Quang Nam will apply a shortened process for the bidding packages that need to be implemented.

Accordingly, the Provincial People's Committee has assigned the responsibility to the Department of Planning and Investment to preside over and coordinate with relevant sectors and units to monitor, guide and inspect agencies, units and localities in the province in the process of organizing the preparation, appraisal and approval of contractor selection plans and implementing the process and procedures for contractor selection for bid packages that need to be implemented before the project approval decision is made and are within the bidding designation limit as prescribed in Point m, Clause 1, Article 23 of the 2023 Law on Bidding.

Small bid packages within the designated bidding limit will have the process shortened. Photo: TD

The Department of Planning and Investment said that the proposal of the unit aims to create a basis for investors or heads of units assigned to prepare projects (in case the investor has not been identified) to apply the shortened process for bidding packages that need to be implemented before the decision to approve the project is within the bidding limit as prescribed above.

Mr. Nguyen Hung - Deputy Director of the Department of Planning and Investment said: Point m, Clause 1, Article 23 of the Law on Bidding stipulates the limit for designated bidding. However, Clause 2, Article 43 stipulates the application of the form of designated bidding according to the shortened process decided by the competent person. Thus, in the investment preparation step, the investor approves the contractor selection plan when applying the designated bidding according to the shortened process, which must be approved by the competent person.

To avoid the situation where each time an investor has to ask the competent authority for approval, the Department of Planning and Investment advised the Provincial People's Committee to allow it to be applied immediately so that investors can easily implement it.

This will avoid the situation where many investors do not understand the law and approve wrong regulations. In addition, conventional bidding requires the preparation of a request for proposal, which is costly. Contractors must prepare a proposal, then evaluate and approve the bids... while the bid packages at this stage are small in scale.

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