As of yesterday, when I went to
a government department in connection with a tender, I saw that people from all
over the country have come to participate in the tender.
At the same time, a Delhi based company had also come to participate and when that company was in the process to submit the tender, some local
suppliers came there with their team and threatened to not submit the tender to the
Delhi company. When the
team from Delhi told that according to every clause of the tender document,
they are eligible to participate upon the tender even the company has its branch office in their state,
yet they were not hearing and were constantly disarmed, constantly
threatened.
Now when the matter reached to the
company's Directors, by then the company's reputation came on stake. The
company refused to accept those local supplier's argument. Directors of the company used
their links, reaching the police. State police, media all reached there.
After the arrival of police and
media, things started getting worse. Gradually, those local suppliers started
to realize that they are adopting the wrong way because after constant
intimidation, that company is not changing its intention even after threatening.
After discussing with each other for some time, they decided that they should
apologize to the company and request not to participate in the tender. All of them once again went
to the members of the company with their team and this time they requested but not threatened.
Their request was accepted, the
company refused to participate upon the tender. This was only upon the request of local suppliers. Those local suppliers
did not have to work too hard to request as much as they had done in
threatening them.
It often happens with us Instead of having Works done by request we initiate it by threat. And Subsequently the work get spoiled.