Summary

  • A $249,500.61 award for 25 sites carries a paperwork puzzle: its written-out dollar amount is $249,561.
  • The published taka conversion checks against the numeric figure, leaving the words $60.39 adrift.

The award covers a 25-site 4G procurement on 700 MHz, funded from Teletalk’s own funds. Its report lists one proposal sold, one received and one responsive. The price is USD 249,500.61, shown as BDT 30,638,674.91 at USD 1 = BDT 122.8.

On the same line, the words spell out “two hundred forty-nine thousand five hundred and sixty-one”: USD 249,561. The difference is USD 60.39. Multiply the numeric figure by 122.8 and the result rounds to the published taka amount. The arithmetic has quietly chosen a side.

Teletalk published the award report on 26 October after an advertisement dated 23 August; the package is GD-9. The sheet names no sites, equipment schedule or completion date. Those details would turn the count into a build plan readers can follow. It gives a total, not a per-site price; dividing by 25 would invent a breakdown the record does not contain.

The useful finding is modest and exact: a stated award, a reproducible conversion and a written amount that should be corrected. Sixty dollars will not redraw a network map. Two prices in one official record will make anyone checking the map stop and reach for a calculator.

Sources: Teletalk’s reporting contract award; Teletalk tenders and contract notices.