# New Tender Framework for Place of Worship Land

- **Source:** Ministry of National Development
- **Published:** 2018-09-13T03:00:00.000Z
- **Author:** Ministry of National Development
- **Original:** https://www.mnd.gov.sg/newsroom/press-releases/view/new-tender-framework-for-place-of-worship-land
- **Topics:** Investment & Capital Markets, Sustainability & PropTech

## Featured rationale

The framework could produce more predictable worship-site supply and favour adequately funded groups with genuine space needs, while shared hubs may improve scarce-land utilisation.

## AI summary

Place of Worship land tenders will adopt pre-qualification before price evaluation, while at least two church and two Chinese temple sites will be released annually.

## Original article

The Ministry of National Development announced today changes to the tender framework for Place of Worship (PW) land. The changes are being made to ensure that only religious groups that actively contribute to the community, and have a genuine need for worship space can bid for PW land. Tenderers must also demonstrate that they have adequate and sustainable local funding to finance the purchase and development of the PW site, and will not use foreign donations for this purpose. 

To better meet Singaporeans’ religious and worship needs and ensure optimal use of Singapore’s scarce land resources, MND has worked closely with apex religious groups to review the land tender process for PW land. This has allowed for better understanding of the worship space needs of religious organisations. The apex religious groups also welcomed these efforts to ensure that new PW sites are tendered out to religious organisations with genuine space needs.

New Tender Framework 

Under the previous framework, tenders for PW land were evaluated solely based on price. Under the new framework, tenderers will go through two stages – first, they will be assessed on a set of pre-qualification criteria. Only those who meet the pre-qualification criteria of this first stage will proceed to the second stage, where the site is awarded to the qualified tenderer with the highest bid price (see details in Annex A).

Supply of PW Sites

To provide sufficient land to meet religious and worship needs, MND will release at least two Church and two Chinese temple sites each year (see details in Annex B), over the next few years. This provides greater certainty to aid planning by religious organisations, and will result in more PW land supply than in the past, when sites were put out intermittently. The Government will continue to monitor the trend in PW land tenders, and adjust the supply of PW land, as necessary.

Launch of PW Hubs

For the first time, MND will also be releasing land for the development of PW hubs. PW hubs can house multiple religious organisations belonging to the same religion, in a multi-storey development. Through co-location and sharing of facilities such as car parks, Singapore’s limited land resources will be better optimised. Smaller religious organisations who find the standard PW sites too large for their use can band together under one PW hub.

MND will release sites for one Church hub and one Chinese temple hub via Concept-and-Price tenders, and religious organisations can jointly apply to develop and manage these PW hubs.

As with tenders for standalone PW sites, tenderers of PW Hubs will also have to meet the pre-qualification criteria. To ensure that the objectives of the PW hub are met, tenderers will be evaluated on their concept proposals, in particular, their experience and track record in developing and managing PW developments of similar nature, and their proposed development concepts and management plans for the PW hub (see details in Annex A). Successful tenderers of the PW hub are also expected to manage and operate the PW hub.

## Chinese translation

> Translation model: grok_cli

### 宗教场所用地推出新招标框架

国家发展部今日宣布对宗教场所（PW）用地招标框架作出调整。调整旨在确保只有积极贡献社区、且确实有礼拜空间需求的宗教团体才能竞投宗教场所用地。投标者还必须证明其拥有充足且可持续的本地资金，以资助宗教场所用地的购置与开发，且不会为此使用外国捐款。

为更好地满足新加坡人的宗教与礼拜需求，并确保善用新加坡稀缺的土地资源，国家发展部与各宗教最高组织密切合作，检讨宗教场所用地的土地招标流程。这有助于更好地了解宗教组织的礼拜空间需求。各宗教最高组织也欢迎这些努力，以确保新的宗教场所用地批给确实有空间需求的宗教组织。

新招标框架

在旧框架下，宗教场所用地的投标仅按价格评估。在新框架下，投标者将经过两个阶段——首先按一组资格预审标准进行评估。只有通过第一阶段资格预审的投标者才进入第二阶段，由合格投标者中出价最高者获批用地（详见附件A）。

宗教场所用地供应

为提供足够土地满足宗教与礼拜需求，国家发展部将在未来数年内每年至少推出两幅教堂用地和两幅华族庙宇用地（详见附件B）。这将为宗教组织的规划提供更大确定性，并带来比以往间歇式推出用地时更充裕的宗教场所用地供应。政府将继续监测宗教场所用地招标趋势，并在必要时调整供应。

推出宗教场所综合枢纽

国家发展部也将首次推出用于开发宗教场所综合枢纽（PW hubs）的用地。宗教场所综合枢纽可在同一栋多层建筑内容纳多个属于同一宗教的宗教组织。通过共址及共享停车场等设施，新加坡有限的土地资源将得到更好优化。觉得标准宗教场所用地过大的小型宗教组织，也可联合加入同一宗教场所综合枢纽。

国家发展部将通过概念与价格招标方式，推出一幅教堂综合枢纽用地和一幅华族庙宇综合枢纽用地，宗教组织可联合申请开发与管理这些宗教场所综合枢纽。

与独立宗教场所用地招标一样，宗教场所综合枢纽的投标者也须符合资格预审标准。为确保综合枢纽目标得以实现，投标者将就其概念方案接受评估，特别是其开发与管理类似性质宗教场所项目的经验与往绩，以及为综合枢纽提出的开发概念与管理计划（详见附件A）。宗教场所综合枢纽的成功投标者也须管理并运营该枢纽。