Comprehensive review of investment management, construction, and procurement
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed Directive No. 12/CT-TTg dated April 3, 2026 on strengthening and improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and responsibility in bidding work.
According to the directive, besides the achieved results, the implementation of bidding to select contractors and investors in some ministries, sectors, localities, and businesses has not really ensured publicity, transparency, and efficiency.
The situation of negativity, corruption, and profiteering through acts of arrangement, collusion, and transfer of contracts contrary to legal regulations is still complicated; there is still a situation where contractors and investors implement contracts behind schedule, not ensuring progress, quality, and efficiency...
To continue to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and responsibility in implementing bidding work, the Prime Minister requests ministries, branches, People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities, economic groups, state-owned corporations, and state-owned enterprises to organize a comprehensive review of investment management, construction, and procurement.
It is necessary to ensure strictness from the survey, preparation, appraisal, appraisal, approval of project investment policies, total investment, design, estimate, to the bidding, construction, acceptance, payment, and finalization stages, ensuring investment efficiency, capital use efficiency, and compliance with legal regulations.
Organize reviews of BT projects that have been, are being and are expected to be implemented, only decide on investment policies, approve truly necessary, urgent projects with socio-economic efficiency, in accordance with the planning approved by competent authorities.
Do not propose to implement BT projects for works that can be implemented in other forms of investment (such as applying BOT, BLT contracts or public investment capital can be allocated or private capital can be attracted through business investment projects).
Strictly prohibit any act of inflating bidding package prices
The Prime Minister requested relevant functional agencies to be fully responsible for the implementation of bidding work within their management scope, not to shirk or evade responsibility, not to give rise to the "ask - give" mechanism, and to link the responsibility of the head with the results of bidding work in their scope of responsibility.
Strictly implement regulations on preventing and combating corruption, negativity, thrift, and wastefulness throughout the process of selecting contractors and investors.
Regularly review and grasp information, reflections, and recommendations in bidding to have inspection, examination, and supervision measures, promptly detect, prevent, and immediately handle violations, profiteering, corruption, negativity, and wastefulness, and prevent small violations from accumulating into major violations.
Resolutely take measures to strictly handle organizations and individuals with acts of violating the law, arranging, colluding, taking advantage of positions and powers in bidding activities, ensuring "no forbidden zones", "no exceptions".
The Prime Minister requested that the determination of the bidding package price ensures the correctness and sufficientity of costs to implement the bidding package to meet the requirements of quality, efficiency, and compliance with legal regulations.
When setting bid prices for bidding packages, it is necessary to pay attention to reviewing and carefully evaluating the price conformity, the method of determining the price, and if necessary, it is possible to consult the market or refer to information and data on the national bidding network system to compare and evaluate the price conformity of goods, equipment, and services. All acts of inflating bid prices are strictly prohibited.
