ESY 2023-24: Oil Marketing Companies invite bid for 267 crore litres of ethanol

Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) in cycle 2 have invited bids for supply of around 267 crore litres of Denatured Anhydrous Ethanol for ESY 2023-24.

Bidders are requested to quote for ethanol production from C-Heavy Molasses (CHM), Damaged Food Grain (DFG) and maize only.

As per tender, bidders shall quote ethanol quantities to be supplied by them against the requirement of OMCs, feedstock category wise – quarter wise for the period of 1st February 2024 to 31st October 2024 in this quantity bid. The validity of bids will be till 31st July, 2024.

Quantity bids for the ESY 2023-24, period of 1st February 2024 – 31st October 2024 are being opened for registered bidders as per long term ethanol procurement policy.

The allocated quantities under this EOI shall be procured as per the published
rates of Ethanol during ESY 23-24 as decided by GOI / OMCs.

“Ethanol produced from different feed stocks namely C Heavy molasses /Damaged Food Grains/ Maize being procured by OMCs and same has been mentioned in quantity bid form. Bidders must offer their total quantity under the respective feedstock for the respective period. The total/combined quantity offered by the bidder in the Quantity Bid(s) for the ESY shall not exceed their total licensed capacity,” the tender further added.

Bidders can visit the website https://bpcltenders.eproc.in for participating in this tender process and submitting bid online. Further bidders who are already registered on old bpcl E-tendering portal need not register again on https://bpcltenders.eproc.in.

The government is ambitious of attaining 20 per cent ethanol-blended petrol by 2024-25 and 30 per cent by 2029-30. The government has advanced the target of E20 fuel from 2030 to 2025.

Recently, Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Ms. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti in a written reply in the Lok Sabha informed that as on 30 November, 2023, the ethanol production capacity in the country is about 1380 crore litres out of which about 875 crore litres is molasses based and about 505 crore litres is grain based.