These were initial assessments by the Ministry of Planning and Investment, municipal departments, sectors and businesses which have taken part in a pilot e-bidding project.

E-bidding has been implemented on a trial basis at the Hanoi City People’s Committee, the Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group, and the Electricity of Vietnam via the portal http://musamcong.mpi.gov.vn.

At a conference to deploy regulations on e-bidding held in Hanoi on September 22, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Dang Huy Dong stressed the importance of e-bidding in the e-government project.

“E-bidding is a major push to stimulate IT application in every field,” Dong said.

E-commerce and e-bidding in public procurement is an inevitable trend and indispensible way that many nations over the world are applying to build e-government.

Aware of the importance of this model, the Prime Minister approved a master plan for the development of e-commerce in the 2006-2010 period in September 2005.

In the framework of the project, a pilot e-procurement system for the government has been built on the basis of the integrated Korea Online E-procurement System (Koneps).