has also reduced wastefulness in public spending, saved time and
bidding fees, and enabled bidders and contractors to be more proactive.
These
were initial assessments by the Ministry of Planning and Investment,
municipal departments, sectors and businesses which have taken part in a
pilot e-bidding project, which was launched in mid-September.
E-bidding
has been implemented on a trial basis at the Hanoi People’s Committee,
the Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group, and the Electricity of
Vietnam via the portal http:// musamcong.mpi.gov.vn
At a
conference to deploy regulations on e-bidding held in Hanoi on Sept. 22,
Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Dang Huy Dong stressed the
importance of e-bidding in the e-government project.
“E-bidding is a major push to stimulate IT application in every field,” Dong said.
E-commerce
and e-bidding in public procurement is an inevitable trend and
indispensible way that many nations over the world are applying to build
e-government.
In many ODA-funded projects in Vietnam, the
donors have required beneficiaries to undertake e-procurement to ensure
the transparency and effectiveness of the projects using their ODA.
Aware
of the importance of this model, the Prime Minister, in September 2005,
approved a master plan for the development of e-commerce in the
2006-2010 period.
He also assigned the Ministry of Planning and
Investment to carry out a project to apply e-commerce in the
government’s procurement.
In the framework of the project, a
pilot e-procurement system for the government has been built on the
basis of the integrated Korea Online E-procurement System (Koneps).
The
system, which was optimized to fit Vietnam’s conditions, cost nearly
3.4 million USD, of which 3 million USD was contributed in the form of
non-refundable aid by the Korean International Cooperation Agency
(KOICA)./.
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