China News Service, Beijing, June 23 (Reporters Xie Yanbing and Zeng Yue) The revised draft of the Government Procurement Law was submitted to the 23rd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress for its first review on the 23rd.
The revised draft anchors solutions to outstanding issues in the field of government procurement and eliminates room for rent-seeking systems.
The revision of the Government Procurement Law adheres to the party's leadership, adheres to problem orientation, adheres to the unity of powers and responsibilities, adheres to the pursuit of stability, and systematically improves the government procurement system and mechanism to provide legal guarantee for unifying the basic market system rules and building a unified national market.
Hao Peng, deputy chairman of the Financial and Economic Committee of the National People's Congress, said in a relevant explanation that day that the revised draft of the Government Procurement Law is anchored in solving outstanding problems in the field of government procurement, focusing on building a level playing field with equal rights, equal opportunities, fair procedures, and effective relief, eliminating the space for rent-seeking systems, and improving prevention mechanisms that cannot be corrupted. Standardize government procurement activities and improve government procurement performance by optimizing rules, applying digital technology, and strengthening full-process management.
The revised draft of the Government Procurement Law focuses on strengthening the main responsibility of the purchaser, clarifying the rights and obligations of purchasers, suppliers, agencies, review experts, regulatory authorities and other parties, strengthening the internal control management and external supervision of the entire process of government procurement, and forming a government procurement supervision and management mechanism with reasonable authorization, clear responsibilities, effective supervision, and strict accountability.
The revised draft has 10 chapters and 104 articles in total. The main contents of the revision include: adjusting and optimizing the scope of legal application, strengthening the functional role of government procurement policies, strengthening full-process management, promoting standardized and efficient transaction rules, improving fair competition mechanisms, strengthening power supervision and institutional anti-corruption, etc.
In terms of strengthening the functions and functions of government procurement policies, the revised draft emphasizes that government procurement should implement the party and the country's lines, policies, decisions and arrangements, serve to achieve the country's economic and social development policy goals, and add new government procurement policy goals such as supporting scientific and technological innovation and promoting green, low-carbon and cyclic development.
The revised draft improves the fair competition mechanism. In order to solve problems such as differential and discriminatory treatment of suppliers and excessive institutional transaction costs, it strives to break down hidden barriers to government procurement and reduce the burden on market entities.
In order to strengthen the construction of a clean government and consolidate the institutional foundation for government procurement supervision and law enforcement, the revised draft focuses on improving the government procurement supervision system and legal responsibilities. It strengthens the management of all parties in government procurement, clarifies and details the legal responsibilities of purchasers, procurement agencies, electronic trading platform operators, review experts, suppliers, etc., and increases penalties. This revision also adds a special chapter on "Government Procurement Digitization" to promote full-process electronic transactions, promote full recording of government procurement activities, penetrate supervision, and reduce human intervention.
The Government Procurement Law is the basic law regulating government procurement behavior. It was enacted in 2002 and came into effect on January 1, 2003. (over)
