Organizational Forms of Government Procurement
There are generally three modes of domestic government procurement:
Centralized Procurement Mode, in which a specialized government procurement agency is responsible for all the procurement tasks of the government at this level;
Decentralized Procurement Mode, in which each spending procurement unit procures on its own;
Semi-centralized and Semi-decentralized Procurement Mode, in which a specialized government procurement agency is responsible for the procurement of some items, while others are procured by the units themselves.
Centralized procurement accounts for a large proportion of China's government procurement, and projects listed in the centralized procurement catalog and reaching a certain procurement amount or more must undergo centralized procurement.
Expanded InformationGovernment Procurement
It means that in order to carry out daily governmental activities or to provide services for the public, governments at all levels, under the supervision of the treasury, purchase goods, products and services for the government departments or affiliated organizations from the domestic and foreign markets in the legal manner, method and procedure, through open bidding and fair competition, and by the treasury department in the form of direct payment to the suppliers. Government departments or affiliated groups to purchase goods, works and labor behavior.
In essence, it is the organic combination of market competition mechanism and financial expenditure management, and its main feature is the legalized management of government procurement behavior. Government procurement is mainly bidding procurement, limited competitive procurement and competitive negotiations.
The Law of the People's Republic of China on Government Procurement was adopted by the 28th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on June 29, 2002, and came into effect on January 1, 2003....
On August 31, 2014, the Tenth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Twelfth National People's Congress made the Decision on Amending Five Laws, Including the Insurance Law of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China, amending the Government Procurement Law of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China.
Latest news: Ministry of Finance: since September government procurement should be public specific transaction records
According to the Ministry of Finance website, the Ministry of Finance has recently issued a notice on matters related to the further improvement of government procurement information disclosure, requiring that centralized purchasing agencies should effectively promote the agreement to supply and fixed-point purchasing information disclosure, and, since the beginning of September 1, 2017, in addition to the required in the China Government Procurement Network and local sub-networks to publicize the information of the shortlisted procurement stage, in addition to the specific transaction records should also be made public.
The specific transaction records of e-stores, e-malls, online supermarkets, etc., shall also be made public.
(I) to save financial expenditure and improve the efficiency of the use of procurement funds. 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) strengthen 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 the public bidding, competitive negotiation 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.
3. The government's macro-control, increase investment, promote domestic demand, mostly through government procurement channels. A large number of government procurement behaviors make the market economy more active.
Reference Baidu Encyclopedia-Government Procurement