Appraisal in bidding for public services in Vietnam

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Circular 105/2008/TT-BTC stipulates the appraisal in bidding for public services in Vietnam as follows:

 - Appraisal agencies, organizations or sections:

• For public non-business services falling within the approval competence of heads of central agencies, financial agencies assisting those heads shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with concerned agencies in, appraising bidding plans; other assisting specialized agencies shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with concerned agencies in, appraising bidding dossiers and results of selection of providers;

• For public non-business services falling within the approval competence of presidents of provincial-level Peoples Committees, provincial-level Finance Services shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with other specialized Services in, appraising bidding plans; while specialized Services shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with concerned agencies in, appraising bidding dossiers and results of selection of providers.

- Appraisal requirements:

• Agencies, organizations or sections assigned to appraise bidding plans shall examine and evaluate contents specified at Points a and b, Section 3 of this Circular; make and submit reports on appraisal results to authorities competent to approve bidding plans for the provision of state budget-funded public non-business services under Point a, Section 4 of this Circular;

• Agencies, organizations or sections assigned to appraise bidding dossiers shall examine and evaluate contents specified in Clause 2, Article 15 and Clause 2, Article 23 of the Governments Decree No. 58/2008/ND-CP of May 5, 2008, guiding the implementation of the Bidding Law and the selection of construction contractors under the Construction Law, and submit these dossiers to competent authorities for approval.

• Agencies, organizations or sections assigned to appraise results of selection of providers shall examine and evaluate contents specified in Article 72 of the Governments Decree No. 58/2008/ND-CP of May 5, 2008, guiding the implementation of the Bidding Law and the selection of construction contractors under the Construction Law, and submit these results to competent authorities for approval.

• The time limit for appraising a bidding plan, a bidding dossier or results of selection of a contractor is 20 (twenty) days from the date of receiving a complete and valid dossier for each job.

More details can be found in Circular 105/2008/TT-BTC, which comes into force from December 11, 2008.

Ngoc Tai

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