Local company to bid for power project<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): PT Inti Karya Persada Teknik (IKPT), a major
\nprivate engineering company, will contend with a foreign
\nconsortium by bidding to construct a combined-cycle power plant
\nat Tambak Lorok in the Central Java capital of Semarang.<\/p>\n
"We can offer a price level 20 percent lower than that offered
\nby a consortium of Japan's Sumitomo and General Electric of the
\nUnited States," IKPT's president, Raysoeli Moeloek, said here
\nover the weekend.<\/p>\n
The Japanese-American consortium has offered to construct the
\n505-megawatt (MW) power project for US$394 million or around $756
\nper kilowatt.<\/p>\n
The project is one of the three power plants offered by the
\nstate electricity corporation PLN under a repeat order scheme
\naimed at expediting their construction. The other two projects
\nare a 982-MW combined-cycle power plant at Muara Tawar in West
\nJava, whose construction is offered to a consortium of Asea Brown
\nBovery (ABB) of Switzerland and Japan's Marubeni, and a 855-MW
\ncombined-cycle power plant at Grati in East Java, which is
\noffered to Mitsubishi of Japan and Siemens of Germany.<\/p>\n
Review<\/p>\n
Moeloek was quoted by Bisnis Indonesia daily as saying that
\nIKPT's chairman, Mohammad Bob Hasan, will soon ask Minister of
\nMines and Energy I.B. Sudjana, PLN president's Zuhal and
\nCoordinating Minister for Economy and Finance Saleh Afiff to
\nreview the proposal by the Japanese-American consortium and at
\nthe same time study IKPT's bidding.<\/p>\n
"I believe we can compete against foreign companies in terms
\nof quality and price," Moeloek said.<\/p>\n
He declined to explain IKPT's offering price for the project.<\/p>\n
IKPT, owned by a consortium of five local entities -- Nusamba
\nGroup, PT Wijaya Karya, PT Prama Matra Widya Engineering, PT Jasa
\nFerrie Partners and PT Rakintam Nusa -- has experience in the
\nconstruction of large industrial plants. It is presently
\nconstructing a natural gas liquefying plant in Bontang, East
\nKalimantan, with a capacity of 2.3 million tons per annum.<\/p>\n
A PLN spokesman, David Tombeg, told The Jakarta Post here on
\nSaturday that "PLN welcomes IKPT's initiative to get involved in
\nthe power project."<\/p>\n
However, he warned that PLN will never sacrifice quality to
\nget a cheaper price for the construction of its power projects.<\/p>\n
Tombeg said PLN is now still waiting for final studies on the
\nthree consortiums' proposals from a team assigned by President
\nSoeharto to evaluate their bids. (fhp)<\/p>",
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