Indian firm wins contractto build 3 gas pipelines
October 10, 2011 00:00:00
FE Report
The Indian firm -- Man Industries (India) Ltd -- has won the Tk 9.95 billion project to supply line-pipes having American Petroleum Institute (API) standard for construction of three major gas transmission pipelines with a total of 351 kilometres.
The cabinet committee on government purchase, headed by Finance Minister AMA Muhith, approved awarding the project to the Indian firm at a meeting Sunday, Joint Secretary of Cabinet Division Nurul Karim told newsmen after the meeting.
Man Industries Ltd was among the four selected international firms that were invited to submit financial quotes to get the project work avoiding any international tender.
The Indian firm will supply API line-pipes for construction of Jalalabad-Bibiyana-Dhanua
24-36 inch diameter 199km pipeline, Moheshkhali-Anwara 30-inch diameter 91km pipeline and Ashuganj-Bakhrabad 30-inch diameter 61km pipeline.
The cabinet committee also approved over a dozen of projects including import of 120,000 tonnes of furnace oil from Petrolimex Singapore Pte Ltd of Vietnam during July-December 2011 at a cost of Tk 6.18 billion.
It has also approved importing 60,000 tonnes of furnace oil from Maldives National Oil Company (MNOC) at a cost of Tk 3.93 billion during July-December 2011.
Premium rate for furnace oil import from the Vietnamese and Maldives firms has been fixed at US$ 32 per tonne,
Sunday's purchase committee meeting also approved awarding a Tk 7.10 billion project relating to Karnaphuli water flow to China First Metallurgical Construction Ltd.
It also approved two components of Dhaka Water Supply Sector Development Project involving costs of Tk 1.50 billion and Tk 1.07 billion respectively.
The meeting also awarded a project to construct a 576-metre PC Guarder bridge at Rupganj of Narayanganj to a joint venture of STIL and Al Amin.
It approved import of 125,000 tonnes of triple super phosphate (TSP) fertiliser from Morocco at a cost of Tk 6.94 billion.
The meeting also approved import of 100,000 tonnes of dominium phosphate (DAP) from Morocco at a cost of Tk 6.0 billion.