Domestic suppliers for the national project!
With the participation of "Atameken" is decided the question whether to equip the new railway station of Astana with domestic furniture
At the territory of the metropolitan railway station, which is under construction, was held the second meeting of the working committee on participation of domestic furniture manufacturers in the project.
As it was noted by the director of the purchasing department and the local content of the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan "Atameken" Ruslan Moldagaipov, several meetings were held at the site of NCE, at which was discussed the possibility of participation of Kazakhstani producers in national projects - the construction of a new railway station, the objects of EXPO-2017 and Universiade. The result of these measures was that at the beginning of July of this year, an agreement on cooperation between the general contractor for the construction of the station company “Sembol” and the Association of Furniture and Woodworking Industry was signed. A working commission was established.
At the last meeting the customer in the face of the Directorate of large projects of JSC "KTZH" viewed the presentation of the Furniture Association of Kazakhstan. Details were discussed – technical specifications, requirements to the furniture. Then a discussion of contracts was followed.
At this stage, the amount of the order was not discussed, however, according to the chief engineer of the Directorate of major projects Igor Gaydyk, the budget is limited. Now the customer is considering the proposal.
Meanwhile, the Directorate of large projects "KTZ" carried out market research and concluded that the prices of Kazakhstan producers are lower than the foreign ones.
"Our companies are united in a consortium, which will be able to provide directly furniture products. In addition, we are working on the issue of landscaping of adjacent zones to the train station, in particular, attraction of domestic companies", - said Moldagaipov.
The official representative of the Furniture Association Kanat Ibraev thanked the National Chamber, which has created a platform for negotiations between domestic producers, "KTZH" and "Sembol". "We won’t lie, we had heated debates, but they accepted our arguments. During the negotiations we have come to believe that it will be too hard for a general contractor to work with dozens of companies, so the Association had decided to set up a consortium of furniture enterprises. The consortium included furniture enterprises of Astana, Almaty, Uralsk, Karaganda, Pavlodar, that is a very large geography. This is SME, about which talks the President", - he said.
Ibraev added that the financial component - is not such an important factor for the work at the facility. "This is a national project, the gates of the capital. Such buildings are built ones in 50-100 years. For our companies it is a great honor to participate in this project ", - he said.
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