Final bidding round for Bolan Textile Machinery today
By Asad Cheema

ISLAMABAD—To implement the decision of the Cabinet Committee on Privatisation (CCOP) the Privatisation Commission has invited the top three bidders for a final round of the bidding for the sale of assets of Bolan Textile Mills Machinery (BTM) on Saturday October 1, 2005 at 1030 hrs at PC Conference Room Islamabad.
Earlier, on September 15, 2005 twelve parties took part in the bidding process for the sale of assets of Bolan Textile Mills Machinery (BTM). During the first sealed bid opening round, the authorized representatives of the bidders dropped their bids in the bid box, which were later opened and read by the representatives of the print and electronic media.
Among twelve parties the top three, which included Sadaf Enterprises with an offer of Rs. 72.5 million, SAF & Company Rs. 70 .7 million and Nawaz Khan Trading Co offered Rs. 69 .6 million. They were asked to improve their bids in the second open round to an acceptable level with a multiple of Rs. 0.5 million to the highest offer of Rs. 72.5 million as the floor price.
The second round got offers of Rs. 110 million from Sadaf Enterprises, Rs. 105 million from SAF & Company and Rs. 89 million from Nawaz Khan Trading Co. Nobody could match the minimum price of Rs. 141.705 million. Now the highest offer of Rs.110 million will be the floor price to start the final bidding round in the presence of the print and electronic media.
Bolan Textile Mills is a project of Iran Pakistan Industries (Pvt) Ltd (IPI) situated at Baleli (near Quetta Airport), District Quetta, Baluchistan.
The machinery of Bolan Textile Mills (Spinning, Weaving, Processing and Auxiliaries) was offered on an "as is where is" basis through a competitive process. The machinery is a part of fully integrated unit of 50,000 spindles, 1,100 looms with complete dyeing and finishing facilities of around 80,000 meters per day production capacity of variable widths ranging from 36" to 96". The plant started production in January 1980 but was closed down in 1983.