Huizhou’s contract bids online rock

FIVE YEARS ON diary supermarket and sit in front of the computer to select projects to bid for,” Zhu said. “And this online platform ensures fair competition by drawing lots.”

Now all government projects in Huizhou that offer a price below 500,000 yuan ($73,598) for intermediary services are open for bidding from agencies across the country on the online platform, and the system randomly picks the winning bid.

Saving the labor costs required to go through every single agency’s application documents, the online platform has also reduced fiscal expenditure by about 130 million yuan since it was launched three years ago, according to Huizhou government’s development and reform bureau.

By the end of May, 1,614 companies and organizations had registered at Huizhou’s online intermediary supermarket. Altogether 16,503 business deals have been made, with a turnover reaching 416 million yuan.

Other cities in Guangdong such as Zhongshan, Heyuan, Qingyuan, Jiangmen and Zhaoqing, as well as other provinces including Yunnan, Hebei, Shandong, Sichuan and Fujian, have learned from Huizhou and set up their own online intermediary supermarkets.

“As more and more cities adopt Huizhou’s model of intermediary services management, a national network can be built in the future to keep track of agencies’ credit records,” said Wang Guorong, an official at Huizhou government’s development and reform bureau.

POLICY