Grey income of bid evaluation experts

The reporter's investigation found that due to some legal blind spots and the absence of implementation rules in the Government Procurement Law, government procurement is being maliciously manipulated into some gray areas in some places, and there are some abnormal phenomena such as rejecting national brands, purchasing prices far higher than the market price, poor management of expert database, excessive discretion of bid evaluation experts, and "selective" determination of the winning bidder by buyers, malicious collusion between buyers and equipment manufacturers. Some law-abiding, high-quality and low-cost national brand manufacturers strongly appeal that under the new environment of government investment leading to stimulating domestic demand, relevant departments should intensify the investigation and punishment of corruption in the field of government procurement. At the same time, they should issue the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Government Procurement Law as soon as possible, amend the relevant provisions of the Government Procurement Law, and create a fair and just market environment from the starting point, so that those products with truly high quality and low price can become the main products to stimulate domestic demand.

In July 2007, Guangzhou notified the illegal cases in government procurement bidding, and three judges involved were removed from the list for life by informed criticism. In the same month, the "Wo case" of the Guangzhou Municipal Government Procurement Center was detonated, and many staff members, including the relevant person in charge of the center, were investigated by the Guangzhou Municipal Discipline Inspection Department, and many officials of the Guangzhou Municipal Finance Bureau were involved in the case.

Lin Zhibin, director of the Guangzhou Municipal Government Procurement Center, told the reporter that at present, the annual government procurement amount in Guangzhou is more than10 billion, involving 87 product catalogues, and the number of experts in the expert database is too small to meet the demand for experts in government procurement. But now it's separation of effectiveness. The Finance Bureau is responsible for the management of the expert database, and the government procurement center only uses it.

According to the reporter's investigation, although according to the relevant laws and regulations, experts can't serve as bid evaluation experts for three times a year, some experts in Guangzhou bid evaluation more than 20 times a year. Although the service fee for each bid evaluation is only 300-400 yuan, even the lover of a deputy secretary-general of the Guangzhou Municipal Government, who holds the title of senior electronic engineer and senior economist, tries to "enter" the expert database team by her own ability without revealing her identity. As a result, she encountered waterloo in the government procurement department of the Finance Bureau, and the dreams of the members of the expert database fell through.

The insider told the reporter that the gray income of Guangzhou's bid evaluation experts is at least 200,000 yuan a year, and some bid evaluation experts are too lazy to eat in high-end restaurants and directly ask to go to high-end nightclubs for consumption. An insider of Guangzhou Information Engineering Bidding Center revealed to reporters that the corruption of experts is also very secret now. As long as he doesn't contact the bidder directly, he can't be accused of collusion, let alone corruption. Because equipment manufacturers do not directly participate in bidding, public relations and emotional investment with experts are generally left to equipment manufacturers, and experts participate in "brainwashing" activities organized by some manufacturers almost every month.

Authorities told reporters that an indestructible interest derivative linked to the financial system has been formed around the bidding interest chain of government procurement. First of all, the selection of experts in the expert database is extremely opaque. Generally, there are only 10 professional government procurement evaluation experts, and most of the rest are economists without professional and academic qualifications. The key is that the financial system should be related. According to the reporter's investigation, in the expert database of Guangzhou government procurement, the stationmaster of a university in Guangzhou is an expert in electronics, property, air conditioning, furniture and insurance.

According to this source, at present, most employees of government procurement agencies are family members of insiders. In the increasingly severe employment situation, less than half of the employees in these institutions have full-time undergraduate education or above; Moreover, the suppliers of early government procurement agreements were basically relatives and friends of financial system officials.

Li Yingzhi, director of the government procurement management department of Panyu Finance Bureau, once pushed the responsibility of Gree scrapping to experts when interviewed by reporters. "What we waste is not Gree's tender, but experts." However, experts do not seem to accept this rejection. An evaluation expert told reporters privately that the evaluation of the day was from 2: 30 pm to 5: 30 pm, and the purchaser had been entangled, especially tough, and kept making tendentious remarks. Experts said, anyway, the appraisal fee is 300 yuan, and even at 7: 30 in the evening, there is only 400 yuan, so I want to get out as soon as possible and make a decision in line with the wishes of the buyers. The expert insists that he is innocent, but he can't guarantee other experts. Pan Ruiyu, a staff member of Guangzhou Municipal Government Procurement Center, said in an interview that he was "unable to understand" the domineering attitude of Panyu Central Hospital, a procurement unit, but he also felt "helpless".

According to the reporter's investigation, in the process of bidding and purchasing the air-conditioning procurement project of Panyu District Central Hospital in Guangzhou (Subcontract 2: procurement and installation of frequency conversion multi-connected air-conditioning equipment in outpatient building), the purchaser's tendency to choose is very obvious. When Gree Air Conditioning, the only world-renowned brand in the domestic air-conditioning industry, quoted the price of 17072997 yuan as the first successful bidder, Panyu Central Hospital, the procurement unit, said after the bid evaluation meeting that "the bid evaluation experts entrusted by it thought that there were many problems in the bid documents of the successful bidder, and they reflected them on the spot and did not pay attention to them", and then carefully checked the bidding documents again, believing that the equipment tendered by Gree Air Conditioning could not meet the decision of the Guangzhou Municipal Government Procurement Center according to the Panyu District Government Procurement Office.

