What do the project management costs in Vietnam include?

What do the project management costs in Vietnam include? (Image from the Internet)

Project management costs include those specified in Point b, Clause 1, Article 3 of Circular 09/2019/TT-BXD as follows:

Project management costs, including those prescribed in clause 2 of Article 21 in the Decree No. 68/2019/ND-CP, shall be expenses necessary for tasks of implementation of project management tasks from the project preparation phase to the project completion and operation stage, specifically including:

- Construction survey superintendence;

- Selection of architectural design or selection of architectural design plan for the construction project;

- Compensation, support and resettlement carried out on the part of the project owner/investor;

- Evaluation of feasibility study report or investment, and construction economic – technical feasibility report;

- Preparation, assessment, review and approval of engineering design, construction design drawing and construction cost estimate;

- Selection of contractors undertaking construction tasks;

- Management of construction quality, volume, quantity, progress, expense and contract;

- Management of construction communication system; acquisition and provision of data and information serving the investment and construction management task to meet needs of competent state authorities;

- Assurance of construction safety and environmental sanitation;

- Formulation or revision of construction norms;

- Calculation of construction costs and price indices for construction works;

- Inspection of quality of building materials, components, products and installed equipment;

- On-demand quality inspection of construction parts, work items, entire construction work and specialized tests;

- Investment and construction cost control;

- Conversion of construction investment capital after completion, pre-acceptance test, commissioning, hand-over and operation of construction project;

- Acceptance testing, commissioning, payment and final settlement of project contract; payment and settlement of construction investment capital;

- Conduct and implementation of superintendence and evaluation of construction project;

- Project acceptance testing, commissioning and transfer;

- Protect groundbreaking or opening ceremony (if any), communication and advertising for construction project;

- Determination and updating of construction contract costs;

- Managerial tasks assigned to competent state authorities (if any);

- Other project management tasks.

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