The 100 traps of bidding

1. Suppliers directly or indirectly from the purchaser or procurement agency to obtain the relevant information of other suppliers and modify their bidding documents or response documents.

2. The supplier removes or modifies the bidding or response documents at the behest of the purchaser or the purchasing agent.

3. Bidder or procurement agency to prepare the tender notice, qualification documents and bidding documents for specific bidders "tailor-made".

4. The bidder has been determined before bidding for the winning unit, the organization of bidders to collude in the bidding or instructing the bidding agent to provide assistance to the winning unit.

5. The bidder opens the bidding documents before the specified deadline for bidding.

6. The bidder is allowed to supplement, withdraw or change the bidding documents and quotations after the specified deadline for submission of bidding documents.

7. The bidder divulges the bidding price, the list of the qualification committee or bid evaluation committee to the bidding stakeholders, and divulges the qualification examination or evaluation of bids and other matters that should be kept confidential.

8. Bidders to open bids with bidders on the project before substantive communication, or agreed with the bidders to lower or raise the bid price, and then give the bidder or the bidder additional compensation after winning the bid.

9. The bidder organizes or assists the bidder to bid irregularly.

10. The bidder and the bidder commissioned the same cost consulting company to provide services.

11. Multiple bidders' bidding prices and procurement budgets are not far from each other.

12. The bidder or agent and the bidder agreed to give the unsuccessful bidder a certain amount of compensation.

13. Evaluation of bids, the bidder to the bid evaluation committee tendency to guide or interfere with the normal order of bid evaluation.

14. The bidder instructs, implies or forces the bid evaluation committee to recommend the winning candidate to give up the winning bid.

15. The bidder refuses to sign a contract with the winning candidate without justifiable reasons.

16. The bidder informs the other bidders of the bid before opening the bid.

17. The bidder splits an established bid into multiple bids, and then arranges the intended winning bidders in different bids, while agreeing that the winning bidder will pay the other bidders a certain amount of compensation costs, so that all parties can benefit equally, and turns the bidding into a tool for all parties to divide the benefits.

18. Collusion between the bidder and the bidder or bidding agent, the winning unit is determined in advance, and then through off-site transactions, to obtain the winning bid.

19. In some project bidding, the bidder and the bidder to take the fraudulent way, below-cost price to win the bid, and then in the construction to take changes in the amount of work, more calculations of the amount of work or materials and labor costs and other means to increase the final price.

20. The bidders authorized their favorite unqualified company to negotiate with the qualified company, bidding in the name of the qualified company, and give a certain amount of remuneration. After winning the bid, the unqualified company performs the contract.

21. The purchaser asks for quotations from the supplier of the agreement, but at the time of settlement, the same brand, the same model, the same period of time the product, the purchase price of other purchasing units is much lower than the price purchased by the purchaser.

22.The lowest bid evaluation method of the project, the winning bidder's . . quoted a higher price than the second winning candidate, and the quality of the product bid was not as good as the second-ranked company.

23.The bidder discloses the name, quantity etc. of the bidder to the bidding stakeholders.

24. The bidder finds a bidder's representative signing multiple bidders' names on the bid opening record sheet without stopping it.

25. The bidder finds that different bidders' legal representatives, commissioned agents, project managers, project directors, etc. have to pay social insurance in the same unit without stopping, but agree to continue to participate in the bidding.

26. Bidders by the same person or the existence of several interested parties with more than two bidders to participate in the qualification examination of corporate information, receive bidding information and so on.

27. The bidder in the bidding process found bidders to pay or return the deposit.

28. Bidders in the qualification examination or bid opening, found that the bidding information of different bidders mixed and other circumstances without stopping.

29. Bidders to participate in construction projects for the bidders to provide consulting services affecting fair competition or for their production of bidding information.

30. The bidder turns a blind eye to the bidder's offer of obvious collusion.

31. Agency pre-bid quietly organized only a few companies to participate in the site survey.

32. The bidder authorized the review committee or bid evaluation committee to differentiate between applicants or bidders.

Between bidders

33. Negotiation between bidders on bidding documents such as quotations and technical proposals.

34. Suppliers belonging to the same group, association, etc. to participate in procurement activities.

35. Bidding agreed in advance by a particular supplier to win the bid, the transaction.

36. Bidders agreed to part of the supplier to give up procurement activities or give up the transaction.

37. The same person or several interested parties to bring more than two bidders to participate in the qualification examination, receive tender information.

38. In the same project, the legal representatives of different bidders, commissioned agents, project managers, etc. in the same unit.

39. Bidders have three or more times in a year after registration and purchase of tender documents, do not submit tender documents, do not participate in the opening of bids.

