Software tenders are generally considered to belong to the category of goods procurement projects.
Legal basis:
The People's Republic of China Government Procurement Law of the first chapter of the provisions of Article 2: "The goods referred to in this law refers to all kinds of goods in various forms and types of items, including raw materials, fuels, equipment, products and so on."
In accordance with the Interpretation of the Government Procurement Law of the People's Republic of China, the term "goods" is further interpreted as follows: "Goods referred to in this Article refer to items of various forms and types, including tangible and intangible items (e.g., patents), solid, liquid, or gaseous objects, movable and immovable property."
Software tenders here generally refer to mature and applicable software, which are intangible items that have been developed and are more appropriately included in the goods category.
Expanded information:
The benefits of software open bidding:
Software open bidding reflects the essential requirements of the market mechanism of open information, standardized procedures, fair competition, objective evaluation, fair selection, and the elimination of the fittest. Open bidding because more bidders, full competition, and not easy to crosstalk, bid-rigging, is conducive to the bidder from a wide range of competitors to choose the right winner and get the best competitive benefits.
The use of public bidding for projects that must be tendered in accordance with the law shall, in accordance with the provisions of the law in the National Development and Reform Commission and other relevant departments of the designated media issued a pre-qualification announcement or bidding notice, meet the qualifications of the bidding project, potential bidders are not subject to the limitations of the region, industry, may apply to participate in the bidding.
Baidu Encyclopedia - Government Procurement Law of the People's Republic of China
Baidu Encyclopedia - Public Tendering