Recently, new ways to improve the efficiency of procurement have emerged in many places. For example, Zhejiang has launched to promote the value-added reform of political procurement services, innovate the online centralized adjudication mechanism for procurement, and explore the integrated management of online supermarkets in the Yangtze River DeltaShanghai actively promotes the online application of electronic business licenses on the Shanghai procurement cloud platform, and merchants can directly use mobile terminals to complete identity authentication, electronic signatures, tender encryption and decryption and other functionsChongqing requires purchasers and institutions to record or disclose procurement information such as question responses, evaluation scores, and performance results on the basis of the original disclosed content, so as to further improve the transparency of procurementWait a minute.
Optimizing the procurement business environment and improving procurement efficiency is an important means to stimulate market vitality and boost economic development. Cao Fuguo, a professor at the University of Finance and Economics, said in an interview that since the beginning of this year, many places have paid more attention to taking multiple measures to promote the continuous optimization of the procurement business environment, such as promoting the electronic and intelligent development of procurement, expanding the content of procurement information disclosure, and speeding up the payment of procurement funds. A series of measures not only better release the vitality of the first-class procurement system, but also further optimize the means of supervision.
Since the beginning of this year, China has optimized and improved the policy system, reduced the cost of participating in procurement activities, and actively promoted measures such as "government procurement loans" to make procurement more accurate. For example, the policy period of increasing the reserved share of ** procurement projects for small and medium-sized enterprises to more than 40% will be extended to the end of 2023, and it is clarified that small and medium-sized enterprises can choose to pay or submit deposits in non-cash forms such as checks, bills of exchange, promissory notes, and letters of guarantee in procurement activities.
Through a series of reforms, small and medium-sized enterprises have gained more opportunities and convenience. In the first half of this year, the contract amount awarded to small, medium and micro enterprises in Beijing reached 25.1 billion yuan, accounting for about eighty percent of the city's total procurement amount. As of October 25, the amount of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's ** procurement electronic guarantee in lieu of the deposit exceeded 300 million yuan, serving 2,136 enterprises, and issuing a total of 3,915 bidding and performance guarantees, effectively reducing the capital occupation cost of the enterprise. As of the end of June this year, Sichuan has handled a total of 7,643 "government procurement loans", with a loan amount of 12.7 billion yuan, of which the scale of loans for small and medium-sized enterprises has reached 124800 million yuan.
Relevant departments and localities have also taken further relevant measures to promote a fairer procurement environment. Recently, the Ministry of Finance, together with the Ministry of Public Security and the State Administration for Market Regulation, will carry out special rectification work on the "four categories" of violations of laws and regulations in the field of procurement in 2023. The "four categories" of violations of laws and regulations include the purchaser's setting of differential discrimination clauses, the arbitrary charging of fees by the organization, the provision of false materials by the supplier, and the collusion of bidders. The rectification work will promote cross-departmental joint supervision, smooth channels for complaints and reports, and take multiple measures to form a joint regulatory force.
Hainan has recently carried out special clean-up around various hidden threshold barriers and unreasonable restrictions, standardizing the collection and return of deposits, and verifying the timeliness of fund payment, so as to maintain fair competition in the procurement market. The Tianjin finance department recently announced the representative cases in the procurement activities, and formed a warning and deterrence by pointing out the relevant violations of laws and regulations and specific manifestations in accordance with the law.
In the next step, how to make better efforts in procurement?Cao Fuguo suggested that it is necessary to further speed up the revision of the procurement law and improve the legal guarantee of procurement. At the same time, it is necessary to increase the intensity of procurement in promoting innovative development, green development and sustainable development, further leverage and enhance industrial competitiveness, and consolidate the foundation for economic recovery.
In addition, it is necessary to continue to deepen foreign exchanges and cooperation in the field of China's procurement, strengthen the construction of international cooperation platforms, accelerate the integration of the procurement system with international rules, and create more opportunities for Chinese enterprises to participate in international public procurement. Cao Fuguo said that it is also necessary to establish a first-class procurement security review system to carry out a security review of procurement activities that may affect the world, so as to escort the high-level opening up of the procurement field in an all-round way. (Economic ** reporter Dong Bijuan).