THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH
Circular No. 31/2014/TT-BYT dated September 26, 2014 of the Ministry of Health prescribing the technical evaluation criteria for the medicine’s bid documents
Pursuant to the Law on Investment dated November 26, 2013;
Pursuant to the Government's Decree No. 63/2014/ND-CP dated June 26, 2014 on guidelines for some Articles on contractor selection of the Law on Investment;
Pursuant to the Government's Decree No. 63/2012/ND-CP dated August 31, 2012 defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Health;
At the request of Drug Administration of Vietnam and the Director of Planning-Finance Department;
The Minister of Health promulgates a Circular on technical evaluation criteria of invitation to bid for medicine supply.
Article 1. Technical evaluation criteria for the medicine’s bid documents
1. The technical evaluation criteria for the medicine’s bid documents are specified in attached Appendix 1.
2. The score shall be given on a scale of 1 to 100, in particular:
a) Medicine quality: 70/100.
b) Packaging, preservation, delivery: 30/100.
c) A technical proposal is considered technically satisfactory when all of the requirements below are satisfied:
- The scores of each criterion for medicine quality and packaging, preservation, delivery are not lower than 60% of the maximum scores.
- The total score of all technical criteria is not lower than 80%.
3. The bid-envelopes that satisfy criteria for bidder’s competence and experience as well as technical requirements shall undergo general evaluation as prescribed in Article 24 of the Government's Decree No. 63/2014/ND-CP dated June 26, 2014 detailing a number of articles of the Bidding Law regarding contractor selection
Article 2. Implementation effect
This Circular takes effect on the signing date.
To annul the Clause 2 Article 7 of the Circular No. 37/2013/TT-BYT dated November 11, 2013, guiding the elaboration of bidding dossier for medicine purchase in medical establishments are on this Circular’s effective date.
Article 3. Transitional provisions
1. The bid documents before August 15, 2014 shall follow the regulations on bidder evaluation of Circular No. 37/2013/TT-BYT dated November 11, 2013.
2. The bid documents after August 15, 2014 and are not conformable with this Circular to be adjusted to this Circular.
