{"id":57674,"date":"2016-08-15T15:53:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T22:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=57674"},"modified":"2016-08-15T15:53:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T22:53:16","slug":"rfp-request-for-proposals-is-the-catch-word-for-privatization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/08\/15\/rfp-request-for-proposals-is-the-catch-word-for-privatization\/","title":{"rendered":"RFP (Request for Proposals) is the catch word for Privatization \u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Large State Owned Organizations are calling RFP\u2019s with a view of privatization of loss making \u00a0 sometimes profit making Institutions. PPP (Public Private Partnership) is also an alternative to fully privatization.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has called many RFP\u2018s for their ports and port related Industries.<\/p>\n

So far nothing happened and I doubt that anything could happen in our life time<\/p>\n

These ae few RFP\u2019s which were prepared by the SLPA top managers and the current status<\/p>\n

Trincomalee Harbour and the surrounding areas was the subject of an RFP under previous government and the new government came to power and cancel the previous RFP and now handed over to a Singaporean Firm.<\/p>\n

Hambantota port area was subjected to a RFP during last regime and nothing happened even though there were proposals to start cement bagging, flour bagging, plastic bottle manufacturing plan.<\/p>\n

New government is now planning to hand over the land in extent of 5000 Ha to Chinese with no proper plans.<\/p>\n

Bunkering services in Hambantota was earmarked for privatization, so far nothing happened<\/p>\n

I note that Mattala Airport is also for a grab and I cannot see any country will come unless there is a vested interest of the countries defence is concerned.<\/p>\n

Big talk about a very large Ship Repair and Building Facility in Hambantota to be built by Chinese. They are supposed to give a financial proposals .Nothing happened.<\/p>\n

Part of Galle harbour was part privatised\u00a0 to establish a shipyard and now government wants to establish a fully-fledged Marina ,and even plan to expel the Navy .If they expel Navy they have to expel Fishery Harbour also which is the main polluter of Galle Harbour .I doubt that they can do it<\/p>\n

RFP\u2019s called for Colombo East and North Harbours .I cannot expect anything to happen by watching the performance of SGT and other container yards.<\/p>\n

Fishery Corporation wants private sector from \u00a0\u00a0Korea to come for the rescue .Nothing will happen unless Dikovita harbour and some 200 acres for Muthurajawela is allocated for installing cool rooms Government does not have people who are bald enough to propose such plans.<\/p>\n

PPP was proposed for all Fishery Harbours like the one in Madera, but government is mum about it.<\/p>\n

Sri Lankan Airlines with a bad debt is up for a grab under a RFP .Nothing may happened. Garuda and Turkish Airline are eyeing.<\/p>\n

CEB calls many RFP\u2019s for power generation nothing is happening.<\/p>\n

CPC is trying hard to get Exploration under a RFP. No firm decisions were made so far<\/p>\n

My proposal is the that the whole government should be privatised under a PPP program like Singapore .leaving Transport ,Defence ,Police and Land Bank under the state and everything else under privatization including Ports ,education and health and even water and Power .<\/p>\n

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Large State Owned Organizations are calling RFP\u2019s with a view of privatization of loss making \u00a0 sometimes profit making Institutions. PPP (Public Private Partnership) is also an alternative to fully privatization. Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has called many RFP\u2018s for their ports and port related Industries. So far nothing happened and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}