Page 54 - URA Annual Report 2021-22

OPERATING REVIEW
Equipping Owners with Professional Assistance and Technical Knowledge
Building Rehabilitation Resources Centre (BRRC)
Scheduled to open in the third quarter of 2022, the new BRRC is the city’s first one-stop resources centre on building rehabilitation. With an area of 7,000 square feet, it provides technical assistance and information on building rehabilitation services to facilitate building owners to maintain their building conditions, as well as to enhance awareness and promote preventive maintenance. Video
consultation services, mediation and multi-purpose rooms will also be made available to the public.
The Building Rehabilitation Resources Centre, which contains educational panels on rehabilitation knowledge, aims to provide one-stop building rehabilitation information and services to owners.
Smart Tender Building Rehabilitation Facilitating Services Scheme (Smart Tender)
Smart Tender aims to provide technical support to OCs of private buildings and reduce the risk of bid rigging at the works procurement stage. It covers the procurement of consultants and registered fire service installation contractors starting from 2019, and was further expanded in 2020 to cover the procurement of registered lift contractors. Up to June 2022, around 2,800 valid applications were received and around 2,550 of them were approved and approached for providing the Smart Tender services.
New Open e-tendering Platform for Public
To allow OCs/Deeds of Mutual Covenant managers to procure selected services from consultants and contractors via the e-tendering platform free of charge, an independent e-tendering platform was launched in April 2021. Promotion of the new platform commenced in May 2021 for the first targeted group, including property management associations
and property management companies.
Centralised Tender Collection System
Developed by the URA, the Centralised Tender Collection System has been in operation since 2020, allowing greater efficiency of the tendering processes. Through automating tender submission and streamlining tender processing workflow, the system is capable of handling a maximum of 3,000 procurement cases each year, significantly exceeding the capacity of conventional tender boxes. As of June 2022, the system has handled about 1,200 tender documents for 1,130 building works projects. Positive feedbacks were received from tenderers and OCs concerned.
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