We all know that government procurement suppliers should adhere to the government procurement challenge and complaints should be made in accordance with the law, the principle of honesty and credit. Government procurement challenge response and complaint handling should adhere to the law and regulations, equal rights and responsibilities, fairness and justice, simplicity and efficiency principle.
Government Procurement Law provides for the challenge and complaint:
Article 51 of the suppliers of government procurement activities have questions, can be asked to the purchaser, the purchaser shall respond in a timely manner, but the content of the response shall not involve commercial secrets.
Article 52 If a supplier believes that his rights and interests have been jeopardized by the procurement documents, the procurement process and the results of winning the bid or the transaction, he may, within seven working days from the date when he knew or should have known that his rights and interests had been jeopardized, put forward a query in writing to the procurer.
Article 53 The procurer shall respond to the written challenge from the supplier within seven working days of receipt, and notify the supplier of the challenge and the other suppliers concerned in writing, provided that the content of the response shall not involve commercial secrets.
Article 54 of the purchaser entrusted to the procurement agency procurement, suppliers can ask or challenge the procurement agency, the procurement agency shall, in accordance with the provisions of Article 51 of this Law, Article 53 of the provisions of the procurement agency on the purchaser entrusted to authorize the scope of the matter to make a reply.
Article 55 of the questioning supplier is not satisfied with the response of the purchaser, the purchasing agent or the purchaser, the purchasing agent did not respond within the prescribed time, can be in the response within fifteen working days after the expiration of the period of government procurement supervision and management department at the same level to complain.
Article 56 of the government procurement supervision and management department shall, within thirty working days after receipt of the complaint, make a decision to deal with the matter of the complaint, and notify the complainant and the parties concerned with the complaint in writing.
Article 57 of the Government Procurement Supervision and Administration in dealing with complaints during the period, depending on the circumstances of the written notice to the purchaser to suspend the procurement activities, but the suspension shall not exceed a maximum of thirty days.
Article 58 of the Government Procurement Supervision and Administration of the complaint handling decision is not satisfied or the Government Procurement Supervision and Administration of the overdue, you can apply for administrative reconsideration according to law or to the people's court to file an administrative lawsuit. It should be noted that the letter of challenge and complaint should be in Chinese. The model of the challenge letter and the complaint, formulated by the Ministry of Finance. The relevant parties to provide foreign language certificates or foreign language audio-visual materials, should be accompanied by a Chinese translation, stamped by the translation agency or the translator's signature.