Bengaluru: What was meant to be a Rs 65-crore advertising tender for the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) has run into a controversy, with bidders alleging that the technical scoring system is “tilted” to favour a single player. They believe Namma Metro would stand to lose over Rs 375 crore over the next 15 years, stating that the tender undermines both transparency and fair competition.

After a gap of seven years, BMRCL recently invited tenders to grant advertisement rights on select metro piers and portal. It identified a whopping 8,755 pillars for ads.

The tender has, however, raised several questions. One, the contract period stretches to 12 years and can be extended by three more years, making it unusually long. Second, BMRCL has bundled all corridors into a single packa

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