Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Sedgman receives A$64 million Solomon Hub contract
Leading resource sector project house Sedgman Limited announced that the Thiess Sedgman Projects (TSP) joint venture has been awarded a A$64 million contract award for the design and construction of a 7.5 million-tonne-a-year (ROM Feed) modular iron-ore processing plant (“Modular Plant”) at Fortescue Metals Group Limited’s Solomon iron ore mine in Western Australia.

The Modular Plant is an important component in Fortescue’s vision of operating the Solomon mine without the need for a new wet plant at the Firetail OPF. The Modular Plant will be delivered by the TSP, a project specific joint venture formed by Sedgman and Thiess Pty Ltd.Read complete story at http://www.tendersontime.com/blog-detail/sedgman-receives-a64-million-solomon-hub-contract-162.php

DOD awards $334 million Hawaiian solar power project 

Total eight defense contracts has been awarded by the Department of Defense (DoD) in its announcement meeting of contract awards on Friday. In total contracts valued $692.2 million was awarded.

A privately held Pacific Energy Solutions LLC, which states itself as the only source for Federal clients searching full-service renewable and non-renewable energy development services, PES secures the biggest award of $334.1 million project order covered by an earlier awarded solar power generation contract to supply the U.S. Navy with electricity generated from solar power generation plants that are designed, built, owned, operated and maintained by the contractor on military bases in Hawaii. The 25 year contract will run all the way through July 2040.

Boeing, among other publicly traded firms, bags a $45 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to repair 214 numerous mission system constituents overseas U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft through March 31, 2016.Read complete story at http://www.tendersontime.com/blog-detail/dod-awards-334-million-hawaiian-solar-power-projectnbsp-161.php

L&T Hydrocarbon bags $846 million order for Kuwait oil & gas facility

A wholly owned subsidiary of L&T dedicated to oil & gas, L&T Hydrocarbon has been awarded a contract worth around $846 million (KWD 239.7 million) to undertake an entire engineering, procurement and construction contract award for a gathering centre for the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) and fully owned by the state of Kuwait.

Situated in north Kuwait, the oil gathering facilities will get crude from the Raudhatain fields.

The gathering centre is devised for a multi-stage process that will separate 100,000 barrels a day of crude oil, 240,000 barrels a day of water and 62.5 million square cubic feet a day of related gas to match up the quality needs of downstream operations.Read complete story at http://www.tendersontime.com/blog-detail/lampt-hydrocarbon-bags-846-million-order-kuwait-oil-amp-gas-facility-160.php

Sunday, 22 March 2015

NASA awards contract worth $1.3 billion Mission Operation Support program
Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT), Inc., Greenbelt, Maryland, has been awarded by NASA a nine-year contract award to facilitate mission and flight crew operations assistance for the International Space Station and future human space exploration.

The ultimate cost of this single award, cost-plus-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract goes to $1.3 billion. The contract award commence Oct.1. There are two-year options that could expand the contract through Sept. 30, 2023. A firm-fixed cost 61-day phase-in period starting Aug.1, are included in the contract.
The Integrated Mission Operations Contract II (IMOC II) facilitates assistance and products for spaceflight activities capability development and execution for the Mission Operations Directorate, the International Space Station partner Program, consisting the Avionics and Software Office, and the Flight Crew Operations Directorate at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.Read complete story at http://www.tendersontime.com/blog-detail/nasa-awards-contract-worth-13-billion-mission-operation-support-program-159.php
Orpic inks $80 million five technology licensing contracts
Orpic’s (Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries) $3.6 billion Liwa Plastic Project (LPP) has signed the award of five technology licensor contracts worth $80 million. The contracts relate to the various units of the project, namely NGL extraction, PyGas hydrogenation, MTBE, polypropylene and polyethylene units.

The contracts award have been awarded after a competent bidding and selection process.

LPP is a steam cracker project, which will process light ends produced in Orpic’s Sohar Refinery and its Aromatics plant as well as improve Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs) extracted from presently available natural gas supplies.

The NGL extraction technology will be delivered by Randall Gas Technologies and will be installed at the extraction plant in Fahud. The plant will transmit its products through a 300km pipeline between Fahud and Sohar Industrial Port. The Axens will provide the PyGas hydrogenation unit.Read complete story at http://www.tendersontime.com/blog-detail/orpic-inks-80-million-five-technology-licensing-contracts-158.php
E&A Restoration wins $20.7 million contract to build new county crime lab
Nassau officials have awarded a $20.7 million contract award to construct a new county crime lab to a Syosset company, E & A Restoration, which submitted the lowest bid, turning a corner on the wreck that resulted to the 2011 shutdown of the old police forensic facility after faulty evidence testing there warned the outcome of criminal cases.tenders

The old police lab that County Executive Edward Mangano and District Attorney Kathleen Rice closed after a national accrediting agency found instances of disheveled work and bungled evidence testing there, will be replaced by the new facility.
E & A will construct the new lab in empty space between 52,000 and 54,000 square feet on two floors of the present county public safety center in New Cassel.Read complete story at http://www.tendersontime.com/blog-detail/eampa-restoration-wins-207-million-contract-build-new-county-crime-lab-157.php
Importance of Indexation in Publication of Tender Notices
Now a days every government is trying to bring transparency and efficiency in their Public Procurement System. It is every procuring entity's endeavour to circulate their purchasing requirements to as many suppliers as possible.

Unlike earlier now a day’s most of the procuring entities are publishing their tenders not only on their website but also on different public procurement portals as well. Even some agencies have provision to send alerts to registered suppliers, as soon as the tender matching to their business line is published on the purchaser's website.

But in-spite of purchasing entity's best intension, suppliers are not getting the information what they intend to. There are couple of challenges in the current system.Read complete story at http://www.tendersontime.com/blog-detail/importance-indexation-publication-tender-notices-156.php