MOSCOW, Aug. 31 - Metalloinvest, which controls the steel industry assets of Alisher Usmanov, is thinking of bidding as a member of a consortium at the forthcoming tender for 93.02% of Ukrainian steel giant Kryvorizhstal, Nazim Efendiyev, Metalloinvest's general director, said.

"We are not bidding as such, but one of the companies that is bidding is putting a consortium together and is inviting us to take part," Efendiyev, who is also head of the Urals Steel company, said. "We are considering the invitation," he told Interfax.