Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
Vol. 5 Num 685 Thu. May 04, 2006  
   
Letters to Editor


Irregularities in power plant purchase


The recent newspaper advertisement by a company; be it a public or private sector entity is extremely unrealistic.

The very idea to have at site one, two, three or four units of dual fuel, GTGs for 30MW power plant in 75 days and commissioned within 120 days of contract signing is an absurdity. Even if the whole set up weighing over fifty tons is air freighted!

This indicates the possibility of only persons having inside information with financial liquidity to boot will participate in such a tender.

Further, the preamble of the tender states "only eligible manufactures and suppliers" with no indication of the eligibility criteria! A lot of people may be unnecessarily purchasing the tender forms at Tk.14, 000 to find out they are not eligible!

What a waste of time and effort ! It is a repetition of the fallacies in the earlier proposed 10 MW private sector power plants for which tenders were floated nearly a year back! It seems we are really not interested to go for open tenders with such unworkable criteria. So much for transparency!