What are the methods of government procurement

Domestic or foreign request-for-quotations (RFQ) procurement, also known as comparison of goods, is a procurement method in which the procuring entity issues a request-for-quotations (RFQ) to the relevant domestic and foreign suppliers (usually no fewer than three) for them to make quotations, and then compares the quotations and determines the winning supplier on the basis of the quotations. This method is only applicable to the procurement of spot or small value of the standard specifications of the equipment, or small, simple civil engineering works.

Government procurement is generally used in the following six ways:

(a) open tendering. Open bidding is the main procurement method of government procurement. Procurement of goods or services should be used by the purchaser of open bidding, the specific amount of standards, in accordance with the principle of hierarchical management of government procurement projects belonging to the central budget by the State Council; belonging to the local budget of government procurement projects by the provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central people's government; due to special circumstances require the use of open tendering other than the procurement method, should be obtained before the start of the procurement activities of the municipal district, Autonomous state people's government above the procurement supervision and management department's approval.

(ii) Invitation to tender. Invitation to tender to take the procurement of goods or services should be consistent with one of the following two situations: one is special, in other words, the procurement of goods or services can only be purchased from a limited range of suppliers; the second is to take the cost of open tendering method of public procurement projects accounted for a disproportionately large proportion of the total value.

(iii) competitive negotiations. In accordance with the provisions of the "Government Procurement Law", the use of competitive negotiations for government procurement should have one of the following four conditions:

1, the use of bidding after the way no supplier bidding or no qualified bid or re-tendering failed to be established;

2, the technical complexity or the nature of the special, can not be determined by the detailed specifications or specific requirements;

3, the use of the time required for bidding Can not meet the urgent needs of users;

4, can not calculate the total price in advance.

(D) single-source procurement; the use of single-source procurement should have one of the following circumstances:

1, can only be purchased from a single supplier;

2, unforeseen emergencies can not be purchased from other suppliers;

3, we must ensure consistency of the original procurement project or service support requirements, the need to continue to purchase from the original supplier, and the purchase of additional funds The total amount does not exceed ten percent of the original contract purchase amount.

(e) RFQ; RFQ, as the name suggests, that is, the way to ask the supplier price of government procurement, it is generally applicable to the procurement of goods specifications, standards, and sufficient spot sources and price changes in government procurement projects.

(F) the State Council supervision and management of government procurement recognized other procurement methods.