What is testing or commissioning of investment projects funded by state budget in Vietnam?

1. What is testing or commissioning of investment projects funded by state budget in Vietnam?

In Article 10 of Circular 24/2020/TT-BTTTT stipulating testing or commissioning of investment projects funded by state budget, according to which:

1. Project’s products or items must be tested or commissioned at the minimum of one beneficiary unit before being accepted, transferred and put to use.

2. For technical infrastructure systems, equipment and commercial software, the contractor shall take charge of, and cooperate with the investor in, conducting the commissioning.

a) Contents and sequence of the commissioning activity shall follow the instructions given in Sub-Appendix 2a of Appendix II to this Circular;

b) Commissioning results shall be documented in a report by the implementing contractor.

3. For internal software, depending on the level of quality requirements and actual conditions, the investor shall consider issuing the decision to apply the testing or commissioning approach, and shall be responsible for their decision.

a) Contents and sequence of the commissioning activity shall follow the instructions given in Sub-Appendix 2b of Appendix II to this Circular. During the internal software commissioning process, the investor should take control of the quality of software to ensure their conformance to non-functional requirements on the basis of a report on results of the test conducted by the contractor as prescribed at point d Clause 5 Article 4 of this Circular. Results of commissioning of internal software shall be reported by the investor;

b) Contents and sequence of the commissioning steps shall follow the instructions given in Sub-Appendix 2c of Appendix II to this Circular. Test results shall be reported in writing by the investor (in case of conducting the test of their own accord), or by the independent testing unit (in case of hiring an independent testing unit to conduct the test).

2. What is acceptance testing and transfer of project's products or completed project items of investment projects funded by state budget in Vietnam?

According to Article 11 of Circular 24/2020/TT-BTTTT stipulating acceptance testing and transfer of project's products or completed project items of investment projects funded by state budget as follows:

1. Project’s products or items shall be accepted and handed over for use in accordance with Article 35 of Decree No. 73/2019/ND-CP.

2. Conditions for the acceptance testing of project's products or items

a) These products or items must be fully complete in terms of the volume, quality, progress, contractual requirements and approved detailed designs;

b) In order to be eligible for testing or commissioning, products or items must meet the quality requirements specified in Article 34 of Decree No. 73/2019/ND-CP and Article 10 of this Circular.

3. Investors and related units shall agree on the contents of the acceptance testing, time and place of acceptance testing and transfer after all of the conditions specified in Clause 2 of this Article are satisfied. Acceptance testing and transfer results shall be recorded in writing by using the form provided in Appendix I to this Circular.

4. Products or items obtained from the projects may only be handed over to the investor after they are accepted to meet the quality requirements.

5. The implementing contractor shall be responsible for handing over products or items to the investor, and enclosing the following documents:

a) Documents on completion of project’s products or items provided in the list given in Appendix IV to this Circular;

b) Software installation program kits and source codes (if any);

c) User, administration and operation manuals; materials for user training, administration and operation; maintenance procedure documents (if any); guidance on techniques, standards and regulations (if any). Main contents of administration, operation and maintenance of project’s products or items shall follow guidelines given in Sub-Appendixes 3a and 3b to Appendix III to this Circular;

d) Technical documents used for connection purposes as legally prescribed (with respect to projects with data connection and sharing between ministries, central agencies and localities);

dd) Documents created in each stage in the process of building, development, upgradation and expansion of the software which are subject to contractual terms and conditions.

Transfer documents specified in this clause must be clearly defined in the contract and constitute a part of the product of the whole project.

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