Wednesday May 14, 2008
Government to issue circular on steel price calculation
KUALA LUMPUR: The Finance Ministry will be soon issuing a circular on the price variation calculation for steel following the abolishment of the ceiling price for steel on Monday.
In a statement yesterday, the ministry said contractors carrying out conventional government projects could apply for a price variation on their contract based on the current steel price.
“The application by contractors would have to be through the implementing agency as what is in practice now,” the statement said.
The new price calculation mechanism is also effective May 12.
The ministry said that the conventional contracts for civil and construction works had a clause on price variation.
It said for civil works, the price variation calculation is based on the transaction price. This method of calculation would be continued.
For construction projects, the ministry said the calculation of price was based on the cost of 15 building materials, including steel.
This method of calculation would be revised where the suggested price variation calculation for steel will be based on the current market price and separately calculated from the indices of other building materials prices.
For government projects under the design and build category, there is no clause on price variation currently. In order to reduce the risk in price variation that is absorbed by the contractor, this category of contracts would have a price variation clause specially for steel, the statement said. – Bernama
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