Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) has invited a global tender for annual procurement of 800,000 MT Bituminous coal for a period of 3 years required for its Barapukuria coal fired plant located at Dinajpur, Bangladesh.
The Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) was founded as a public sector organization, to ensure proper planning and development of Bangladesh’s power infrastructure and for operating much of its power generation facilities. Having started its operation with installed capacity of only 200 MW, the company’s net capacity has risen to 18,675 MW as on Jan’19.
The interested bidders are required to quote the unit price of coal on DAP basis. For financial evaluation, DAP Value = (Total FOB Price + Freight + Other Cost) as per price schedule.
The lowest evaluated tender will be determined in following basis of
1. Evaluated total DAP cost
2. Total quantity of coal
3. Unit price USD/ Metric tonne
4. Offered (guaranteed) Heating Value
From above, Cost per million kCal will be calculated. The bidder whose cost per million kCal value is the lowest will be adjudged the winner.
The desired destination port has been marked as Chattogram /Mongla/ Payra.
The supplier may, however, supply coal from any land ports of Bangladesh other than above mentioned sea ports. But in such case, they will be responsible to take all sort of port related permission as well as will bear the cost related to this.
Coal Specification:
The desired specification of coal on As Received Basis (ARA) has been tabulated below.
| Particulars | Unit | Standard Value | Range |
| Fixed Carbon | % | 48.4 | 45-50 |
| Volatile Matter | % | 29.2 | 25-35 |
| Ash Content | % | 12.4 | Maximum 15% |
| Total Moisture Content | % | 10 | Maximum 12% |
| Total Sulphur Content | % | 0.53 | Less than 1% |
| Gross Calorific Value | Kcal/kg | 6,100 | 5800-6300 Kcal/kg |
| Hardgrove Grindibility Index | 53 | 50-70 | |
| Ash Fusion Temperature | Degree Celcius | >1400 | >1400 |
| Size (0-50 mm) | % | 90 | 80-90% |
The successful bidder would then be entitled to supply minimum 175,000 MT coal quarterly to the Final Destination/ Delivery Point as per specification mentioned above. But in any case, they shall not supply coal more than 230,000 MT on the quarter basis, otherwise they would be liable for coal storing at their own cost for the excess coal supplied.
Eligibility Criteria:
1. The bidder shall have a minimum of three years of overall experience in the supply of Bituminous Coal.
2. The bidder shall have experience of supply of minimum 500,000 MT coal per annum from source country to customer country’s port or to customer delivery point within last 10 years and out of which one single contract must have minimum coal supply capacity of 200,000 MT.
In support of this, bidder shall have to submit End User Certificate or Work Completion Certificate or Coal Receive Report.
3. The bidder shall have minimum 50 Million USD liquid assets or working capital or credit facilities from a Bank.
Note: BPDB has restricted applications from Israel in the current tender process.
Tender Closing Date: 19 Feb’18
Tender validity period: 150 Days.
The amount of the Tender Security shall be USD 5,000,000.00 (USD Five Million only) or BDT 420,000,000.00 (Forty Two Crore Taka only) and Tender Security shall be in the form of bank guarantee.
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Bangladesh Coal Imports in CY18:
As per the vessel line-up data compiled by CoalMint Research, Bangladesh’s coal imports have continued its rising streak, by posting 33% Y-o-Y growth in CY18.
The country has imported 3,220,882 MT coal in CY18, with South Africa supplying 72% of the total shipment.
An origin-wise break-up of imports indicate that coal intake from South Africa increased to 2,329,671 MT in CY18, followed by 604,321 MT from Indonesia.
Russia (169,500 MT), Mozambique (109,890 MT) and Malaysia (7,500 MT) were the remaining coal supplier to Bangladesh in CY18.
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