40. Different bidders entrust the same person or enterprise to provide bidding consulting services.

41. The bidders mutually agree to compensate the unsuccessful bidder with expenses.

42. Different bidders entrust the same person to handle the bidding.

43. Different bidders have the same IP address for bid registration.

44. Different bidders' bidding documents have obvious similarities or errors and omissions consistent.

45. Different bidders bidding similar total price, the bill of quantities of work in the sub-items of the offer is exceptionally consistent, only a few sub-items of the offer is different.

46. Different bidders bidding unusually consistent, or regular changes.

47. Tender documents of different bidders are prepared by the same organization or the same person.

48. Different bidders in the bidding documents of the project manager is the same person.

49. Bidding documents or qualification documents of different bidders mixed with each other.

50. Bidding documents of different bidders are prepared by the same computer.

51. Bidding documents bill of quantities electronic bidding with the same software.

52. Different bidders of the tender deposit by the same account funds.

53. Participation in bidding activities of the personnel can not provide effective proof that they belong to the bidding enterprise formally employed.

54. Different bidders before the opening of the bidding in the same car, the bidding site and the opening site but pretend not to know.

55. Before the deadline for submission of tender documents, a number of bidders almost simultaneously issued a statement of withdrawal of tender documents.

56. The first winning candidate abandons the bid without a valid reason.

57. Different bidders' total bidding price is similar, and the contents of the sub-quotes, comprehensive unit price analysis table is confusing.

58. Different bidders bidding documents in the after-sales service commitment to the expression of abnormal consistency.

59. Multiple bidders of the bidding documents appear to be unusually similar to the error.

60. A company to rely on several qualified enterprises to participate in the bidding, through the preparation of different bidding program bidding.

61. The bidder intentionally produces invalid bid documents according to the invalid bid clause.

62. The bidding price of each sub-quote is unreasonable, and no reasonable explanation.

63. Tender offers in a number of quotes are identical, and does not provide the basis for calculation.

64. Several sub-categories of the unit price is exactly the same, and does not provide a reasonable unit price composition.

65. The main equipment prices are extremely similar.

66. No cost analysis, unauthorized adjustment of unauthorized pressure, or technical standards are identical, etc.

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67. Binding form of the tender documents, fonts, charts, formats, etc. similar, or even the same.

68. Deliberate omission of the signature of the legal representative.

69. Legal representatives of each other.

70. The bidder utilizes two companies for the same project.

71. There are less than three suppliers participating in the negotiation, and the two that came to respond each find a company to negotiate.

72. Three companies have already submitted bids, and when a fourth bidder appears, one of them immediately requests a second bid package.

73. Before the start of the Q&A, several representatives called out "present" for the same company.

74. The bidder's representative did not know the company president's phone number.

75. The signature of the bidder's representative is inconsistent with the business card.

76. The bidders' cell phone ringtones are all introductions of the same group of companies.

77. Multiple bidders bidding documents in the dark bid, the cover stamped with the same unit seal.

78. Multiple bidders submitting bidding documents at the same time have unusually similar offers.

79. In the pre-bid site visit to find out the supplier's information, and then contacted separately.

80. Online inquiry procurement, suppliers quote similar time, the price difference is not significant.

81. Bidders agree with each other to unanimously inflate their quotes.

82.Bidders agreeing with each other to take turns winning bids in a tendered project.

83. Bidders agree among themselves to quote high, medium and low prices respectively in the tendered project.

84. Bidders bid internally among themselves to internally determine the winning bidder before participating in the bidding.

85. The signature of the legal representative in the tender documents is from the same person.

86. Multiple bidders use the same person or the same enterprise issued a bid bond.

87. In addition to force majeure factors, the first winning bidder who quotes a price that is far different from the second in the ranking gives up winning the bid.

88. The first winning candidate can no longer be contacted after the confirmation of the winning result.

89. During the execution of the contract, the unsuccessful bidder actually carries out the work.

90.All the subsidiaries of the same company all participate in the bidding and the bidding documents are amazingly consistent.

91. Joint action between bidders in order to win the bid or to exclude particular bidders.

92. Bidding documents of different bidders are written in each other's names.

93. One bidder's bidding document is stamped with the official seal of another bidder.

94. The bidding documents of one bidder are bound with the documents and materials of another bidder, or the signature of the legal representative or authorized agent of another appears.

Bidders and evaluation experts

95. Evaluation experts know that the bidders have an interest and do not take the initiative to avoid.

96. Evaluation experts found that the bidder's bidding documents do not comply with the provisions of the bidding documents and do not point out.

97. Evaluation experts found that the bidder's bidding price in the existence of obviously unreasonable price without pointing out.

98. Evaluation experts found that the bidder's technical part of the existence of obvious irrationality or omission without pointing out.

99. Evaluation experts for the evaluation of points, in the absence of reasonable grounds, intentionally give a high score to a bidder and depress the score of other bidders, or not in accordance with the provisions of the bidding documents scoring.

100.The bidder has made special marks in the dark bidding section of the bidding document.