SAIL has invited a global tender for tentative purchase of 7,114 MT ferro silicon for its various plants.
Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is the India’s largest steelmaker and produces a variety of steel and iron products, including Pig iron, flat and long products and special steels at its plants spread over India. The company will require a projected quantity of about 7,114 MT ferro silicon to meet its four months requirement from Apr-Jun’17.
The offer submitted by the bidder will be valid for the period of 60 days from the date of tender opening.
Technical specification along with packing & quantity, required in different plants of SAIL are as follows:
| Market | SAIL Plants | Size (mm) | Packing | Tentative requirement for 3 months period (MT) |
| Market 1 | Alloy Steel Plant (ASP) | 10-40 | 1 MT Jumbo Bag | 60 |
| Salem Steel Plant (SSP) | 10-40 | 1 MT Jumbo Bag | 750 | |
| Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP) | 25-50 | 40 Kg Bag | 1,650 | |
| Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) | 25-50 | 40 Kg Bag | 975 | |
| 25-50 | 1 MT Jumbo Bag | 525 | ||
| Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) | 25-50 | 1 MT Jumbo Bag | 1,088 | |
| IISCO Steel Plant (ISP) | 25-50 | 1 MT Jumbo Bag | 1,575 | |
| Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) | 25-50 | 40 Kg Bag | 281 | |
| 50-100 | 40 Kg Bag | 75 | ||
| 50-100 | 10 Kg Bag | 75 | ||
| Visvesvaraya Iron & Steel Plant (VISL) |
50-100 | 40 Kg Bag | 60 | |
| Total | 7,114 | |||
Chemical specifications
The material should contain Silicon 70% min, Carbon 0.15% max, Phosphorous 0.05% max, Sulphur 0.05% max and Aluminium 2.0% max.
Eligibility criteria
1. The bidder should be a ferro silicon manufacturer and must have installed capacity to produce 8,000 MT of ferro silicon per annum.
2. The bidder must offer a minimum quantity of 2,025 MT to be submitted in 3 equal installments in 3 months.
3. The bidder must quote for all size-wise, packing-wise requirement of the market for all SAIL’s plants.
Tender schedule (IST)
The due date for submitting the offer is 16 Mar’17 till 13:00 hrs and the techno-commercial opening is scheduled on 17 Mar’17 at 10:30 hrs.

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