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ACCGP recommends repair works at Bibiyana power plant
The Advisers Council Committee on Government Purchase (ACCGP) on Tuesday recommended approval of a proposal for repair works at the Bibiyana South 400 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant under the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB).
Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed presided over the meeting held at the Secretariat.
According to the Power Division’s proposal, the repair works will cost Tk 901.85 crore.
The contract will be implemented by the consortium of Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, and Siemens Energy Bangladesh Limited.
The Power Division is the sponsoring ministry while BPDB will execute the project.
The Bibiyana South 400 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant is a gas-fired power project in Sylhet, Bangladesh, that commenced commercial operation in 2023.
It is also referred to as the Bibiyana-III project and was developed by the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB).
The project is designed to operate as a combined-cycle power plant using natural gas as its fuel source.
The meeting also approved two separate proposals for the import of a total 75,000 metric tons of Muriate of Potash (MOP) fertiliser under state-level agreements with Russia and Canada.
According to the proposals, 35,000 (±10%) metric tons of MOP fertiliser will be imported from Russia’s JSC “Foreign Economic Corporation (Prodintorg)” under the third lot of an existing agreement with the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC).
The procurement will cost Tk 154.90 crore with each metric ton priced at US$361.
Another 40,000 (±10%) metric tons of MOP fertilizer will be imported from Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC) under the seventh lot of a state-level contract with BADC.
The total cost has been estimated at Tk 177.03 crore, with the same unit price of US$361 per metric ton.
Both proposals, placed by the Ministry of Agriculture with BADC as the implementing agency, were recommended for approval by the committee.
It approved a proposal to import one cargo of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from the spot market under the Public Procurement Rules, 2008.
According to the Energy and Mineral Resources Division, the LNG cargo—scheduled for delivery between November 25 and 26, 2025 (47th cargo)—will be procured from M/S Aramco Trading Singapore Pte Ltd. at a cost of Tk 499.16 crore.
The unit price has been set at US$11.88 per MMBtu, the proposal noted.
The purchase committee also approved two separate proposals for the construction of nine new power substations under the project titled “Modernization and Capacity Enhancement of BPDB’s Power Distribution System (Khulna Division) (Special Revised)”.
Under package no. MCEP/BREB/KD-W-11, four new 33/11 kV (10/14 MVA) GIS-type substations will be built at a cost of Tk 104.67 crore.
The work has been awarded to TSTL-EEL Consortium (TS Transformers Limited – Energypac Engineering Ltd.).
Similarly, under package no. MCEP/BREB/KD-W-3, five new 33/11 kV (10/14 MVA) GIS-type substations will be constructed at a cost of Tk 151.04 crore. The contract has been awarded to Reverie Power & Automation Engineering Ltd.
Both proposals, placed by the Power Division with Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) as the implementing agency, were recommended by the committee for final approval.
Meanwhile, a proposal for the construction work under the project “Construction of Elevated Road and Physical Infrastructure Development in Haor Areas”, being implemented by the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), was withdrawn from the agenda of the meeting, reports UNB.
The proposal involved work in Dharmapasha upazila of Sunamganj district.