The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) on Wednesday approval three procurement proposals, including contracts for the construction of flood shelter schools and a fertiliser buffer warehouse, while also endorsing a revised tariff for electricity purchase from the Ashuganj 450 MW Combined Cycle (North) Power Plant.
The recommendations were made at the committee’s meeting held at the Secretariat chaired by Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury.
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The committee awarded a contract worth Tk 125.99 crore for the construction of 15 government primary schools that will also serve as flood shelters in Bogura district under the Resilient Infrastructure for Adaptation and Vulnerability Reduction (RIVER) (1st Revised) project.
The project is being implemented by the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) with financing from the World Bank and the Government of Bangladesh.
The contract under Package No. LGED/RIVER/BOG/21-22/NW-16 was recommended in favour of The Civil Engineers Limited (Lead Partner) and M/S Ahad Builders (TCEL-AB JV).
The CCGP also recommended approval of a Tk 49.14 crore contract for the construction of a 10,000-metric-ton fertiliser buffer warehouse at Lakshmipur under the “Construction of 34 Buffer Warehouses across the Country for Fertiliser Storage and Distribution (1st Revised)” project.
The proposal, submitted by the Ministry of Industries, was recommended in favour of M/S MBL-REL JV.
In another decision, the committee approved a revised Levelized Tariff for purchasing electricity from the Ashuganj 450 MW Combined Cycle (North) Power Plant operated by Ashuganj Power Station Company Limited.
Under the revised tariff structure, the approved Levelized Tariff Charge has been set at US cents 4.0945 per kWh, equivalent to Tk 5.0281 per kWh, based on a plant load factor of 84.6 per cent, a 12 per cent discount factor, 6 per cent return on equity, an exchange rate of Tk 122.80 per US dollar, and a gas price of Tk 438.91 per 1,000 SCF.
The proposal was submitted by the Power Division.