chennai tipplers may not get the liquor of their choice at the tasmac outlets in chennai on monday as 18 contractors who had been engaged by tasmac management to supply liquor from its godowns to retail shops have announced a massive protest to criticise the way the tender process was conducted to allocate new contracts to transporters indents for the required brands of liquor are raised on daily basis at busy outlets and if the transporters do not operate the liquor bottles that are supposed to reach the shops will get stagnated in the godown baskar one of the transporters claimed that they were not let inside the hall where tender applications were opened to select the highest bidder we were there till the commercial bids were opened after which we were asked to leave when we demanded to stay till the tender is finalised we were pushed out of the premises with the help of police said baskar adding it will not be a fair process there are 41 tasmac depots across the state and 54 transporters have been engaged in transportation process while officials in tasmac management did not respond to the allegations levelled by transporters sources in the management denied it and added there was no malpractice as claimed it will take hours to go through and verify the details mentioned in the bid only after which the winning bidder will be selected the process is still on and final bidders will be announced soon said the sources also this is the third statewide tender called for transporters sources added the contracts to transport liquor are for two years after which the new tender is called the existing transporters contract ceased to be effective on february 24 and has been extended until the new contractors are finalised