Recently, when the project was tendered in Hunan Province, the bid of the successful bidder was lower than the theoretical cost price. After accounting, the actual price in the nutrition package is only 0.07 yuan/package, which is lower than the lowest cost calculated by other enterprises and experts in the project team, and even lower than the national budget standard of 1 package. In addition, in nutrition package, the bidding in Hunan Province has been delayed, winning the bid at a low price, and one of the direct effects of delaying the project is that there is a large amount of surplus funds.
After deducting the cost, the winning bid price is only 0.07 yuan.
According to the reporter, the core of the "Nutrition Improvement Project for Children in Poverty-stricken Areas" is nutrition package. Project nutrition package: each package 12g, a box of 30 packages. As a supplementary food and nutritional supplement, nutrition package gives one pack a day to infants aged 6-24 months free of charge.
The procurement process is as follows: the national financial funds are distributed to the provinces, and the Provincial Health Planning Commission, as the purchaser, entrusts the bidding company or the government procurement center to bid for nutrition package, and the winning company provides products and is responsible for supporting services such as distribution, personnel training and project promotion. The procurement process is organized and supervised by the provincial finance department.
20 16 12, the bidding result was announced in nutrition package, Hunan province. According to the announcement of competitive negotiation (hereinafter referred to as the announcement), six companies from nutrition package and * * * participated in the bidding, and the winning companies were Wuhan Huakangchen Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Huakangchen") and Ferguson (Wuhan) Biology. Among them, Huazhongbiao 142 16000 cases, accounting for 42.648 million packages.
According to the "Announcement", our reporter calculated that the winning bids of the three companies were 0.35 yuan/bag, 0.49 yuan/bag and 0.529 yuan/bag respectively, and their winning bids in China were significantly lower than those of the other two companies.
According to the Invitation Announcement for Competitive Negotiation of Procurement Projects in nutrition package, Hunan Province, the winning bidder shall provide 9 supporting services, including supporting publicity materials, personnel training, project promotion and nutrition package distribution, in addition to the required number of nutrition package. The above-mentioned Announcement on Invitation to Negotiation clearly stipulates various fee standards. According to this calculation, the cost that Hua Kangchen needs to bear is 8,566,300 yuan, and the cost allocated to each nutrition package is 0.2 yuan.
The staff of nutrition package factory who participated in this tender estimated to the reporter of China Times (official account of WeChat: China Times) that in addition to the above expenses, China also had to bear the bid-winning service fee of 44 1.406.8 yuan, and share it to 0.0 1 yuan per package; The cost of supporting materials, distribution expenses (from factory to township) and value-added tax should be apportioned to at least 0.07 yuan per package.
Therefore, after Huakangchen won the bid at the price of 0.35 yuan/bag, it had to bear the cost of 0.28 yuan/bag, and the price of producing nutrition package was only 0.07 yuan/bag.
The staff of the above-mentioned manufacturers told the reporter of China Times (official account of WeChat) that the project requires that the protein of nutrition package soybean should all come from Class I instant soybean powder, and the production of 12g/ bag of nutrition package needs to be no less than11.4g. At present, its market price is about 15400 yuan/ton.
Huo, a researcher at the Institute of Nutrition and Health of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told the reporter of China Times (official account of WeChat: China Times) that according to their rough calculation, the direct cost of producing nutrition package products that meet the standards, that is, the cost of raw materials, packaging materials and inspection, is probably in 0.4 yuan. If the costs of personnel, transportation, supporting services and enterprise operation are added, the actual cost will be much higher than the direct cost. But he also stressed that it is not excluded that some enterprises can achieve lower costs.
The winning bidder called "losing money for charity"
So, how does Hua Chen Kang make a profit?
A tender staff member of the Hunan Provincial Health Planning Commission recalled to the reporter of China Times (official account of WeChat: China Times) that in view of the low quotation in China, some bid evaluation experts had questioned the tender. The answer given by Hua is that they are willing to take the nutrition package project as a charity project, because it is not for profit, so the quotation given is far lower than that of other manufacturers.
The reporter of China Times (official account of WeChat: China Times) tried to contact the chairman and general manager of China, but as of press time, the phone has been refused, and no one answered the reporter's text message.
Du, the chief physician of Hunan Maternal and Child Health Hospital, is the chief judge in charge of bid evaluation, and he also refused to respond to possible problems in bid evaluation.
The national enterprise credit information publicity system shows that there are two natural person shareholders in China, namely Hegao, of which 7.674 million yuan is subscribed and 2.558 million yuan is subscribed; There is also an enterprise legal person, Qingdingmu (Wuhan) Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Qingdingmu"). Among the three natural person shareholders, there are still and Gao. In addition, Liu Zhiwei is also the chief scientist and dean of the research institute.
According to an investigation by the reporter of China Times (official account of WeChat), Liu Zhiwei studied as a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Nutrition of China CDC from 2003 to 2008, and this information was confirmed by a staff member of China CDC. Official website Qingdingmu said in his introduction that "during 20/2005-20 10/0, he cooperated with the expert group of China Center for Disease Control and Prevention to study and demonstrate the infant nutrition improvement project".
