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Bibiyana Power Plant Bid

Offered power tariff nearly double the Haripur rate

Staff Correspondent
Malaysian-Korean consortium Powertek has offered the Power Cell a tariff of 4 53 cents per kilowatt hour for the proposed Bibiyana 450 megawatt power project
The tariff offered is nearly double that of the Cell's benchmark project — the 1998 AES Haripur 360 MW power plant — which charges a 22-year levelised tariff of 2.72 cents per kilowatt hour.
Industry insiders however say the current market price demands a higher tariff than that of the Haripur project
"Compared to power tariff offers for various small power projects. Powertek's offer is at least Tk 0.75 per kilowan hour higher," said a source, noting that power from a large project should be cheaper than that from small ones.
In terms of taka, Powertek's offer stands at Tk 3.15 per kilowatt hour while
that of other developers now implementing small power projects range from Tk 2.28 to Tk 2.79 per kilowatt hour.
Power Cell is yet to officially announce Powertek’s offer.
Earlier on Sunday, Powertek withdrew its condition that "Government be responsible for up to S15 million of Project Company’s
liabilities under the EPC (Engineer-ing. Procurement and Construction) contract if the Implementation Agreement is terminated prior to Financial Close for any reason other than a Project Company Event of Default"
Had it not withdrawn this condition, the Powertek bid would have to be declared non-responsive as per the law ministry's views.
After Powertek imposed this condition last month, the power ministry sought the law ministry's opinion earlier this month. The law ministry replied that Powertek's condition was an objectionable material deviation as per Rules 98 (5) and (6) of the Public Procurement Regulation, 2008. It is because if this condition is accepted, the tender documents would be modified in such a way that could have changed the stances of other competing bidders. In other words, had die government announced that it would be responsible for $15 million worth of risk, many other companies would have submitted bids. So, accepting this condition would unfairly deprive other bidders, and favour Powertek.
The Bibiyana tender had initially attracted pre-qualification bids from AES, Chevron, Powertek, Kepco, Summit and Malaysian YTL late last year. Summit was conditionally selected at first, but in January’ this year it was arbitrarily disqualified and YTL was also disqualified. Ifreviously qualified for Sirajganj 450 MW power project, Summit repeatedly requested the Power Cell to reconsider but it was ignored.
Soon after pre-qualification, Powertek and Kepco announced its consortium and AES announced its withdrawal. Finally, Powertek appeared as the lone bidder on the bid submission date last month.