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(iii) for reasons of extreme urgency brought about by events
unforeseeable by the procuring agency, the time limit laid down for open and
limited bidding methods cannot be met. The circumstances invoked to justify
extreme urgency must not be attributable to the procuring agency:”
4. The unprecedented rains in Sindh during the monsoon season of 2011, have
severely affected major portion of Sindh province causing losses to life and property. Due to
widespread water inundations caused by continuous heavy rain pour, i.e. starting 10 th
August 2011, around 9 million people got affected during the disaster. All the affectees
residing in relief camps or outside their houses in the open area became dependant entirely
upon continuous relief assistance.
5. NDMA entered in rescue and relief operations at initial stage, i.e. 13 th August 2011;
and remained active in providing relief [tents, family ration packs and Non-Food Items
(NFIs)] to flood affectees since the start of these heavy and unprecedented rains. Entire
stock of tents in NDMA Warehouses was released to the province of Sindh, Balochistan
and Punjab from the reserves maintained by NDMA to take care of the initial scale of the
devastation. For supply of family ration packs Utility Stores Corporation (USC) being the
Government entity, was contracted for the provision of family ration packs. Highly unfolding
nature of the catastrophe, with Pakistan Meteorological Department’s (PMD) continuous
forecasts of more rains aggravated the situation, resulting in gradual increase in number of
affected districts and population.
TENTS
6. While the entire stock of tents was released in the first few days of disaster, demand
continued to increase. In order to quickly respond to this need, an Emergency Tender was
floated on Aug 17, 2011, both in national dailies and on the website of Public Procurement
Regulatory Authority (PPRA) as well as NDMA for procurement of tents sized 3x4 and 4x4.
The tenders were opened, examined and categorization was done with the technical
assistance of concerned UN organizations as under:-
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