Islamabad: The Federal Government Employees Housing Administration (FGEHA) has formed a four-person New York Commission to study a controversial tender process, with the project’s development project worth over Rs 3.5 crore in G-14.
FGEHA opened the tender in December 2024 to award the infrastructure development contract for sub-sector G-14/1. It turns out that the lowest prayer of Rs 392 crore proved to be 25% higher than the estimated cost of Rs 313 crore.
Later, FGEHA canceled the prayers in July this year and did not issue a work order. The contractor then moved the Islamabad High Court (IHC), which directed the FGEHA board of directors to decide on the matter within 30 days after proper hearing to the petitioner.
Sources said the FGEHA board of directors accepted the matter at its last meeting and formed a March committee. On September 11, the Commission proposed to move forward to the Executive Committee, which also held a hearing to the contractor.
They said that on September 17, FGEHA formed an internal committee to “check and review the matter”, according to the board’s recommendations.
A letter issued after the 42nd executive board meeting hero on September 11 stated, “The board granted the petitioner (contractor) a hearing in light of IHC directions and directed dg fgeha to exam and review the case on merit and dispute of the petition through a speaking order in light of findings of the Board-Constituted Committee Under the Managing Director, Pakistan Housing Foundation, and Relevant Laws/Rules.
The newly formed Sinov committee is led by Attaul-Haq Waqas, project director at Life Style Residency, Director Law Basit Khan, director joint venture Faiz Umer Sial and Deputy Director FGA Ammer Hamza.
Meanwhile, the source said that a few hours after the FGEHA board hearing, the construction company offered a 10% rebate in writing to quote its offer for the ocean recovery prayer. “If bids are resumed, work will start immediately or we will have to ask officials for help,” one official said.
“The 10.6% rebate we quoted for bids was only to support the objection of the FGEHA board and to contribute positively to the successful execution of the project,” the construction company’s letter read.
It is worth noting that in response to the FGEHA tender, four companies applied, but only one was declared qualified prayer.
However, according to FGEHA, disqualified prayers do not object to the standard.
FGEHA’s internal audit department and chief engineers raised objections to the bidding process, sources said. After these objections, prayers were abolished in July this year.
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Posted at Dawn on September 22, 2025
