| Louisville eclipses million-dollar milestone in surplus sales
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Mayor Jerry Abramson today announced that the city has "unloaded" more than a million dollars worth of surplus government vehicles, equipment and other items through online auctions. Metro Government sells obsolete and other surplus items through its website, LouisvilleKy.gov, and GovDeals.com, an online service similar to eBay. The $3,760 sale of a Case International 585 tractor to a bidder in Cookeville, Tenn., recently brought the total funds generated through the online auctions to more than $1 million. "The online auctions are a creative way this government is operating efficiently and effectively for our citizens," Abramson said. "We're unloading items that have outlived their useful life for government, and in doing so creating a revenue stream and reducing warehouse space." Abramson said the online auctions often generate more money than traditional auction-house auctions because items are up for bids around the clock and the online auctions allow more people - virtually from anywhere - to participate.
Van service to go out for bid
SPRINGFIELD - After pressure from the state's new transportation chief, the region's public transit agency yesterday announced that it will seek bids for a troubled van service for the elderly and the disabled. Bernard E. Cohen, secretary of the state Executive Office of Transportation, yesterday met with Mary L. MacInnes, administrator of the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority, and recommended that she advertise for bids for the estimated $6 million van service, he said. MacInnes has been facing growing criticism for naming a new van vendor without obtaining bids. "I don't think this is an agency that needs more questions about procedures," Cohen said yesterday during an editorial board meeting at The Republican. Federal investigators, concerned about possible bid-rigging, raided the agency's Springfield headquarters in late 2005, but no charges have been brought.
PSO bidding date extended to May 19
KARACHI: The Privatisation Commission (PC) Board has declared Attock Group ineligible to participate further in PSO privatisation and extended the oil marketing giants bidding date to May 19.
The PC Board, which met here on Thursday with Zahid Hamid, Federal Minister for Privatisation and Investment in the chair, decided to accept the recommendations of Pakistan State Oil Privatisation Transaction Committee to disqualify the Attock Group of Companies from participating in the privatisation process of the PSO.
This decision has been taken in accordance with the PC law, rules, regulations and procedures and keeping in view the guidelines contained in the judgment of the Supreme Court in Pakistan Steel Mills case.
The decision has been taken inter alia for non-disclosure of material information by the Attock Group as required in the RSoQ (Request for Statement of Qualification) rendering the Group liable for disqualification.
Conservation groups raise $211K in big game license auctions
GREAT FALLS - Conservation groups recently auctioned five, 2007 Montana big-game hunting licenses for $211,000, 90 percent of which goes to state wildlife projects.The auctioned tags _ for bighorn sheep, moose, mule deer, elk and mountain goat _ allow the hunter to hunt anyplace in Montana where the season for a particular species is open."The money all goes to research management and habitat tied to that specific species," said Ron Aasheim, head of conservation education for the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks.The Foundation for North American Wild Sheep auctioned the 2007 bighorn-sheep license for $140,000 and the moose license for $20,000. The Mule Deer Foundation auctioned a mule-deer license for $15,000. .
Revised proposals on small IPPs rejected, fresh bidding soon
The council committee on government purchase rejected Saturday the revised proposals on installation of small nine independent power projects (IPPs) and decided to float fresh tender for the same.
The committee only five days back sent back the proposals on IPPs, submitted by the power division, on the ground of lack of transparency. The power plants will be set up on 'build, own and operate' (BOO) basis under private initiative.
The council committee had asked the power division to submit the proposals again removing the anomalies.
Sources, on the other hand, observed that such rejection might deal a blow to the government's initiative to reduce the country's prevailing electricity shortage in the medium term.
Chaired by the finance and planning Adviser A B Mirza Azizul Islam, the council committee at a meeting also decided to reconstitute the evaluation committee, which was formed earlier to scrutinise the offers placed by the entrepreneurs.
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