CAT board will discuss easing terms for B2.6bn cable project
Bangkok Post (18 October 2007)
The board of CAT Telecom will meet today to discuss easing the terms for a 2.6-billion-baht cabling project so that more companies could compete. At issue would be a clause stipulating that qualified bidders must have experience with similar projects worth at least 15% of the amount the state telecom enterprise estimates its system would cost. The board may consider setting the limit at 10% or 260 million baht. The board chairman, General Montri Sangkasarp wants to set a benchmark for future bids, said Air Marshal Piriya Siriboon, the board spokesman. The 15% limit specified by CAT management earlier this week would eliminate all but three contenders for the 9,000-kilometre fibre-optic cable project, the spokesman said.
However, another industry source said that nine prospective bidders had experience with similar ventures worth 500 million baht or more. They are Alcatel/Lucent, Nokia-Siemens, Ericsson, Marubeni, Italian-Thai, Samart Telecom, NEC, Jasmine Telecom System, and United Telecom Sales & Services. The terms also require contenders to offer eight brands of SDH equipment that CAT is now using. They include Alcatel, Lucent, Ericsson, Siemens, ZTE, Huawei, ECI, Nortel and TelLab. The source said there was no need for CAT to change the criteria. He said that setting a 10% minimum requirement would appear to favour companies that used equipment from Huawei, a Chinese supplier. Huawei recently completed a 7.2- billion-baht project to expand the CDMA mobile network for CAT
Bangkok Post (18 October 2007)
The board of CAT Telecom will meet today to discuss easing the terms for a 2.6-billion-baht cabling project so that more companies could compete. At issue would be a clause stipulating that qualified bidders must have experience with similar projects worth at least 15% of the amount the state telecom enterprise estimates its system would cost. The board may consider setting the limit at 10% or 260 million baht. The board chairman, General Montri Sangkasarp wants to set a benchmark for future bids, said Air Marshal Piriya Siriboon, the board spokesman. The 15% limit specified by CAT management earlier this week would eliminate all but three contenders for the 9,000-kilometre fibre-optic cable project, the spokesman said.
However, another industry source said that nine prospective bidders had experience with similar ventures worth 500 million baht or more. They are Alcatel/Lucent, Nokia-Siemens, Ericsson, Marubeni, Italian-Thai, Samart Telecom, NEC, Jasmine Telecom System, and United Telecom Sales & Services. The terms also require contenders to offer eight brands of SDH equipment that CAT is now using. They include Alcatel, Lucent, Ericsson, Siemens, ZTE, Huawei, ECI, Nortel and TelLab. The source said there was no need for CAT to change the criteria. He said that setting a 10% minimum requirement would appear to favour companies that used equipment from Huawei, a Chinese supplier. Huawei recently completed a 7.2- billion-baht project to expand the CDMA mobile network for CAT
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