Syahrial Ali’s Blog

Six out of ten Indonesian Telecommunication Operators pass the qualification for providing telecommunication facilities to the villages (universal service obligation/USO). This process actually is a re-tender as the previous tender (won by PT Aces) was cancelled by DG Postel.

The USO project will provide the communication facilities for 31.824 villages in 32 provinces from all over Indonesia. This project is divided into 7 packets and each participant can win all the packets. Currently, not all packets are ready to be tendered, because according to Government rules, the number of participants who pass the qualification should be at least 5 .
Below are the result:

Packet 1: NAD, North Sumatera Utara, and West Sumatera: Result - not enough qualified participant (only 3), so need to rerun the qualification

Packet 2: Jambi, Riau, Kepulauan Riau, Kepulauan Bangka Belitung, Bengkulu, South Sumatera, and Lampung; Result OK, and the participants are: TELKOM, TELKOMSEL, INDOSAT, INDONUSA, SAMPOERNA

Packet: West Kalimantan Barat, Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, and South Kalimantan Selatan. Result - not enough qualified participant (only 3), so need to rerun the qualification.

Packet 4: North Sulawesi, Gorontalo, Central Sulawesi, West Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, South East Sulawesi, Maluku, and North Maluku. Result - not enough qualified participant (only 2), so need to rerun the qualification.

Packet 5: Papua and West Irian Jaya. Result - not enough qualified participant (only 2), so need to rerun the qualification.

Packet 6: Bali, Propinsi NTB, dan Propinsi NTT - not enough qualified participant (only 3), so need to rerun the qualification.

Packet 7: Banten, West Java, Central Java, DIY, and East Java. Result: OK, and the participants are: TELKOM, TELKOMSEL,  INDONUSA, SAMPOERNA

So, only 2 of 7 packets are ready to be tendered. However, company who have passed the qualification do not a second submission.