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Section 31
Soliciting Proposals
(1) After a short list has been prepared pursuant to
Section 30, the Public Entity shall request for proposals from intending
proponents, by giving a period of at least thirty days, sending the documents
relating to proposal, as prescribed to the intending proponents who are short
listed.
(2) The documents relating to proposal under in Sub-section (1) shall
contain the following matters:-
(a) The name and address of the Public Entity,
(b) The nature of the services to be procured, the time and place
when and where the services are to be provided, the terms of
reference of the services, the task to be completed and
expected outputs,
(c) Instructions to proponent to prepare proposal,
(d) Matters that the technical and the financial proposals have to
be sealed in separate envelopes, each of which has to clearly
indicate the type of proposal outside it and that both
envelopes have then to be sealed in a separate envelope and
that the required services have to be mentioned thereon,
(e) Technical and financial evaluation weightage,
(f) The criteria and weightage marks for the evaluation and
comparison of proposal,
(g) Conditions of the procurement contract,
(h) The place, date and time for the submission of proposals,
(i) Method for the selection of proposals,
(j) Statement that proposals shall not be processed in the event of
conflict of interest and information relating to legal action if
fraud or corruption is committed,
(k) Provision that a proponent may make an application for
review, against any error or decision made by the Public
Entity in carrying out proposal proceedings, and
(l) Other matters as prescribed.
(3) In setting forth in the documents relating to proposals under Sub-
section (1), the criteria for the evaluation of proposal pursuant to clause (f) of
Sub-section (2), any or all of the following criteria shall be set forth as required
for the evaluation of technical proposal:-
(a) Experience of consultants in the task to be performed by
consultants,
(b) The quality of proposed methodology for the performance of
task by the consultants,
(c) The qualification of the proposed key human resource,
(d) Provision of knowledge and technology transfer,
(e) In the case of international level proposals, the details of key
Nepalese human resource proposed for the performance of
task.
(4) In setting forth in the documents relating to proposals under
Sub-section (1), the method for the selection of proposal pursuant to
clause (i) of Sub-section (2), there shall be set forth which of the
following methods shall be used for the selection of proposals:-
(a) Quality and cost method,
(b) Quality method,
(c) Fixed Budget method, or
(d) Least cost method.
(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in Sub-section (4), where the
nature of the consultancy services to be procured is exceptionally complex or
such services are likely to have considerable impact on future projects or
national economy, the selection of proposals may be made exclusively on the
basis of the quality method, as prescribed.