Section 30: Short List to be Prepared by Soliciting Expression of Interest Openly

1) Where it is required to procure consultancy service that costs more than the prescribed threshold, the Public Entity, in order to solicit expression of interest from the persons, firms, organizations or companies that are interested in providing such consultancy services shall publish a notice in a newspaper of national circulation, giving a period of at least fifteen days, setting out the matters as prescribed.

2) The notice under sub-section (1) may be placed on the website of the Ministry of the Public Entity or of the Public Procurement Monitoring Office concerned.

3) International level expression of interest shall have to be invited in the following circumstances:

(a) To procure consultancy services, the cost of which exceeds the prescribed threshold,

(b) If the consultancy service as requisitioned by the Public Entity is not available at a competitive price from more than one consultant within the State of Nepal,

(c) If no proposal has been submitted in response to the invitation to a national level proposal for the procurement of consultancy services, and the service has to be procured from any foreign consultant,

(d) If it is necessary to obtain services from a consultant under the foreign aid source, by soliciting international expression of interest in accordance with an agreement with the donor party.

4) While soliciting expression of interest under sub-section (3), notice shall have to be published in the English language.

5) The Public Entity shall, upon evaluation, inter alia, of the qualification, experience and capacity of the intending proponents the expression of interest pursuant to sub-section (1) or (3), make selection of generally three to six intending proponents and who can provide such consultancy service, and prepare a short list as prescribed.

6) Where it is required to procure consultancy service the cost of which is less than the prescribed threshold, the Public Entity may prepare a list of the person, firm, organization or company that can provide such service, by fulfilling the procedures as prescribed, and shall solicit proposals pursuant to Section 31 from the person, firm, organization or company that have been included in that list, by fulfilling the procedures as prescribed.