Bosnian power utility Elektroprivreda BiH (EPBiH) said on Tuesday a Chinese
consortium of Gezhouba Group and Guangdong Electric Power Design Institute has
filed the sole valid bid in a tender to select a partner to build a 450 megawatt
unit at the Tuzla thermal power plant (TPP).
The unsealing of the final
bids of the shortlisted candidates was held on April 17.
The other
shortlisted candidate - Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, submitted a letter,
saying that due to the political situation in Bosnia, it is not in a position to
ensure its own participation in the financing of the project and is therefore
unable to file a final bid, EPBiH said in a statement.
After an expert
analysis, the Chinese bid will be forwarded for further evaluation and follow-up
steps to the company's management, supervisory board and assembly, the statement
said.
The construction of Tuzla TPP's seventh unit is estimated to cost
1.6 billion marka ($1.1 billion/818 million euro).