Crazy wealth accumulation! Why do these people frequently succeed in the field of bidding? Zhejiang | Field | Bidding

Strike with a heavy punch! Recently, Zhejiang has launched a centralized crackdown on a group of illegal and criminal gangs in the field of bidding and tendering.

The collusive bidding group, known as the "water conservancy leader" in the province, has fallen; More than 50 professional bidding scalpers occupying various regions have been caught in one fell swoop.

The bidding projects in the fields of construction and water conservancy engineering often amount to billions of yuan, with huge benefits. This has become a coveted "big cake" for many criminals.

In some major cases, corruption issues such as power and money transactions often accompany them. From the public security organs announcing the case, it can be seen that crimes in the field of bidding and tendering are showing a new trend of online transfer and nationwide collusion, with strong concealment and high difficulty in investigation and punishment.

This year, in the "No.1 Reform Project" to optimize and enhance the business environment in Zhejiang, the rectification of prominent problems in the bidding field has been promoted as a special action. How to accurately address the chaos in bidding and tendering, and how to address it from the source? Watch the new round of actions in Zhejiang.

Uncovering the Hidden Chain

Some seemingly transparent engineering projects are publicly tendered, but there is a hidden corner inside.

Bidders, bidders, and evaluators collude and engage in covert operations. A group of professional scalpers and engineering brokers have traveled to various places to operate "blending" and hunt for engineering projects.

On August 3rd, the Wucheng Branch of Jinhua Public Security Bureau announced a case during the "Summer Action", which involved a cross provincial bidding professional scalper network.

During the investigation, the police found that Jinhua, a company with only 9 employees and no construction team, has repeatedly won bids for major engineering projects. The company has participated in 338 engineering project bids in just 2 years, far exceeding its business capabilities.

Upon closer inspection of these 338 engineering projects, over 60 companies participating in the bidding process are highly suspicious. After each bidding announcement, there are so-called "qualification fees" funds flowing into the accounts of some employees in these 60+companies.

The police conducted in-depth investigation and found that a collusive bidding gang led by Wang was connected with other professional bidding scalpers, organizing hundreds of construction companies within and outside the province to collude in bidding for a total of 907 projects. With the cooperation of the bidding company, Wang's gang successfully won the bid and then illegally sold the bid, profiting from it.

This time, the police beat up this batch of bid rigging gangs involving Zhejiang, Guangxi, Jiangxi and other three provinces, captured 32 suspect, and involved more than 1 billion yuan.

The police introduced to the reader that recently, some scalpers involved in collusion bidding cases have often spread throughout the country, making investigation more difficult. Due to the existence of data barriers between regions, some companies lack effective sharing of their credit records and employee personal files, which provides space for some companies to collude in bidding.

The bidding process involves multiple stages, with scalpers and brokers conducting rounds and accompanying bidding, and is still at the end of the bidding chain. Recently, the police have also found in some cases that some bidding chaos has extended from the end to the front, making it more difficult and harmful.

Unlike professional scalpers who are attacking in various places, some companies and personnel have been immersed in related engineering fields for a long time and have extensive resources in the industry. They are deeply involved in various stages of bidding and tendering.

This year, the police beat up Yang and Mao, who are known as the "first brother of water conservancy" in the province, and arrested 42 suspect. This group of professional collusive bidding gangs that have long been entrenched in the field of water conservancy engineering have been completely eradicated.

I have also learned from some cases that issues in the field of bidding are also extending to third parties - the "expert evaluation" process. For example, in some bidding projects that require expert evaluation, some groups use network technology to obtain a list of experts in advance, corrupt and bribe evaluation experts, and undermine market fairness.

It is time to launch a full chain attack to combat crime in the field of bidding and tendering.

It's about cracking down on economic crimes and fighting against corruption

Pay attention to the public security announcements in various parts of Zhejiang Province. Recently, we often see announcements soliciting illegal and criminal clues in the field of bidding and tendering.

Currently, cracking down on illegal and criminal activities in the field of bidding and tendering, and creating a fair, just, and honest market order have become important measures for further optimizing the business environment in various regions.

