Chapter 1036: Unlucky Government Procurement
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Because he was busy with the Sino-US plane collision, Fan Wuxian had not been to the headquarters for a long time to inspect.
I happened to be in a good mood today, so I took two bodyguards and drove to the PCFANS club to go around, but after I went, I met a group of executives who came to complain to themselves, saying that although the sales of some traditional office computers are still on the rise, compared with the growth rate of the entire market, there has been a significant decline.
"Oh, what's the reason for that?" Fan Wuxian asked.
As the saying goes, there is a cause and effect, if there is no problem here, the PCFANS club, which has always occupied the position of the leader in the computer supplies sales market, and the PCFANS club that has always had a good reputation, why is there a decline in sales performance? This made Fan Wuxi feel a little surprised.
One executive explained, "Because in the recent stage, many local governments have begun to use government procurement approval to control the purchase of office computers." ”
"Because they are going through government procurement approvals, our sales have declined, what is the reason?" Fan Wuxi felt even more puzzled.
"This is because the procurement power is relatively centralized, so the cats in it are also big, and some unscrupulous profiteers have begun to take advantage of loopholes, so our sales have declined." It was the executive who patiently explained to Fan Wuxian.
Fan Wuxian nodded, and immediately understood the other party's words.
The so-called government procurement refers to the use of fiscal funds by state organs, public institutions, and organizations at all levels to purchase goods, projects, and services within the centralized procurement catalogue formulated in accordance with the law or above the procurement quota standard. Government procurement not only refers to the specific procurement process, but also is a general term for procurement policies, procurement procedures, procurement processes and procurement management, and is a system for the management of public procurement and a government behavior.
Government procurement is the procurement of various materials required by government agencies, including office materials, such as computers, copiers, printers and other office equipment, paper, pen and ink and other office materials, as well as infrastructure materials, living materials and other raw materials, equipment, energy, tools, etc. Government procurement is also the same as enterprise procurement, belongs to group procurement, but its continuity, balance, regularity, strictness, scientificity is not as strong as enterprise procurement, the most basic feature of government procurement, is a kind of public money purchase activities, are purchased by government appropriations.
At present, the essence of government procurement adopted in China is that the government introduces a competitive bidding mechanism in the process of purchasing goods and services, which is completely different from the previous decentralized procurement.
Generally speaking, perfect and rational government procurement plays a great role in the effective use of social resources and the improvement of the utilization effect of fiscal funds, and is therefore an important link in the management of fiscal expenditures.
At present, all localities have begun to establish government procurement examination and approval centers to standardize various government procurement behaviors, as long as the amount exceeds a certain number of procurement cases, they all need to declare, and then conduct public bidding.
The main body of government procurement is the government, which is the largest single consumer in a country, and its purchasing power is very large.
According to statistics, the amount of procurement by EU governments accounts for about 14 percent of their gross domestic product, and this does not include the procurement of public utilities, while the US government spent about 30 percent of its GDP on the procurement of goods and services every year in the early 90s, and the government budget of more than $200 billion per year is spent on government procurement.
Because of this, government procurement has a very large impact on the social economy, the expansion or contraction of the scale of procurement, and the change of procurement structure have a very obvious impact on the state of social and economic development, the industrial structure, and the public living environment.
It is precisely because government procurement has an irreplaceable impact on the social economy that it has become a macroeconomic regulation and control tool often used by governments.
There are generally three modes of foreign government procurement: centralized procurement mode, that is, a special government procurement agency is responsible for all procurement tasks of the government at the same level; Decentralized procurement model, that is, procurement by each expenditure procurement unit; Semi-centralized and semi-decentralized procurement model, that is, a specialized government procurement agency is responsible for the procurement of some projects, while others are procured by each unit itself.
In domestic government procurement, centralized procurement accounts for a large proportion, and items that are included in the centralized procurement catalogue and reach a certain amount of procurement must be carried out in accordance with the requirements.
