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Question №334
October 30, 2014
Emir Mussayev | Almaty

How do you do! I represent "Dominos Food Systems" LLP. We produce road dowel (Bar) 500mm, 25mm diameter, in heat shrink sleeve. Our dowel has all necessary certificates and passed numerous tests in KazDorNII (conclusions available). During eight months, we have been negotiating with the Contractors of Almaty-Khorgos road, namely, Dogush & Gulsan (Turkey), and Todini Impregilo (Italy). We have repeatedly passed our samples that were awarded high scores, and voiced the prices that were the lowest among competitors. Price per unit of dowel with thermo-hydro-insulating coating is 400 tenge. Both companies were hinting us transparently avout "additional conditions, kickbacks, etc." And representative of the Turkish company, Mr. Hakan Okber informed us that our dowel with a price of 400 tenge is approved and that we can conclude a contract. We were surprised when we found out (post factum) that both Italian and Turkish companies have signed contracts for the supply of dowel of lower quality at a higher price (450 and 440 tenge per unit dowel respectively). In this regard, I would like to ask a question to the project beneficiaries, government officials in charge of this project: When having cheaper and more qualitive product (dowel of Bar), why do companies constructing roads of "Western Europe-Western China" corridor, which has enormous strategic, political international importance, promote appreciation of this important project, with a deterioration in quality? This question is not "unfounded" and if necessary, I can provide documentary evidence and name the heads of road construction companies with whom I contacted. My email address: musaev67@mail.ru; phone: +77018055995. Thanks in advance for your reply, Emir Mussayev.  

Answer to question №334
November 20, 2014

As a response «Dogus Insaat ve Ticaret AS» submitted a letter No. DGJV/EWRP 0-112/DEng-1750 dated 18 November 2014, where the Contractor indicates that he held negociations with "Dominos Food Systems" LLP regarding procurement of dowel bars for concrete pavement. And in particular, the letter states that:

“As you are already aware, the Employer firstly decided to use fully synthetic covered dowels instead of half covered or paint coated dowels in order to have less adhesive between concrete and the dowel bars.

Secondly, the Employer demanded that dowels certificated by KazdorNII.

These changes naturally delayed the negociations with the suppliers. The Contractor in order not to lose time and no to suspend the concrete paving due to lack of dowels; signed the procurement contract with the first supplier who fulfilled all the requirements stated in the Technical Specifications and additional demands of the Employer.

For providing the dowels the contract was signed on September 16, 2014 and the first batch was deliviered to the site on September 22, 2014.

In the meantime nrgociations with the subjected company continued and they could provide the certificate from KazdorNII only on September 23, 2014 which is after the signing the contract mentioned above. Also said company stated that they would provide the steel material from Russia and this will take arounf 30 days after signing the contract and transferring the payment. Following the providing the steel material from Russia, Mr. Musayev planned to cut and cover the dowels in Almaty and for this procedure he demanded also time.

From negiciations for delivering procedure in came out that “Dominos Food Systems” LLP has no experience in this field. It is a fact that this work item is very critical and any delay in supplying can be caused due to inexperience of this company shall effect the project significantly in adverse manner. Considering inexperience of this company and since the contractor already signed a contract with a trustable company who can deliver the required amount of material within 1 week, it has been concluded to not to trade with Dominos Food Systems.

As a summary, the Contractor not only considered the lowest pice but also safe and smooth procurement and delivery of the material.

As a final note, we wish to state that nit price stated in the claim of Mr. Musayev is totally not correct and in our company no person named as Hakan Okber is working.”

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