Dhaka, Sept. 16 -- The Advisers Council Committee on Government Purchase (ACCGP) on Tuesday cancelled the tender for appointing an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) contractor for the Single Point Mooring (SPM) project.

The committee approved the cancellation when Energy and Mineral Resources Division placed the proposal at the meeting chaired by Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed at the Secretariat.

Earlier, on November 21, 2024, the government had approved in principle the appointment of China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Company Ltd (CPPEC) as the O&M contractor on a government-to-government (G2G) basis.

The approval was given in a meeting of the Advisers Council Committee on Economic Affairs (ACCEA) .

The CPPEC had been working ...