Preference of 5% is given to PPP project investors

The Government’s Decree No. 30/2015/ND-CP was issued by the Government on 17/3/2015 providing guidelines on implementing some articles of Bidding Law related to the selection of investors, in which it is remarkable with preferiential policy to be applied for the investors of public-private partnership (PPP) project, who have the approved feasibility study, report and project proposal.

Specifically, in the case of applying the form of service rates and investors are not subject to preferential, those who have to plus an amount equal to 5% service charges to the investor’s service price in order to make comparison and ranking; in the case of applying the form of State capital share, investors are not subject to preferential, those who must plus an amount equal to 5% of the proposed State capital share to the State capital share that is proposed by investors in order to make comparison and ranking; Similarly, in the case of applying the form of social interests and the State interests, the investors, who are subject to preferential will be entitled to plus an amount equal to 5% of the amount paying to the State budget to the amount to bepaid to the State budget that investors use to compare and rank; in the case of applying the integrated form, investors will enjoy the preferences weighted by the integrated form but the total preferential values do not exceed 5%.

In addition, this Decree also specifies the cost-norms for investor selection, in which, for domestic bidding, the price for selling bidding dossiers is 20 million VND per set as maximum; Pre-qualification invitation is 05 million VND per set as maximum; For international bidding, the corresponding rates are 30 million VND per set and 10 million VND per set. The cost-norm applied for the development of pre-qualification invitation; appraisal of pre-qualification invitation; evaluation of pre-qualification invitation and the evaluation of pre-qualification results are respectively 100 million VND; 50 million VND; 100 million VND and 50 million VND as maximum.

This Decree comes into force on 05/05/2015.