ISLAMABAD: The National Highway Authority (NHA) on Thursday opened financial bids for over Rs120 billion Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (Carec) Tranche-III corridor project.

A Chinese firm namely Nin­gxia Communication Construc­tion (NXCC) won all four bids for four different parts of the highway.

However, a source told Dawn that some of the bidders had decided to challenge the bidding process in a court of law as to why the bids were opened without addressing the concerns submitted to the NHA’s Grievances Redressal Cell (GRC).

An NHA spokesman confirmed that all the bids had been won by M/s NXCC.

The bids were opened within two working days since the cancellation of the bidding, which was previously scheduled to be held last week, giving no time for the review of grievances.

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The bid, whose copy is available with Dawn, was........

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