50 Firms Bid for NNPC’s Two-Year Boat Supply Term Contract

Chineme Okafor in Abuja

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday said about 50 companies have submitted bids to provide sea-worthy tugboats on charter basis for its maritime operational requirements in Lagos, Warri and Port Harcourt.

A statement from its Group General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndu Ughamadu in Abuja explained that the public bid opening was held at the corporation’s headquarters, and had in attendance representatives of the bidding companies with officials of the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), and some members of the civil society organisations as observers.

Though the statement did not disclose the corporate identities of the 50 firms or the number of them that would be selected for the term contract, it however said the successful companies would be engaged on a two-year term contract in the first instance, with an option of renewal for a further one year.

Winners, it noted, are expected to provide services which include aiding the berth and un-berth of all ships operating at the NNPC jetties/buoy, logistics support for safe ship-to-ship operations which covers movement of fenders, horses, documents, rigging and unrigging of fenders, among others.