On April 10, 2011, Minister of Planning and Investment issued Decision No. 1512/QD-BKHDT on the published administrative procedures amended and supplemented under management functions of the Ministry of Planning and Investment included the list of administrative procedures in the field of procurement, including 25 administrative amendments and 3 additional administrative procedures. Thus, the number of administrative procedures in the field of procurement but that can not confirm as much, but also significant numbers, policy requires agencies to reduce administrative procedures to contribute to the reform of procedures procurement administration. In addition, shortening the execution time or change the methods and forms of contractor selection is also one of the measures to simplify administrative procedures.
In fact, for packages of small value, the evaluation of the tender offer documents, Profile Requirements and contractor selection results in most cases is not necessary. Therefore, for small-scale packages need simpler processes. Accordingly, the regulations should be open in the direction based on the nature and requirements of the bid package, investors consider the evaluation of bidding decision with this package. Electronic bidding system can automate the bidding process required, so both solicitors and contractors can not interfere or change the online bidding process, all information, data on procurement activities is collected automatically. In particular, for the serious investors who want to select a contractor to bring real economic effect for the package is even more important. And online bidding is considered to be a useful option in this case.
In addition, the fact is increasingly required new bidding method reform. New direction in the main requirement is to increase the application of online bidding. Bidding online is the new way, in line with the trend of openness and international integration nowadays. Traditional bidding now is to "craft" and there are many procedures that solicitors, investors have made to lead to prolonged bidding. Online bidding, on the other hand, there is the advantage of the information technology era with many advantages.
When developing online bidding, which requires synchronization between the ministries, the capability, infrastructure investors, along with promoting the application of this method is the need necessarily focus on applying a form of competitive bid selection in the most effective way.