The executive committee of sports' ruling body in the country, in a meeting last night, chose the German company, who was the lowest bidder in the international tender, for the job of building a new floodlight system prior to the ICC knock-out World Cup, scheduled to be held in October this year. The meeting was chaired by the NSC chairman and State Minister for Youth and Sports Obaidul Quader. Deputy Minister for Shipping and Bangla-desh Cricket Board (BCB) pre-sident Saber Hossain Chow-dhury, Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA) president Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman and the NSC secretary ASM Ali Kabir also attended the mee-ting.

The executive committee is reported to have chosen Siemens unanimously, but it opted to include few conditions to the contract. The sources in the NSC however could not provide any details of the conditional awarding of the work.

The Siemens, who has the experience of installing floodlights at the Khetterama Stadium in Colombo, has proposed to erect four tubular-tower with each containing 100 bulbs, each of 2000 watts.

Philips, which has built all the lighting system in Bangla-desh, and Silvania, an Austra-lian company, were the two other bidders for the job. Silvania, which has installed the floodlights of the Sharjah Cricket Stadium, participated in the tender, closing date of which was March 25, along with two Bangladeshi companies as a consortium.