Advantages of online inquiry procurement
1. Information is made public, and more suppliers participate in bidding. Online inquiry information is open, and all interested suppliers can participate in the quotation. The low entry barrier for suppliers has expanded the scope of suppliers, giving more small and medium-sized suppliers and suppliers from different places the opportunity to openly participate in online quotation and bidding.
2. Ensure the lowest price of government procurement products. A municipal government procurement online inquiry ensures the lowest price of standardized products of the same brand and model, improves the efficiency of the use of financial funds, and solves the problem of high procurement price of standardized products.
3. Online inquiry makes the purchase more convenient and quick. Due to the use of modern network information technology, inquiry procurement is more open and transparent. So that suppliers can go beyond the limitations of time and space and participate in the quotation without leaving home, which greatly saves the procurement cost; The purchaser can easily know the supplier's quotation; The procurement center can reduce the workload, shorten the procurement cycle (the shortest three working days and the longest seven working days for inquiry procurement), improve work efficiency and make procurement activities more convenient and fast.
Disadvantages of online inquiry purchase
1. Underpricing competition among suppliers, high quotation and low allocation. The current online inquiry is actually the competition between suppliers who operate the same brand and model products. When the price competition reaches the point where the supplier is unprofitable or the profit is meager, the supplier will make a fuss about the product quality, "pull out" the goods he supplies, shoddy them, or reduce the original configuration, quote at a high price and match at a low price. It has seriously damaged the interests of buyers, caused many buyers to question the products purchased by the government, and affected the reputation and image of government procurement.
2. There is collusion between buyers and suppliers. After winning the bid, the demand changes, and the price is high and low. Some buyers have made an inquiry in the market in advance when buying office supplies, and they have contacted some suppliers. There are some agreements in the dark that make the demand put forward by the buyer inconsistent with the price quoted by the supplier. After winning the bid at a low price, the buyer refused to accept the goods according to the contract.
3. The purchased products are not delivered in time and the after-sales service is not good. According to the time limit of the procurement center, the shortest delivery time of standard products is 3 days and the longest is 7 days. But in fact, many suppliers can't deliver the goods in time. One of the main reasons is that many government procurement suppliers are small and medium-sized enterprises, self-employed, with little liquidity and little spot inventory.
4. The online inquiry supplier has given up bidding. For some time, many suppliers of online inquiry procurement have given up bidding. Common excuses for suppliers to abandon the bid are: "wrong price" and "wrong demand". However, there are several reasons for actually abandoning the bid: First, the supplier deliberately abandoned the bid, winning the bid at a low price first, then talking with the purchaser about changing the demand, and then abandoning the bid if the purchaser did not agree to changing the demand. Second, some weaker suppliers won the bid at a low price first, and then organized the supply. If the organization fails, they will give up the bid for various reasons. Third, the purchaser is not clear when implementing the demand, and the supplier misunderstood the low price. After winning the bid, they realized that they couldn't do it and proposed to abandon the bid. No matter what the reason, the invalid bid will seriously interfere with the online inquiry of government procurement activities.
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