What is the lowest bid evaluation method?

Answer: The lowest evaluated bid is a bid evaluation method, but also a kind of winning standard. Calculation of the evaluation price has a set of specialized methods, for different types of procurement bid, the evaluation of the calculation of the bidding price is often a big difference, but in general, the evaluation of the bidding price calculation is based on the tender price, taking into account the quality, performance, delivery or completion of the time, the equipment and parts of the ability to supply the equipment and parts of the delivery of the equipment or project after the delivery of the operation and maintenance costs, environmental benefits, payment terms and After-sales service and other factors, in accordance with the weights or quantitative methods specified in the bidding documents, these factors are converted to a certain amount of money, and added to the tender price, the final result is the evaluation of the tender price. Therefore, the lowest evaluated tender price is not equivalent to the lowest bid. According to the calculated bid evaluation price of the bidders to line up, the lowest bid evaluation price is generally the winning unit (without pre-qualification must be through the post-qualification review), this is the lowest bid evaluation method. At present, the main international procurement rules, such as the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services, the EU's Public **** Procurement Directive, the WB's Credit Procurement Guidelines and the ADB's Loan Procurement Guidelines, as well as the laws of the United Kingdom, Switzerland, South Korea and other countries, the lowest evaluated bid (or the lowest evaluated bid) as a winning bid criterion. China's Bidding Law also lists the lowest evaluated bid as one of the two winning conditions, and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation's Measures for the Administration of International Tendering of Electromechanical Products and Measures for the Implementation of International Tendering and Bidding of Electromechanical Products even list the lowest evaluated bid as the only winning standard. So, the lowest bid evaluation is really a universal standard for bid evaluation? According to the bidding practice over the past few years, the lowest bid evaluation method can make an objective, quantitative evaluation of the bid, effectively avoid the influence of human factors, fully embodies the fairness and impartiality of the bidding activities, is indeed a very widely used method of bid evaluation and decision criteria. However, due to the diversity of the procurement standard, so that it can not cure all diseases. For those evaluation factors is difficult to quantify the project, the lowest bid evaluation method is often helpless. For example, personal computer bidding projects, in the hardware configuration, delivery time, after-sales service and other evaluation factors are basically the same or similar circumstances, if the lowest bidder wins the bidding, then the bidder may always buy the brand and quality of the relatively poor machine. Because of personal computer brands dozens of different grades, coupled with the computer upgrades very quickly, for many brands of various models, in terms of quality and performance, there is no authoritative evaluation of the results of the bidders for reference, the quality and performance of the computer is often only through the brand factor to reflect the quality and performance of the bidder is generally difficult to quantify the quality and performance of computers for a specific price indicators. If the tenderer in the tender documents (the bid evaluation method), due to consider the quality factor, a certain brand of computers, its evaluation price should be added 500 dollars, a certain brand of computers, its evaluation price can be subtracted from the 500 dollars, then, it is likely that not even wait for the opening of the bid, he has been sued to the court. Another example, there are times when the bidder for scientific research and other special needs, hoping to buy technologically advanced equipment, such as the purchase of large-scale medical equipment. If he adopts the lowest bid evaluation method of tendering, he can only choose one of the following ways to achieve his purpose: 1. to give a relatively high price weighting to the technical indicators in the tender documents; 2. to set the technical requirements in the tender documents at a very high level. No matter which way he adopts, it will produce the same unfavorable consequences, that is, those cheap and average technical performance of the product suppliers in the tender after seeing the bidding is likely not to come to bid. There are already very few manufacturers of large-scale medical equipment, and if one or two more do not come to respond to the tender, it will easily lead to the failure of the tender due to the lack of a quorum of bidders. For the above problems, if you change to other methods of bid evaluation, the problem can often be solved. Such as the use of comprehensive evaluation method, that is, by experts based on their professional knowledge and practical experience of the bidder or bidding for the evaluation of the goods, as long as the experts believe that the price to spend a certain bidder to buy the items he voted for the most worthwhile, and that the items to meet the requirements of the bidder (i.e., the best performance-price ratio), he can vote for the bidder, even if the bidder's offer than the other bidders to be higher. Finally, the bidder with the most votes will be the successful bidder. Although this method of bid evaluation carries a certain degree of human factors, we can minimize the impact of human factors by appropriately increasing the number of evaluation committee and strengthening the management of bid evaluation experts to ensure the objectivity and fairness of bid evaluation. To summarize, although the lowest bid evaluation price is a scientific and objective bid evaluation method and winning criterion, it cannot be adapted to the needs of all projects. Therefore, the lowest evaluated bid as the only winning bid criterion seems to be a little too rigid.