There are two ways of procurement, respectively:
1, bidding procurement: is put forward by the demand side of the bidding conditions and contract conditions, there are many suppliers at the same time bidding offer. Through bidding, the demand side can get more reasonable price, more favorable conditions of supply.
2, non-tendering procurement: refers to the public tenders and invitations to tender other than the way to obtain goods, works, services used in the procurement method.
Expanded:
The objects of procurement are categorized as direct materials, which will be used to make up all or part of the products or services provided by the purchasing enterprise to its customers, and indirect materials, which will be used and consumed in the enterprise's internal production and business activities.
Purchasing is the process by which an organism of a commercial nature seeks to take in from outside its body in order to maintain normal functioning.
The basic principles of procurement: the principle of cost-effectiveness, the principle of quality, the principle of progress and cooperation, the principle of fair competition.
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