PDB floats tender for 8 rental power plants
Friday, 11 September 2009
FE Report
Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) floated tender Thursday for setting up four diesel and four furnace oil-run power plants on a rental basis to generate a total of 530 megawatts (MW) of electricity, officials said.
The diesel-run plants to be installed are -- Bheramara 100MW, Katakhali 50MW, Thakurgaon 50MW and Saidpur 50MW, while the furnace oil-fired ones are -- Noapara 100MW, Madanganj 100MW, Sarishabari 30MW and Barisal 50MW.
The tender document is already available on the BPDB's website www.bpdb.gov.bd.
As per the terms of the bidding the state-owned BPDB will buy electricity from the diesel-fired power plants for three years and from the furnace oil-run plants for five years.
The state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) will supply required fuel, diesel and furnace oil, to the rental plants through three of its marketing companies, while the BPDB will make the payment.
The BPC will need to import an additional 500,000 tonnes of liquid fuel to run the rental power plants.
The BPDB will provide required land for installing the rental power plants, said the officials.
The bidders will be able to compete for all the eight rental power plants, but will be awarded two in maximum.
The bidder may be a local or foreign company or a joint venture consortium of several local and foreign companies to submit a proposal for the project.
If a parent company owns majority interest in a subsidiary then the qualification of that subsidiary can be cited by the parent company.
A bidder willing to install a 30MW power plant must have experience to operate at least 10MW plant, the tender document spells out.
Experience of generating at least 15MW will be required to install 50MW rental power plant, while 30MW generation experience will be required for setting the rental plant capacity to generate 100MW.
The bidder who will quote the lowest price to sell electricity will be awarded the contracts to install rental power plants.
The BPDB will sell tender documents until October 21, a day before closing of the bid submission date on October 22 next.
The diesel-fired power plants must initiate electricity generation within 120 days, while the furnace oil-run power plants within 270 days of signing the respective agreements.
In default, there will be a penalty of US$500 per day.
The BPDB expects to award contracts for the rental plants by November 19 next.
Signing of the contracts will be on November 30 next
The diesel -fired rental power plants must have to initiate electricity supply before the onset of the next summer season by March 31, 2010.
While the furnace -oil-run rental power plants must have to go into formal operation by August 30, 2010.
"We will conduct the bidding maintaining the ultimate transparency and accountability," the BPDB Chairman ASM Alamgir Kabir told the FE.
Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) floated tender Thursday for setting up four diesel and four furnace oil-run power plants on a rental basis to generate a total of 530 megawatts (MW) of electricity, officials said.
The diesel-run plants to be installed are -- Bheramara 100MW, Katakhali 50MW, Thakurgaon 50MW and Saidpur 50MW, while the furnace oil-fired ones are -- Noapara 100MW, Madanganj 100MW, Sarishabari 30MW and Barisal 50MW.
The tender document is already available on the BPDB's website www.bpdb.gov.bd.
As per the terms of the bidding the state-owned BPDB will buy electricity from the diesel-fired power plants for three years and from the furnace oil-run plants for five years.
The state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) will supply required fuel, diesel and furnace oil, to the rental plants through three of its marketing companies, while the BPDB will make the payment.
The BPC will need to import an additional 500,000 tonnes of liquid fuel to run the rental power plants.
The BPDB will provide required land for installing the rental power plants, said the officials.
The bidders will be able to compete for all the eight rental power plants, but will be awarded two in maximum.
The bidder may be a local or foreign company or a joint venture consortium of several local and foreign companies to submit a proposal for the project.
If a parent company owns majority interest in a subsidiary then the qualification of that subsidiary can be cited by the parent company.
A bidder willing to install a 30MW power plant must have experience to operate at least 10MW plant, the tender document spells out.
Experience of generating at least 15MW will be required to install 50MW rental power plant, while 30MW generation experience will be required for setting the rental plant capacity to generate 100MW.
The bidder who will quote the lowest price to sell electricity will be awarded the contracts to install rental power plants.
The BPDB will sell tender documents until October 21, a day before closing of the bid submission date on October 22 next.
The diesel-fired power plants must initiate electricity generation within 120 days, while the furnace oil-run power plants within 270 days of signing the respective agreements.
In default, there will be a penalty of US$500 per day.
The BPDB expects to award contracts for the rental plants by November 19 next.
Signing of the contracts will be on November 30 next
The diesel -fired rental power plants must have to initiate electricity supply before the onset of the next summer season by March 31, 2010.
While the furnace -oil-run rental power plants must have to go into formal operation by August 30, 2010.
"We will conduct the bidding maintaining the ultimate transparency and accountability," the BPDB Chairman ASM Alamgir Kabir told the FE.