Purchase body approves 7 proposals including import of 2 LNG cargoes

Advisory Council Committee on Government Purchase (ACCGP) on Thursday approved 7 procurement proposals, including the import of two cargoes of LNG from the UK and Singapore.

Finance Advisor Dr Salehuddin Ahmed presided over the meeting.

As per the approved proposals, the state-owned Petrobangla will import the two cargoes (15th and 16th of the current year), each 33.66 lakh MT of LNG from the international spot market for next April.

Out of these, the 15th cargo will be supplied by the Singapore-based company Ganbar Singapore Pte Limited' at a cost of Tk 675.28 crore with per MMBTU at $14.08. One dollar is worth Tk 121 at current exchange rate.

The second (16th) cargo will be supplied by the UK-based company TotalEnergies Gas and Power Limited at a cost of Tk 691.59 crore with per MMBtu at $14.42.

The Food Directorate will import 50,000 metric tons (Mt) of non-basmati parboiled rice through international tender.

Bagadia Brothers Private Limited will supply the bulk rice at a cost of Tk 259.10 crore, with per MT price at $424.77.

The meeting approved two separate proposals for importing fertilizer from Saudi Arabia and Russia under a state-level agreement by the Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC).

Of these, some 40,000 MT of DAP fertilizer will imported from in Ma'aden, Saudi Arabia at a cost of Tk 306.22 crore, with per MT price at $627.50.

In another proposal, 30,000 MT of MOP fertilizer will be imported from Russia's 'JSC Foreign Trade Economic Corporation (Prudintorg)' at a cost of Tk 112.13 crore with per MT price $ 306.37.