Bumar considers filing protest in Iraq tender

Bumar received the evaluation of its bid last Friday. Not surprisingly, Bumar did not receive high marks for its price, which was more than $200 million higher than that of the winning Nour consortium. However, the Polish consortium was very surprised about the mediocre score for references. Apparently, not all of the documentation submitted by Bumar had been taken into consideration in this assessment. When this was pointed out to the tender committee, it responded that indeed, some of Bumar's documentation had been omitted, but this would not have had a decisive impact on the evaluation of the bid anyway. (Gazeta Wyborcza, Feb. 14-15, p. 27) T.J.