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The Odisha government will on December 6 again invite bids for 20 iron and manganese mine blocks, cancelling tenders it had called for in October because of controversy over the criteria in previous bid documents.
The official reason for the cancellation is "administrative inconvenience", but government insiders blame it on wrong interpretation by bidders.
“The real flaw was not in the contentious clauses in the tender document. Rather, it was the manner in which these norms were interpreted by the bidders,” said a source.
"For instance, the model tender documents allowed a subsidiary to show the net worth of its
