I. What are the services included in government procurement
1. The procurement of services has a wide range, mainly including printing, publishing, the design of government procurement projects (e.g., engineering design), the maintenance of transportation (vehicle insurance, vehicle maintenance, etc.), meetings.
2. Government procurement projects refer to construction projects, including new construction, alteration, expansion of buildings and structures and their related renovation, demolition, repair, etc., as well as goods and services inseparable from engineering construction. Goods inseparable from construction works refer to the equipment and materials necessary for the realization of the basic functions of the works; services inseparable from construction works refer to the services required for the completion of the works such as investigation, design, supervision and so on.
3. If the procurement project uses both financial and non-financial funds, the Government Procurement Law and its implementing regulations shall apply to the part of the procurement that uses financial funds; if the procurement cannot be divided between financial and non-financial funds, the Government Procurement Law and its implementing regulations shall apply uniformly.
II. Scope of Government Procurement
1. The content of government procurement shall be goods, works and services within the Centralized Procurement Catalogue formulated by law, or goods, works and services that are not included in the Centralized Procurement Catalogue but whose procurement amount exceeds the prescribed limit standard.
2. The Centralized Purchasing Catalogue and the minimum standards for government procurement shall be prescribed by the State Council and the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government.
3, "Centralized Government Procurement Catalogue" in the procurement of goods, works and services are generally common to all procurement units, such as computers, printers, copiers, fax machines, official cars, elevators, heating boilers and other goods, housing repair and renovation works, conference services, automobile repairs, insurance, gasoline and other services. The procurement content of the Centralized Government Procurement Catalogue for central budgetary units also includes goods, works and services that are commonly used within the central departments, such as flood control, drought relief and disaster relief materials, medical equipment and instruments, meteorological special instruments, police equipment and supplies, quality inspection special instruments, and marine special instruments. The purchases in the Centralized Government Procurement Catalogue are within the scope of government procurement regardless of the amount.
Legal basis: Article 7 of the People's Republic of China Government Procurement Law Government procurement is a combination of centralized and decentralized procurement. The scope of centralized procurement by the people's government at or above the provincial level announced by the centralized procurement catalog to determine. Government procurement projects belonging to the central budget, its centralized purchasing directory determined and published by the State Council; belonging to the local budget of government procurement projects, its centralized purchasing directory by the people's government of the province, autonomous region, municipality directly under the Central Government or its authorized agencies to determine and publish.