Sakhnakhshiri LLC (GIG Group, Tbilisi, Georgia) has won a tender of the public joint-stock company Centrenergo to supply 700,000 tons of coal, according to the results of an auction held in the ProZorro procurement system.
Sakhnakhshiri offered to supply coal for UAH 1,808,789,000, while the second bidder – I–COAL Sp z o.o. (Poland) – offered UAH 1,808,790,000 (VAT not included).
If the results of the tender are approved, the cost of coal for Centrenergo will be around $97 per ton with the initially expected around $102 per ton.
The Georgian company earlier shipped coal to two Armenian and one Bulgarian companies, and inside Georgia – around 300,000 tons every year.
Sakhnakhshiri belongs to GIG Holding, part of GIG Group, the founder of which is David Bezhuashvili, brother of former defense minister and former foreign minister of Georgia Gela Bezhuashvili.
Earlier Centrenergo annulled two tenders announced in March and April to supply 700,000 tons of coal due to the absence of bids and announced the third tender.
The first tender’s initial price was UAH 1.523 billion (around $81-82 per ton), the second – UAH 1.714 billion (around $91-92 per ton) and the third – UAH 1.904 billion (around $101-102 per ton).
Coal will be shipped to Zmiyivska and Trypilska thermal power plants (TPPs) in May-December (CIF Black Sea ports, Ukraine). The smallest batch is 70,000 tons. (Interfax-Ukraine/Ukrainian metal)
