Disciplinary inspection and supervision agencies strengthen government purchase service supervision and strictly investigate the transfer of benefits behind high-priced purchases

  Recently, an inspection by the Heping District Committee of Tianjin City found that a certain bureau in the district lacked scientific evidence on the rationality of the government’s purchase of service items and did not carefully evaluate the use of funds. Under the circumstance that one purchase can solve the problem, it chose price changes for two consecutive years. Gao's leasing method provided 138 walkie-talkies to relevant departments for flood control, resulting in a waste of financial funds.

Heping District has dealt with this issue seriously, and made efforts to promote the bureau to implement the rectification responsibilities of inspection issues to ensure that the rectification of the issues is in place.

  Promoting government procurement of services is a key task of comprehensively deepening reforms, and an important measure to innovate public service supply mechanisms and fiscal expenditure methods. It is of great significance for transforming government functions, improving public services, innovating social governance, and accelerating the establishment of a modern fiscal system.

Judging from the typical cases reported by the Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision in various places, in practice, some units purchase and use third-party services without strict audit checks and insufficient service quality supervision, resulting in waste of fiscal funds, reduced administrative efficiency, and transformation of government functions and improvement of public services. In the opposite direction.

  In government procurement of services, some units have the inert thinking of "spending more and less, waste and saving the same", lack of scientific demonstration of the rationality of the project's necessity, and the problem of "spending wronged money" has occurred from time to time.

For example, a bureau in the Heping District mentioned above did not organize relevant personnel to conduct market research and market price comparisons on wireless intercom equipment and service platform costs. The two-year lease (including communication fees) reached more than 80,000 yuan.

However, the inspection team found that the cost of purchasing new equipment with the same performance (including communication fees) at one time was lower, reflecting that the bureau did not truly implement the Party Central Committee’s requirements for "excessive life" and made leasing decisions without in-depth investigation and research. , Resulting in the funds not being used on the "knife edge".

  Some units willingly acted as "hands-off shopkeepers" and signed the purchase service contract.

The lack of effective supervision or even complete disregard of contract implementation affects the quality of purchased services. In the end, a lot of money is spent, with little effect. Social organizations "fake services, take real money" and "receive only money without service" phenomenon.

For example, the Disabled Persons’ Federation of Hejiang County, Sichuan Province purchased services through the government and agreed with Juai Company to build 40 love pavilions in Hejiang County to accommodate a total of 80 disabled persons. The principle of profit and loss is implemented.

Due to the inadequate supervision of the Disabled Persons' Federation in Hejiang County, Juai Company only built 8 love pavilions and put them into use to place 1 disabled person in employment.

  Some units outsource their own work beyond the scope of work, and transfer work responsibilities, which can easily breed lazy and lazy behavior.

An inspection by the Guoyang County Party Committee in Anhui Province found that a certain bureau in the county had staff who graduated from professional colleges, who were competent for relevant business tasks, but they had purchased a large number of outsourced services for a long time.

After investigation, the purchase of services in 3 years amounted to 952,400 yuan.

  Behind the appearance of the problem of government purchasing services, there are deep-seated problems such as formalism and bureaucracy, which can easily lead to hidden risks of integrity and negative corruption.

  "Some units buy services'buy expensive, not buy right', and the willfulness is often hidden behind the transfer of benefits." The relevant person in charge of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Changshu City, Jiangsu Province analyzed that some party members and cadres regard the purchase of services as a tool for personal gain, or as a tool for personal gains. Engage in power rent-seeking, use the resources of purchasing service items to accept social organizations or third-party money and materials, or "close your eyes and close your eyes" in the process of daily supervision and settlement review, and allow social organizations or third parties to falsify and defraud financial funds. Make the government purchase service out of style and taste.

  In order to further improve the quality of drinking water in rural areas, in April 2020, the Water Resources Bureau of Yunyang County, Chongqing City decided to conduct water quality evaluation on centralized water supply projects in five or more rural households by means of government purchases of services.

Before the competitive comparison, Mr. Li, then director of the Rural Drinking Water Safety Center of Yunyang County, and Mr. Wu, the person in charge of a Chongqing Inspection Co., Ltd., agreed to contract the project to the company at a price of 750,000 yuan, and demanded that Mr. Wu offer a price of 890,000 yuan. .

After a competitive comparison, the testing company won the bid, and Wu gave 140,000 yuan to Li according to the agreement, and Li used it for personal expenses.

  Zhou Yicheng, a professor at the School of Politics and Public Administration of Soochow University, told reporters that rent-seeking and "colluding bids" and "accompanying bids" problems occur from time to time.

Organize the purchase link, and the potential undertaking entity will try to bribe the relevant staff of the purchasing entity to obtain care. The existence of “column bidding”, “accompanying bidding” and offensive and defensive alliances, coupled with the information asymmetry between the purchase entity and the undertaking entity, will This leads to the dilemma of high-priced purchases and low-efficiency services.

  In order to regulate the government's purchase of services, local discipline inspection and supervision agencies organize special supervision and inspections, consolidate the responsibilities of the supervision departments, and promote the improvement of relevant systems and regulations.

The Changshu Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision has established a normalized random inspection mechanism to urge the Civil Affairs Bureau and the Finance Bureau to further refine the requirements and regulations of the purchaser and the undertaker in the "Purchasing Services from Social Organizations", and at the same time promote the establishment of a service project supervision platform for the people to carry out the whole process Closed loop management.

The Commission for Discipline Inspection of Zhenhai District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province carried out special supervision and inspection of government procurement of service items, focusing on checking the phenomena of "heavy bidding and procurement, neglecting contract performance and acceptance", "one purchase" and other phenomena, and urged procurement units to strengthen contract management and improve the efficiency of fund use .