英文摘要 |
At the time when Taiwan government constituted the Government Procurement Act (GPA, hereafter), the “Most Advantageous Tender” (MAT, hereafter), the most commonly used system around the world was led in, which was expected that the procurement competition core would transfer from pure price competition to quality and service level. So far, though there were many successful cases, many disputes and challenges existed as well. This research intends to discuss the controversial issues worth to be noticed during the procurement evaluation.through different ways, such as examining regulation statements, reviewing academic theories, gathering practical cases, and analyzing survey results. The findings show that the current task and jurisdiction of committee members are lacking consistent and clear-out rules. In addition, though it is stipulated that when there exists significant discrepancy in evaluation results, the chairperson should deal with it immediately. However, this stipulation is hard to execute in practice for a lack of objective standard to determine the “significant discrepancy.” Besides, not only the results of individual committee members needs to be compared with each other, but their results also have to be compared with the original opinion of working group. The overly complicated processes make it a tough task to define the sources of discrepancy. Finally, once there exists significant discrepancy in evaluation results, there are four approaches defined in the current legislation to deal with it. All the four approaches have different degrees of impact on the original evaluation results; however, the appropriate timings for using them are not defined yet in the related regulations. This research utilizes theories of the new institutional economics and project evaluation and recommends that the GPA should define clearly that the final right of determination belongs to the director of the entity. Through the right of determination, the director of the entity is set to be the last verifying mechanism for the results of the committee. However, if the director would like to change the decision of the committee, the director should deliver his opinions and reasons in order to avoid arbitrariness. As for the evaluation items, judging standards and evaluation approaches listed in the tender documentation, they should all be determined by each entity according to their procurement goals. The important procedural regulations should also be under control of the entities. Additioally, this research combines the comparative-advantageous matrix and cluster analysis to set forth the suitable discrepancy identification process for current legislation. Such process not only meets with the human intuition and theoretical assumptions, and it could also be used in verifying the consistency of overall result of evaluation as well as pointing out the sources of discrepancy. From practical case studies, this proposed identification process is proved to practically improve the quality of the MAT in that it uses quantitative approaches to identify the discrepancy among evaluation results made by the committee members. |