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A RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL SOUTHERN LUZON STATE UNIVERSITY IN COLLABORATION WITH THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY i ThAi nguyen University Southern luzon STATE University Socialist Republic of Vietnam Republic of Philippines HARMONIZATION OF PUBLIC COMPETITIVE TENDERING : EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH IN VIETNAM Advisor : Dr. Alice T. Valerio Name of Student : NGUYEN DUY PHUONG English Name : NOAH Date of Birth : 13-12-1974 Course : SLSU-DBA1 Hanoi May, 2013 A RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL SOUTHERN LUZON STATE UNIVERSITY IN COLLABORATION WITH THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY ii HARMONIZATION OF PUBLIC COMPETITIVE TENDERING : EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH IN VIETNAM A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Southern Luzon State University in Collaboration With Thai Nguyen University In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor in Business Administration NGUYEN DUY PHUONG May 2013 A RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL SOUTHERN LUZON STATE UNIVERSITY IN COLLABORATION WITH THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY iii ACKNOWLEDGMENT I would like to express my gratitude to Dr. Alice T. Valerio for being an outstanding advisor and excellent professor. Her constant encouragement, support, and invaluable suggestions made this work successful. She has been everything that one could want in an advisor. I would like to thank her for providing me ideas on the research methodology and valuable insights on public procurement system and international bidding implementation issues. I am deeply indebted to my committee member, Dr. Lee Kari Ling for her time and effort in reviewing this work. Also, I would like to thank all the lecturers of DBA1 course for helping me to complete this thesis which I have been their student for three years. I would like to acknowledge my best friends in the DBA 1 class for reviewing my thesis and providing valuable feedback. I am grateful to Mr. Ngo Anh Cuong and Mrs. To Ngoc Lan for their help and valuable advice, and for being great friends throughout my program stint. I am deeply and forever indebted to my family for their love, support, and encouragement throughout my entire life. I would like to thank my wife, Bui Thi Nga, who has provided a tremendous amount of love and support throughout this study. On a final note with love are for my children, my five-year old daughter and three-year old son! A RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL SOUTHERN LUZON STATE UNIVERSITY IN COLLABORATION WITH THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY iv DEED OF DECLARATION I, Nguyen Duy Phuong (English name: Noah), hereby submit my thesis for oral examination, entitled “HARMONIZATION OF PUBLIC COMPETITIVE TENDERING: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH IN VIETNAM”, truthfully declare that the said paper is a product of my original research investigation. Signed this …………………….2013 at Thai Nguyen University NGUYEN DUY PHUONG DBA Candidate A RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL SOUTHERN LUZON STATE UNIVERSITY IN COLLABORATION WITH THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY v TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGMENT iii DEED OF DECLARATION iv TABLE OF CONTENTS v LIST OF TABLES ix LIST OF FIGURES x LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xi APPROVAL SHEET xii ABSTRACT xiii CHAPTER I 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1. Background of the Study 1 2. Statement of the Problem 3 3. Objectives 5 4. Hypotheses of the Study. 6 5. Significance of the Study 6 6. Scope and Limitations of the Study 7 7. Definition of Terms 9 CHAPTER II 13 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 13 1. Systems Theory 13 2. Administrative Theory 14 A RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL SOUTHERN LUZON STATE UNIVERSITY IN COLLABORATION WITH THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY vi 3. Procurement Legislation and Studies 15 4. Procurement Administrative Theories and Studies 20 5. Legislation of Vietnam and International Community for Procurement 23 6. Conceptual and Theoretical framework 24 CHAPTER III 29 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 29 1. Research Design 29 2. Time and Place of the Study 30 3. Sampling Procedures 31 4. Data Collection 31 5. Research Instrument 34 6. Statistical Treatment 36 7. Methods of Analysis 40 CHAPTER IV 42 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 42 1. Provisions in ILT and LLT in Vietnam 42 2. Public Procurement Activities in MOH 56 3. Procurement and Bidding Practices in Terms of Transparency and Openness Measures 62 4. Formulation of efficient public procurement 64 CHAPTER V 74 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 74 1. Summary 74 2. Conclusion 75 A RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL SOUTHERN LUZON STATE UNIVERSITY IN COLLABORATION WITH THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY vii 3. Recommendations 76 REFERENCES 98 A RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL SOUTHERN LUZON STATE UNIVERSITY IN COLLABORATION WITH THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY viii APPENDIES Appendix Page 1. LETTER REQUEST FOR THE CONDUCT OF THE SURVEY 80 2. SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE 82 3. CURRICULUM VITAE 89 4. BUDGET REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES 95 5. TOTAL GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE , 1990-2010 95 6. CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX 96 7. MINISTRY OF HEALTH STRUCTURE 97 A RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL SOUTHERN LUZON STATE UNIVERSITY IN COLLABORATION WITH THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY ix LIST OF