【Chapter 180】 Competitors
Busy time always flies by, and just when people are not looking, a week is fleeting!
During this week, in addition to being busy with family affairs, I also had to accompany Zeng Ying's two daughters and the professionals they brought to conduct detailed surveys and analyses inside and outside the grain station every day, so as to make the best bidding documents.
In the past few days, Zeng Ying and Guo Hailan, who have great confidence in the future development of Liangcun, have gone out early and returned late, driving across the river to Liangcun every day before dawn, and returning to the county seat after dinner.
Although the two of them really wanted to see the early morning in Liangcun, watch the sunset return late, and then look at the shining stars in the sky, the poor accommodation conditions in Liangcun could only let them do it. Xu Heng's experience of going back and forth every day made Zeng Ying and Guo Hailan more concerned about the future planning of the grain station.
If you want to stay in Liangcun as long as you want after the transformation of the grain station is completed in the future, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Xiaojing Lake and Xiaoqingshan at any time.
In such a state, Zeng Ying and Guo Hailan were naturally full of enthusiasm, and in just one week, according to the specific situation of the grain station, they made an almost perfect bidding document, waiting for the bidding ceremony to be held.
In the past few days, Liang Village has also welcomed a lot of guests, and they are also under the leadership of the local village committee cadres to conduct corresponding inspections of the grain station. Zeng Ying knew that these people might be her competitors on the bidding site, and she was also quite careful. However, when each company is inspected, the tone is quite tight, and it is easy not to introduce its situation to others.
With the increasing amount of information released by the Liangcun Village Committee, many investors from Qingshan County have also arrived in Liangcun to inspect the investment environment here. Even some hotels and catering companies in Qingzhou city have sent people to Liangcun one after another, wanting to see if there are any development prospects here.
If you just look at the current situation of Liangcun, I am afraid that any investor with a reasonable surname will not regard Liangcun as an investment target. But if you take a longer-term view, Liangcun is another potential investment location.
In the past, even Liangcun Xiaojing Lake had a variety of amazing natural environments and rich products, but because of various conditions, it could only be raised in the deep mountains and no one knew about it. However, now the situation has changed dramatically, as if overnight, Liangcun has shown signs of soaring.
The reason why investors can create their own business is that whether it is analysis and judgment or information channels, they have opened a certain distance from ordinary people. Before the general public knew much about the fact that Xiaoqingshan had already entered the expedition, they already knew that the declaration of the nature reserve had entered the final stage.
Investors are all elites, and they know that now has become the best time to invest in Liangcun, and if they want to take the lead, they have to start faster.
It is for this reason that although all the people who meet at the grain station every day are smiling and greeting each other, they still regard each other as their biggest competitors in their hearts.
When taking Zeng Ying to inspect the grain station, Liu Rui also met Zheng Haiyang with a middle-aged man appearing in the grain station, presumably also interested in the grain station. It is also a very reasonable thing to think about, after all, 'South Beauty' is the first catering company to purchase vegetables and mountain goods in Liangcun, and the familiarity with Liangcun is probably relatively high among all the enterprises that intend to participate in the bidding.
Through the close cooperation with Liangcun in the past few months, I am afraid that the senior management of 'South Beauty' has a very clear understanding of the current situation and future development prospects of Liangcun. Now, Liangcun intends to push the grain station to the market, how can it not make the senior management of 'South Beauty' happy?
No, just after receiving the news from Liangcun, Zheng Haiyang immediately took the company's boss to Liangcun for a field trip. After seeing the specific situation of the grain station, Zheng Haiyang and the others were overjoyed, and they already regarded the grain station as an inevitable thing in their hearts.
Over the years, with excellent operation and various favorable conditions, 'South Beauty' has become a leading enterprise in the catering industry in Qingshan County, occupying a considerable part of the high-end catering market in Qingshan County. However, with the passage of time, the development of the enterprise has also fallen into a bottleneck.
Qingshan County's catering market is so big, even if it is growing every year, but the cake is so big, there are more monks and less porridge, even if 'South Beauty' is strong, it is unlikely to occupy all the market share.
Therefore, how to make the enterprise achieve leapfrog development has become the biggest issue for Zheng Haiyang and others.
It is a good choice to develop in the urban area of Qingzhou, after all, Qingzhou is incomparable to Qingshan County in terms of population density, consumption level and development potential. However, going to Qingzhou for development means leaving the support of Qingshan County's local network, and the future development is a bit uncertain.
After all, the catering industry has a great reliance on personal connections, official friendships, and so on. To be honest, like the current high-end restaurant market, most of them are supported by public funds to eat and drink, if your official relationship is not in place, I am afraid it will be difficult to do business.
