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(GDT) - Provisions on open bidding for all inland waterway management and maintenance service packages in the Draft Circular stipulating the ordering and bidding for the provision of public administrative services The management and maintenance of national inland waterways are receiving the support of a large number of contractors. In the current context, maintaining the ordering mechanism has become rigid, uncompetitive and has many consequences.
39 of 40 bidding packages for maintenance of national inland waterways by 2020 at the Department of Inland Waterways will be bid nationwide, online. Photo: Le Tien
39 of 40 bidding packages for maintenance of national inland waterways by 2020 at the Department of Inland Waterways will be bid nationwide, online. Photo: Le Tien
Bidding for maintenance of more than 7,180 km of national waterways will be bid
The second draft of the Circular prescribes the ordering and bidding for the provision of public non-business services for management and maintenance of national inland waterways under the central budget expenditure estimates being approved by the Ministry of Transport (MOT). get wide comments.
The draft circular stipulates that the provision of public non-business services for management and maintenance of inland waterways shall comply with the bidding method, except for special cases of disaster recovery, ensuring step-by-step traffic. 1 to be ordered according to regulations. The organization of bidding complies with the Bidding Law, ensuring the prescribed conditions such as the approved contractor selection plan, the approved bidding dossier, the bidding information publicity ... The focal point for organizing the bidding to select a service provider is the IWT Department.
Thus, according to the Ministry of Transport, the spirit of this circular is to bid for selecting contractors to provide regular maintenance services for more than 7,180 km of national waterways belonging to 143 rivers and canals.
Grasping the spirit of the Circular early, it is expected that right at the beginning of 2020, bidding packages for management and regular maintenance of inland waterways will be announced for tender. Specifically, in early February 2020, the Vietnam Inland Waterways Administration (the tenderer) announced the contractor selection plan for 40 packages of management and maintenance of national inland waterways within the scope of the Sub-Department. Inland waterways in the north and south will be managed by 2020 with a total estimated cost of 326,308 billion dong. All 40 bidding packages selected contractors in the first quarter of 2020. In particular, 39 bidding packages will be widely bid in the country, online, without prequalification. The only bid package to be designated as a Bidding Package Prepare the bidding documents and evaluate the bidding packages from regular maintenance - 01 to routine maintenance - 38 and DMN bidding package.
39 bidding packages widely procured online are all non-advisory packages for regular maintenance (management and maintenance of regional national inland waterways from 01 - 38); scale of under 10 billion dong; The method of selecting a contractor is 1 stage 1 dossier bag.
Only order placed in the event of a natural disaster
Talking to the Bidding Newspaper, many contractors said that they were very interested and agreed with the content of the Draft Circular. Because from 2016 onwards, the package of management and maintenance of national inland waterways is often implemented under the ordering mechanism. This is a mechanism that lacks competitiveness, transparency and has not promoted economic efficiency. From 2016 to the present, the regular maintenance of the inland waterway system has been allowed by the Ministry of Transport to combine both order and bidding methods.
However, the existence of both aforementioned mechanisms raises many problems. Specifically, after 15 waterway management units completed the transfer to a joint stock company in 2016, the bidding for inland waterway maintenance was carried out in parallel with the Ministry of Transport in parallel with the ordering mechanism. Because the budget estimate for this task is usually assigned at the end of the year, it is not possible to conduct open bidding for all bidding packages, but to distribute directly in the first 4 months of the year by ordering mechanism, in the last 8 months of the year, open bidding. “For newly equitized enterprises such as 15 units under the Department of Inland Waterways, managing the procedures to both order and participate in bidding for 1 year is very costly and inefficient.
The Ministry of Transport said that if the Circular is issued, it will completely change the way of bidding for a long time. Accordingly, will only place orders in urgent cases. Remaining, maintaining a generous bidding mechanism for all these service packages to create competitiveness, transparency and economic efficiency. |
