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| Trainees practise programming and operating robots at the Ho Chi Minh City Hi-Tech Park Training Centre__Photo: VNA |
Foreign investors that commit to transferring technology to Vietnamese investors or partners will be eligible for a 2-per-cent preference in bid evaluation under a newly issued government decree.
As stated in Decree 274/2026/ND-CP, dated July 7 and effective on August 21, investors will receive a 5-per-cent preference in bid evaluations if they propose using advanced, high or environmentally friendly technologies, or best available techniques, to minimise environmental pollution in projects posing a high risk of adverse environmental impacts.
The same preference will apply to science and technology enterprises; innovative start-ups and innovative start-up support organisations recognised by competent authorities; innovation centres; strategic technology enterprises; hi-tech enterprises; manufacturers of hi-tech products; and incubators for high technologies and hi-tech enterprises established in accordance with the law on high technology.
Meanwhile, investors that commit to transferring technology or carrying out hi-tech activities involving high technologies or hi-tech products on the Prime Minister-issued lists of technologies prioritised for development investment or hi-tech products encouraged for development will receive a 2-per-cent preference in bid evaluation.
The 2-per-cent preference will also apply to investors using technologies on the list of technologies encouraged for transfer under the law on technology transfer or the list of strategic technologies prescribed by the law on high technology.
To qualify, investors must submit documents demonstrating their proposed use of advanced, high or environmentally friendly technologies, or best available techniques, together with evidence of their lawful use rights over those technologies.
The supporting documents must comply with the laws on high technology, technology transfer and environmental protection, as well as other relevant laws.
Investors granted preferential treatment that are subsequently selected to sign contracts for business investment projects will be required to fulfil the commitments set out in their bid dossiers and project contracts.- (VLLF)
