PLN says it will not re-tender PLTU Jawa Tengah project
Friday, June 10 2011 - 02:58 AM WIB
The consortium of JPower, Itochu Corp. and PT Adaro Energy Tbk has won tender was not only because it offered a lower price but also because it had better technology, PLN?s spokesman Bambang Dwiyanto said in Jakarta on Thursday.
PLN earlier declared the consortium as the winner of the US$3.5 billion power plant which would have a capacity of 2 x 1,000 megawatt. The consortium was the only bidder which passed the prequalification.
Bambang said that the tender for the power plant project was carried out in compliance with the Presidential Decree No 13, 2010 on the revision of Presidential decree 7/2005 on the government?s cooperation with business entities in providing infrastructure facilities. He said that the regulation allowed the possibility of granting a contract to a single qualified bidder.
Dito Ganinduto, a member of the House of Representatives (DPR) and several other legislators had urged PLN to re-tender the PLTU Jawa Tengah project, saying that the tender had violated the regulation.
?The tender should be reopened because it was against the presidential regulation No 80/ 2003 on guidelines in the procurement of goods and services because there is only one qualified bidder,? he said.
Marubeni Corporation of Japan, China Shenhua Energy Company Ltd of (China) and a consortium of CNTIC-Guandong Yudean (China) also took part in the tender but they failed to pass the prequalification. (*)