$200 million PGNiG tender won by Sinclair
The company, said to be run by former employees of PGNiG, said the tender controversies were overcome the second time round, offers were not properly prepared. "The conditions (of the second tender) were set in a way that discouraged many companies due to excessive risk," claims a source in Puls Biznesu. He also stressed that there was one condition for winning the tender, which required the company to have good relations with Russian Gazprom, as it co-owns Ukrtransgaz managing gas pipelines in Ukraine. only three companies out of the original eight took part in the second tender. "The three firms started co-operation, as they want to deliver gas to chemical plants in Poland, claims the informer. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 7) M.M.