Why does the province continue to launch heavy blows on this issue? Digging deep into illegal activities in the field of bidding often involves corruption issues such as power and money transactions and profit transmission.

Failure to rectify issues in the bidding and tendering field not only affects the economic development environment, but also damages the political ecology.

Since September last year, the Zhejiang Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision has carried out special disciplinary supervision on the comprehensive governance of prominent problems in the field of bidding and tendering throughout the province. The disciplinary inspection and supervision organs at all levels in the province have concentrated their efforts to investigate and deal with a number of influential major cases, including Qian Weirong, former general manager of Hangzhou Canal Group Investment Company, and Zhu Zhixiang, former chairman of Shaoxing Urban Investment Group.

The case of Zhu Zhixiang alone, involving collusion projects, amounts to billions of dollars in funding. The Shaoxing Intermediate People's Court held during the trial that the defendant Zhu Zhixiang's behavior constituted the crime of collusion in bidding. From 2018 to 2020, Zhu Zhixiang served as the Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Shaoxing Urban Construction Investment Group Co., Ltd. As the main person in charge of the bidding unit, he colluded with others and bidders during the bidding process of related projects, resulting in a total winning amount of over 4.42 billion yuan.

Such corrupt collusion cases involving officials involve large amounts of money, have a negative social impact, and have a significant impact on the local and industry business environment.

In June of this year, the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Provincial Supervision Commission held a comprehensive governance meeting on prominent issues in the field of bidding and tendering in Lishui City. The meeting clearly pointed out that rectifying the chaos in the field of bidding and tendering is the "deep-water area" of the current anti-corruption struggle.

To this end, the disciplinary inspection and supervision organs in Zhejiang Province have comprehensively investigated over 5000 related issues and clues in the field of bidding and tendering since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Those issues and clues that were not handled properly have been reprocessed, and the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision has supervised and supervised key problem clues, reports and accusations.

Carry out full chain governance

The chaos in the field of bidding reflects the shortcomings of bidding mechanisms in various regions.

Analyzing recent major cases in the field of bidding and tendering, we cannot simply focus on catching scalpers and cracking down on gangs to cure this stubborn disease. At a deeper level, we need to deepen the governance at the source, identify loopholes in cases, and improve the institutional mechanisms for preventing and controlling the spread of corruption.

The bidding process is highly professional and involves multiple stages. If there are loopholes in any stage before, during, or after the bid opening, it is easy to breed risks. This requires full chain governance.

For example, leading cadres illegally intervene in bidding and tendering issues. Sometimes, from the perspective of relevant procedures and materials alone, they often meet procedural requirements. However, during the bidding process, there are hidden problems such as leaders greeting, artificially giving high technical scores, changing bidding conditions, and illegally leaking bidding information.

Some cadres suggest strengthening the linkage between disciplinary inspection, public security, development and reform departments, strengthening cooperation in online investigation, information sharing, supervision and law enforcement, and working together to supervise the behavior of relevant departments, experts, and enterprises during the bidding process. Further improve information disclosure, fully disclose information such as scoring results, reasons for rejection of bids, and the performance and honor of bidding companies to the public, and accept supervision from the whole society.

Big data is becoming a powerful tool for preventing and combating collusion and collusion. For example, the Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission of Wucheng District, Jinhua City, using big data supervision as the starting point, has generated 103 warning messages by May through data screening, comparison, and collision.

In response to the trend of collusion and bid rigging shifting online, Zhejiang Public Security has also developed a bidding data monitoring and analysis model, from which key illegal and criminal clues of collusion bidding can be obtained. This year, a series of major cases in the field of bidding have been discovered and solved, and data analysis has made great contributions.

The post supervision mechanism is also being improved. The current project needs to be supervised and previous projects need to be reviewed.

On August 1st, 11 departments including the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development jointly issued a notice requiring local governments and relevant departments to conduct project spot checks on projects that must be tendered in accordance with the law, starting from 2023, at a ratio of no less than 10% in principle.

We must rectify the problems in the field of bidding and tendering, and ensure that every step is not missed.