The reporter further investigated and found that after review, due to Gree's query, on June 25, 2008, Panyu District Procurement Office decided to suspend the procurement activities of the project. On June 3, 2008, 65438+February 3, 2008, Panyu Central Hospital held a "forced palace" on the grounds that "the government requires to ensure that it will be completed and put into use before July/KLOC-0, 2009, and when the' Subcontract II' bidding will be completed and started will become an important factor restricting the overall project progress of the hospital". On June 5th, 2008, 65438+February 5th, 2008, Panyu District Government Procurement Office made a decision to resume procurement activities, and the "selectivity" confirmation of Panyu Central Hospital finally got its wish.

An employee of a government procurement agency in Guangzhou told the reporter that if the purchaser compares the bidding documents of the successful candidate who does not meet his own wishes with the bidding documents after the bid evaluation meeting, he will definitely find faults, because according to the "conformity" inspection of the bidding documents, as long as one item is inconsistent with the bidding documents, the bidding can be cancelled, and it can be said that one word or one sentence is wrong. For bidders who collude with the purchaser, their bidding documents may not be based on the actual situation of their own products, but copy the bidding documents to seek the right to win the bid in a malicious response. Even if the delivered products are inconsistent with the bidding documents, the purchaser can only "passively" accept them.

This person analyzed that at present, in the bidding law, it seems that the purchaser only needs to open the bid, and the law has few constraints on it, and the rights and responsibilities are very unequal. "After the bid evaluation meeting, does the purchaser have the right to withdraw the bidder's bid? Since the bidder's question and answer after the bid evaluation cannot be counted as part of the bid documents, is the buyer's query outside the bid evaluation site valid? "

A doubt, why did Panyu Central Hospital refuse to confirm the first successful candidate with the quotation of 17072997 yuan, but "selectively" confirmed Guangdong Petrochemical Construction Group Company with the quotation of 2 15 1. 1887 yuan? Does this selective confirmation of "only selecting expensive ones" violate the principle of government procurement? If so, how does this tendentious choice pass through the checkpoint and bypass the "firewall" set by different management and supervision levels in the bidding chain?

Previously, in May 2007, Guangzhou Finance Bureau issued a special document saying that it would strengthen management through six "tightening curses", requiring government procurement prices not to be higher than the market prices known by purchasers.

On June 5438+February 18, 2008, in the procurement information announcement of official website, Guangzhou Municipal Government Procurement Center, the reporter found that the air conditioning procurement project of Panyu Central Hospital in Guangzhou (subcontracting 1: frequency conversion multi-unit air conditioning of medical technology building) appeared again in the necessary terms of the bidding document of Guangzhou Haizhu District Maternal and Child Health Hospital (project number: GGPC-2008324).

Huang Tonghua, Minister of Public Relations of chigo air conditioning, told the reporter that although there is no explicit requirement for imported brands in the bidding documents, the brand of the whole machine is required to be the same as that of screw machines and multi-line compressors. This condition can only be achieved by foreign brands, and this clause actually excludes all national brands. Lin Zhibin explained to reporters that the Government Procurement Law has no provisions on national brands. Whether it is a national brand or a foreign brand, as long as it is made in China, it belongs to "domestic products". If more than three suppliers participate in the bidding, it is not illegal.

Huang Tonghua said that the air conditioning industry is a fully competitive industry, and 80% of the air conditioners in the world are made in China. At present, the core technologies of some domestic brands are already at the leading level in the world. Even abroad, they can compete with the world's air-conditioning giants on the same stage, but they are very sad to encounter such restrictions in their own country. Huang Tonghua said that national brands do not want to enjoy any preferential treatment and protection in the field of government procurement, but they should not encounter restrictions in their own countries.

According to the reporter's investigation, in the tender documents of Guangzhou Rail Transit Line 2/8 Extension Project and Line 3 North Extension Project (tender number -0724-0700A758N 123/03), this kind of necessary clause is also impressive. However, the Guangzhou Municipal Government Procurement Center specifically explained to reporters that Guangdong Petrochemical Construction Group Company, which won the bid for the air-conditioning procurement project "Subcontract II" of Panyu Central Hospital after evaluation, is not a foreign brand, but a domestic air conditioner.

An insider of Guangzhou Information Engineering Bidding Center told reporters that in recent years, IT is very obvious that some foreign brand equipment manufacturers and some purchasers collude maliciously by manipulating the technical index system. The terms of a single technical index may be impartial, but the terms of multiple technical indexes are put together for a foreign brand, which is very typical in IT products, medical equipment, commercial air conditioning and other fields. For example, some technical parameters are completely consistent with brands, and some brands have certain deviations from their required parameters, and the score of technical deviation is very high; It is also required to provide some testing reports of foreign testing institutions on the bidding products, which basically locks in some foreign brands.

The insider told reporters that foreign brand manufacturers manipulate prices by issuing power of attorney to bidders representing their products on the basis of technical indicators manipulation, which is an important factor that the price of centralized government procurement is often more expensive than the market price. The source said that this kind of behind-the-scenes manipulation is not legally binding at present because equipment manufacturers generally do not directly participate in bidding.

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