Firms drop PLN tender

Firms drop PLN tender

JAKARTA (JP): Several suppliers of electricity equipment in
North Sulawesi have pulled out of a state electricity company
tender due to the low price ceiling offered.

Nurdin, a company executive from PLN's Manado office, said on
Saturday that the suppliers had in fact won the tender to supply
the equipment to the state electricity company's rural power
projects in the province but later withdrew after realizing that
the price limits set by PLN were below market prices.

He said the hurdle in the tendering process has slowed
progress on several PLN rural power projects in the province.

Rural electricity projects should have started in June in
several regencies, but due to several delays in the complicated
tendering process, work only began in September, three months
behind schedule, he said. (gis)