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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 15-05-12
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[01] TAP defends tender policies, says no discrimination of Greek
companies
[01] TAP defends tender policies, says no discrimination of Greek
companies
ANA/MPA---TAP, a natural gas pipeline consortium, on Tuesday defended
its policies in tender process and denied it was discriminating against
Greek construction companies.
In a letter to Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Minister
Panagiotis Lafazanis, in reply to a minister letter asking for the
strengthening Greek companies' participation in the construction of the
pipeline project, John Attrill, chairman of Trans Adriatic Pipeline,
said that the consortium was already taking measures "to ensure that
a tender process includes the value of local experience and does not
discriminating against Greek companies". These measures included, lifting
hurdles in tender process which could hinder the participation of local
companies, focusing on local language and expertise preconditions,
publishing announcements in local media, organizing events bringing
together international contractors and Greek companies (around 350 Greek
enterprises participated in such events in Thessaloniki and Alexandroupoli
in January 2015).
Attrill noted that the presence of Greek companies in several tender was
proof that these measures were efficient and that bids were evaluated
based on criteria set in tenders.
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