Should government procurement centers enter administrative service centers?

Whether the government procurement center can go further after entering the administrative service center is worth our expectation. The author intends to discuss the operation mode of government procurement centers entering administrative service centers in underdeveloped areas as follows: 1. Basic information: In order to optimize the investment environment and improve administrative efficiency and work quality, local governments have vigorously promoted the construction of administrative service centers and continuously expanded the scope of administrative services, and procurement centers have been forced to enter in this wave of construction. As the dispatching structure of the municipal party committee and municipal government, the administrative service center has a more flexible management system and a strict assessment system compared with other organs, which objectively promotes the construction of the internal management system of the procurement center and has a positive impact. The standardized management and daily assessment of the administrative service center, to a certain extent, reduces the management cost of the procurement center, so that the procurement center has more time and space to focus on the core business of procurement. However, due to the essential differences between the procurement center and other window departments in functions, business processes and clients, the procurement center will face many difficulties after entering the administrative service center. Second, the main problems faced: First, the service function of the procurement center does not adapt to the administrative service center. The administrative service center, also known as the administrative examination and approval center or the convenience service center, is a practical action taken by various localities to improve the efficiency of administrative examination and approval and the quality of service after the promulgation and implementation of the Administrative Licensing Law. Its basic duties are: handling all kinds of permits and license applications from citizens, legal persons and other organizations, examining and approving and issuing all kinds of approval documents; Provide all kinds of policy advice. However, the government procurement center does not have any administrative examination and approval function, and the service targets are government agencies, institutions and social organizations, and it does not have the examination and approval authority. This is essentially different from other departments, but now it has become a service window of the administrative service center. Second, the confidentiality of the procurement process and the embarrassment of open office coexist. Relevant laws and regulations on government procurement clearly stipulate that the pre-tender price, supplier registration information, bidding documents, scoring rules, bid evaluation process, bid opening records and related files should be kept confidential, and a corresponding confidentiality system should be established. However, after the administrative service center set up a window, the procurement center of a city only has half an office and a public meeting room under the open office conditions, which leads to the procurement secrecy in name only. There are four main forms of expression: 1. It is difficult to keep supplier information confidential. The Government Procurement Law clearly stipulates that the information of any registered supplier shall not be disclosed before the bid opening. However, at present, when suppliers register in the procurement center window, the personnel and people in the surrounding service windows can obtain supplier information at any time. 2. It is difficult to keep the bidding documents and scoring methods confidential. Because the procurement personnel can only make the bidding documents and scoring methods in an open office environment, the whole production process and specific contents may be seen by the surrounding window units and past personnel at any time. 3. The bid evaluation process is difficult to keep secret. The confidentiality of the bid evaluation process is the top priority of the procurement center. Once leaked, it will be extremely harmful. Because the bid opening and evaluation can only be carried out in a public meeting room, and the filing cabinets of several window units are stored in the public meeting room, the phenomenon that other window staff often break into and access materials at will often occurs during the bid evaluation process, which brings hidden dangers to the confidentiality of the bid opening and evaluation process. In addition, because there is no supplier lounge, suppliers are scattered in every corner of the hall, which is very hidden and inconvenient to manage, which brings hidden dangers to individual suppliers to steal information about the bid evaluation process to some extent. 4. It is difficult to save files. The Government Procurement Law requires that the archives should be kept for 15 years. Because there is no archives room after a city procurement center enters the administrative service center, the archives can only be stored in temporary filing cabinets and entrusted to the bureau archives room for safekeeping on a monthly basis. In addition, because the electronic files of the procurement center can only be stored in an open office environment, anyone familiar with computers can easily steal or even destroy the information in the computer, which increases the risk of confidentiality. Third, the office facilities are simple and difficult to meet the normal needs. Due to the limitation of the window office mode and office conditions of the administrative service center, the procurement center is caught in the embarrassment of one desk, one office cabinet and one computer. There is no basic office space such as the bid opening hall, bid evaluation room, supplier lounge, computer room and archives room, and there are insufficient personnel and office facilities to undertake procurement tasks, which seriously affects the normal development of procurement