When it comes to single sources, many people take it for granted that there is something fishy, ??corruption, and a power-for-money transaction. In fact, due to the limited competitiveness of the single-source procurement method, laws and regulations also have corresponding provisions on the demonstration, which is not as simple as imagined.
Taking software procurement as an example, in order to encourage the development of the software industry and integrated circuit industry, the country has issued a series of preferential policies for investment, financing, industrial technology, taxation, export, and talent to encourage the development of the software industry and integrated circuit industry. , in particular, it emphasizes that no unit shall use unauthorized software products in computer systems, and imposes requirements on the entire society to use genuine software. As a result, government single-source procurement projects in the software category are gradually increasing.
Entrusted by Central South University, Hunan Provincial Tendering Co., Ltd. recently conducted a single-source bidding for database projects such as Taylor Francis, the digital literature resource of Central South University Library. The project closed for comment on August 28.
From the perspective of procurement content, including AIP database, Cambridge Journals Online, CPI, EB Online, Emerald, IET e-books, INSPEC, JCR, JSTOR, MST, ProQuest ABI+ARL, RSC, Summon, Taylor Francis. The budget amounts of each target are respectively 64,000 yuan, 155,000 yuan, 162,000 yuan, 29,000 yuan, 253,000 yuan, 300,000 yuan, 229,000 yuan, 79,000 yuan, 249,000 yuan, 145,000 yuan, 222,000 yuan, 238,000 yuan, 202,000 yuan, and 341,000 yuan, with a total procurement budget of 2.658 million yuan. It is planned to be provided (or undertaken) by China Science and Technology Data Import and Export Corporation.
The purchaser, Central South University, pointed out in the reasons and explanation for adopting the single-source procurement method that the digital literature resources to be purchased for the project are independently published by their respective resource library manufacturers, and their resource content, access platform, and interface functions are different. are different and have exclusive intellectual property rights. This resource is irreplaceable and can only be purchased from designated agencies.
In the public opinion announcement, the procurement agency presented 3 expert arguments.
Among them, Chen Xi, a research librarian at Hunan University, pointed out in the written expert argument form submitted that the AIP, CPCI and other databases planned to be purchased by the Central South University Library are suitable for the school's discipline construction. The needs of talent training, scientific research output and evaluation provide document resource guarantee for the school's "double first-class" construction. The resource contents of these databases need to be used on designated platforms and have independent intellectual property rights. Procurement from merchants. According to Article 31 of the "Government Procurement Law", if you can only purchase from the only supplier, or if you cannot purchase from other suppliers due to unforeseen emergencies, you must ensure the consistency of the original procurement items or the supporting services. If you need to continue to purchase additional products from the original supplier, and the total additional purchase funds do not exceed 10% of the original contract purchase amount, single source can be applied. The digital document resource procurement project of Central South University Library is intelligently purchased according to the single source procurement method.
In the second submission, Gong Xiaolin, associate research librarian of Hunan Normal University, pointed out in the written expert argumentation form that AIP, CPCI and other databases include electronic literature resources with different contents, covering the main areas of Central South University. Subjects, majors, etc., each have independent instructional property rights and resource content. The important academic document resources required for the training of teaching and research talents at Central South University are the electronic document guarantee for the construction of "double first-class". The above data resources are exclusively provided by the only resource manufacturer. The resources are unique and intelligently purchased from designated agents. According to Article 31 of the "Government Procurement Law", the Central South University Library's digital document resource database procurement project shall be purchased in accordance with the single-source procurement method.
In the third opinion, Shao Zhangfei, a research librarian at Hunan University, pointed out in his opinion that the AIP, CPCI and other databases purchased by the Central South University Library are of various types. Covering all disciplines and majors in the school, it plays an important role in document support for teaching and research, discipline construction and talent training at Central South University. However, the content is different and needs to be used on a specific platform. The products are unique and have independent intellectual property rights, and are provided by designated agents.
To sum up, according to Article 31 of the Government Procurement Law, the Chinese and foreign language database procurement projects of the Central South University Library can only be purchased in accordance with the single-source procurement method.
In fact, because the purchased products are irreplaceable patents and proprietary technologies, they can only be purchased from a specific supplier, which is especially common in the software field.
Previously, Nanjing University planned to purchase Adobe software campus version services. The purchased content is a full set of Adobe CC All Apps products, and the latest version is supported during the service period. Authorization modes include account subscription version (stand-alone version) and online version. Currently the Adobe software suite is provided only by Adobe Corporation. So a single source approach had to be adopted.
Coincidentally, in this year's Wiley database project of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, the database resources purchased had unique content, a single source, and unique database functions. After resources are reintegrated or organized, the overall resource presentation is incomparable with other resources, and can only be purchased from a single source.
It is important to note that not all single sources provide expert justification.