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500,000 yuan bid deposit, can be exempted? Recently, at the bidding site of Qingdao Sinopharm Lifeport project, Liu Junhong, manager of the first department of Shandong Xinghua Construction Group, repeatedly confirmed to the staff of the Administrative Examination and Approval Bureau of Qingdao West Coast New Area.
Rest assured! The credit rating of our company is AAA, which fully meets the requirements of exempting all the best funds! The staff's words made Liu Junhong's heart completely stable.
A letter of commitment can reduce all bid deposits? When he first received the bidding documents, Liu Junhong was skeptical: "Is it a pie from the sky?" But the paper was written in black and white, and he decided he wanted to try.
Capital flow is the lifeblood of a business! The bid bond is not a small amount for our engineering construction enterprises. Speaking of the company's capital operation, Liu Junhong carefully calculated the account for the reporter, "The bid deposit must be paid before the bidding, and the bidding will be returned at the end of the bidding, and the cycle is generally less than 20 days, and more than 45 days." At the same time, we often bid for more than a dozen projects, and after calculation, the margin alone will take up a lot of money for the company. ”
In response to this problem, in February 2023, Qingdao West Coast New Area took the lead in Shandong Province to introduce a policy to exempt construction engineering bidding enterprises with AAA credit evaluation in the housing construction, municipal, transportation, water transportation, and water conservancy industries from bidding deposits, and streamline the supporting materials: bidding enterprises that are exempt from paying the deposit do not need to apply separately, as long as they provide a credit commitment letter and a screenshot of the query results, they can enjoy "zero cost" bidding.
As soon as the policy came out, the response of enterprises was enthusiastic. "In order to save this deposit, many companies are trying to improve their credit ratings. Fan Qian, head of the bid evaluation section of the public resources trading service center of Qingdao West Coast New Area, told reporters.
However, moving up to AAA is difficult for most companies.
To this end, in September 2023, Qingdao will further expand the scope of enterprises exempting bid deposits. "Now, not only AA-rated enterprises and above can enjoy the full exemption of the security deposit, but also A-level enterprises can enjoy the halving of the margin, and the coverage of beneficiary enterprises has suddenly expanded from the original 10% to 90%. Fan Qian introduced.
Up to now, about 3,431 (times) bidding enterprises in Qingdao West Coast New Area have enjoyed the dividend of exempting from the bid guarantee policy, and about 11$2.5 billion in working capital.
Reporter of this newspaper Liu Yanjie and correspondent of this newspaper Tao Wenwen).