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المملكة: No classification without financial lists and documented experience .. The most important conditions for the accreditation of engineering offices – urgent


I put off The Ministry of Municipalities and Housing , via a platform "reconnaissance"A project updated mechanism for classification of engineering offices and consulting companies, in a step aimed at developing the engineering work environment in the Kingdom, and achieving a comprehensive alignment with the latest international standards and practices in the consulting sector, in order to enhance the quality of the implementation of government and private projects, and achieve the targets of Saudi Vision 2030.

upgrading the quality of engineering projects

aimed at the new mechanism to classify offices and companies Consulting Engineering, which was presented by the Ministry of Municipal, Rural and Housing, to create a qualitative shift in classification procedures and standards, to ensure their compatibility with best practices and international standards. Establishing the principles of transparency and raising the efficiency of implementation Business and projects at various levels. The facility is for all classification requirements, so that classification requests, classification, degree raising or amending activities are completed within a period not exceeding 60 working days from the date of the completion of documents, while requests for extending the validity of the classification certificate are completed within a maximum period of 10 working days. Specific controls that guarantee the alignment of these areas with the nature of engineering work. And developments in the sector. The basic data, the attachment of a valid engineering license covers the required fields, in addition to the commercial license of the facility, and the provision of modern financial statements “budget and income list” that covers a period of time of no less than 12 months and not exceeding 18 months, provided that they are accredited by a licensed legal accountant and deposited through the platform “lists”. Where it is sufficient to provide the financial statements of the parent company for the branches of foreign companies that were not established 18 months, and government facilities or those affiliated with government agencies or other companies and their first financial year did not complete, by providing financial data approved by a legal accountant without the requirement to complete a fiscal year. Governance, and the progress of administrative and technical cadres and their experiences, as well as copies of the implementation contracts executed or currently being implemented, provided that the completion rate in it is not less than 50%. />
It is required that all documents be in Arabic or translated from an accredited office, and ratified by the commercial attaché or the Saudi embassy if they are from outside the Kingdom. By requesting to raise the class of classification or delete one of the activities after 90 days from the date of the issuance of the certificate, while an application can be applied to add new activities at any time during the validity period The date of the end of the certificate, while the Ministry authorized the cancellation of the request in the event that the classification requirements are not completed within 90 days from the date of notification of the facility to do so. In the agency, it includes a legal advisor, considering the objections of engineering installations classified on classification decisions, provided that the facility has the right to submit its objection within 60 days from the date of reporting, in addition to the possibility of grievance before the administrative court during the same period of the committee’s decision. It is not included in the recognized executive experiences of the engineering offices, explaining 4 cases in which these projects are excluded from calculating the experience, namely: if the date of the signing of the project contract precedes the date of the office’s obtaining the engineering license, or if the project is outside the scope of the fields in which the office is classified, or if the office is not actually participating in the implementation of the project, in addition to excluding any project whose documents or data are not submitted during the field study or when examining the office And the location.

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