The principle of openness and transparency should run through the whole process of government procurement, which is embodied in the following three aspects:
The first is the public content. The government procurement information that should be disclosed includes government procurement laws and policies, centralized procurement catalogue, government procurement quota standard and open tender amount standard published by people's governments at or above the provincial level, list of government procurement bidding agencies, bidding information, contact information and complaint handling decisions of the financial department for accepting government procurement complaints, assessment results of centralized procurement agencies by the financial department, list of bad behaviors of procurement agencies and suppliers, etc.
The second is open standards. The information disclosed by government procurement shall conform to the standards of truthfulness, accuracy, reliability, timely release and easy retrieval.
The third is the open way. Government procurement information shall be publicly released to the public in the government procurement information release media designated by the financial department at or above the provincial level.
Second, the principle of fair competition.
The principle of fair competition requires that government procurement activities fully introduce competition mechanism on the premise of ensuring fairness. Therefore, the principle of fair competition can be further divided into the principle of competition and the principle of fairness.
The principle of competition is an important principle of government procurement. One of the goals of government procurement is to improve the efficiency of government procurement. Under the condition of market economy, the important way to achieve this goal is to introduce competition mechanism, that is, to maximize the fierce competition among suppliers. Competition can promote government procurement to form a competitive situation in favor of buyers, so that the main body of government procurement can buy goods and services with high quality and low price, and realize the goal of government procurement. The main way of government procurement competition is bidding.
The principle of fairness is an important guarantee to achieve the procurement objectives. Only on the basis of fairness can competition play its greatest role, and bidders who provide products or services with high quality and low price can be guaranteed to win the bid, thus promoting the realization of the effective goal of government procurement economy.
Third, the principle of justice.
The principle of justice mainly means that purchasers and procurement agencies should stand in a neutral, just and detached position relative to multiple suppliers as bidders and potential bidders, and the government procurement authorities should treat them equally, justly and equally, and should not treat them differently because of their different identities.
Fourth, the principle of good faith.
Market economy is not only a legal economy, but also a credit economy. It is necessary to form a good social atmosphere with the honesty and credit of the parties to ensure the orderly operation of the market economy. The principle of good faith is binding on all parties in government procurement activities. On the one hand, the procurement subject is required to be true in the process of project bidding, information release and bid evaluation, and there must be no concealment; On the other hand, suppliers are also required to meet the commitments made in bidding and establish a corresponding sense of responsibility when providing goods and services.
Legal basis: Measures for the Administration of Procurement Information Announcement in People's Republic of China (PRC).
Article 4 The announcement of government procurement information shall follow the principles of timely information release, unified content specification, relatively centralized channels and easy retrieval.
Fifth financial departments at or above the county level shall be responsible for the supervision, inspection and management of government procurement information announcement activities. However, the following duties shall be performed by the financial department at or above the provincial level:
(a) to determine the scope and content of government procurement information that should be published;
(two) to designate, supervise and inspect the media that publish government procurement information.