According to the Government Procurement Law: the government procurement referred to in this law refers to the state organs, institutions and organizations at all levels, the use of financial funds to purchase goods, projects and services within the centralized purchasing catalog formulated in accordance with the law, or the procurement of goods, projects and services above the limit standard.
The centralized government procurement catalog and procurement limit standards shall be formulated in accordance with the authority stipulated in this Law.
1. Procurement, as referred to in this Law, refers to the act of acquiring goods, works and services in a contractual manner for a fee, including purchasing, leasing, commissioning, hiring and so on.
2. Goods, as referred to in this Law, refer to various forms and types of items, including raw materials, fuel, equipment, products, etc.
3. The works referred to in this Law means construction works, including new construction, alteration, extension, renovation, demolition and repair of buildings and structures.
4. Services, as referred to in this Law, are objects of government procurement other than goods and works.
Expanded Information:
Government Procurement Functions:
(1) Saving financial expenditures and improving the procurement funds' utilization efficiency. Practice has proved that the government procurement system is a centralized and decentralized combination of open and transparent procurement system. From international experience, the implementation of government procurement general capital savings rate of 10% or more.
(ii) Strengthening macro-control. Give full play to the government's macro-control role in the development of the national economy, and promote the protection of domestic industries, environmental protection, support underdeveloped regions and small and medium-sized enterprises and other policies need to formulate a government procurement law.
(3) active market economy. Government procurement active market economy is mainly manifested in:
1. government procurement so that the normal operation of the government needs goods, need to build the project and services, from the government's own production, self-built, self-management to the full range of the market open, greatly active market economy;
2. government procurement of public tenders, competitive negotiations and other ways to promote the enterprise to run according to the laws of the market economy, and constantly improve product quality, improve service quality, and improve the quality of the market, and improve the quality of the market. Improve product quality, improve service quality, improve product competitiveness, etc., also contributes to the active market economy.
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