Flood contract criteria eased

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WATER MANAGEMENT

Published: 11 Aug 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

The government-appointed Water and Flood Management Commission yesterday agreed to relax the criteria for selecting contractors to implement its 350-billion-baht flood prevention scheme.

The move follows mounting criticism that the selection criteria were designed to favour large foreign companies, and exclude smaller local contractors.

Previously, the terms of reference (ToR) of the government's bidding scheme stated that each contractor must have built projects with a combined value of at least 30 billion baht in the past 10 years. Critics suggested the commission intended to hand over the lucrative megaprojects to wealthy overseas contractors.

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jck
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Discussion 3 : 11 Aug 2012 at 12.553
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Rather than easing the selection criteria strengthen the evaluation criteria to ensure every aspect of the contractor experience requirements and specification compliance are met. Then ensure the contract has adequate clauses to project the government when the works exceed budget or schedule.
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We wouldn't want it to be done in a competent manner because then there wouldn't be a chance to do it all over again next year somewhat like the road and sidewalk construction work.
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Discussion 1 : 11 Aug 2012 at 08.471
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So we will replace companies that can demonstrate their competence to deliver successful large projects with companies that can demonstrate their competence to deliver tea-money?
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