What is the significance of government electronic procurement?

E-government procurement refers to the process of conducting government procurement activities by applying the latest information technology through an Internet-based e-procurement platform? The most striking feature of electronic government procurement is that it breaks the time and space barriers of traditional procurement methods and provides convenience for government procurement activities? Can we understand it as the integration of e-commerce and e-government, or the application of e-commerce in the field of e-government? This purchasing method not only brought about technological changes, but also changed the traditional purchasing method, enhanced the purchasing transparency, reduced the purchasing cost, broke the geographical restrictions, shortened the purchasing cycle and improved the purchasing efficiency?

1. Improve the transparency of procurement

"power rent-seeking" generally means that government officials at all levels or senior leaders of enterprises use power to evade various controls? Rules? Review to seek or safeguard vested interests? In traditional government procurement, is this "rent-seeking" more likely to happen? First of all, all procurement links are carried out and reserved in the system, which reduces manual operation, realizes the openness and transparency of the whole procurement process, effectively prevents the occurrence of "rent-seeking" behavior in procurement and effectively inhibits some corruption phenomena? Secondly, it reduces the fuzziness of paper documents? Delays and other possible human factors combine modern technology with government management to make procurement activities safer? Finally, it is easier for the public to obtain government procurement information through the Internet and play a supervisory role? The audit department can track and supervise, which is more convenient for investigation and evidence collection than the traditional procurement method? It can be seen that the integrity brought by electronic government procurement helps to improve the public's trust in government departments?

2. Reduce procurement costs

E-procurement makes price competition more transparent, and a series of procurement procedures can be completed through the Internet. Sometimes, the purchaser can complete the procurement work without leaving home, the government can be freed from the mountains and seas, and the supplier can also reduce the sales costs such as travel time and expenses, thus greatly reducing the transaction costs and management costs as a whole? According to the statistics of relevant institutions, the adoption of e-procurement by the government can reduce the direct procurement cost by 5% ~ 10% and save personnel and office expenses 1% ~ 2%?

3. Breaking geographical restrictions and shortening the procurement cycle

Electronic government procurement eliminates geographical restrictions, all suppliers participate in national and even world market competition equally, and standard procurement documents make up for the professional defects of small and medium-sized enterprises? Many countries have established systems to support small and medium-sized enterprises and vulnerable groups to participate in government procurement? Using computer network and adopting online declaration? Recognition? By issuing a tender announcement, the workload of last month can be completed in a few days or even hours, greatly shortening the cycle of government procurement?

It can be seen that electronic government procurement has become the inevitable direction of government procurement reform and the urgent need to overcome the disadvantages of traditional procurement!