The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase yesterday approved four proposals involving Tk 127 crore, including one of Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) to lay 35 kilometres of underground cables. 

BBS Cables, the lowest bidder, will provide the 11 kilovolt (kV) and 33 kV cables.

The project will cost Tk 16.52 crore, according to a meeting of the purchase committee chaired by Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal.

Briefing reporters, Abu Saleh Mostafa Kamal, additional secretary to the cabinet division, said all four proposals placed at the meeting were from the power division.

The purchase committee also approved a BREB plan to purchase 17,040 km of conductors from the lowest bidder, Rangpur Metal Industries, at a cost of Tk 47 crore.

The third proposal was for the BREB to purchase 295 km of conductors from Partex Cables at Tk 2.56 crore.

In addition, the purchase committee approved a proposal of Bangladesh Power Development Board to buy spare parts and avail special services from BHEL-GE Gas Turbine Services at a cost of Tk 60.89 crore.

The facilities will be used in the operation and maintenance of gas turbine unit 1 and 2 of 330MW Habiganj Shahjibazar Combined Cycle Power Plant.

The committee also sent back a proposal of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistic (BBS) for an increase in the charge of a consultancy firm for a national household database project (third revised) to Tk 13.03 crore.

The committee asked the BBS to submit some supporting documents regarding the proposal.