raipur the special investigation team sit of the bureau of investigation of economic offences wing eow raided chhattisgarh infotech promotion society chips to verify documents and search for digital records in connection with rs 4000crore etender scam in 17 government departmentsthe eow team reached the chips office in the afternoon and the searches are still on an official source confirmedafter the comptroller and auditor general of india cag had raised doubts about the eprocurement process of tenders filed online in chhattisgarh between april 2016 and march 2017 during the previous bjp regime the new congress government handed over the probe to the eow which constituted an sit to probe the case the cag in its report had exposed that 477 bidders across the 17 departments used 74 common computers for 1971 tenders worth rs 4601 crore giving rise to suspicion that bidders and government officials were in close touch before the bidding process beganchips under the department of information and technology had set up a system to allocate work above rs 10 lakh through tenders the cag report pointed out that that the income tax act was violated as multiple bidders with common email ids and five tenders worth rs 1544 crore were given to ineligible contractors the report also said that only one of the 74 computers used for the process have been foundbesides the cag also pointed out that 79 contractors used just two pan cards one for registration on the eworks website of the public works department and the other to generate their vendor id this violates the information technology act which stipulates that one person can use only one pan card as many as 25 of these 79 contractors were awarded tenders valued at rs 20950 crore the report said and called for an investigation from the vigilance angle into the tender process