According to NPA* Guidelines / Sri Lanka
Domestic preference is given to local contractors, to encourage the local contractors.
Eligibility for Domestic Preference
- Individual/sole proprietor – shall be Sri Lankan.
- Partnerships – more than 50% owned by Sri Lankan.
- Individual Firms
- Shall be registered in Sri Lanka.
- More than 50% are owned by Sri Lankans.
- Should not subcontract more than 10% of the work (excluding Provisional Sums and Contingencies) to foreign contractors.
- Joint Ventures
- Each constituent firm should satisfy the criteria mentioned for individual firms.
- JV must be registered in Sri Lanka.
- Should not subcontract more than 10% of the work (excluding Provisional Sums and Contingencies) to foreign contractors.
Application of the Preference
- Preference can be applied only if it is disclosed in the bidding documents.
- The margin of preference is added to the foreign bidder’s price and not deducted from the domestic bidder’s price.
Domestic Preference
Category I – Bids offered by bidders eligible for domestic preference.
Category II – Bids offered by others.
- The lowest evaluated in each category is selected first.
- These two are compared.
- If the bid from Category I is the lower one it is the preferred bid.
- If the bid from Category II is the lower one then the Domestic preference percetage (for example 10%) of this bid price is added to it and then compared with the Lowest Bid in Category I.
- Even after this, the bid from Category II is lower, then it is the preferred bid.
- Otherwise the bid from Category I is the preferred one.
*NPA – National Procurement Agency.
Prasun Iron works in Colombo Narahenpita , along with a big team worked very well doing difficult corners on Main Buildings within Colombo Narahenpita Manning Town Apartments Complex – behind the railway track and rail road.
Work on Main Building Number D5, was 72% completed. Not sure whats happening next. I am within close Proximity to D5, and long term resident in Main Building D8. Ground floor tenancy has been changing several times and I can feel many strong vibrations and picking up signals of the seismograph machine needle moving rapidly early mornings during the past twelve days.
A fresh water leak appears to be seeping into Basement Area from the nature strips around the landscaped Ground Floor Mesh Fenced area. Early March 2025, I was briefed that a changed was occuring in the middle garden, front garden and rear back garden within my Premises.
Minutes of Committee Meeting not yet received. Pre- Annual General Meeting and AGM to be held on 27 April 2025 Sunday commencing at 3:00pm within Narahenpita Manning Town Apartment Premises – Ground Floor, First Floor, Second Floor and Third Floor Venues to be confirmed with Time Duration Slots. Awaiting Notice of Annual General Meeting to resident Owners and Main Occupants. Best Wishes for Work Safety conditions and a Peaceful May Day!