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Government Procurement (Government Procurement) refers to the government at all levels in order to carry out day-to-day governmental activities or to provide services to the public, under the supervision of the financial, in the statutory manner, methods and procedures, through open bidding, fair competition, by the financial sector in the form of direct payment to the supplier, from the domestic and foreign markets for the Government departments or affiliated groups to purchase goods, works and labor behavior.
In essence, it is the organic combination of market competition mechanism and financial expenditure management, and its main feature is the legalized management of government procurement behavior. Government procurement is mainly bidding procurement, limited competitive procurement and competitive negotiations.
Scope of government procurement
(1) The main body of procurement
The main body of procurement in government procurement activities includes state organs, institutions and organizations at all levels. State organs refer to organs at all levels that enjoy administrative power granted by the state in accordance with the law, have the status of independent legal person, and use the state budget as the funding for independent activities.
Institutions means the state for the purpose of social welfare, organized by state organs or other organizations using state-owned assets, engaged in education, science and technology, culture, health and other activities of social service organizations; group organization means the citizens of our country voluntarily formed, in order to achieve the members *** agree to wish to carry out activities in accordance with its statute of the non-profit social organizations.
(2) Procurement Funds
Purchasers who use all or part of the financial funds to make purchases fall within the scope of management of government procurement. Financial funds include budgetary funds, extra-budgetary funds and governmental funds. Borrowings repaid with financial funds are regarded as financial funds.
(3) Procurement Content and Limit
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.
The Centralized Purchasing Catalogue and the minimum limit 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.
The purchases in the Centralized Government Procurement Catalogue are generally goods, works and services common to all purchasing units, such as computers, printers, photocopiers, facsimile 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 Budget Units also includes goods, works and services that are common 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, special instruments for quality inspection, special instruments for the sea, and so on. The purchases in the Centralized Government Procurement Catalogue fall within the scope of government procurement regardless of the amount.
Purchases outside the Centralized Government Procurement Catalogue, where the purchase amount exceeds the minimum standard for government procurement, also fall within the scope of government procurement.
Decentralized Procurement Limit Standards
In addition to the centralized purchasing agency's procurement projects and departmental centralized purchasing projects, projects in which each department purchases on its own goods and services in individual items or batches amounting to more than 1 million yuan, and projects in which the amount is more than 1.2 million yuan, shall be carried out in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Government Procurement Law of the People's Republic of China and the Bidding and Tendering Law of the People's Republic of China. .
Amount standards for public tendering
Government procurement projects of goods or services, where the amount of a single procurement reaches more than 2 million yuan, must use public tendering. The public bidding amount standard for government procurement projects shall be implemented in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State Council.
(4) Geographical Scope
The geographical scope of China's government procurement law governs government procurement activities engaged in within the territory of the Chinese People's **** and the State.
Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia - Government Procurement for the above content