{"id":80348,"date":"2018-08-22T13:50:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T20:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=80348"},"modified":"2018-08-22T13:50:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T20:50:29","slug":"tender-bender-in-sri-lanka-for-galle-marina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/08\/22\/tender-bender-in-sri-lanka-for-galle-marina\/","title":{"rendered":"Tender Bender in Sri Lanka for Galle Marina"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr SARATH OBEYSEKERA\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Recently government embarked on a export development program with the name of NES (National Export Strategy ).under which Nautical Tourism with boat building is mooted as one of the prime area for development.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Port City in Colombo has given prominence to this by creating a Yacht Marina ,by 2020 and state regulations are to be relaxed for foreign and local yacht owners can use the area for leisure industry .Maga Yachts \u00a0plying from Europe to Far East and to places like Pukhet in Thailand \u00a0may also make a stop in Sri Lanka,giving a boost to tourism .<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Government \u00a0has also been planning to develop Galle Harbour as a tourist destination and called for tenders to develop the port as a Yacht Marina.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Two years back an Indian company made an unsolicited proposal to then minister ,who has taken the Investment proposal to CECM chaired by \u00a0 the prime minister .<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Under Yahapalanaya \u00a0, unsolicited proposal are somewhat frowned upon and government officers are scared to take action due to fear of being dragged to much feared CIABOS ,hence CECM decided to entertain the proposal under Swiss Challenge Method where insolicited proposal is later put to public who can offer a better deal .Successful investor is selected under this scheme .<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">(So far Sri Lanka could not implement any project under Swiss challenge )<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">New minister came and ordered \u00a0the authority under whom port is run to call offers from investors to establish a yacht marina .<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Tender opening was fixed for 21st August<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">On 17th August just few days before a letter and email has been sent to all the prospective bidders , members of cabinet \u00a0 approinted tender board ,prime miniseries office with an allegation that tender conditions were <i>extracted form the previous unsolicited proposal with an allegation that ,it is prepared with ulterior motive to beinefit the previously submitted by the Indian Company.<\/i><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><i>After receiving\u00a0<\/i><i>\u00a0this letter few bidders were reluctant to submit proposal suspecting a foul play .<\/i><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><i>It is suspected that one of the bidders who was trying to discourage his competitors <\/i>to submit offers ,so that they will be benefitting due to lack of competition.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Now there is a fear that Yahaplana principles may be invoked and the tender may be cancelled \u00a0and recalled .<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This is how Sri Lankan tender bending take place<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Dr SARATH OBEYSEKERA<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_signature\" dir=\"ltr\" data-smartmail=\"gmail_signature\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr SARATH OBEYSEKERA\u00a0 Recently government embarked on a export development program with the name of NES (National Export Strategy ).under which Nautical Tourism with boat building is mooted as one of the prime area for development. Port City in Colombo has given prominence to this by creating a Yacht Marina ,by 2020 and state regulations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80348","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=80348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}