17 bidders for government rice

Duangporn Rodphaya, director-general at Department of Foreign Trade at the MOC, said that next steps are the inspection of documents and preliminary qualifications of the bidders according to the terms of reference.
The department will announce a list of qualified bidders through its website www.dft.go.th on July 18. They can submit their bid documents in the morning of the same day, she said. 
The opening of the bids will take place in front of the general public and media at the department.
The bidding result will then be sent to the working group and committee for rice sales for consideration before forwarding it to chairman of the rice management and policy committee.