ISLAMABAD: Joint venture companies that applied for installation of electronic monitoring system on the manufacturing premises of excise commodities failed to submit the supportive documents essential under the qualification criteria to Federal Board of Revenue.
Official sources told Customs Today that qualification requirements of firms are evaluated in the first stage of bidding process. The supportive documents under qualification criteria have not been submitted by any firm. FBR is repeatedly writing to all four international firms to submit the requisite supportive documents.
FBR is reviewing four technical bids received from companies to introduce electronic monitoring system for oversight on production of finished goods and supply of the relevant data of 100-150 cement, beverage, sugar, cigarettes and fertilizer manufacturers to the FBR.
The FBR had constituted an evaluation committee comprising four FBR Members to review the technical bids received from the concerned companies. The FBR has also constituted a technical sub-committee to assist on technical aspects of the bids. The FBR wanted to introduce a system at the manufacturing premises of five major excisable commodities to monitor their production and obtain production data of taxable goods on daily basis without any interruption. At the initial stage, the FBR will focus on counting of the finished products at the manufacturing premises and check the production data with the declared returns by the manufacturers. The cross verification of the data would be done by the FBR with the help of production data available with the tax department. The FBR needs uninterrupted data on 24×7 bases to properly monitor the manufacturing of excisable finished products.
Sources said that the FBR is strictly following Public Procurement Rules in this regard. The two stage bidding procedure has been followed for evaluation of bids. At present we are at the first stage of the process by evaluating the technical bids. The technical proposal shall be evaluated in accordance with the specified evaluation criteria and may be discussed with the bidders regarding any deficiency and unsatisfactory technical features.
