DOHA: A unified online system is being developed to continuously assess the performance of contractors doing government projects worth QR40m ($11m) and above.
The system is being developed for a contractors’ grading panel at the Central Tenders Committee of the Ministry of Finance, by an engineering consultancy firm selected in a transparent manner.
The proposed online evaluation system will be unified for all government departments and agencies, including the ministries that award state projects to contractors.
The idea behind a centralised evaluation system for state contractors is to ensure they stick to quality, meet the required standards and deliver projects in time. Incentives will be given to contractors that score high in performance assessment, said Saad bin Ahmed Al Misnad, Head of the grading panel.
He told reporters on the sidelines of a workshop yesterday that this was the first time a unified online system of performance evaluation was being developed for government contractors.
An extensive database of all government contractors will be fed to the system.
The workshop was held with officials from contracting companies and the engineering consultancy firm developing the system.
Al Misnad said it might take two to three months to launch the system on an experimental basis.
The system would be evaluated for a while and contract documents changed in future to explain to contractors the terms of performance assessment.
Al Misnad said even before implementing the online grading and evaluation system on an experimental basis, feedback would be taken from contractors representing different sectors.
Yesterday’s was the third workshop in a row. The first was attended by heads of government departments that award contracts, and the second was for heads of engineering consultancy firms.
All workshops were held by the department at the ministry that supervises government purchases.
The Peninsula
