DHAKA, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh's apex court has ordered a government owned telecoms company to give 10,000 U.S. dollars in compensation to a Turkish firm.
A three-member bench of the Appellate Division of Bangladesh's Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha Monday passed the order following a writ petition filed by the Turkish firm Netas Telekomunikasyon.
Bangladesh's High Court earlier on Dec. 12 last year declared the contract between the government owned Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL) and another state-owned Telephone Shilpa Sangstha Ltd (TSS) illegal.
BTCL on Apr. 27, 2016 floated an international tender when three companies including Netas Telekomunikasyon submitted proposals.
The tender evaluation committee reportedly later found the Turkish firm fit for the work and recommended the company to the BTCL for issuing a work order in favor of the Turkish firm for installation of transmission systems for the country's second submarine cable.
But the BTCL cancelled the tender and signed a deal with state-run TSS, which teamed up with an Indian firm to supply and install the equipment of 100 Gbps bandwidth transmission from capital Dhaka to Patuakhali district, some 204 km south of the capital city.