TABLES Table Page 1. Factors affecting the harmonizing 35 2. Likert scale summated rating for openness and transparency procurement 41 3. Discrepancy in public procurement 43 4. Department of Administrators 58 5. Testing result of reliable of Model 65 6. Description of Mean and Standard Deviation 66 7. Post Hoc Tests openness and transparency procurement 67 8. Model Summary Option 69 9. ANOVA F-Test 69 10. T-test coefficient 70 11. Linear regression for 02 removed variables 72 12. T-test for Coefficient and Multicollinearity 72 A RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL SOUTHERN LUZON STATE UNIVERSITY IN COLLABORATION WITH THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY x LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page 1. Conceptual framework of the study 27 2. Data collection procedure 33 3. Distribution of respondents by position in the MOH 56 4. Distribution of age of respondents 57 5. Distribution of total working years of the respondents 58 6. Distribution of the respondents by department 59 7. Frequency of submitting bidding documents under LCB 62 8. Frequency of applying transparency level 63 9. Frequency of applying the most opening purchase method 64 [...]... by the borrower with the providers of goods and works, and not by these Guidelines or the financing agreements No party other than the parties to the financing agreement shall derive any rights there from or have any claim to the proceeds of the financing) Local competitive bidding refers to the process of selection of a contractor who satisfies the requirements of the party calling for tenders, in. .. study aimed to compare the Vietnamese Laws and International Regulations in Procurement The thesis shall focus on following objectives: 1 To describe the common and the unique provisions in the International Law on Tendering (ILT) and Local Law on Tendering (LLT) in Vietnam; 2 To determine how procurement and bidding are being done in the Ministry of Health as measured in terms of openness and transparency;... resulting in the effectiveness of tendering It was hypothesized that openness and transparency are significantly affecting harmonization in ILT and LLT in the Ministry of Health The harmonizing indicator is related to transparency level and openness level in public procurement The openness and transparency are the tools which support control of the public procurement by the public, and thus they possibly... or insufficient understanding of the donors’ procurement guidelines by PMUs and Executing Agencies shall cause the inefficient investment This study, therefore, shall seek answers to the following questions: 1 What are the common and the unique provisions in the International Law on Tendering (ILT) and Local Law on Tendering (LLT) in Vietnam? 2 How are procurement and bidding being done in the Ministry. .. Tendering (LLT) in Vietnam to determine how procurement and bidding are being done in the Ministry of Health as measured in terms of openness and transparency; to analyze how can the ILT and the LLT be harmonized in the Ministry of Health using transparency and openness as factors of harmonization; and to formulate some recommendations to have a more effective public procurement system In order to find... than on the grounds of efficiency1 Public investment in Vietnam includes all investments the government and private business sectors are undertaking which include (a) Investment from the budget (allocated to the Ministries, and distributed to local); (b) Investing in programs targeted support; (c) 1 International investment credit (loans of international organizations); and (d) Investment of the State... Provincial People Committee WB World Bank xi A RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL SOUTHERN LUZON STATE UNIVERSITY IN COLLABORATION WITH THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY APPROVAL SHEET This thesis, entitled HARMONIZATION OF PUBLIC COMPETITIVE TENDERING: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH IN VIETNAM , prepared and submitted by Nguyen Duy Phuong in partial fulfillment of the. .. (call as PMU) At the Ministry of Health, each province is a separated provincial PMU to perform all stages of procurement Procurement means the process of selecting a contractor who satisfies the requirements set by the party calling for tenders in order to implement a tender package belonging to a project stipulated in article 1 of Vietnamese Law on Tendering, on the basis of ensuring competitiveness,... macro-imbalance, and limiting competitiveness and quality of the integrating economy To improve public investment quality, one of the important principles should be to strictly implement open broad bidding of public investments or procurement to all economic sectors and conduct regular monitoring and supervision in public procurement2 By international comparison, in 2010, the total spending in Vietnam accounted... percent of the GDP,a higher rate compared to other countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia This amount, which is being reported in the current financial statistics of Vietnam, does not include government bonds and Official Development Assistance (called as 2 ODA) funds Thus, the State of Vietnam spends a large proportion of the wealth of society, compared with the rest of the countries in the Region . Republic of Vietnam Republic of Philippines HARMONIZATION OF PUBLIC COMPETITIVE TENDERING : EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH IN VIETNAM Advisor : Dr. Alice T. Valerio Name of Student. UNIVERSITY ii HARMONIZATION OF PUBLIC COMPETITIVE TENDERING : EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH IN VIETNAM A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Southern Luzon. entitled HARMONIZATION OF PUBLIC COMPETITIVE TENDERING: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH IN VIETNAM , truthfully declare that the said paper is a product of my original research investigation. Signed