Tender Clarification and Regulation

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Ministry of Economic Affairs​

Tender Clarification and Regulation

Who Controls The Ministry Tenders?
The respective ministry that creates the tenders have the rights to add restrictions and changes as they wish to their tender offerings through the MEA. The MEA does not control what is within their tenders; we simply get an application/sourcing request from the representative ministry for which we set-up the tender. At no point does the MEA control or change what is requested other than to split the tender up into smaller contracts if asked by the Respective minister, with the ways split specified by the respective minister. Please note visa versa ministerial policy over their tenders only effect tenders posted by said ministry and no other.

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Ministry X submits order
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MEA (Provides Estimated values then submits tenders as told to by given minister)
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Tenders go live to public

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Who is managing the tender is always provided via the Ministerial Symbol added to the contract/tender auction, so that people can see if that tender has had additional rules added by the given ministry.

MUD Paste Tenders
Now to the more complex one where the main show for day to day tenders. For simplicity sake I shall organise this as a diagram/flow chart of how orders work and are processed:

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Paste Submitter requests MUD to import remaining items they have not supplied.
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MUD then supplies the MEA with a tender request with the items still outstanding for
the paste.
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MEA then designates it a “Mega Project order” or “Standard order” which designates if the supply period will be 31 days or 14 days respectively. This is based on if the overall import value surpasses 75k.
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MEA then splits items within the orders into their categories of nearest fit:

Wood/Bamboo Products, Mining Blocks, Mining Minerals, General “Natural” products, Nether Products, End Products, Lighting ect ect

This is done as near and best as possible to keep the amount of tenders to manage to 10 within reason. Expeception from this rule is made for items with alone estimated value above 10k at which point we aim to if possible give them an individual tender. This process is overseen by tender managers and the minister.
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MEA Provides the Estimated value of items to the new tenders.
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MEA posts the tenders
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MEA collects the tenders.

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I hope that the above shall have cleared up and sorted the speculation around how tenders are made and designated and would like to stress that at NO point can either the MEA or MUD minister manipulate or change the quantities of items within tenders. And the separation process of the tenders are based on a strict separation system within which a full clarification of categories and the items within shall be posted on the MEA forum. Once formatted. We would also like to stress that if you have evidence of minister manipulation of tenders please notify the counter party ministry or the MOJ to investigate.

How are estimated values set?
Estimated values for items are set based on the /commodity value on the day of tender posting. For MUD Paste Tenders that's at the first Muddy Money every two weeks. Where no possible commodity value can be found which is extremely rare and getting rarer. We use the value of components within which the item is made, if that is not possible or these items are “unobtainable” we aim to put these items in a separate tender, with an estimated price based on the nearest equivalent block/item value.

How are Tender Failures managed?
All “failed” tenders are processed and managed through the following system:

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Notification of failure to fulfil, or the person messages us to say they will not be able to fulfil
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If reasoning is provided such as “Item became un-collectable during supply period” we will confirm with admins as to the validity. Should that be verified to be the case we will not levy a fine against the individual and the value shall be charged to the given person or ministry.
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If it is proven that the collection of items where not disrupted to the point as to justify this, or no reasoning given, a fine shall be levied against the offender of the estimated value of tender or a partial delivery fine shall be made if particle delivery is made but the remaining cannot be made based on the value commodity value of what's been submitted already.
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Once completed, tender shall be re-made and set-up for new bidders. Unless items are still not obtainable.

 

[Luke201556]

Executive order by Prime Minister Lysander. Dated: 22/09/25​

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Executive Order - Restoring Azalean Tenders

1. Revocation
(a) The September 15th eligibility policies are repealed in full.

2. Tender Limits
(a) No government employee; Member of Parliament; Speaker of Parliament; Deputy Speaker; Minister; Prime Minister; or Deputy Prime Minister shall be allowed to fulfill more than three tenders per month.
(b) Individual limits also apply to any private enterprises owned by those individuals. This means private enterprises cannot be used to get around individual limit - using a private enterprise to bid will still count towards the limit of the individual who owns the enterprise, and if the individual already has fulfilled three tenders, neither they nor their private enterprises can fulfill any more for the month.
(c) Limited companies majority-owned by any individual shall have their limits included with the owner’s limits in the same manner as private enterprises. Otherwise, if a Member of Parliament, Speaker of Parliament, Deputy Speaker, Minister, Prime Minister, or Deputy Prime Minister own a non-majority stake in the limited company, it is capped to three tenders. If none of these individuals own a stake, it has no tender limit.
(d) Non-government individuals (individuals not included under 2a) have no tender limit each month.
(e) Month shall be defined as each calendar month, and the tender limits shall be reset upon entering a new calendar month.

Enactment: Effective immediately.​

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