(a) whether the National Thermal Power Corporation has decided to award supply contract to ABB Extom Power for the construction and equipment supply for the second phase of the Kawas and Gangadhar power projects in Gujarat;
(b) if so, the criteria laid down in this regard;
(c) whether the gas turbines offered for these projects by ABB Extom Power are traditional whereas BHEL-Siemens V-94 3A is state-of-the-art; and
(d) if so, the details thereof?
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF POWER
( SHRIMATI JAYAWANTI MEHTA )
(a) : No, Sir. Two bids were received by National
Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) against International
Competitive Bidding (ICB) basis for Main Plant Package for
Stage-II of Kawas and Gandhar projects. As the bidders did not
meet the qualifying requirements and taken major deviations on
key requirements of the bidding documents, making the bids
non-responsive, NTPC Board has decided for a rebid.
(b) : Does not arise in view of (a) above.
(c) & (d) : M/s ABB-Alstom Power had offered Gas Turbine Model
13-E2. The model offered is the latest upgraded and uprated
version of their traditional 13E series Gas Turbine models.
These gas turbine fall in the category of turbines with less
than 200 MW ISO rating.
M/s M/s ABB-Alstom have also furnished an
alternative offer of the latest Advance Class Gas Turbine model
GT-26 (ISO rating 265 MW). These Gas Turbines fall in the
category of Turbines with more than 200 MW ISO rating and
generally known as Advance Class Gas Turbines. However, the
offer was incomplete.
M/s BHEL have offered the Advance Class Gas
Turbines Model V94.3A of M/s Siemens, Germany (ISO rating 255
MW). However, the difference in the efficiency between quoted
and published efficiency is about 4% to 5% (the quoted figure was
lower).
Both ABB and BHEL had offered features of
contemporary state-of-the-art technology for respective class of
machines offered by them.