The disadvantages of traditional government procurement methods of government procurement methods

1. High procurement costs

In traditional government procurement activities, due to the use of manual labor and telephone, fax and other contact information, communication, travel and other costs remain high. Restricted by the conditions, the choice of suppliers is very small, and can not make adequate price comparisons. Also due to the government procurement in the procurement catalog is adjusted very frequently, the procurement department to ensure that the procurement of materials in place in a timely manner often do not take into account the issue of procurement costs.

2. Low procurement efficiency

In the traditional government procurement methods, the procurement unit to apply to fill out a variety of forms, stamped approval at all levels, a long time, the procedures are extremely cumbersome; for the Government Procurement Center, through the press and other channels to publish procurement announcements, organize meetings, invite experts to evaluate, organize receptions, etc., is not only time-consuming and costly, and the results are poor; for the bidding supplier For bidding suppliers, because there is no centralized and fixed place to obtain tender information, in order to participate in the bidding must be many times back and forth, spending a lot of travel expenses, not to mention, will also have an impact on the normal production and business activities of enterprises. At the same time, the procurement activities of a large number of paper vouchers may also be due to an error or omission of a single document and affect the entire procurement process.

3. Lack of communication and *** enjoyment of procurement information

Traditional government procurement activities due to the lack of real-time, dynamic, two-way interactive means of communication, so that government procurement information can not be timely communication and *** enjoyment. Due to the business sector "their own way", concerned about the different perspectives, resulting in procurement information in different departments of the government can not be timely and smooth flow, affecting the normal conduct of the procurement process, and sometimes also produce the procurement of materials and the actual demand does not match the situation, not only resulting in a waste of resources, but also may be delayed in the normal development of the work of government departments.

4. Procurement scope by the geographical limitations

In the traditional procurement business, the procurement department to choose the supplier to a large extent by the geographic limitations, and even some government procurement departments to set up artificial barriers to the exclusion of external new, better suppliers to enter, which will inevitably result in the purchase of materials, "poor quality and high price! This will inevitably lead to the procurement of materials "inferior quality and high price", can not well reflect the requirements of government procurement "open, fair, just" and "value for money" principle.

5. Difficulties in monitoring the procurement process

In the traditional way of government procurement, government procurement has been a "disaster area" of corruption, such as the phenomenon of kickbacks in the procurement, "shady dealings", "backdoor operation" and so on are common and unceasing. On the one hand, it is due to the traditional procurement transactions are not standardized, not in accordance with the normal procedures of procurement, arbitrarily violating the terms of the contract and so on often; on the other hand, it is due to the non-transparency of the procurement process, for the occurrence of corrupt practices provide the conditions.

6. Procurement bidding is often a formality

Traditional procurement bidding process, the procurement activities that really achieve the purpose of the bidding is not rare, many of the form. Reflected in two aspects: First, due to geographical, supplier information and other conditions, can not make the real strength and dominant suppliers to participate in the bidding; Second, the bidding is limited to the comparison of the offer of the various suppliers, but there is no competitive bidding process, the winning bidder to provide the offer are more or less reserved, to a certain extent, affecting the government's procurement costs.