Lobbying for disqualified bidders: the same old story, which tells

THAT a link from the Government's policy and the financing are Agency, World Bank, lobbying hard is the contract for the establishment of the Siddhirganj power plant, a company, that disqualified an affair, the underhanded dealings and corruption was in assessing the bid taste. According to a report front-paged in new age on Wednesday, the Communications Minister, who has no direct connection to the project, influential adviser to the Prime Minister, as also the top officials of the World Bank push the electricity generation of Bangladesh to the granting of combined-cycle power plant project for a joint venture company sleeping Lux-Samsung, although it of tender evaluation committee because not the criteria of experience and other requirements in the offer. The company cited also a price $40 million higher than the only competitor during the bid. The Committee recommended that floating a new tender for the project; following letters from the World Bank, in conjunction with ISO Lux-Samsung bid, the project-implementing agency has however the company, called the a preliminary contract meeting on 7 September. The Minister for communications denied his involvement in the affair, said the Managing Director of EGCB, that was the agreement still under control, at the world variations in the bid criteria could be accommodated Bank officials sleeping Lux-Samsung.

In fact, it is a concern that the World Bank urges to award the contract to a company that could meet not only the requirements, but also quoted a higher price. Meeting on 7 September after the EGCB in fact the Treaty grants the preliminary contract to sleeping Lux-Samsung, the Government should follow on the authorities caused a thorough examination on what, to change their minds if the Evaluation Committee directly rejected their offer. Sleeping Lux-Samsung has only a 272MW-Kapazität-Pflanze that only 18 months, against a requirement of experience when you install 300MW is running plants with at least two years experience in the construction. Offer of the company was also found missing in the request to the supply of spare parts, while it offered to install several generators capacity lower than specified in the request. In the meantime, the Government should examine also the serious allegations of the involvement of communications Secretaries and advisers of the Prime Minister.

It must be mentioned here that in an effort to rapidly improve the generating capacity of the country, the Government hastily to getroffen-Up power plant projects has - resorted rental and otherwise - through the award of contracts, often bypassing government rules and regulations over the granting of offers of contracts. By a law passed by the Parliament such hasty projects also compensation received from the compliance with these requirements. However, it is time to thoroughly to assess not only the effectiveness of those decisions and the information for these orders and awards.

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| Source: newagebd.com