PLL’s Cooling Tower tender collapses under its own weight: Scope creep, risk misallocation, and procedural opacity to blame – 23 Jun 2025

Petronet LNG’s cooling tower package for its Dahej petrochemical project had to be scrapped after late-stage amendments quietly shifted the scope from engineering supply to full-fledged post-commissioning operations.

A six-month O&M clause, power penalty formulas, and rigid bidder qualifications were introduced midstream—without offering a clean commercial reset.

The result: a tender too structurally unstable to survive its own contradictions.

Find out what happened next