Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands:

Saipan Agency Supports Protest Appeal in Geothermal Energy Project (Saipan Tribune)

(Courtesy CIA.gov)

The Office of the Public Auditor in Saipan has granted one of two procurement appeals that Australian-based KUTh Energy Ltd. filed related to a request for proposal for geothermal energy on Saipan.

KUTh won a Commonwealth Utilities Corp. (CUC) bid to develop geothermal energy on Saipan, only for that same request for proposal to be cancelled months later.

A revised RFP was issued later, but by the Capital Improvement Project Office, for geothermal consulting services.

However, OPA denied KUTh’s other appeal, which alleged that CUC had dealt with KUTh in bad faith when it cancelled the first RFP for geothermal energy development.

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