Government procurement how to standardize the use of certification

Currently, government procurement activities are filled with a large number of various types of licenses, qualifications, certifications, can be described as a large number of categories, a variety of qualifications, some of the qualification certification is the state clearly requires bidders must have, we must strictly enforce the government procurement activities, but a larger part of the state is not mandatory, belonging to the market profit-making behaviors born out of the qualifications, the emergence of these certificates are also some institutions locking the bid, bid control provides a hotbed for artificial obstacles. The emergence of these certifications also provides a breeding ground for certain organizations to lock the bid, control the bid, and artificially create barriers to bidding. In government procurement, non-mandatory certification directly as a threshold condition or in the scoring standards and rules accounted for a large proportion of the weight of the score is very common, some of the procurement plan lists seven or eight kinds of certification and the score accounted for more than 20% of the total value of the not surprising, these non-mandatory certification set up to increase the cost of bidders bidding to the exclusion of other bidders to participate in, resulting in unfair and discriminatory.

We should make it clear that a large number of certifications (including various licenses, qualifications) set up with the state to reduce the burden on enterprises, lower the threshold of entry, increase the vitality of the market policy deviates from a large number of certificates used to build a bidding obstacles, raised the threshold of entry, is not conducive to the establishment of a fair and competitive market order. We should recognize that government procurement should not only purchase value-for-money goods and services, but also take into account the policy function and guidance function. In government procurement activities, the qualification certification mixed, the necessary certification we must adhere to, there is no need to strictly eliminate the certification, which requires us to have sufficient understanding and awareness of the certification of government procurement practitioners.

Government procurement of common national mandatory certification and classification

Certification according to the mandatory degree is divided into voluntary certification (non-mandatory certification) and mandatory certification. Mandatory certification and includes official certification (administrative licensing) and national mandatory product certification. Mandatory certification is mainly focused on engineering, medical devices, special equipment, classified, measuring instruments, security technology prevention systems and products, computer information system security special product categories and other seven areas, but also includes mandatory product certification (3C), energy-saving list of mandatory procurement category of China's energy-saving product certification.

According to the generalized statistics of government procurement practice, the current government procurement bidding common mandatory certification contains 7 categories of 32 certifications, including:

Engineering bidding common mandatory certification of the safety production license, general contractor qualifications, professional contractors, engineering design and construction qualifications, professional qualification of lightning protection engineering, engineering supervision qualifications, etc. Medical device class bidding common mandatory certification of medical devices, medical device registration certificate (import), medical device manufacturing license, medical device license, etc.; special equipment class bidding common mandatory certification of special equipment manufacturing license, special equipment installation, renovation and maintenance licenses, etc.; measuring instruments class bidding common mandatory certification of the manufacturing of measuring instruments, measuring instruments repair license, type approval of measuring instruments Apparatus license, measuring instruments type approval certificate, measuring instruments prototype test certificate, etc.; classified bidding common mandatory certification involves state secrets of computer information system integration qualification, etc.; security systems and products bidding common mandatory certification of public **** security systems installation, operation service license (provincial bidders), security systems filing certificate (Extra-provincial bidders), security technology to prevent product production registration approval, security technology to prevent product sales record certificate (extra-provincial security technology to prevent product sales units in our province did not set up stores sales, provincial public security departments for the record), security technology to prevent product sales for the record certificate (has been in the province sales, sales of municipal public security departments for the record) and so on; computer information system security special product category bidding Common mandatory certification of computer information system security products such as sales licenses.

Mandatory product certification (3C) bidding common 14 categories: microcomputers, portable computers, display devices connected to computers, printing equipment connected to computers, multi-purpose printing and copying machines, scanners, copiers, servers, facsimile machines, fire engines, fire extinguishers, air-conditioning units, electronic organs, intrusion detectors.

Energy-saving list of mandatory procurement class bidding common eight categories: computer equipment (desktop computers, portable computers, flat-panel microcomputers), input and output equipment (laser printers, pin printers, LCD monitors), refrigeration and air-conditioning equipment, electrical appliances for life (air-conditioning units, electric water heaters), television equipment, video surveillance equipment, commode, spigots.

National mandatory certification must be used as a qualification threshold conditions

In government procurement how to use these national mandatory certification, I think "national mandatory certification must be used as a qualification threshold conditions, can not be used as a score, but the certification of important indicators can be used as a score." We may have questions, the national mandatory certification has been used as a qualification threshold conditions, and then as a scoring item is not a duplication, here I would like to explain, the bidder to obtain certification, can only indicate that the bidder has been in accordance with a certain certification standards or specifications through the certification body's minimum evaluation and recognition, for example, the bidding documents to the national mandatory certification as a qualification threshold conditions, with the certification of the three bidders shortlisted Evaluation, mandatory certification has an important indicator is required to developers with senior titles at least 10 people, three bidders developers with senior titles were 10, 20, 30 people, if we just take this certification as a qualification threshold conditions and not at the same time as a scoring item, it will be unfair to the bidders who have a senior title of 20 and 30 people, which is the national mandatory certification This is the real intention of the state mandatory certification must be used as a qualification threshold condition, but the important indicators within the certification can be used as scoring items. At the same time the certification provided by the bidder, the evaluation committee to check the authenticity of the certification through the query path at the evaluation site, which is critical, because it is common for bidders to provide false certification.

Non-state mandatory certification can not be used as a qualification threshold conditions

Non-state mandatory certification, namely, voluntary certification is the organization according to the requirements of the organization itself or its customers, the relevant parties to voluntarily apply for certification. We should clearly recognize that obtaining non-compulsory certification can only indicate that an enterprise has been certified in accordance with a certain certification standard or specification through the certification body's minimum evaluation and recognition, does not mean that the enterprise's management system is an excellent model, nor does it mean that the enterprise production and sales of products with excellent quality.

How to use non-compulsory certification in government procurement, I think "non-compulsory certification can not be used as a qualification threshold conditions, can not be used as a scoring item, but the certification of the important indicators within the certification can be used as a scoring item." For example, "the State Council on the cancellation and decentralization of a number of administrative approval projects decision" (Guo Fa [2014] No. 5) issued, computer information system integration enterprise qualification by the Industry and Information Technology Commission for administrative approval of the relevant industry organizations to change the self-regulatory management, qualification work by the China Electronic Information Industry Federation is responsible for the implementation of the computer information system integration enterprise qualification by the previous national mandatory certification change to Non-compulsory certification, can no longer be used as a threshold condition, but does not mean that the computer information system integration enterprise qualification certification is canceled useless, we can be certified within the important indicators as a scoring item, the computer information system integration enterprise qualification assessment elements mainly contain: comprehensive conditions, financial status, reputation, performance, management capacity, technical strength, personnel strength and so on the seven aspects, we can put the seven factors Summarize and merge, pick out the key, quantitative indicators, the system integration of similar performance, system integration development team strength, reputation as a scoring item.

Specification of the use of certification can effectively reduce the burden on enterprises, lower the threshold of entry, increase market vitality, to avoid the setup of bidding barriers, with the increasing improvement of the system and norms of the work of government procurement, the use of certification involved in government procurement will also become more and more standardized.