Regulations of Materials and Instruments Imported by Maritime Transportation for Governmental Agencies and State-owned Enterprises Article 4

For any procurement of bulk cargo procured by the agencies, except for those special cases that need to be approved by its supervising agency, the conditions of public procurement shall be in accordance with that of carrier of shipment selected by the buyer. Such maritime procurement of service shall be handled in accordance with the following rules:1.In case where the term of the contract is more than a one-year period, less the shipping capacity of the vessels owned by the agencies, the competent ROC-flagged vessels within the ROC-flagged carrier recommended by the dedicated agencies approved by the competent authority shall be given the priority of carriage.2.In case where the term of the contract is not over a one-year period, less the shipping capacity of the vessels owned by the agencies, the determination of vessel carrier shall be handled in accordance with Subparagraph 2, Article 43 of the Government Procurement Act, and those ROC-flagged carriers recommended by the dedicated agencies approved by the competent authority shall be given the priority of carriage, which shall not be confined by the provisions of Article 46 of the Enforcement Rules of the Government Procurement Act.