What does the government epc project mean?

EPC refers to the whole process or some stages in which a construction company entrusted by the owner contracts the design and procurement of a project according to a contract signed in advance.

According to the policy documents and relevant guidance of the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, in principle, state-owned enterprises and government-invested projects need to be equipped with a full-process engineering consulting service team with the project management department as the general manager and general consultant to provide full-stage consulting and full-process project management services for the owners and EPC projects.

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Under EPC mode, the project includes not only the specific design work, but also the overall planning of the whole construction project content and the planning and specific work of the implementation organization and management of the whole construction project; Procurement is not the procurement of construction equipment and materials in the general sense, but more refers to the procurement of professional equipment and materials; Construction should be translated as "construction", including construction, installation, testing and technical training.

Under EPC general contracting mode, the employer (owner) should not be too strict with the general contractor, but should give the general contractor more freedom in the construction of construction projects. For example, employers (owners) should not review most construction drawings and should not check every construction process. What the owner (owner) needs to do is to know the progress of the project, whether the quality of the project meets the requirements of the contract, and whether the construction result can finally meet the functional standards of the construction project stipulated in the contract.

The Ministry of Construction's Guiding Opinions on Cultivating and Developing Engineering General Contracting and Project Management Enterprises (Jianshi [2003] No.30) has made specific explanations on related issues.

According to the "Guiding Opinions of the Ministry of Construction on Cultivating and Developing Engineering General Contracting and Project Management Enterprises": "(2) An engineering general contracting enterprise shall, in accordance with the contract, agree on P; Responsible for the quality, duration and cost of the project to the owner. General contracting enterprises can contract some contracted projects to subcontractors with corresponding qualifications according to law.

The subcontracting enterprise shall be responsible for the general contracting enterprise in accordance with the stipulations of the subcontracting contract. It is clearly required to contract out the contract to the corresponding subcontracting enterprises in accordance with the law. Because the nature of state-owned capital investment projects has not changed whether they are subcontracted or not, the subcontracted projects must be invited for bidding according to law.

According to the Measures for Tendering and Bidding of Construction Projects (Order No.30 of the State Development Planning Commission, Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Communications, Ministry of Information Industry, Ministry of Water Resources and Civil Aviation Administration) "Article 11 National key construction projects determined by the development planning department of the State Council and local key construction projects determined by the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government.

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Scope of government procurement:

(1) procuring entity

The procurement subjects in government procurement activities include state organs, institutions and organizations at all levels. State organs refer to organs at all levels that enjoy the administrative power entrusted by the state according to law, have independent legal personality and use the state budget as funds for independent activities.

Public institutions refer to social service organizations that are organized by state organs or other organizations in LL countries with the purpose of social welfare and engaged in education, science and technology, culture, health and other activities. Group organization refers to a non-profit social organization formed voluntarily by China citizens in order to achieve the consent of their members and to carry out activities in accordance with their articles of association.

(2) Procurement funds

If the purchaser uses all or part of the financial funds for procurement, it belongs to the scope of government procurement management. Financial funds include budgetary funds, extra-budgetary funds and government funds. Loans repaid with fiscal funds shall be regarded as fiscal funds.

(3) Procurement content and quota

The contents of government procurement should be; Goods, projects and services in the centralized procurement catalogue formulated according to law, or goods, projects and services that are not included in the centralized procurement catalogue, but the purchase amount exceeds the prescribed limit standard.