375,000 or 750,000?
Inside NTPC's Rs 84.81 crore Talcher Kaniha ash tender sits a number bidders cannot treat as clerical. The scope cites roughly 375,000 CuM of ash; the BOQ shows 750,000 M3 against excavation and loading. That divergence drives fleet size, the monthly target and item rates. But the wider trap is the scope itself: GeM bid GEM/2026/B/7749539 is not haulage. One contractor must excavate, transport 50 to 100 km, then reclaim the land with membrane, compaction and a 500 mm earth cover. Reconcile the volume wrong and the whole bid is mispriced.
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