SHENZHEN has rolled out a series of measures to encourage private businesses to participate in State-funded projects, with the aim to stimulate the vitality of private companies and promote the high-quality development of the city’s construction sector, Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported yesterday.

According to the measures, Shenzhen will support private companies to bid alongside State-owned enterprises for housing construction projects that adopt general technology and municipal infrastructure projects such as roads, pipelines, sewage treatment, garbage treatment and landscaping. At least one-third of successful bidders should be private firms, according to the report.

Private enterprises are also encouraged to actively participate in bidding and to give full play to their advantages in decoration, electronics and intelligence, curtain wall, landscaping and other professional fields.

The measures also make clear that the hidden barriers of bidding should be eliminated. The organizations seeking bids shall reasonably set up the scope and standards of performance identification in the bidding documents, and shall not over-emphasize the requirements for output value scale, awards, registered capital and bank credit certificates.

Private enterprises involved in survey and design, cost consultation and supervision are encouraged to participate in the bidding of the whole process of project advisory service through cooperation, according to the measures.

The measures also support private enterprises to undertake subcontracted projects, and encourage the tenderee to manage the bidders by classification according to the engineering specialty and scale.

For general contractors with good credit and qualifications, the corresponding level of professional contracting qualification shall be directly approved, as per the measures.

The measures also propose the establishment of a mechanism for the evaluation and sharing of the performance of bid organizers to break the information barrier.

(Zhang Yu)