According to the Circular, upon preparing, processing and approving bidding documents on consultancy services for contract packages under CPTPP, EVFTA and UKVFTA Agreements, the following requirements must be met:
- Based on the scope and nature of each contract package and the rules of competition, fairness, transparency and economic efficiency, procuring entities shall establish suitable requirements.
The bidding documents must involve adequate necessary information as the basis for the preparation of bids of bidders;
- Procuring entities must refrain from establishing:
+ conditions intended to limit the participation of bidders or give advantages to one or certain bidders thereby causing unfair competition;
+ requirements that bidders need to have one or multiple previous contracts with procuring entities of a specific country, territory or bidders must have experience of supply of goods or services within the territory of such country or territory as a criterion for disqualification;
- If there is any modification to the template of bidding documents, the entities in charge of preparing, processing, and approving the bidding documents must ensure that modification makes the bidding documents better organized and more conformable and not contravene to the CPTPP, EVFTA and UKVFTA Agreements.
The request for approving the bidding documents must specify the modifications compared to original template of bidding documents and reasons thereof for the investor to consider.
For more details, see Circular No. 20/2022/TT-BKHDT, which comes into force from November 20, 2022.
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