FRIDAY, March 29, 2024
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Top court rules in CP team’s favour for airport project

Top court rules in CP team’s favour for airport project

The Supreme Administrative Court on Friday (January 10) reversed a lower court’s ruling and declared a consortium led by the Charoen Pokphand Group (CP) a valid bidder for the Bt290-billion development of the U-tapao and Eastern Airport City project.

The Central Administrative Court last April dismissed the consortium’s complaint about being disqualified from the bidding, saying the bid selection committee was correct in its application of the rules.
The committee rejected the CP bid because certain technical, business plan and price tender documents had not been submitted by the deadline of 3pm last March 21.
In fact, the documents arrived nine minutes late, and the consortium filed a complaint to the court deeming the committee’s decision unlawful.
When that complaint was dismissed, the matter moved to the Supreme Court, which ruled that the consortium’s tardiness in providing documents was not a key factor giving it an advantage over its rival bidders.
The consortium is comprised of CP Group’s Thana Holding Co, Italian-Thai Development, Ch Karnchang, B Grimm Joint Ventures Holding Co and Orient Success International Co.

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