Saturday March 4, 2017
Kabul (BNA) Chaired by Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the National Procurement Commission (NPC) held meeting at the presidential palace the other day, his office said in a statement.
The National Procurement Commission (NPC) has approved 10 contracts worth four billions afghanis but returned the ring road project in Mehtarlam, the capital of eastern Laghman provinces, the statement further said. The contracts were about construction of a 32-kilometer road in Maimana, the capital of Faryab province, reconstruction of Shashan road in Deh NPC approves 10 contracts worth 4b Afghanis Salah district of Baghlan province and procuring machinery parts of fertilizer factories and the electricity enterprise in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province, according to the statement. Providing security services to fields of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul airports in Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif and Kandahar province were other projects approved by the NPC, the statement continued. Procurement office equipment for the state minister of disaster management, allowances to the ministry of defense and administrative office of the president, extension of timeframe for Doshi-Puli Khumri road construction for another four months and amendment to the contract for a power line extension from Naghlo Dam to Tagab district of Faryab province were also approved. Likewise, the NPC returned the Mehtarlam ring rod project for further review. The NPC meeting was attended by second vice president, Sarwar Danesh, Chief Executive, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, ministers of economy, finance and justice, the NPC and SIGAR officials, lawmakers, senators and some others, the statement concluded.