An industry insider told the reporter of China Times (official account of WeChat: China Times) that Hua won the bid for the first time in Hunan last June, and attracted attention with a low price of 0.35 yuan/bag. At the same time, unlike other manufacturers in nutrition package who actively participated in the bidding of nutrition package, Hua Kangchen only participated in the bidding of Hunan Province in the past year of 65438+February, and had no experience in winning the bid in other regions before that.
The bidding has been delayed for nearly two years, and the remaining funds are serious.
In addition to winning the bid at a low price, the tender for nutrition packages in Hunan Province was also postponed.
According to the information inquired by the Hunan Provincial Government Procurement Network, the Hunan Provincial Health Planning Commission issued the 20 15 12 and 20 16 invitations for competitive negotiation of procurement projects in nutrition package on 20 14. According to the project plan jointly issued by the State Health Planning Commission and the All-China Women's Federation, the bidding and procurement should be completed within 2-3 months after the funds are issued.
According to a number of people familiar with the matter, it was revealed to the reporter of China Times (official account of WeChat: China Times) that every year, the project bidding in various places was generally completed in the first half of that year, and after the completion, the manufacturers should start delivery soon to meet the needs of infants and young children in the project plan of that year.
The bidding for 20 14 and 20 15 projects should have been completed in the first half of that year, but it was delayed in Hunan Province for nearly two years. Moreover, the time interval between 20 14 and 20 15 bidding in Hunan Province is as long as 20 months, which is the longest among all the project provinces.
Because the longest time for infants in the project to receive nutrition package is one and a half months between six months and 24 months, the consequence caused by the delay in bidding may be that the school-age infants who should have been in the project have already exceeded the specified month when they started to distribute in nutrition package. According to the regulations, nutrition package will no longer issue them after more than one month.
A person familiar with the matter told the reporter of China Times (WeChat official account: China Times) that there is an operation method after winning the bid at a low price, that is, the winning bidder signs a contract with the purchaser, but does not deliver the goods before the new project starts next year. In this way, if the enterprise does not implement the contract, it will not cause actual losses because of winning the bid at a low price; The deposit will not be confiscated, thus avoiding losses.
One of the direct effects of winning the bid at a low price and delaying the project is the problem of excess funds. A professional organization in China has conducted research on this project before. According to the third-party evaluation report of the project formed after its research, there were 10 provinces' surplus funds in 20 15 years, of which Hunan had the largest surplus funds, reaching 254 10/0,000 yuan. In that year, the central government allocated 56.94 million yuan of project funds to Hunan Province, with the remaining funds accounting for 44.6%.
Looking at the remaining funds, the project coverage rate (the proportion of project counties in the number of poverty-stricken counties) in 2 1 9 provinces is less than two-thirds, of which the project coverage rate in Hunan Province is 63%.
Yuanling County, Huaihua City, Hunan Province is one of the project counties. The village doctor in the clinic of Huangyangping Neighborhood Committee in Mingxikou Town told the reporter of China Times (WeChat official account: China Times) that the batch of nutrition package distributed by the village began to be collected in May last year and was produced by Ganzhou Quanbiao Biotechnology Co., Ltd., which was the successful bidder of the 20 14 project, and the contract performance date was 20 16 March.
For the project extension, the above-mentioned bidding staff gave two reasons. First, the central government issued funds late, and the project funds of that year often didn't arrive until September, 65438+ 10 or even the end of the year, so there was no way to invite public bidding before the funds arrived; Another point is that the process of counting, reporting and bidding for the people covered by the nutrition package project is relatively long, and it will take some time. In addition, he pointed out that the new tender will not start until the nutrition package distribution in the last cycle is basically completed.
This statement has been confirmed by many rural doctors. The above-mentioned village doctor said that many local parents take their children out to work, and many children are no longer in the village; In addition, most children in the village don't like to eat nutrition package, so there is a backlog of nutrition package in the local area, which can't be distributed.
Village doctors in Laoyaxi neighborhood committee clinic in Yuanling town only started to receive this batch of nutrition package in June+10 this year, and have been distributing the products of the last batch of successful manufacturers. The nutrition package produced by China Company, which won the bid at the end of last year, has not been distributed to all villages.
As for the surplus funds of a large number of projects, the above-mentioned bidding staff believe that this is not a problem, but the result of the work of the Hunan Health Planning Commission. Through a series of tenders, nutrition package can basically guarantee (supply) until the end of 20 18. On this basis, if there is a fund balance, we can continue to purchase and ensure (supply) to 20 19.
Some experts in the industry told the reporter of China Times (WeChat official account: China Times) that according to the regulations, the project funds must be earmarked for special purposes, and even if the bidding procurement is expanded, it needs to be reported for approval.
As for why the remaining funds were not used to expand the county covered by the project, the bidding staff explained that the Hunan Provincial Health Planning Commission had reported to the competent authorities, but did not get a reply.
It is difficult to guarantee the quality of the nutrition package by bidding at a low price. Some manufacturers have detected genetically modified soybean powder.
