Where are the locations for registration for examination for issuing bidding practicing certificates in Vietnam? What are the contents of the examination for issuing bidding practicing certificates?
- When participating in bidding activities, who must possess bidding practicing certificates in Vietnam?
- Where are the locations for registration for examination for issuing bidding practicing certificates in Vietnam?
- What are the contents of the examination for issuing bidding practicing certificates in Vietnam?
When participating in bidding activities, who must possess bidding practicing certificates in Vietnam?
Article 16 of the Law on Bidding 2013 stipulates the conditions for individuals to participate in bidding activities as follows:
Conditions for individuals to participate in bidding activities
1. Individuals participating in bidding activities must possess certificate of training on bidding and have professional expertise, capability, experiences, language appropriate to the requirements of the package, project, except for individuals belonging to bidders/investors.
2. Individuals who directly participate in making EOI requests, Prequalification Documents, Bidding Documents, Requests for Proposals; assessment of EOI responses, Applications, Bids, Proposals of professional bidding organizations, enterprises, units operating in consulting for bidding, professional management board of projects must have certificate of practicing on bidding operation.
In Clause 1, Article 11 of Circular 04/2019/TT-BKHDT, regulations on bidding practicing certificate are as follows:
Bidding practicing certificate
1. The bidding practicing certificate shall be issued to the following individuals when they have to directly perform the tasks specified in Clause 2 Article 16 of the Law on Bidding.
a) Individuals of bidding consultancies; independent bidding consultants;
b) Individuals of professional project management units: they belong to professional project management units that include specialized project management units, and regional project management units prescribed by law on construction or project management units that are established to manage professional projects or manage multiple projects at the same time or waterfall projects;
c) Individuals of central procurement agencies: they belong to central procurement agencies which are established to be in charge of central procurement and recurring procurement;
d) Other individuals.
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Thus, individuals directly involved in the following jobs must have a procurement practice certificate:
- Prepare dossiers of invitation for expression of interest, dossiers of invitation for pre-qualification, bidding dossiers, dossiers of requirements;
- Evaluation of dossiers of expression of interest, dossiers of pre-qualification, bid dossiers, dossiers of proposals belonging to professional bidding organizations, enterprises, bidding consultancy operation units, professional project management boards.
Where are the locations for registration for examination for issuing bidding practicing certificates in Vietnam? What are the contents of the examination for issuing bidding practicing certificates? (Image from the Internet)
Where are the locations for registration for examination for issuing bidding practicing certificates in Vietnam?
In Article 13 of Circular 04/2019/TT-BKHDT, there are regulations on registration for examination for issuing bidding practicing certificates as follows:
Registration for examination
1. Any individual wishes to take an examination for the bidding practicing certificate shall register for it through the national bidding network system.
2. The Public Procurement Agency shall provide and publish instructions on registration for and submission of applications for registration for examination on the national bidding network system. Individuals are only allowed to take an examination after successfully applying for registration and paying all examination fees as prescribed.
3. If, in an examination, the candidate only passes one of the two subjects in an examination, the passing score shall be deferred within 12 months from the date of issuing the decision on recognition of examination results. During the retention period, the candidate may register for re-examination in the subject in which the candidate previously failed to pass. As the retention period ends, the passing score is no longer valid.
The candidate who failed in one of the two subjects in the examination for the bidding practicing certificate for consulting services or construction, goods procurement and supply of non-consulting services may register for re-examination in the subject in which he/she previously failed to pass. If the candidate passes the subject in the re-examination, he/she shall be issued with the bidding practicing certificate for supply of consulting services and non-consulting services, construction, and goods procurement.
Thus, according to the above provisions, individuals can register to participate in the test to be granted a practicing certificate of bidding activities on the National Procurement Network.
What are the contents of the examination for issuing bidding practicing certificates in Vietnam?
In Article 15 of Circular 04/2019/TT-BKHDT stipulating the form and content of the examination for the grant of a procurement practice certificate as follows:
Forms and contents of examinations
1. Forms of examination: writing test to be taken within 120 minutes and multiple-choice test to be taken within 60 minutes.
2. A test covers:
a) Questions about knowledge related to general law concerning bidding;
b) Questions about knowledge related to regulations of the law on bidding;
c) Questions about knowledge and case study related to bidding;
d) Questions about knowledge related to each field that is covered by the bidding practicing certificate applied for.
Thus, the content of the examination for issuance of a procurement practice certificate includes:
- Questions about knowledge related to general law concerning bidding;
- Questions about knowledge related to regulations of the law on bidding;
- Questions about knowledge and case study related to bidding;
- Questions about knowledge related to each field that is covered by the bidding practicing certificate applied for.
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