Ministry of Planning and Investment –

Public Procurement Agency

FUNCTION AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AGENCY –
MINISTRY OF PLANNING AND INVESTMENT (MPI)
 Drafting legal procurement documents, such as: Law on
procurement, legal documents guiding implementation of
procurement

 Appraising some of procurement contents submitting to the

Prime Minister for his consideration and decision

 Monitoring, auditing procurement nationwide

 Disseminating, guiding procurement rules; providing

procurement support as requested

 Publishing Public Procurement Review; managing the national

e-Procurement system
 ORGANIZATION CHART

Director General

Deputy Director General Deputy Director General Deputy Director General Deputy Director General

Center
Procurement E-Procurement Administration Public Procurement
Policy Division for
Audit Division Division Review
Procurement Support
PROCUREMENT LEGAL SYSTEM

 Law on Procurement No. 61/QH11 and Law amending and

supplementing some articles of the laws concerning capital
construction investment No.38/QH12

 Decree No.85/2009/NĐ-CP Guiding implementation of the Law on

Procurement and selection of construction bidder in accordance with
the Law on Construction

 Circulars issued by Ministry of Planning and Investment to guide

implementation of Decree No.85/2009/NĐ-CP (14 Circulars)

 Other documents issued by other Ministries, line-Ministries, local areas

to guide procurement implementation
DIFFICULTIES IN PROCUREMENT IMPLEMENTATION

 Capacity of Investment Owner/Procuring Entity fail to

satisfy with the assigned procurement tasks

 Weak competitiveness of domestic bidders

 Professionalism in procurement is not yet developed

 “Untrue” procurement still exists

 Management after procurement (contract management) is

not paid much attention.
 E-PROCUREMENT
1. Vietnam e-Procurement system development consists of 2 phases
 Phase 1: Piloting
 Phase 2: Nationwide application
2. Phase 1: Piloting
 A project to develop e-Procurement system funded by KOICA, SAMSUNG developed and
hand-over the system to Vietnam on late of 2009
 From early of 2010 up to now: pilot in Ha noi, EVN, VNPT
 Scope of application: competitive bidding, limited bidding and shopping for following
contents:
 Invitation for bids, Issuance of bidding documents, Submission of bids, Announcement
of bidder selection result
3. Phase 2: Nationwide application
 2011: Finish piloting phase, scale up and scale out e-Procurement application nationwide
 2012: Develop 03 new module: e-shopping, e-contract and e-payment
4. Difficulties for application and development
 Insufficient awareness
 Inadequate IT infrastructure
 Unsatisfactory e-Procurement skills
Website: http://muasamcong.mpi.gov.vn
PROFESIONALISM AND PROCUREMENT TRAINING
 Procurement implementation must be professionalized

 Develop professional centers/agents on procurement

 Develop database of professional centers/agents on procurement

and database of procurement specialists

 Increase training on procurement in both basis and advance

program

 Establish national procurement training center to educate

resource expert to become procurement trainer.
LEGAL REFORM
 Wide application of e-Procurement
 Develop model of professional procurement
implementation; concentrated procurement
 Simplify administration procedures in procurement
process
 Foster procurement monitoring, procurement audit,
investigation and dealing with procurement
violations.

 Publicize procurement information.