Wuhan Huakangchen Biotechnology Co., Ltd. is not the only low-priced bidder in recent years. The staff of a factory in nutrition package recalled to reporters that at the beginning of the 20 12 project, although the quotations of various manufacturers were different, they were still within a reasonable range; With the progress of the project, especially since 20 16, individual manufacturers bid far below the cost price in order to win the bid.
According to the manufacturer's statistics, in the 20 16 project bidding, the winning bidders in Sichuan, Ningxia, Gansu, Tibet and Hunan provinces are the lowest bidding prices. Low-price competition has caused industry experts to worry about the quality of nutrition packages.
Some manufacturers illegally use genetically modified soybean powder.
The reporter's investigation found that nutrition package, which is distributed in some areas, is even suspected of using genetically modified soybean powder in violation of regulations. June 5438+this year 10, the project management unit entrusted an analysis and testing center in Beijing to sample nutrition package. The test results of nutrition package samples of Liaoning Meitianjia Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Meitianjia") showed that lectin gene, NOS gene and EPSPS gene were all positive, indicating that it contained transgenic components.
A staff member of a soybean flour supplier told the reporter of China Times (official account of WeChat) that the price of genetically modified soybeans is about 2,000 yuan/ton cheaper than that of non-genetically modified soybeans. Based on 1.5 tons of soybean yield, the cost of transgenic soybean flour is 3000 yuan lower.
The procurement requirements issued by the National Health and Family Planning Commission over the years clearly require that the food substrate used in nutrition package (including instant bean powder I) must be non-genetically modified. The staff of the above-mentioned soybean flour factory said that the use of genetically modified soybeans to produce food belongs to the "non-food raw materials processed food" in the Food Safety Law, which is a serious illegal act.
The reporter saw from the nutrition packaging and related materials in Ningxia and other places that Mei Tianjia had made some technical treatments on five batches of nutrition packaging of 20 16, such as labeling "non-GMO instant bean powder" or "non-GMO instant bean powder I" on the packaging, which obviously did not meet the requirements of the national food safety standard "General Rules for Labeling in prepackaged foods". In addition, the "vitamin" label on the package also exceeds the standard given by the State Project Office.
It is understood that the daily home coverage includes Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Guizhou, Gansu and Yunnan.
A manager surnamed Zhao of Meitianjia responded to the reporter of China Times (official account of WeChat: China Times) on the 24th, saying that it is impossible to use genetically modified soybean powder in Meitianjia's nutrition package, and the soybean powder and nutrition package of Meitianjia have been tested by authoritative departments. As of press time, the reporter failed to contact the Maternal and Child Health Department of Ningxia Health Planning Commission.
Huo, a researcher at the Institute of Nutrition and Health of China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told the reporter of China Times (official account of WeChat: China Times) that the National Health and Family Planning Commission and the All-China Women's Federation issued the Requirements for Bidding and Purchasing of Projects in Provinces, which stipulated that the importance of product technology and services should be fully reflected in local calibration, and suggested that the quotation score should not exceed 35% of the total score.
However, according to a survey by a professional organization in China, in the actual bidding process in various places, the price score is generally relatively large, ranging from 30% to 35%, and some provinces even reach 50%. A person familiar with the matter said that although the National Health and Family Planning Commission and the All-China Women's Federation initiated the project bidding and procurement requirements, taking product quality as the first assessment criterion and emphasizing the importance of supporting services in the nutrition package, the requirements were not mandatory.
As a result, as long as the price is low, we can win the bid locally, but some batches of products may be shoddy, underpaid or the supporting services will shrink, and there may even be the possibility of squeezing out competitors and mastering the market discourse power through short-term low prices.
The above-mentioned insiders also said that it has been suggested to modify the project-related system many times, but it depends on the coordination of various departments.
It is difficult to balance the taste of the product.
Yu, vice president of China Maternal and Child Health Association, told the reporter of China Times (official account of WeChat: China Times) that due to lax supervision during the operation of the project, there may be cases where the low-priced winning bidder actually distributes nutrition package products, which is inconsistent with the qualified products submitted for inspection. Moreover, as a complementary food for infants, the promotion effect of nutrition package is closely related to the internal quality such as taste, and it is difficult to give consideration to the internal quality such as taste for products auctioned at low prices. At the same time, it is difficult to guarantee the supporting publicity and training of nutrition packages.
The village doctor at Youfangping Village Clinic in Guanzhuang Town, Huaihua City, Hunan Province told the reporter of China Times (official account of WeChat: China Times) that the promotion effect of nutrition package in the local area was not good, especially last year, many parents reported that their children didn't like the smell of nutrition package.
The village doctor also said that many parents don't understand nutrition package and have resistance. There are even parents who think that expensive things are good, and there are no free good things. He believes that the most lacking in the implementation of the project is the popularization of parental knowledge.
According to an interview with the reporter of China Times (official account of WeChat), at present, many project counties in Huaihua City, Hunan Province have assigned the task of popularizing parent education to village doctors and evaluated their performance, but many villages are facing a serious shortage of village doctors. Among them, there is only one village doctor in the clinic of Laoyaxi Neighborhood Committee in Yuanling Town, who shoulders the medical and health tasks of more than 2,000 people in the village and is also responsible for the promotion of several national health projects.