Disclosure agreement
Notice inviting tenders
Qualification Criteria
Evaluation and loading criteria
Job scope and technical specifications
Cost of Tender
Tender undertaking
Design documents
Scope of Tender
General purchase conditions and bank guarantee forms

3.
b. To guarantee nature of material and to legally tie contractual workers in order to make
them execute the work in the way we need the accompanying measures might be utilized:

Hire presumed contractual workers in view of their past works and

experience of having done quality work on comparable ventures.
Have a set acquisition manual of sorts to guarantee just certain nature of
material is obtained. An investigation statement might be added to the
agreement to this impact. Alongside this a Quality based installment
framework could be taken after.
Ensure quality reviews at every venture turning point. Installment ought to
be made in step-wise way just on acceptable finish of work.

c. Guaranteeing that the materials provided and the work done meets the required quality
measures is a vital and basic movement. For this reason, the accompanying focuses can be
considered.

Have a set obtainment manual of sorts to guarantee just certain nature of

material is secured. An assessment condition might be added to the
agreement to this impact. Alongside this a Quality based installment
framework could be taken after.
Ensure quality reviews at every venture breakthrough. Installment ought
to be made in step-wise way just on agreeable fruition of work.
Have an in house Quality Control Team who are given the assignment of
checking and guaranteeing nature of material and development work. This
group might be given more prominent power to make the temporary
workers conform to their requests.

d.
To guarantee that exclusive presumed contractual workers having required abilities and
capacities can make through to you, all offers should be checked for significant
responsiveness to all the specialized necessities of the offering records. On the off chance that
a temporary worker does not consent he/she might be rejected.
Few examples of potential explanations behind dismissal could be: failure to quote for a
major item in the package failure to meet major technical requirements and failure to submit
any required documents or reports, and not having the ability to bid for the entire scope of the
project and when it is clearly mentioned in the bidding documents that this is a necessary condition for
bidding.
To guarantee an intensive check of the substantive responsiveness of all offers, a Table of Substantive
Responsiveness to Commercial Terms and Table of Substantive Responsiveness to Technical Requirements
ought to be readied. The tables ought to rundown every significant condition for Commercial Terms and
every real condition for Technical Requirements which the bidders must meet for their offers to be
considered considerably responsive. The responsiveness of every offer got ought to then be checked
against this rundown and its conformance or fractional conformance, or nonconformance to everything
ought to be entered in the tables. Offers which neglect to fit in with any of the real conditions ought to
regularly be considered non-responsive and ought to be rejected.

In detail the following details of vendors should be taken as Criteria:

Statutory: This section deals with the legal requirement which a vendor
needs to have in order to work in Indi, Safety: This section is aimed at
analysing the emphasis given by the Vendor towards the safety of its
employees while carrying out works, Quality: This section tries to explore
the quality checks/measure taken by the Vendor to ensure quality level at
working locations. Financial: This section uncovers the financial stability of
the vendor and looks for both short term financial condition as well as the
capability of the vendor to finance its projects on annual basis, Past
Experience: This section gauges the capability of vendor to carry out the
Project by analysing his/her experience of having carried out work of
similar nature and scale in the past, Capacity : It looks into the capacity
of the Vendor to take up the work by scrutinizing Vendors other
commitments within as well as outside Reliance and understanding the
capability of the vendor to carry the projects simultaneously, Resource:
This section is focused primarily on the capacity of the Vendor to deploy
skilled/unskilled labour at site along with the Administrative/Managerial

Staff the vendor has to facilitate the completion of the Project. This
activity is to realize the vendors ability to engage Manpower.
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a.

The various steps of the bidding process would be:

Estimate (Qty. And Amount)
EOI Expression of Interest
RFP/RFQ Request for Proposal / Quotation
PBC Pre Bid Conference
NIT Notice Inviting Tender
APPROVAL
WEB PUBLICITY
EMD Earnest Money Deposit
BIDDING
TOC Tender Opening Committee (Tech)
APPROVAL
TOC Tender Opening Committee(Fin. Bid)
APPROVAL
TEC Tender Evaluation Committee
APPROVAL
PO - Purchase Order
AWARD OF CONTRACT
SD - Security Deposit
AGREEMENT
REFUND OF EMD
NOTICE / WEB PUBLICITY ABOUT AWARD OF CONTRACT
These can be briefly categorized as following steps: Bid introduction and
evaluation for completion, determination of responsiveness of bids,
detailed evaluation and final selection of the most appropriate bid.
In order to evaluate, the tender has to meet the criteria and must specify
the technical and financial elements of the tender. The process has to be
confidential and Earnest Money Deposit has to be furnished for initial
evaluation. Other such criteria has to be met subsequently in order to
receive the nod.

Question 3.0 Most of the Metro Projects also use a software

called TILOS. Why?
TILOS is a time-location planning software for managing linear
construction projects, basically infrastructure projects. These projects
include Highway, Railway, and Pipeline, tunnel construction, water

engineering and transmission line building. This can also be used for
reconstruction and maintenance work. It was developed to improve
visualization of repetitive tasks when planning and managing major
projects through time distance diagrams. The key benefits of using TILOS
is the flow of visual data in terms of time and place on one plan which
network diagrams and CPM schedules fail to provide.
Metro projects are carried out in linear and phased manner which makes
TILOS an important tool for project execution. They are highly complicated
projects requiring a large number of tasks to be completed linearly and
need resources such as labor and construction equipment to move along
locations and time as well. TILOS visually represent the progress and plan
on distance and time axis and also shows various elements such as
regulatory requirements, constraints, risks, other such elements for each
of the tasks. TILOS can be used in tendering phase, construction phase,
execution, disruptions, and claim management.
TILOS provides full CPM analysis, and complete support of sub projects,
full control over quantities, work rates, resources, and costs connected to
location information, and the perfect monitoring of progress along the
production line. TILOS also reduces the effort of reentering data multiple
times. The features of TILOs such as graphical layout possibilities,
powerful display of the project using various symbols, scales, grids,
diagrams, and displays and comprehensive project management
capabilities from planning to monitoring to closing the project make TILOS,
deliver a work program in minutes to analyze the feasibility of performing
the project within the planned time frame using its rich library of
comprehensive templates and standard processes
Metro Projects usually start with bidding from the governments and the
requirements of the project change with location and time. TILOS helps in
incorporating these changes on real time basis and gives out the new plan
in minutes. This can be used in claim management effectively by showing
dynamically the change in the budget because of the changes. . It also
provides maximum flexibility in organizing your plan, integrating data,
eliminating planning mistakes, controlling costs and resources, and
realistic planning using construction specifications. . It makes well use of
the standard planning processes and calculates efficiently the effect of
track description complexities on processes. This results in detailed
execution plan containing the task, the resource load, the costs and also
the train movements required for logistical support.
TILOS cannot just be used as an integrated, stand alone, fully featured
planning system but also in combination with other software such as MS
Project, Primavera, and ASTA Power project. This makes it a powerful
project management tool. All these make, TILOS, powerful, easy to use,

popular, and a brilliant tool for planning and managing linear projects such
as Metro Projects.