Expensive gas, water, and light meters in preferential apartments
Baku /20.08.19 / Turan: State LLC "MİDA" concluded on August 19 3 contracts for the purchase and installation of gas, water and electric meters in apartments built in the Hovsan residential area. The cost of the work is not so cheap, as analysis of the data published in the public procurement register shows.
MIDA LLC under the State Housing Agency awarded contracts to three companies based on the results of an open tender. Qaz Oil Building LLC will install gas meters, RF İnşaat LLC - water meters and Bakelektro OJSC - electricity meters. The total value of these contracts amounted to 2,936,224 manat or 1 million 727.2 thousand US dollars.
The town in the village of Hovsan consists of 11 multi-apartment residential buildings. Seven of them are seven-story with eighteen entrances, and four are ten-story with one entrance. The whole building consists of 2962 apartments, which will be sold to privileged categories of persons. Thus, the purchase and installation of one electric meter will cost 407.02 manat ($ 239.4), a gas meter - 323.41 manat ($ 190.2), a water meter - 260.85 manat ($ 153.4). ---08B---
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