In addition, catering enterprises open their doors to do business, and all departments have to be checked, such as public security, fire protection, industry and commerce, taxation, health and other departments. Also, the gray forces on the street also need to be honored so that the restaurant can operate without danger.
To sum up, opening a catering business is actually a nerve-wracking job, and not everyone can have fun. Some people just see that some restaurants are full of customers and business is thriving every day, but they don't think that the owner of the restaurant is racking his brains every day to deal with all kinds of situations.
Now, there is a good opportunity in Liangcun, how can we not make the management of 'South Beauty' excited?
It was not unexpected to meet Zheng Haiyang and the boss and staff of 'South Beauty' at the grain station, and Liu Rui had secretly regarded 'South Beauty' as his biggest competitor.
Although he has a good relationship with Zheng Haiyang, when they meet in such a situation, Liu Rui only greets him, and he will not talk too deeply. After all, this is not a good time to chat, if you want to make friends, wait until the bidding ceremony is over, everyone can put a table of good dishes, drink and chat.
Seeing that 'South Beauty' also joined the ranks of competition, Zeng Ying, who is a local, naturally knows the weight of it, and has become a lot more cautious. After all, a large local catering company like 'South Beauty' has strong strength and local advantages, which is not so easy to beat.
In addition to the "South Beauty" that attracted the most attention from Zeng Ying and others, many companies came to Liangcun for field visits, which made the atmosphere before the bidding activities of the grain station become a little tense.
On the day of the bidding ceremony, the auditorium of the Liangcun Village Committee was bustling.
The predecessor of the village committee auditorium was the cinema in Liang Village, which was built in the 60s, and the grain station are both products of that special era.
In the past, when movies were shown here, it was crowded every night, and it was hard to get a ticket.
In that era when entertainment items were scarce, watching movies became a very important entertainment item for many people. When the movie was played, not only the people of Liangcun watched it, but even the villagers from all over the country rushed to Liangcun just to watch the movie.
Liu Rui sometimes still misses that era, because his uncle is the village party secretary, children like Liu Rui can sneak into the cinema and watch free movies without buying tickets.
However, with the popularization of television, the cinema was slowly forgotten and gradually declined. Fortunately, the village committee is next to the cinema, and the village will transform the cinema into a small hall, and if the villagers' meeting or any theatrical performances are usually held, they are all placed in the small hall, which can be regarded as waste utilization.
Today, the small hall welcomed a large number of guests, including investors and their employees from other places, as well as village cadres from two village committees, leaders of various village groups, village elders and villager representatives, and hundreds of people packed the small hall.
Today's bidding ceremony has received great attention from the villagers, because the space of the small hall is limited, and a large number of villagers who cannot enter can only stand outside the small hall and under the banyan tree, talking about today's bidding ceremony. For the villagers of Liang Village, today is really a big day, and no one could have imagined that the soon-to-be-collapsed grain station could still attract so many merchants.
Not to mention anything else, the car that arrived in Liang Village in the past few days alone shocked many villagers, and they also had more expectations for the next bidding results.
When Liu Rui walked into the small hall with the elaborate bidding document in his arms, it was already overcrowded, and the sound of everyone's discussion was buzzing, almost making people rush to their heads.
Although Liangcun has not held similar events before, I have never eaten pork and have not seen pigs run? Under the busyness of the two village party secretaries and Wang Jun, the layout of the small hall venue is also very in line with the actual requirements and is well organized.
On the higher stage, a row of long tables lined up with pale red sheets and a number of nameplates with the names of the leaders participating in today's bidding ceremony were written. As a pioneering move, Liangcun's bidding activities naturally attracted the attention of many superior leaders. The county didn't expect any heavyweight leaders to come, but the mayor of Qingyun Town was still invited to attend and sat on the rostrum.
In the rows of seats closest to the rostrum, the units participating in the bidding sat down in a clear manner according to the standard of three personnel per family. At this time, everyone is desperately trying to control their emotions, for fear that competitors can see some clues from the subtle changes on their faces. As a result, the people sitting in these rows of seats are probably all poker-faced, and it seems that the whole world owes them a lot of money.
The villagers sitting behind the merchants were no longer treated as chairs and tea, and they sat on cold cement benches, chatting while watching the situation in front of them. Although the cold feeling coming from the buttocks was obvious, the hearts of the villagers were probably quite hot. Without him, it is because they are about to witness the first public tender in the history of Liang Village.
After a long day of arguing and shouting, the bidding ceremony finally began.
Like most of China's government-organized meetings, this time's bidding was first conducted with a leader's speech! Although the villagers and businessmen in the audience were reluctant to accept the boring preaching of the leaders in their hearts, they were helpless.
