Ministry of Transport: Establishing a Market System for Highway Construction

On the 21st, it was learned from the Ministry of Communications that the Ministry of Transport recently issued the “Several Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the Highway Construction Management System” (referred to as “Several Opinions”), proposed four systems for perfecting the legal person responsibility system for highway construction management projects, and innovative project construction. Management model, establish a sound and unified highway construction market system, and continuously strengthen government supervision.

The "Several Opinions" made it clear that road construction management should implement the project legal person responsibility system, reform the project supervision system, improve the bidding system, and strengthen the contract management system.

Based on the actual conditions of highway construction and reform of the investment and financing system, the “Several Opinions” proposed that various localities could combine the actual situation of the region with the characteristics of the construction project, and select one of the self-management model, the improved traditional model, and the agency-building model as the construction management model. Improve the professionalism of project management. At the same time, all localities are encouraged to further explore other effective construction management models under the new financing model such as the government and social capital cooperation (PPP) model.

The “Several Opinions” emphasized the improvement of the credit system for the highway construction market, the strengthening of the basic construction of credit information, the expansion of evaluation of market players, the establishment of a credit rating system for key employees, and the strengthening of the management of the agency market and the management of employees. Engineering insurance system. Government departments should reduce market access restrictions and strengthen post-event supervision. In particular, they must strengthen the supervision over key aspects such as the availability of funds for project investors, bidding and tendering, design review, project changes, and project acceptance, and focus on rectifying illegal bids. Interventions, obscure operations, bid-and-trade behaviors, and test data and changes in design fraud, layer-by-level subcontracting and illegal subcontracting, false reporting of project quantities, and multiple project violations, etc., establish a lifelong accountability system and project for engineering quality Cost supervision and management system. At the same time, innovative supervision methods will be used to study and formulate supervision models, priorities, and measures for the construction of new project management models and new financing methods.