Government bidding and competitive negotiation. All three companies in the first round met the qualification requirements. In the second round of quotations, one company's quotation exceeded the first round quotation and exceeded the budget.

The answer is yes: bid evaluation can continue. Competitive negotiation is a form of procurement that occurs in municipal government procurement and is not a form of bidding. Its characteristics are that there is no bid opening, there can be less than three bidders, two rounds of quotations, and the bid is won at a low price.

Generally, the bidder will lower the price in the second quotation, but there is no hard and fast rule that it must be lower than the first quotation. Therefore, if the second quotation is higher than the first quotation, it is the independent behavior of the bidder and does not constitute Negotiations can continue on the conditions for canceling the bid.