Consultation with the Ministry of Education... Applied from July 1 Starting with Bid Announcements
The Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education announced on the 25th that it will improve and implement detailed criteria for the qualification review of asbestos dismantling and removal work in school facilities, in consultation with the Ministry of Education.
Since 2019, the Gwangju Office of Education has applied detailed criteria for qualification review during asbestos dismantling and removal work. The review evaluates four categories: ▲work performance capability (construction experience, management status, credibility) ▲bid price ▲safety evaluation ▲disqualification reasons.
Through this, companies with the capability to perform are selected as the final successful bidders.
However, there has been a consistent issue that the safety evaluation criteria exclude newly established companies that have not yet received a safety rating. To address this, a final notification was prepared after consultation with the Ministry of Education.
This notification will be applied starting from the bid announcement on July 1.
The main changes in this notification are twofold. First, the application of safety evaluation grade scoring will be changed to improve disadvantages faced by newly established companies. Second, the terminology of the currently implemented detailed qualification review criteria will be clearly defined to reduce confusion during contract work.
In particular, with this revision, companies that are ‘newly established for less than 2 years from the registration standard date’ or ‘companies currently under evaluation in the safety evaluation target’ will not receive any point deductions during the safety evaluation. This aims to open more participation opportunities for ‘unevaluated’ newly established companies.
Currently, the safety evaluation grades consist of a total of six grades: five grades from S to D and one ‘unevaluated’ grade. Previously, unevaluated companies were subject to point deductions during the qualification review, but in the two cases mentioned above, such disadvantages will be eliminated.
Yang Gwan-cheol, Director of Finance at the Gwangju Office of Education, said, "We hope that newly established companies with construction capability but disadvantaged by unevaluated safety ratings will have expanded opportunities to participate in construction through this revision."
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