Tender in troubled waters

The state-run JSC Irrigation and Water Management Committee signed a contract for the purchase of special equipment (bulldozers, excavators, tractors, etc.), pumping stations, electrical equipment and other facilities to serve irrigation, waterworks.

The tender was held on 35 lots and the winners were 15 companies. Total value of the contract is 32.5 million manat, the report of the State Procurement Agency, in January and February of this year. The main suppliers of the company are LLC "Grand Motors", "Ramma", "AS Texnika", "Kaskad-3", "ART Proje", "Cavidan-N", "Improtex Trucks Buses", JSC "Gidromashservis" Ganja Automobile plant, etc. The number of purchased machinery and equipment not reported. On the corporate website the company is no information on its own fleet of special equipment.

In this year's funding for agriculture JSC "Irrigation and Water Management" has been allocated 233 million manats from the state budget. Besides that, the company receives multimillion dollar allocations for investment projects.

The devastating effects of floods of the river Kura in May 2010 showed how ineffective this structure, despite the huge public funding. From 2005 to 2010 needs, including shore protection and drainage works, and the state of the international financial institutions was allocated $ 1 billion, part of which is missing. - 08B-