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4. Pursuant to the judgment dated 20.09.2013, of the Hon'ble High Court of Bombay, in PIL No.93/2009, directions were issued to OP-4 to conduct tree census in accordance with provisions of the Maharashtra (Urban Areas) Protection and Preservation of Trees Act, 1975. Accordingly, OP-4 floated Tender No. 2 and 3 of 2015 (First and Second Tender) on 12.08.2015, for selection of agency for carrying out geo-enabled tree census using Geographical Information System ('GIS') & Global Positioning System ('GPS') Technology, development of tree census application, to operate and manage the census data under the provisions of Maharashtra (Urban Areas) Protection and Preservation of Trees Act, 1975, within the jurisdiction area of OP-4. The Tender No. 2 of 2015 was for zones 1 and 2 of OP-4 while Tender No. 3 of 2015 was for zones 3 and 4. These tenders were cancelled as no bids were received even after grant of three extensions by OP-4. Thereafter, a third tender, being Tender No. 250 of 2015, was floated by OP-4 on 14.10.2015, for procuring the same service. As only one bid was received in response to such tender, the aforesaid tender was also scrapped and Fourth tender being Tender No. 338 of 2015 ('Impugned Tender') was floated on 11.01.2016. As summarised by the Informant, tender details and extension dates of bids floated for tree census are as follows: