Over 180 thousand will be spent next year by the state enterpriseAir Traffic Directorate on petrol and diesel cars. According to a notice in the Register of Public Procurement Procedures, the executives of air traffic controllers are seeking a supplier for 25 thousand liters of A-95 fuel and 55 thousand liters for diesel engines. These quantities will go to 90 cars of the Directorate, for which 90 cards without limit will be issued due to an inability to determine the maximum monthly fuel consumption for individual vehicles of the assignor. Accordingly, where appropriate, the assignor is entitled to change their number down to 30% of initial requests. Besides, another five cards must be provided without recording the registration numbers of cars, but there will be certain limits on these cards.
When a need arises the Directorate can pay for additional deliveries by the company that it chooses for winner, but more interesting is that the estimated value of fuel is not referred to as is usual in such procedures. The only thing mentioned is that the amount exceeds the threshold set by the Public Procurement Act that provides for mandatory announcement of the order, if the supply quantities exceed BGN180 thousand.
According to the records of the Public Procurement Agency on 5 January 2011 the Directorate signed a contract for BGN200,000 with the only one company that submitted a bid – Lukoil Bulgaria, that was to supply fuel to the Directorate in the next 12 months. The contracted then quantities were similar to those in the current contract – 25 thousand liters of A-95 gasoline and 57 thousand liters of naphtha. In the previous two years the service was provided by Petrol and then the management of the state enterprise felt much more comfortable in its fuel consumption. For 2009 and 2010 it ordered 100 thousand liters of fuel for gasoline engines and 160 thousand liters of diesel, for which they paid a total of BGN600 thousand.
The minimum requirements for participants in the procedure are to have a nationwide network of stations located in Sofia, Varna, Burgas, Plovdiv, Gorna Oryahovitsa, Ruse, Veliko Tarnovo, on the main roads between them and the road Sofia – Bansko (where the Directorate has recreation facilities). This network must include at least 80 filling stations that offer all types of fuel and are open 24 hours seven days a week. On first reading five companies opertate more than 80 stations in the country Petrol, with 364, of which 185 have been renovated, Lukoil with 200, Shell – 100, OMV – 86, and Eco Bulgaria – eighty-two.
