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surrounding the scandals in the bidding package of more than 57 billion VND for purchasing medical equipment in Quy Nhon, the results of the bidding package for providing medical equipment for Quy Nhon City Medical Center (Binh Dinh) are being criticized by contractors, questioning many aspects of transparency and objectivity.
In the document dated April 14, 2025 responding to An Khang Joint Venture, the Department of Health of Binh Dinh province said: The settings and technical parameters of equipment under the Project have been developed by the Scientific Council of Quy Nhon City Medical Center (project beneficiary) based on the Center's equipment needs and capacity to meet the requirements of medical examination and treatment; at the same time, ensuring compliance with medical equipment of Korean origin in the bidding package with a minimum rate of 61.8%.
The Department of Health of Binh Dinh province also added: "According to regulations, the bidding party does not have to provide Technical Proposal Reports to the bidding bidders".
The answer is not satisfying for businesses participating in bidding.
On April 28, 2025, An Khang Joint Venture continued to submit a petition on the results of the appraisal of the bidding documents to the People's Committee of Binh Dinh province.
In the petition, An Khang Joint Venture proposed re-evaluating the equipment that was assessed as not achieving, and at the same time recommended evaluating the fact that the bidding documents (HSMT) did not specifically state the scoring method, causing difficulties for contractors in the bidding process, reducing competitiveness.
It is worth mentioning that on this issue, previously, a bidding unit, Hoang Long Equipment Company Limited, also expressed its opinion requesting the Department of Health of Binh Dinh province to clearly publicize the assessment and scoring methods.
Meanwhile, this package using the Dat/Khong assessment method also causes difficulties for contractors. Because according to the bidding enterprise, with the required cau hinh of the Department of Health, only the equipment of a certain manufacturing company meets the requirements. The business believes that the Score Scoring assessment method will be more optimal in this case.
With the scoring method, the contractor will base on the scoreboard to choose equipment that meets the requirements of the investor because in the scoreboard, the main formats will have high or mandatory scores, the secondary formats will have few points and the total score must reach 80% or more (depending on the investor's requirements) to meet the requirements. This is a way of evaluating to ensure that many manufacturers can meet, clearly, transparently, publicly, the contractor will be able to determine whether the equipment they are bidding for meets the requirements of HSMT or not" - Khang Duy Pharmaceutical Company Limited (member of An Khang Joint Venture) said.
Binh Dinh Provincial People's Committee directs review and resolution of contractor's recommendations
On April 22, 2025, the People's Committee of Binh Dinh province sent a document to the Department of Finance to forward the petition of An Khang consortium on the bidding results.
"I request the Department of Finance to preside over and coordinate with the Department of Health and relevant agencies and units to consider and propose the settlement of contractor's recommendations on bidding results in accordance with the provisions of law" - Binh Dinh Provincial People's Committee directed.
In addition, according to Lao Dong reporter's research, in the latest petition sent to the authorities of Binh Dinh province, An Khang consortium also said that some contractor's equipment was eliminated due to auxiliary technical configurations.
The contractor has explained that other errors do not affect the main features of the device, including other higher errors due to replacing old, unused cau hinhes. All technical configurations in HSMT are configurations that play a role in creating the entire equipment system. However, it will include a basic configuration and an auxiliary configuration, so the Scientific Council explained that the necessity of an auxiliary configuration to build our technical type is not in accordance with regulations - An Khang consortium stated its opinion.
The project to provide medical equipment to Quy Nhon City Medical Center uses preferential loans from the Korean Government. According to Decision No. 1326/QD-UBND dated April 24, 2023 of the People's Committee of Binh Dinh province, the project implementation period was approved to be adjusted, initially from 2020-2023, adjusted to December 31, 2025.
