1. What does government procurement mean?
Government procurement (government procurement)
It refers to the behavior of governments at all levels to purchase goods, projects and services from domestic and foreign markets for government departments or their affiliated groups in a legal way, method and procedure through open bidding and fair competition for daily government activities or providing services to the public.
Second, the scope of government procurement
(1) procuring entity
The procurement subjects in government procurement activities include state organs, institutions and organizations at all levels. State organs refer to organs at all levels that enjoy the administrative power entrusted by the state according to law, have independent legal personality and use the state budget as funds for independent activities. Institutions refer to social service organizations organized by state organs or other organizations with the purpose of social welfare and engaged in education, science and technology, culture, health and other activities; Group organization refers to a non-profit social organization formed voluntarily by China citizens in order to achieve the consent of their members and to carry out activities in accordance with their articles of association.
(2) Procurement funds
If the purchaser uses all or part of the financial funds for procurement, it belongs to the scope of government procurement management. Financial funds include budgetary funds, extra-budgetary funds and government funds. Loans repaid with fiscal funds shall be regarded as fiscal funds.
(3) Procurement content and quota
The content of government procurement should be the goods, projects and services in the centralized procurement catalogue formulated according to law, or the goods, projects and services whose purchase amount exceeds the prescribed limit standard although they are not included in the centralized procurement catalogue.
The catalogue of centralized government procurement and the minimum standards for government procurement shall be formulated by the State Council and the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government.
The procurement contents in the government centralized procurement catalogue are generally goods, projects and services commonly used by all procurement units, such as computers, printers, photocopiers, fax machines, official vehicles, elevators, heating boilers and other goods, house repair and decoration projects, conference services, automobile maintenance, insurance, refueling and other services. The catalogue of centralized government procurement of central budget units also includes goods, projects and services commonly used by central departments, such as flood control and drought relief materials, medical equipment and instruments, special meteorological instruments, police equipment and supplies, special quality inspection instruments and special marine instruments. The procurement contents in the catalogue of centralized government procurement, regardless of the amount, belong to the scope of government procurement.
The procurement content outside the catalogue of centralized government procurement, if the purchase amount exceeds the minimum standard of government procurement, also belongs to the scope of government procurement.
1, decentralized procurement quota standard
Except for the procurement projects of centralized procurement institutions and centralized procurement projects of departments, goods and services projects with a single or batch amount exceeding 1 10,000 yuan and engineering projects with a total amount exceeding10.2 million yuan shall be implemented in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Procurement Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Bidding Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
2, open tender amount standard
Government procurement of goods or services, a single purchase amount of more than 2 million yuan, must be open tender. The amount standard of public bidding for government procurement projects shall be implemented in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State Council.
(4) Geographical scope
The territorial scope under the jurisdiction of China's government procurement law refers to the government procurement activities in People's Republic of China (PRC).
Government procurement refers to the behavior of governments at all levels to purchase goods, projects and services from domestic and foreign markets for government departments or their affiliated groups through public bidding and fair competition under the supervision of finance. The above is the meaning of government procurement, I hope it will help you.