ISLAMABAD: In a major development, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has granted the highest score to AJCL (Pvt) Ltd for providing IT-based solutions for electronic monitoring (Track and Trace system) for tobacco products, sugar, fertiliser, and cement.
Sources told Business Recorder here on Monday that the FBR had called the technically qualified bidders/applicants in the meeting.
The opening of the financial bids for the Track and Trace system was held at the FBR Headquarters on Monday.
The meeting was called for the announcement of technical scoring and opening of financial proposals.
The meeting was attended by the representatives of eight bidding companies.
The FBR had allowed only one representative of each company to participate in the meeting.
As per FBR letter, the FBR had invited the following companies for opening of the financial bids: M/s AJCL (Pvt) Ltd; M/s ASY GROUP; M/s LMK Resources (Pvt) Ltd; NIFT Consortium; M/s NRTC and GCS; M/s Reliance IT Solutions; M/s SICPA & Arwentec, and M/s Steuermarken Solution.
Out of total 200 marks, 160 are technical marks and the remaining 40 are the financial marks (price per 1000 stamps).
The overall marks and score would determine the final name of the successful bidder to whom the contract of Track and Trace system would be granted.
The scoring of presented and compliant technical proposals has been executed by the FBR through the review, the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of technical proposals.
The scoring of presented and compliant financial/price proposals has been done by the FBR using a mathematical formula.
The licensing committee of the FBR Monday announced the technical scores for all bidding companies during the Monday’s meeting in the presence of the representatives of the companies.
According to sources, following technical marks were announced in the meeting; M/s AJCL (Pvt) Ltd (156.6 technical marks); M/s NIFT (134.99 technical marks); M/s SICPA & Arwentec (134.02 technical marks); M/s Reliance IT Solutions (123.85 technical marks); NRTC and GCS (129.21 technical marks); ASY GROUP (110.5 technical marks); M/s LMK Resources (Pvt) Ltd (109.74 technical marks) and M/s Steuermarken Solution (94.6 technical marks).
In order to prevent leakage of federal tax revenue and under-reporting of production and sales of tobacco, cement, sugar and fertiliser products and to ensure proper payment of duties/taxes on the manufacture and sale of these goods, the FBR is mandated to licence the development, implementation, operation and maintenance of a track and trace system.
According to the sources, the FBR will issue the evaluation report containing the names of the successful bidders of the Track and Trace system after completion of the process by the licensing committee.
The system must enable the FBR to monitor production activities of the concerned production lines, factory premises and designated import stations; generate near real-time information about volumes of the goods produced at the manufacturing lines; obtain validated information during manufacturing that will support the correct collection of applicable taxes levied on the goods and collect validated inputs at manufacturing for determination of the origin and legal status of the goods after manufacturing.
Meanwhile, the Federal Board of Revenue has successfully completed the evaluation process for the grant of five-year license for an IT-based solution for electronic monitoring (Track and Trace System) of specified goods i.e. tobacco, cement, sugar and fertilizer.
Initially 11 bids were received out of which eight bids were technically qualified.
The technical scores were awarded to them on the basis of specified evaluation criteria. To ensure complete transparency, technical scores of all technically compliant bidders were displayed for all attendees to see prior to opening of the financial bids.
Afterwards, the opening of the financial bids was held today 1st February at the FBR Headquarter, Islamabad, which was attended by eight technically compliant applicants/bidders.
The financial bids were publicly opened by the seven-member licensing committee, headed by Karamatullah Khan Chaudhry.
Accordingly, cumulative (technical and financial) scores of all the eight qualified applicants were derived.
As a result of the above, M/s AJCL/ Authentix/ MITAS was declared as “the most advantageous bid” on the basis of the combined highest score in accordance with the Licensing Rules 2019 and PPRA rules 2004.
The FBR has stated that installation of the Track and Trace System in the identified sectors would be a game changer for improving revenue and curbing counterfeit products in the market.
The FBR expects to start installing UIMs (tax stamps) on various sector products from July 2021.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2021
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