India: NTPC invites Bid for Purchase of Imported Coal 

NTPC Ltd., a Government of India Enterprise, invites bid for
purchase of total 5 Million Tonnes of imported coal for its different
units: 

Korba/ Sipat/ Mouda/ Dadri/ Tanda/ Unchahar/ Simhadri/
Ramagundam/ Talchar Thermal/ Talchar Kaniha/ Rihand/ Vindhyachal/ Singrauli/
Farakka/ Kahalgaon/ Bardarpur/ Barh Power Plant

The terms and condition for each tender is different.

General Conditions:

1. Bidder must be a mine owner of coal mine(s)
   (outside India), from where the quoted quantity of coal is being offered,
   having an aggregated annual production a minimum of 2 to 3.7 MnTPA in the
   preceding financial year as on the date of Techno-Commercial bid opening.
2. The bidder should have supplied a minimum of
   0.25 to 0.62 MnT of imported coal on FOB/ CIF/ FOR basis to any industrial
   utility/ State Electricity Boards (SEB) or State Gencos, directly or through
   Public Sector Undertaking (PSU), in any continuous twelve (12) months, in one
   or multiple contracts during the past three (3) years reckoned from the date of
   Techno Commercial bid opening
3. The average annual turnover of the bidder in
   the preceding three (3) financial years as on the date of Techno-Commercial bid
   opening should not be less than INR 96 to 617 crore or in equivalent foreign
   currency.

Important Time & Dates:

• Bidding Document Sale Date & Time: 1000 hrs to 1700 hrs IST
  on 08.08.2013 to 22.08.2013
• Bid Receipt (Due) Date on 06.09.2013
• Techno-Commercial Bids shall be opened on 06.09.2013