Pre-bid Conference for Environmental Friendly Clean Bulk Cargo Terminal Meeting held in KPT

In pursuance to issuance of bidding documents to the prequalified bidder, a pre-bid conference meeting was called by KPT on 12th May 2020 in which 11 prequalified bidder firms have participated. KPT has issued the final consolidated response to bidders on 2nd June 2020. It may be noted that the bids have been called under Public Procurement Rule 36(C) (i.e. two stage bidding) for the procurement of Concessionaire / Terminal Operating Company services for the Environmental Friendly Clean Bulk Cargo Terminal and the due date for the submission of Technical Proposal under first stage is 7th July 2020. Technical bids will be opened in presence of all General Managers of KPT in Conference Hall, KPT Head Office. KPT intends to privatize its bulk cargo terminal the way port has privatize three container terminals earlier on Build-Operate- Transfer basis. The current statistic of bulk cargo handling at Karachi Port depicts a promising future and in shape of dedicated bulk cargo terminal the port foresees to generate additional financial returns through efficient bulk cargo handling.