What exactly does the procurement bidding process include? 20

A complete competitive bidding procurement process consists of the first business investigation and selection, bidding, bidding, bid opening, bid evaluation, bid award, contract awarding and other stages.

1. Bidding. Bidding and procurement refers to the act of the procurer proposing the conditions for bidding for the procurement project according to the determined procurement needs and issuing a bidding invitation to potential contractors or contractors. Bidding is the act of bidding alone.

At this stage, the procurement agency is going through the main steps: to determine the procurement agency and procurement needs, the preparation of bidding documents, to determine the bottom of the bid, to issue a procurement announcement or to issue a bid invitation, to pre-qualify the bidding, to notify the bidder to participate in the bidding and to its first bid, the organization of pre-bid meetings, etc., these work is mainly organized by the procurement agency.

2. Bidding. Bidding refers to the act of the bidder after receiving the bidding notice, filling in the bidding documents according to the requirements of the bidding notice and sending them to the procurement agency. At this stage, the work carried out by the bidder mainly includes:

Apply for bidding qualifications, purchase bids, inspect the site, handle bid guarantees, calculate bids, prepare and submit bids, etc.

3. Bid opening. Bid opening is the act of the procurement agency officially unsealing and revealing the bidder's bidding documents at a pre-specified time and place. The opening of bids shall be organized by the procurement agency, but representatives of bidders shall be invited to participate.

At this stage, the procurement ** should be in accordance with the relevant requirements, one by one to uncover the envelope of each tender, after the bid opening, should also be prepared by the bid opening organizer a record of the bid opening meeting.

4. Bid evaluation. Bid evaluation is the act of reviewing and evaluating all bids by the procurement agency according to the requirements of the bidding documents. Bid evaluation is a separate act of the purchaser, which is organized by the procurement agency.

At this stage, the work to be carried out by the purchaser mainly includes: reviewing whether the bids meet the requirements and relevant provisions of the bidding documents, organizing personnel to compare and evaluate all the bids in accordance with a certain method, requiring the bidders to clarify certain problems in several bids selected in the preliminary evaluation stage, and finally evaluating and writing a bid evaluation report.

5. Winning the bid. The winning bid, that is, the award of the contract, is the act of the procurement agency to decide the winning bidder. The award of the tender is a separate act of the procuring agency, but it needs to be decided by the user agency or other persons together.

At this stage, the procuring agency has to decide on the winning bidder, notify the winning bidder that its bid has been accepted, find a letter of intent to award the bid to the winning bidder, notify all unsuccessful bids, and return the bid bond to them.

6. Award of contract. The award contract is also customarily called signing the contract, because in fact it is the act of awarding the contract to the winning bidder by the tenderer and signed by both parties. At this stage, usually both parties confirm the contents of the tender and sign a formal contract based on the tender.

In order to ensure the performance of the contract, after the contract is signed, the bidder or contractor who wins the bid shall also submit a certain form of guarantee or guarantee to the purchaser or owner.