Bidding can be divided into open bidding, inviting bidding, negotiation of three ways. Article 4 The bidding and tendering of electric power equipment is an economic activity between legal persons, which must implement the principles of fairness and justice, equality and mutual benefit, and credit. Article 5 The bidding and tendering parties shall implement the relevant state laws and regulations, economic activities in accordance with the law, subject to the protection and constraints of national laws. Chapter II Bidding Article 6 Conditions for Bidding
1. Bidding for mainframe equipment shall be carried out after the project has been approved by the State Planning Commission for the project proposal and the feasibility study report has been submitted to the Ministry. Bidding for large auxiliary equipment shall be carried out after the preliminary design of the project has been reviewed and included in the State's preparatory start-up project.
2. Domestic host equipment bidding need to be reported to the Ministry of Electric Power for approval, the State Development Bank loan project must also be agreed by the development bank to carry out the bidding process.
3. WB, ADB and Japan Overseas Cooperation Fund project equipment bidding needs to be approved by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation with the qualification of the bidding window company to participate.
4. The bidding unit must obtain the formal legal personality, the funds are realized and can carry out the normal settlement of capital payments.
5. Bidding documents must be reviewed and approved by the project owner.
6. Do not have the above 2 to 3 conditions, must be entrusted with the qualification of the organization of the tender bidding, entrusted without regional restrictions. Article 7 Regardless of the method of bidding, the bidding unit shall be more than three. Article 8 Bidding Procedures
1. The bidding unit shall set up the village bidding leading group.
2. The project bidding documents shall be prepared and approved by the project legal person.
3. Issuance of bidding notice (notice).
4. Qualification of bidders.
5. Sale of tender documents.
6. Establishment of expert bid evaluation panel.
7. Organization of bidding, bid opening, bid evaluation, bidding.
8. Signing of equipment supply contract. Article IX on the bidding notice (notice) need to be clear about several issues
1. International public tender bidding documents after the finalization, the bidder must be published in the national newspapers and magazines bidding notice. Domestic use of invitational tendering and negotiation of bids can be sent to the manufacturers concerned written notice.
Announcement (notice) should set out the contents of a clear tender, the conditions under which bidders are required, the time and place of the tender.
2. The bidders shall offer the bidding documents for sale at the time and place specified in the announcement (notice0.). Invitations to tender and negotiated tenders may be sent to the bidders with the tender documents.
3. The time between the issuance of the public notice (notification) of bidding and the formal bidding shall normally be not less than 45 days. Article 10 The qualifications of all bidders shall be examined by the bidder in accordance with the following requirements.
1. Availability of production licenses and business licenses issued by government departments.
2. Past performance;
3. Production and technical capacity or supply capacity, service, quality assurance system;
4. Current market share of power generation equipment;
5. Financial status.
Tenders shall provide qualification documents within 10 days of the issuance of the tender notice (notification). The qualification examination shall not take more than 10 days from the date of furnishing of qualification documents by the bidders. After passing the qualification examination the bidder shall issue a notice of qualification to the bidder and the bidder may purchase the tender. Article 11 Several issues to be clarified in the bidding documents:
1. The bidding documents shall provide all the information necessary to enable the bidder to prepare a bid for the provision of equipment and services. Generally, it should include:
(1) instructions for bidding;
(2) various forms to be filled in by the bidders;
(3) technical specifications and implementation standards;
(4) scope of supply required;
(5) contract terms.
The above contents are shown in the general tender and contract model recommended by the Ministry.
2. Mode of payment: the payment mode of domestic mainframe or large auxiliary equipment can be temporarily implemented in accordance with the provisions of the relevant documents in force in the country, or paid in accordance with international practice. Foreign equipment or foreign-funded projects should be paid in accordance with international practice.
3. Bidding period: in order to ensure that the bidding, bidding has enough time to complete, the bidding documents should be stipulated in the bidding validity period, generally should not exceed 180 days.
4. Implementation of standards, bidding documents should be clearly specified in the bidding equipment for the implementation of the standard name. Domestic equipment bidding general implementation of the corresponding varieties of national standards. The use of other standards can ensure that even higher than the national standard, can also be implemented. The introduction of technology production equipment, should be in accordance with the standards of the country of introduction. Products without uniform standards, according to the relevant state departments to confirm the implementation of enterprise standards or IEC standards.
5. Liability for breach of contract: the bidding documents should stipulate that the bidding unit in any of the following cases, the bidding unit can be cashed to the bidding unit to guarantee the total security deposit of the bank.
(1) after the bidding unit has submitted its bid, it asks to withdraw the bid before the opening of the bid;
(2) after the opening of the bid, it asks to modify the total amount of its bid;
(3) after being notified of the winning of the bid, it refuses to sign the contract.