KUWAIT CITY, Nov 29: The Central Agency for Public Tenders has postponed the decision on the request of the Kuwait National Petroleum Company to award the tender for tank cleaning and repair, fiberglass works and painting at the Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery and liquid gas production facilities to the bidding company with the second lowest price at 10.777 million dinars, until further study and to refer the matter to the technical sector, reports Al-Rai daily.

The sources told the daily that the agency has approved the “KNPC” for the fourth extension of the tender contract for maintenance and repair of control valves with the supply of the necessary spare parts in the three refineries for a period of 6 months, from Feb 3, 2023 until Aug 2, 2023, for 751 thousand dinars equivalent of 8.256 percent, until the completion of the procedures for issuing the new tender. The sources pointed out that the agency has postponed a decision on the statement of the Integrated Services Company for Mechanical Contracting and Precision Machinery because of an arithmetic error in pricing, valued at 120.48 thousand dinars, when it re-evaluated the price offer for category A (for the tender for quality control services for the KNPC refineries, where the original value was 1.487 million dinars, the revised value is 1.366 million dinars, and the final price offer is 17.774 million dinars.