Indrė Milinienė, the head of communications at Klaipėdos Nafta, confirmed to BNS that the company had received two offers, from PPS and a consortium of Kauno Dujotiekio Statyba (Kaunas Pipeline Construction) and Šiaulių Dujotiekio Statyba (Šiauliai Pipeline Construction), but she gave no details.
"We'll name the winner in the near future," she told BNS.
According to unofficial information, the Germans' offer in the reopened bidding was lower than that from the Lithuanians. Both bidders placed much lower offers than previously.
Also, both of them offered to do the work by August 1, 2014.
As instructed by the Public Procurement Office, Klaipėdos Nafta reopened the bidding process on February 19 and invited PPS Pipeline Systems and the consortium of the two Lithuanian companies to submit new final offers.
In their initial offers placed last October, PPS Pipeline Systems offered to build the link for 210.811 million litas (EUR 61.1m), and the Lithuanian consortium offered to do the work for 220.877 million litas.
The Lithuanian consortium on December 20 was named the wining bidder with a 166.979-million-litas final offer, including VAT, and the German company was the runner-up with 192.182 million litas.
The contractor will have to design and build a pipeline of almost 20 kilometers in length from the LNG terminal's jetty to Lietuvos Dujos' (Lithuanian Gas) distribution station. It will also have to install gas equipment on the jetty, as well as a gas metering station, telecommunications, and other systems. The pipeline is a key component of the LNG terminal project's infrastructure.
