Vietnam: Guidelines for procuring entities on registration to join the National E-procurement System

According to Clause 1 Article 6 of Circular No. 11/2019/TT-BKHDT of the Ministry of Planning and Investment of Vietnam, the process to register procuring entity is detailed in the User Manual (an e-document posted on the System to instruct users to conduct transactions on the System).

Registration application shall be composed of the following:

- An application form for registration of procuring entity (created by the System after provided by the procuring entity as prescribed in Point a of this Clause);

- A copy of the establishment decision or certificate of business registration or other equivalent documents (if any).

The procuring entity shall send an application for registration by post or in person to the Center or on the System. In case the application for registration is submitted on the System, the procuring entity shall follow the User Manual.

Processing of registration application is as follows:

Within 02 working days after receiving a registration application, the Center is responsible for reviewing the application and notifying the processing result to the procuring entity.

- In case the application is valid, the procuring entity is approved for registration on the System.

- In case the application is not valid, the Center shall notify the reason and guide the procuring entity to modify the application accordingly.

The notification of document processing results to the procuring entity is done on the System, email, mobile application or other information channels and is guided in detail in the User Manual.

Modification of information registered on the System is done in accordance with the User Manual. If the procuring entity cannot modify the information registered on the System by themselves, it shall send a written request to modify information and relevant documents of the Center. Within 02 working days after receiving the written request from the procuring entity, the Center shall consider handling the request of the procuring entity.

More details can be found in Circular No. 11/2019/TT-BKHDT of the Ministry of Planning and Investment of Vietnam, which takes effect from February 01, 2020.

Thu Ba

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