work. Fourth, the noisy office environment makes it difficult to carry out daily work effectively. In the work of administrative service center, its joint office environment only needs to approve, seal and close the general window, which is conducive to improving its departmental efficiency; However, for purchasing centers, the situation is just the opposite. Procurement is a systematic project with strong policy and professionalism, complex content and high requirements for staff. Good working environment is the guarantee of working quality. Because there are a lot of people working in the service windows of the surrounding units, it is often as noisy and noisy as the vegetable market. Not only the daily bidding documents and scoring methods are frequently disrupted by the surrounding windows, but also the embarrassing scene of daily telephone communication with buyers and suppliers and receiving a phone call under the table sometimes occurs. Three. It is not difficult to see some suggestions. After the government procurement center enters the administrative service center, it faces more problems, and it is difficult to carry out its daily work normally, and it is in a dilemma. The author thinks that the key to solve the problem is not whether the procurement center should enter the administrative service center, but what kind of development environment the procurement center needs. The development of everything is inseparable from certain conditions, including external conditions and internal conditions, and the procurement center is no exception. With the most basic external environment, we can give full play to our potential and better seek development. First, having independent office space and necessary office equipment is the cornerstone of government procurement center. At present, government procurement centers in more developed areas have basically solved the problems of office space and office equipment, and government procurement has flourished, laying a foundation for the benign development of government procurement. It should be said that less developed areas have more advantages in solving office space than developed areas, and the contradiction of office space in various organs and institutions is relatively weak. Even the office space problem in procurement centers can be solved without investing financial resources. With the deepening of economic system reform and the transformation of fiscal expenditure mode, government procurement will continue to grow, the scale of procurement will increase year by year, and the scope involved will continue to expand. Only by continuously expanding the procurement team and strengthening the infrastructure construction can the government procurement center cope with the increasingly complex procurement tasks. For example, the establishment of e-procurement platform can improve work efficiency and reduce procurement costs. Procurement centers in underdeveloped areas should gradually strengthen the construction of e-procurement platform and establish their own websites, trading platforms and computer rooms. It can be said that the normal work of the procurement center is inseparable from the necessary bid opening hall, bid evaluation room, a sufficient number of offices, files and office equipment. Second, a perfect government procurement supporting system is the guarantee of procurement work. Due to the unbalanced development of government procurement supporting system, to a certain extent, it has also caused confusion in the establishment of local government procurement institutions and serious imbalance in development. The procurement center should start with strengthening the internal management system, standardize management, advance steadily, effectively standardize government procurement behavior, and ensure the legal, orderly, open, fair and just procurement process from the system. Through continuous exploration, local government procurement centers have formulated a series of government procurement supporting systems, some of which have introduced quality management system and implemented project management, and some have taken the characteristic management of government procurement as the business card of local cities; In underdeveloped areas, we should take the system first, strengthen the construction of supporting systems for government procurement, raise awareness, standardize procurement behavior, and implement government procurement. For example, the construction of archives management system, with the increase of government procurement scale year by year, produces more and more files. How to take good care of files and ensure their integrity and confidentiality is very important. The existing archive room composed of several simple filing cabinets in the procurement center of underdeveloped areas can no longer meet the needs of file management, so it is necessary to re-establish files and purchase advanced filing cabinets. Advanced archival equipment is not only convenient for keeping and consulting materials, but also conducive to establishing a sound archives management system. Third, strengthen the construction of purchasing staff and activate their own development potential. As a new management system, government procurement system is full of exploration and challenges, which requires staff to be good at learning and diligent in learning. Without excellent professional knowledge, legal knowledge, management knowledge and good professional ethics, it is impossible to meet the needs of government procurement. The procurement center should adopt a more flexible employment mechanism and management system to attract more talents with both ability and political integrity to join the government procurement team and strengthen the savings for the government procurement cause. The procurement center should strengthen the training of staff and establish a training mechanism covering staff, procurement personnel, judges and suppliers, which is conducive to effective communication and coordination in the procurement process, deepen their understanding and support for government procurement, and promote the smooth development of government procurement. (Zhang Xiaojun)