What is an invitation to tender and what are the applicable conditions?

Expert: The third paragraph of Article 10 of the Bidding and Bidding Law stipulates that the invitation to bid refers to the invitation of the tenderer to a specific legal person or other organization to bid in the form of a bid invitation. Invitation to bid, also known as limited competitive bidding, is a bidding method in which the tenderer selects a number of bidders or contractors, sends a bidding invitation to them, and the invited bidders and contractors bid for competition, and selects the winning bidder.

As mentioned above, public bidding has greater advantages in its degree of openness and the extensiveness of competition, but public bidding also has certain defects, for example, due to the large number of bidders, it generally takes a long time, and the cost is also larger, and for the bidding of smaller procurement targets, the use of public bidding often outweighs the losses; In addition, some projects are more professional, and there are fewer potential bidders who are qualified to undertake, or they need to complete the procurement task in a short time, etc., and it is not appropriate to use public bidding. The method of inviting tenders makes up for these shortcomings to a certain extent, and at the same time can give full play to the advantages of bidding.

According to the provisions of this article, the characteristics of inviting bidding are: (1) the tenderer invites specific legal persons or other organizations (some scientific research projects can also include individuals) to bid within a certain range. Different from public bidding, the invitation to bid does not need to be invited to unspecified persons, but in order to ensure the competitiveness of the bidding, the specific object of the invitation to bid should also have a certain scope, according to the provisions of Article 17 of this law, the tenderer shall send an invitation to more than three potential bidders.

2) The invitation to bid does not need to be announced, and the tenderer only needs to issue an invitation to bid to a specific potential bidder. Only those who accept the invitation are eligible to participate in the bidding, and others have no right to ask for the bidding documents and are not allowed to participate in the bidding. It should be noted that, although the invitation to tender differs from the open tender in the selection of potential bidders and the form of notification, the procedures and principles applicable to it are the same as those for open tendering.

In the same way, it is open in terms of bid opening and bid evaluation criteria, so the invitation to bid still does not lose its openness. The invitation to tender can be conducted in two stages. When the tenderer lacks sufficient experience in the new project, and is not sure of its technical indicators, it can be widely explored through technical exchange meetings and other means, and after collecting a large amount of technical information and evaluation, it will issue a bidding invitation to the selected specific legal person or organization, and invite the selected bidders to put forward detailed information.

Invitation to bid refers to the invitation of a specific legal person or other organization to bid in the form of an invitation to bid.

Generally, if the key projects determined by the state or local government are not suitable for public bidding, invite bidding shall be adopted.

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