However, centralized procurement is also the easiest to breed, especially in local governments, for an emerging project, the black box operation is very watery, and the seemingly fair, just and open procurement bidding process can actually be suspicious and full of the operation of all parties.
That is, after the start of this centralized government procurement, the PCFANS Club found that many computer manufacturers began to bribe the leaders of the local government departments responsible for centralized procurement approval, or directly carried out public relations for the heads of government departments that needed to purchase computer office supplies and equipment, squeezing the market share of the PCFANS Club's own computer brands.
"I see-" Fan Wuxian nodded, although this matter is a little uncomfortable, but the impact is not very big, especially now that the demand for civilian personal computers in China is quite strong, there is no need to worry about unsalable, and the PCFANS club itself still has many advantages.
One executive said, "What's even more outrageous is the computer rental." ”
According to him, one of his employees used to work as an IT worker in a government department and was a temporary worker.
At that time, in that department, every regular employee was a dual machine, dual network, that is, each person had a desktop and a notebook, all of which were top-level configurations, and they were all international brands, in order not to make these things become fixed assets, these things were rented.
"Generally, there is a contract, one lease for two years, the rent is higher than the market price, two years later, the machine is still very new, if the employee wants to buy out, the price is much higher than the second-hand, I really don't know where to take it back." The executive said to Fan Wuxian, "In this way, a machine is sold at a sky-high price." Now many government departments are doing this, so some government department employees still complain that the trouble is dead, and they always change the new one, and they have to mess with the data. ”
Fan Wuxian sighed, and said in his heart that these people can really come up with any idea, to put it bluntly, this is someone who borrows you for two years to play, but you have to spend a rent higher than the market price, if you want it when the other party company takes it back, you have to have a higher price than the second-hand market.
According to the executive, there are now companies in China that specialize in this business, such as international business machine rental companies, and they are willing to do whatever brand of computers and automated office equipment, and the profits in this are really amazing.
"Scolding the one next door-" Fan Wuxian immediately felt very angry after hearing this, although it was said that this was a reason to damage the interests of the country, but the most important thing was that Mr. Fan thought that the other party had seriously damaged the domestic environment of fair competition, especially when he heard that a company that often made random associations often sent money and beautiful women to corrupt national cadres in order to complete some big projects, and robbed his company's business by the way, he was furious.
"You can't be shameless to this point!" Fan Wuxian said to everyone by knocking on the desktop of the desk with his hand.
The executive who introduced the situation to Fan Wuxian immediately replied, "Mr. Fan is discouraged, in fact, being a man can indeed be shameless to this point, at present, we have lost a lot of positions in government procurement, and these departments used to purchase our company's products." ”
"Well, I already know that." Although Fan Wuxian didn't have any cruel words in his mouth, he already had some calculations in his heart, if he didn't find a way back in this matter, could he say that he was a vegetarian at the national level? !
In Fan Wuxi's view, any kind of dishonest business behavior is shameful, so he expressed great indignation at this company that uses unfair means to compete, and is already thinking about how to make them accept Mr. Fan's anger.
However, Fan Wuxian can't do the things of catching traitors and taking stolen goods, catching the wind and shadows, he can't just run to tell his father that so-and-so company uses money and beauties to bribe government officials, and engage in unfair competition in government procurement approval, right? Then it's too child's play, and you always have to catch the other party's handle to speak.
So after Fan Wuxian thought about it, he asked the executive just now, "Can you arrange two reliable people to infiltrate the other party's company and help us get the most important evidence?" ”
The executive agreed without hesitation, "Mr. Fan, rest assured, now the other party is in the expansion period, the most needed is technical talents, I have two relatives who are just professional, let them go over is just suitable, but I hope that after this matter is done, Mr. Fan can provide them with a better development platform to show themselves, their ability is still very good." ”
Fan Wuxi sighed, and said in his heart that as long as he could speak, it would be easy to be promoted? This executive's condition with himself is also very elegant, very gentle, and it makes people feel that it is very deserved, this is language art.
"Okay, do this well, I'll arrange their work personally." Fan Wuxian assured.
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