last year, the national government procurement exceeded 3 trillion again, and the ministry of finance cracked down on illegal activities
2024-09-15
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the latest national government procurement data is released.
on the 14th, the ministry of finance released a brief summary of national government procurement in 2023. the scale of national government procurement in 2023 was 3392.96 billion yuan, a decrease of about 3% compared with 2022. this is the eighth consecutive year since 2016 that the scale of government procurement has exceeded 3 trillion yuan.
however, in the past three years (2021 to 2023), the scale of government procurement has continued to decline slightly. this may be related to the increasing contradiction between fiscal revenue and expenditure, the insistence of local governments on living a tight life, and the vigorous reduction of general expenditures and non-rigid expenditures.
government procurement refers to the use of fiscal funds by state organs, institutions and organizations at all levels to purchase goods, projects and services within the centralized procurement catalogue or above the procurement limit standards formulated in accordance with the law. in recent years, this expenditure has accounted for about 10% of the national fiscal expenditure. it is an important way of spending fiscal funds and is also related to the operation of many enterprises. therefore, it has attracted much attention.
data from the ministry of finance shows that in 2023, the scale of government procurement of goods, projects and services will be 773.81 billion yuan, 144.868 billion yuan and 117.048 billion yuan respectively, accounting for 22.8%, 42.7% and 34.5% of the national government procurement scale.
compared with 2022, the proportion of government procurement of projects and services in 2023 has increased. with the deepening of the reform of government procurement of services in recent years, the proportion of service procurement exceeded that of goods for the first time in 2017, and this year this proportion has reached a record high in recent years.
data from the ministry of finance show that in terms of organizational form, the scales of government centralized procurement, departmental centralized procurement, and decentralized procurement were 803.83 billion yuan, 152.24 billion yuan, and 243.69 billion yuan, respectively, accounting for 23.7%, 4.5%, and 71.8% of the national government procurement scale.
in recent years, as the reform of "delegating power, delegating power, deregulating and improving services" continues to advance, the scope of decentralized procurement and procurement autonomy of purchasers have continued to expand, and the proportion of decentralized procurement has continued to increase. decentralized procurement mainly solves the procurement problems of urgent needs, small amounts, special requirements, and special products (projects) of purchasers.
data from the ministry of finance shows that in terms of government procurement methods in 2023, the scale of open bidding, invited bidding, competitive negotiation, competitive consultation, inquiry, single source, and framework agreement procurement will account for 76.3%, 0.6%, 1.8%, 12.3%, 0.6%, 3.1% and 1.5% of the national government procurement scale respectively.
it is not difficult to find that open bidding and procurement are dominant, but the proportion has slightly declined compared with 2022. in order to improve the government procurement system to support scientific and technological innovation, this year the ministry of finance created a government procurement cooperative innovation procurement method, that is, the purchaser invites suppliers to cooperate in research and development, share research and development risks, and purchases the successfully developed innovative products according to the quantity or amount agreed in the research and development contract. the procurement method aims to promote the integrated development and application promotion of innovative products.
the policy functions of government procurement in supporting green development, the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, etc. have also been effectively played.
for example, data from the ministry of finance shows that in terms of supporting the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, the amount of contracts awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises in national government procurement in 2023 was 2,523.98 billion yuan, and the total amount of contracts awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises accounted for 74.4% of the national government procurement scale; among them, the amount of contracts awarded to small and micro enterprises was 1,577.83 billion yuan, accounting for 62.5% of the total amount of contracts awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises.
such a huge amount of government procurement has also become the focus of local audits.
recently, some provinces have successively released the 2023 local budget implementation and other fiscal revenue and expenditure audit work reports, which pointed out some problems in government procurement.
for example, some departments and units purchase without budget or over budget, which is quite arbitrary. the government procurement procedures are not compliant, and some departments and units fail to implement the public bidding procedures or implement the procedures before bidding. in government procurement, collusion in bidding and illegal subcontracting often occur. some bidding documents are set unreasonably, with biased clauses and scoring rules; some departments fail to compare prices, resulting in high procurement prices. the government purchases services in an irregular manner, and some departments and units outsource matters that should be directly performed to third parties for implementation.
in response to the above-mentioned long-standing problems in the government procurement field, in july this year, the general office of the state council published the "three-year action plan for "rectifying market order, building a legal system, and promoting industrial development" in the government procurement field (2024-2026)" (hereinafter referred to as the "plan"), which requires strengthening government procurement supervision and promoting the rectification of market order.
for example, the "plan" requires that the ministry of finance will take the lead in organizing special rectifications against four types of illegal and irregular behaviors in the current government procurement field, namely, purchasers setting discriminatory clauses, procurement agencies charging unreasonable fees, suppliers providing false materials, and suppliers colluding in bidding.
the recently released "state council report on the implementation of the budget since the beginning of the year" stated that the ministry of finance has optimized the business environment in the government procurement field, inspected more than 6,000 agencies and 30,000 government procurement projects, and focused on correcting illegal and irregular behaviors such as purchasers setting discriminatory clauses, agencies charging arbitrary fees, and suppliers colluding in bidding.
huang hao, associate professor at the school of finance and taxation of southwestern university of finance and economics, told caixin that we should look at the typical problems in the field of government procurement dialectically. we should attach great importance to them and actively rectify and improve them, but we should also realize that government procurement business itself is complex and involves a wide range of aspects, and objectively it is easy to breed violations. these problems need to be gradually resolved along with the continuous improvement of market mechanisms, social credit and the rule of law environment.
the above-mentioned "plan" proposes to accelerate the construction of government procurement laws and regulations, system construction, and standard construction. for example, actively promote the revision of the government procurement law, and revise the implementation regulations in a timely manner in conjunction with the revision process. promote the coordination and unification of the government procurement law and the tendering and bidding law, improve the systematicity, integrity, and coordination of the government procurement legal and regulatory system, and help build a unified national market.
(this article comes from china business network)