After the pot-bellied mayor of Qingyun Town read the speech with emotion for more than half an hour, he finally enjoyed it. When the mayor's speech ended, the entire hall erupted in thunderous applause. If others don't know, do you think the mayor's speech is wonderful? How to motivate people's hearts? In fact, it is just a true portrayal of the inner singing of the suffering people.
Fortunately, Wang Huaguo knew the inner thoughts of the villagers and merchants, and did not speak at length, but directly announced that the bidding ceremony would begin immediately.
In the past few days, there have been many investors who have come to Liangcun for inspection, but not all of them are eligible to participate in the final bidding.
In order to ensure that after the right to operate the grain station is obtained by the investor, the investor has enough strength to develop and operate, Liangcun has made a lot of hard regulations on the bidding qualifications.
First of all, the object of participating in the bidding must be a legal person, and individuals cannot participate, which also screens some individual bosses with average economic strength, leaving only strong enterprises. In addition, enterprises participating in the bidding must pay a deposit to the Liangcun Village Committee to ensure the smooth progress of the bidding activities. After the end of the bidding activities, the deposit will be returned to the enterprise that did not win the bid, as for the winning enterprise, if you want to get back the deposit, you must immediately carry out the corresponding transformation of the grain station within the specified time.
These measures were all proposed by Liu Rui and finally adopted by the Liangcun Village Committee. With these clauses, it is possible to ensure that the winning bidder can renovate the grain station in the shortest possible time and open the door as soon as possible. Because, for Liang Village, time is not very abundant, so Liang Village must put an end to the participation of speculative merchants.
With Wang Huaguo's order, the merchant representatives in the audience began to rise up and handed over the bidding documents that had been carefully crafted in the past week to the rostrum in turn.
In order to avoid black-box work, the Liangcun Village Committee did not engage in any secret bidding, but made all the bids public on the spot, and then chose the best plan.
As for judging which company's plan is the best, it is nothing more than judging from several aspects.
After obtaining the right to renovate and operate the grain station, how much money will the winning bidder commit to invest in the development of the grain station? At the same time, how much stake will the Liangcun Village Committee own in the new enterprise?
As long as Liangcun occupies more interests in these two data, the Liangcun Village Committee will naturally let the enterprise that proposed this plan win the bid. Liang Cun's move is very uncomfortable for many companies that are accustomed to working in the dark, after all, in this case, it is really difficult to cheat.
After winning the bid, it is necessary to sign a formal cooperation agreement with the Liangcun Village Committee in accordance with the conditions on the tender document in the shortest possible time. In this agreement, whether it is the time limit for starting construction, the amount of investment, the proportion of sharing, the length of cooperation, and the rights and obligations of both parties, etc., must be refined and quantified, and no sloppiness is allowed.
When many merchants got the bidding rules of Liangcun, they simply suspected that they had come to the wrong place. It seems that this is not a poor rural area, but a coastal area with a highly developed economy and a spirit of contract. It was as if these merchants had come not to bid for a small grain station, but to build a skyscraper.
In this regard, the vast majority of merchants are very puzzled, who came up with these bad ideas?
As everyone knows, the initiator of such a bidding principle is now also sitting among the representatives of the bidding merchants, and if the other merchants knew, they would have to beat Liu Rui violently.
According to the general practice, merchants from other places can use the various facilities of the grain depot as long as they pay a small rent every year, and after the transformation, they can turn it into a cornucopia. But now, because of the large number of competitors, in order to win the bid, companies have to work hard to improve their conditions. In this way, even if the bid is won, the company's profits will drop a lot, which makes many investors feel depressed.
However, Liu Rui has no psychological burden on this.
After all, the future development prospects of Liangcun tourism are unlimited, so why bother to let the future operation of the grain station fall into some uncertain factors for the sake of some small profits in front of them? According to the survey and analysis of the grain station during this time, as well as the judgment of the future tourism market, Liu Rui, Zeng Ying and Guo Hailan have already done it in their hearts.
As part of their plan, they signed a formal contract with the village committee immediately after winning the bid, and then began to contact the construction company to carry out the necessary renovation of the various measures at the grain station. At the same time, the recruitment and training of personnel will be carried out together to ensure that the new leisure farm will be operational by the time the renovation project is completed.
Of course, the idea is always good, and now the question is whether it can win the bid?
When the bids were delivered to the rostrum, the mood of the merchants in the audience became nervous, and their breathing became a little short. The villagers, who were still chatting underground, also stopped whispering at this time, staring intently at the tender that was raised, for fear of missing any details.
After the bids were collected, the two uniformed notaries invited by the county notary office began to open the seals on the bids one by one, and read out some of the main data of the bids on the spot.
At this time, almost everyone's heart is almost beating to the throat! The atmosphere of the whole venue was almost a little frozen, only the almost emotionless voice of the notary reverberate!
(To be continued)