【正文】 endering in China normally requires a tenderer to submit a technical submission and a pricing submission (priced bills of quantities) separately. The successful tender will be determined under a marking system by a tender assessment mittee which will bine the technical scores and the pricing result of individual tenderers for parison before remending a tender for acceptance, rather than solely selecting the lowest priced tender. It sets out the requirement for a tender assessment mittee. Within this mittee twothirds of its members are experts to be selected from a panel of experts kept by the government, and outweighs the number of representatives from the owner. This mittee assesses the tenders according to the project marking scheme and makes remendations as to the prospective successful tender for the Owner’s acceptance. Bills of Quantities and AllInRates The use of norms in determining construction costs has been very useful in the past, when China was operated as a planned economy. However this system restricts individual enterprises from tendering based on their own resources or advantages such as using a special type of plant or skilled tradesmen to speed up production or reduce the tender price. As a result, the winwin situation wherein the Developer can obtain the best price from the lowest tender and an efficient and petent tenderer can win a tender by putting in the lowest bid cannot be achieved and this is not in line with the rules of the international petitive market. In February 2020, The Code of valuation with bill (of) quantity of construction works (GB50500 – 2020) was published jointly by The Ministry of Housing and Urban – Rural Development (MOHURD) and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China. A new 2020 version, which includes additional guidelines on other contract administration practices such as variations, claims and dispute resolution was subsequently issued in July 2020 for use, superceding the 2020 edition. The Code sets out the rules and procedures to regulate the preparation of bills of quantities on the basis of drawings, specifications and other requirements and site conditions. This mirrors generally the overseas methods of producing bills of quantities. The Bill of Quantities contains sections of work items and these are generally to be priced by‘AllInRates’ which have to be inclusive of all costs of labour, materials, plant, management,risks plus profit and taxes etc. The Code requires that tender documents for all medium and large sized construction projects which are funded wholly or partly by the Government to be based on Bills of Quantities prepared according to this document. All construction projects using bills of quantities as the basis of obtaining tenders have tofollow the Code in the preparation of pretender estimates, tendering prices, determination ofthe contract sum and adjustments and the project final account. The benefits of