UNB, Dhaka :
Preparation for inviting international tender for 1320 MW Rampal Power Plant is going on in full swing.
Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company (Pvt) Limited (BIFPCL), a joint venture company of Dhaka and New Delhi, will implement the country’s largest coal-fired power plant project at Rampal, a site very close to world heritage Sundarbans mangrove forest against vigorous opposition from the environmentalists.
According to official sources, German-based engineering and technical consultant Fichtner, which got the appointment as consultant for the project, is working on preparing documentation for inviting the tender.
Power Ministry’s joint secretary Anwar Hossain, who has been closely monitoring the project’s progress on Bangladesh part, informed that the consultant has been asked to complete the documentation within next three months.
“Once the documents are ready, the company has a plan to go for international tender and appoint an EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contractor within this year,” he told UNB.
BIFPCL managing director VS Tamraker said the company has planned to float the tender for EPC contractor by September or first of October, giving two months time for submission of offer.
“We’re going on a tight schedule and the final submission of the tender will take place in November,” he told UNB.
Tamraker said that possibly, after scrutiny, the EPC contractor will be appointed by the end of the current year.
He also informed that the project will be implemented under the “bidder’s financing” model under which the contractor will arrange the international financing for the project from the Export Credit Agency (ECA) financiers.
Preparation for inviting international tender for 1320 MW Rampal Power Plant is going on in full swing.
Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company (Pvt) Limited (BIFPCL), a joint venture company of Dhaka and New Delhi, will implement the country’s largest coal-fired power plant project at Rampal, a site very close to world heritage Sundarbans mangrove forest against vigorous opposition from the environmentalists.
According to official sources, German-based engineering and technical consultant Fichtner, which got the appointment as consultant for the project, is working on preparing documentation for inviting the tender.
Power Ministry’s joint secretary Anwar Hossain, who has been closely monitoring the project’s progress on Bangladesh part, informed that the consultant has been asked to complete the documentation within next three months.
“Once the documents are ready, the company has a plan to go for international tender and appoint an EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contractor within this year,” he told UNB.
BIFPCL managing director VS Tamraker said the company has planned to float the tender for EPC contractor by September or first of October, giving two months time for submission of offer.
“We’re going on a tight schedule and the final submission of the tender will take place in November,” he told UNB.
Tamraker said that possibly, after scrutiny, the EPC contractor will be appointed by the end of the current year.
He also informed that the project will be implemented under the “bidder’s financing” model under which the contractor will arrange the international financing for the project from the Export Credit Agency (ECA) financiers.
