Calcutta: Calcutta airport’s new terminal will have two facility management firms to keep its washrooms clean 24x7 and another to ensure a spick-and-span facade, the decision to scale up effort coming after months of shoddy maintenance.
The value of the washroom maintenance contract put out to tender earlier this month is Rs 14.07 crore for three years or Rs 39.07 lakh a month, more than double the amount being spent currently on keeping the 48 toilets clean along with the rest of the interiors.
Impressions, the Delhi-based firm that has the Rs 19 lakh-a-month contract, has been saying that it is impossible to maintain a 1,80,000sq m facility with the sanctioned money and manpower of around 220 workers. A source in the company said it would bid for the new contract.
“The responsibility of keeping the washrooms in the new terminal clean will be divided between two agencies. The main clause in the tender is to man each washroom 24x7,” airport director B.P. Sharma told Metro on Tuesday. “Another agency will be hired to clean the glass façade on the city side.”
Bids will soon be invited for the second contract, which will require specialised equipment to clean the glass front of the sprawling terminal that invites praise at first glance, only to disappoint with the warts within.
21/07/13 Sanjay Mandal/The Telegraph
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The value of the washroom maintenance contract put out to tender earlier this month is Rs 14.07 crore for three years or Rs 39.07 lakh a month, more than double the amount being spent currently on keeping the 48 toilets clean along with the rest of the interiors.
Impressions, the Delhi-based firm that has the Rs 19 lakh-a-month contract, has been saying that it is impossible to maintain a 1,80,000sq m facility with the sanctioned money and manpower of around 220 workers. A source in the company said it would bid for the new contract.
“The responsibility of keeping the washrooms in the new terminal clean will be divided between two agencies. The main clause in the tender is to man each washroom 24x7,” airport director B.P. Sharma told Metro on Tuesday. “Another agency will be hired to clean the glass façade on the city side.”
Bids will soon be invited for the second contract, which will require specialised equipment to clean the glass front of the sprawling terminal that invites praise at first glance, only to disappoint with the warts within.
21/07/13 Sanjay Mandal/The Telegraph
