Generally speaking, choosing an agency as a service-oriented government procurement project is not included in the centralized procurement catalogue. Article 18 of the Government Procurement Law stipulates: "Government procurement projects that are not listed in the centralized procurement catalogue can be purchased by themselves, or they can be entrusted by centralized procurement agencies to purchase on their behalf within the scope of entrustment." From this, it can be concluded that there are two ways for buyers to choose agencies, one is to purchase by themselves, and the other is to entrust such procurement projects to centralized procurement agencies for operation.
Self-procurement
First of all, it must be clear that it does not mean random purchase. If the buyer's right to choose is arbitrary, it will inevitably lead to various public relations behaviors of the agency. In fact, the purchaser's choice of agency by himself still belongs to the collective purchase of the unit. There should be open procedures within the purchaser, and there should be a special person in charge to supervise each other to ensure the fairness of the selection. Comprehensive analysis, there are the following ways.
First, independent bidding. The purchaser can organize bidding activities by himself with reference to the relevant procedures stipulated in the Government Procurement Law, issue procurement announcements or invitations, and select the best from a number of agencies participating in the bidding through expert evaluation. This method is generally used for procurement projects with large budget and high agency service cost.
The second is direct designation. Because purchasing personnel often need to bid for projects, after long-term investigation and comparison, according to the different bidding projects, they have formed long-term trust and cooperation relations with some agencies. When there are procurement projects, they can directly determine the agency's entrustment, which is also the inevitable result of "survival of the fittest".
The third is to recommend designation. If the procurement project is special, the time requirement is urgent, and the agency fee is low, it is of little significance for the purchaser to choose an agency through bidding. It is better to consult other users directly or be recommended by experts as an agency that has done similar projects.
The fourth is to draw lots to determine. When there are many agencies with good reputation and excellent performance to choose from in procurement, and the agency fee is not the main competitive factor. As a buyer's market, in order to avoid rent-seeking behavior in the selection process, several institutions can be invited to draw lots at random, which should also be a "self-selection" way.
Entrust centralized procurement to organize procurement.
In practice, there are indeed many buyers who either don't know anything about the agencies in the market or have too many objects to choose from, so they turn to centralized procurement agencies to purchase. But for centralized procurement institutions, should such entrusted projects be accepted or rejected? According to legal reasoning, it should obviously be the former, which makes centralized procurement institutions also face procurement difficulties, and it is impossible to "make one bid and one move" for every entrusted project.
Besides the contradiction between supply and demand caused by asymmetric information, the reason why the purchaser entrusts the choice of agency to the centralized procurement agency is that the purchaser lacks selection criteria and does not know how to choose an agency. In this regard, centralized procurement institutions can establish a dynamic agency library through procurement services, clarify the screening criteria, demonstrate for buyers, and let buyers choose their own agencies according to the criteria.
The establishment of the agency library should be open to competition, and the centralized procurement agency should be the purchaser, and a minimum standard should be set for the agency, such as the registered capital scale, the number of professionals or related performance. Anyone who meets the requirements can be shortlisted for the agent library. This is a process of building from scratch.
In addition, the follow-up management of the agent library is subject to professional classification and dynamic management. The establishment of institutional library is only used as a reference standard. According to the actual situation of the project, the purchaser can choose inside or outside the warehouse. As long as the comprehensive conditions of the applied agency are the same or better than the above requirements, they can join at any time after confirmation by the centralized procurement agency, which is convenient for buyers to choose.