Why did Alibaba Cloud complain to Huawei Cloud?

On May 22, the China Government Procurement Network released the Ministry of Finance’s Government Procurement Information Announcement (No. 570), which showed that Alibaba Cloud complained that Huawei Software was suspected of providing false materials in order to win the bid. The official conclusion was given "After reviewing the evidence and collecting evidence, it was deemed that the complaint lacked factual basis and the complaint was dismissed."

Neither Huawei Software nor Alibaba Cloud, which were involved in this dispute, commented on the above information.

According to the announcement released by the China Government Procurement Network, the name of this bidding project is "The State Administration of Taxation Online Academy Training Platform Transformation and Upgrading Public Cloud Leasing Project." The bidding announcement was issued on September 8, 2017, and the bid opening date was December 11, 2017. The winning supplier is Huawei Software Technology Co., Ltd., and the winning bid amount is 10.5 million yuan.

According to the announcement on the China Government Procurement Network on May 22: The complainant (Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd.) was dissatisfied with the response to questions about this project made by the Government Procurement Center of the central state agency (National Procurement Center). File a complaint with this agency. The complaint is: Huawei Software is suspected of providing false materials in order to win the bid. This agency investigates and makes handling decisions in accordance with the law.

The result disclosed in the announcement is: Regarding the complaint, after review, the existing evidence is insufficient to prove that Huawei Software provided false materials in order to win the bid. The complaints lack factual basis. In summary, this agency made a decision: According to the provisions of Article 17 (2) of the "Measures for Handling Complaints from Government Procurement Suppliers" (Ministry of Finance Order No. 20), the complaint lacked factual basis and the complaint was dismissed.

Some of the certification certificates provided in the bidding documents for Huawei Software did not meet the relevant requirements of the bidding documents. After deducting the corresponding scores, Huawei Software still ranked first, which did not affect the winning result.

According to the "State Administration of Taxation Online Academy Training Platform Transformation and Upgrade Public Cloud Leasing Project Contract" published on the website of the State Administration of Taxation, Huawei Software is required to provide the following services in accordance with the provisions of the contract: leasing and deploying cloud servers, cloud Storage, load balancing, CDN, cloud database and other equipment provide stable, reliable, dynamic and flexible hardware support for the online training platform, ensuring that when concurrent users, traffic bandwidth, etc. suddenly increase, the system can flexibly schedule resources and provide stable and reliable services in a timely manner. .

The above-mentioned contract also disclosed that in the quotation of Huawei software, the 10.5 million yuan quotation is a three-year service fee, and the project deployment and implementation costs and other expenses are 0.

Qichacha information shows that Huawei Software Technology Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. It was established in September 2005. Its business scope includes the research and development, manufacturing, and production of products in software and communication-related fields. Sales and services; value-added telecommunications business operations, publication operations, and online culture operations (the above operations are based on the items listed in the license); mechanical and electrical equipment installation; communication network engineering design, construction, installation, and maintenance, etc. The legal representative of Huawei Software is Ding Yun.

Source: Sina