A brief course content on “Public Procurement Practices”

Day-1

1. Principle of Public procurement

2. Public Procurement Methods
3. Contract- Offer and acceptance
4. Contract strategies and types
5. Bid (Tender) and Contract – Are they different?
6. Bidding documents
- Invitation for Bids (IFB)
- Bid Invitation Process, Price of Bidding Documents

7. Standard Bidding documents- For NCB and ICB contracts

7.1 Procurement of Works Direct

Purchase
Sealed Quotation (SQ)
National Competitive Bidding ( NCB )
- NCB Works, Single Stage Two Envelope for above 20 million
- SBD Procurement of Works, (NCB) ,With Qualification Requirement For
use in NCB works up to NRs.20 Million
- NCB Works, Qualification not Required for up to 20 million

International Competitive Bidding (ICB)

- SBD for Procurement of works ICB (Single Stage Two Envelope)

Pre- Qualification (PQ)

- Prequalification of Bidders

7.2 Procurement of Goods Direct

Purchase
Catalogue Shopping
Sealed Quotation (SQ)
National Competitive Bidding ( NCB )
- Procurement of Goods-NCB 1S1E
 - Procurement of Goods NCB 1S2E
International Competitive Bidding (ICB)
- Procurement of Goods ICB 1S2E

7.3 Procurement of Consulting Services

Direct Purchase
Express of Interest (EOI) Document for Short Listing
Request for Proposal (RFP)
- For Lump Sum Contract
- For Time Based Contract

7.4 Procurement of Other Services Procurement

of Ration

8. Procurement committee- bid opening committee and bid evaluation committee.

Day-2 and 3

Pre- contract phase

9. PROCUREMENT OF WORKS AND GOODS

Preparation of Technical specification, Cost estimate, Preparation of bidding
documents, Bid evaluation and recommendation for the award of contract.

Day-4 and 5

10. PROCUREMENT OF CONSULTING SERVICES

10.1 Selection Procedure

( Method, Basis of selection )

10.2 Types of Consulting Contract

10.3 Short listing – EOI Procedure
(Preparation of TOR, Cost Estimation, Preparation of Request for EOI,
Evaluation of EOI, Evaluation Report preparation)
 10.4 Request for Proposal
(Preparation, Evaluation of Proposal, Preparation of Evaluation Report)
Day-6

Contract phase

11. Contract negotiation and award

Post- contract phase

12. Contract implementation

Relevant sections of Public Procurement Act, 2063, Public Procurement Regulation, 2064 for
Bidding/ proposal document preparation, evaluation and recommendation for award will be
covered in respective sections of this course contents.

Use of Electronic Government Procurement (e-GP) system