2024-09-06 06:16:29
10 thousand May for sale at subsidized price among 1 crore families of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) family card holders. Tons of lentils purchased and 60 thousand may. 3 purchase proposals including import of tons of fertilizer have been approved. The total cost will be 336 crore 67 lakh taka.
On Wednesday (September 4), Finance and Trade Advisor Dr. The proposals were approved in the meeting of the advisory committee on government procurement held under the chairmanship of Salehuddin Ahmed. Committee members, senior secretaries of cabinet departments, secretaries of concerned ministries and senior officers were present in the meeting.
According to the sources of the meeting, in the fiscal year 2024-2025, 10,000 may be procured locally through the open tender system. A proposal to purchase tons of lentils (50 kg bags) has been approved. 6 bids were received when tenders were invited through open tender system for selling branches at subsidized price to 1 crore family card holders of TCB. 4 of them are technically responsive. M/s Sahara Enterprises, Dhaka, the responsive lowest bidder recommended by the TEC after all the bidding processes will supply the pulses. The price of lentil per kg is Tk 98.20 and the total expenditure will be Tk 98 crore 20 lakh.
It is known that the target of lentil purchase in 2024-2025 financial year is 2 lakh 88 thousand. ton So far the purchase contract has been executed for 2 thousand 950 May. ton
30 thousand May in the 10th lot from the United Arab Emirates through the state agreement. The committee approved the import of tons of urea fertilizer. 300,000 May from the United Arab Emirates through a state-level agreement in the fiscal year 2023-2024 with the approval of the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on June 14, 2023. Revised agreement for import of tons of urea fertilizer was signed. It will cost 121 crore 48 lakh 21 thousand 800 taka.
In the meeting, Karnaphuli Fertilizer Company Limited (Kafco), 1st lot from Bangladesh, 30 thousand May. The committee approved a proposal to purchase tons of urea fertilizer. 5.40 lakh from Kafco, Bangladesh as per the plan for the financial year 2024-2025. Revised contract for purchase of tonnes of urea fertilizer was signed. According to the contract with Kafco, the price of fertilizer is fixed at 30 thousand May in the 1st lot. Tons of Bagged Granular Urea Fertilizer per May. Tons 330.50 ma. In terms of dollars, the total cost will be 99 lakhs 15 thousand ma. Dollar which is equivalent to 116 crore 99 lakh 70 thousand taka in Bangladeshi currency.
Before this, a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Economic Affairs was held under the chairmanship of the Finance Adviser. In the meeting, in-principle approval was given for the import of urea fertilizer for use in the country’s agriculture sector and the import of 20 cargoes of LNG from the spot market to meet fuel demand for 4 months including the month of September.
In the meeting, the target of purchase of urea fertilizer in the financial year 2024-2025 is 32 lakhs. ton Out of that 5.40 lakhs from Kafco, Bangladesh. Tons of fertilizer will be purchased. 30 thousand may be purchased per lot. ton Urea fertilizer is being imported from the country through contract on G-to-G basis from FY 2007-2008 to maintain uninterrupted supply chain of urea fertilizer among marginal farmers.
In the meeting, the committee gave in-principle approval for the import of LNG from the spot market through 23 listed companies that have signed an MSPA with Petrobangla to meet the urgent need for gas. The daily gas demand in the country is 3800 mmcf in various sectors including electricity, fertilizer, industrial sector. The maximum gas supply capacity in the country is 3150 mmcf per day which is 82 percent of the demand. Out of the total gas supplied, the domestic production is 2050 MMcf per day and the remaining about 1100 MMcf per day gas is imported in the form of LNG through GTUG contracts and tenders from the spot market.
It is known that 20 cargoes of LNG will be imported during September-December of the current year.