"On a number of agents to participate in the bidding of a manufacturer's products on how to calculate the number of suppliers," (CaiBanKu [2003] No. 38), which stipulates:
"If more than one agent to participate in the bidding of the same brand and the same model of the product, it should be treated as one supplier Calculation." Because the document provides "the same brand of the same model products" of different bidders, only to a supplier. Means that according to the provisions of the document, provide "the same brand of different models of products" bidders, can be calculated as different suppliers.
In the bidding and procurement practice, there are the following two cases are easy to confuse, but also need to pay special attention to the front line:
The first situation: the manufacturer to use their own production of different brands of products to participate in the same project competition. The situation is "a bid for two", that is, the same project to submit two different bidding programs, should be recognized as invalid bidding according to law.
The second situation: the same dealer to use the same manufacturer of different brands of products to participate in the same project competition. The situation also belongs to "a bid for two", should also be recognized as invalid according to law.
"Government Procurement of Goods and Services Bidding Management Measures" (Ministry of Finance Decree No. 87):
Article 31: the lowest bid evaluation method of procurement projects, provide the same brand of products, different bidders to participate in the same contract under the bidding, which passed the qualification examination, conformity examination, and the lowest price to participate in the bid evaluation; price is the same, the lowest price to participate in the bid evaluation. Evaluation of bids; the same offer, by the purchaser or the purchaser entrusted the bid evaluation committee in accordance with the bidding documents to determine a bidder to participate in the evaluation of bids, the bidding documents do not provide for the adoption of random sampling to determine the other bids are invalid.
In procurement projects using the comprehensive scoring method, where different bidders offering the same brand of products and passing the qualification and conformity examinations participate in the bidding under the same contract, one bidder shall be counted as one bidder, and the bidder of the same brand with the highest evaluation score shall be awarded the qualification of being recommended as the successful bidder; if the evaluation scores are the same, the bid evaluation committee commissioned by the purchaser or the procurer shall determine, in accordance with the manner stipulated in the solicitation documents, that A bidder to obtain the winning bidder recommended qualification, the bidding documents do not specify the way to take a random selection to determine the other bidders of the same brand will not be the winning bidder candidate.
Non-single product procurement project, the purchaser shall reasonably determine the core product based on the technical composition of the procurement project, the weight of the product price, and so on, and set out in the bidding documents. Multiple bidders to provide the same brand of core products, according to the provisions of the previous two paragraphs.