Rebirth as an official

Mr. Zhao, who had been reluctant to talk to him, saw Ma Guohua's eyes and said, "Haha, we should help Section Chief Wang with his difficulties. Leave the house matter to me. It's a trivial matter."

Li An was also chatting and drinking with several people, but his attention was focused on Section Chief Wang.

Section Chief Wang has a really big appetite. The first thing he asked for was a house. Although house prices in the county were very cheap in 2007, they cost more than 1000 square meters. Even a house of 10 square meters would cost [-] yuan. .

What's more, it is the best real estate in Yangdong County, and the price is expected to be higher.

He is a small "stock" level section chief, and his monthly salary is only 1 to [-] yuan. With the double salary at the end of the year, his income is only [-] yuan a year. This bid evaluation project earns ten years of salary. .

The officialdom in Yangdong is really bad.

After eating for more than two hours, Li An was full of wine and food. Although Li An tried his best to drink as little as possible, he couldn't stand the crowd. Who makes him the one with the greatest power and potential among all the people here today? .

In this way, Li An also drank nearly a pound of liquor, staggering slightly, and walked to the door of the hotel with Ma Guohua's support.

"Li Ke, I'll drive, please wait a moment."

Ma Guohua asked to leave, and Mr. Zhao appeared in front of Li An with a smile.

"Chief Li, you are so huge. Come and have fun with us in Jiangdong when you have time."

Mr. Zhao greeted him politely, then put a thick envelope into Li An's pocket and said, "Li Ke, please take care of me."

Then the remaining four Jiangdong businessmen came over to greet Li An one after another, as if they had agreed.

Then Li An's jacket pockets and pants pockets were filled with five heavy red envelopes. Li An estimated the thickness of the envelopes and estimated that each red envelope was worth 2 yuan.

"Hoho, you can earn [-] yuan in one night. Corrupt officials can make money quickly, but the method of giving money is a bit low. Why not give Zhang an anonymous bank card? The bribery method is too amateurish." Li An couldn't help complaining.

After all the bosses greeted Li An, Ma Guohua's car arrived belatedly. He still bowed and said with a smile on his face: "Li Ke, I'm sorry to keep you waiting for so long."

"No, no, Boss Ma has just the right amount of time." Li An teased Ma Guohua with a smile.

"Haha, that's right. It's better to come early than to come by chance." Ma Guohua said with a smile.

Back in the dormitory, Li An marked all the envelopes with his name, then opened the envelopes and counted them carefully. It was similar to what he had just estimated, 10 yuan per envelope, a total of [-] yuan.

"With 10 yuan, you can buy a good-quality house in Yangdong County. If you wait until housing prices rise sharply in the next few years and then sell it, you can make several times the profit."

"I'll go, why did my thoughts wander again?"

Li An looked at the stacks of red banknotes on the table and couldn't help but sigh. He remembered the first time he took a bribe, which was only 5000 yuan. At that time, he was both excited and scared when he got the money. As calm as now.

Well, I am very calm.

After all, he brought a camera to accept bribes. Even if he wanted to keep it for himself, he didn't have the courage. Tang Bochuan's butcher knife was sharpened.

The next morning, Ma Guohua drove over and took Li An to Yangdong Hotel. There were six projects opening bids today, three in the morning and three in the afternoon.

We arrived at the conference room on the first floor of the hotel, which is today's bidding room.

At this time, the members of the project review team have arrived. At this time, they are all sitting upright and sanctimonious, as if they are not the same person they saw last night.

Starting at nine o'clock, representatives of the bidding companies will report in and submit the bidding documents.

At ten o'clock, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Bidding Law, a public bidding singing and public demonstration will be held, and the main contents of each bidding document will be announced.

The next step is for a review team composed of the tenderer and expert judges to conduct a detailed review of the project, and finally select a company with strong corporate strength, excellent overall performance, and a reasonable and low bid price to undertake the project.

There seems to be no problem with these processes, everything is very formal, but the black-box operations here have been completed quietly and unknowingly.

In 2007, the country's project bidding system was not perfect, which allowed many businessmen to see opportunities.

In particular, government engineering projects are regarded as "Tang Monk Meat" in the eyes of all businessmen, so various methods are emerging one after another.

Bidding rigging, subcontracting, subcontracting, splitting the whole into parts, manipulating the judges, cheating, etc. have only one purpose. As long as you win the bid, all the previous efforts will be repaid.

Of course, the state has formulated various systems and set various norms in order to prevent defects in project bidding.

There is only one purpose, to spend less taxpayer money and obtain greater benefits.

And fairness, impartiality, and openness increase the transparency of the bidding process, allowing the public to focus on achieving satisfactory results.

However, even if the country's system is constantly improving, it cannot stop human greed, especially when government officials and businessmen collude. No matter how sound the system is, it can only be a decoration.

Take the bidding for the twelve projects this time as an example. These projects are all livelihood projects invested by state-owned special funds and should be open to bid. Only under special conditions, invitation to bid can be conducted with approval.

However, among these twelve projects, the five largest ones have a total cost of more than 5000 million, four of which are invitation-based bidding.

It goes without saying who approved this, it must be the county magistrate Hu Maoye.

The three companies that invited bids were all companies controlled by the five businessmen from Jiangdong and rigged the bids for the project.

Bid rigging is a professional term for bidding, also known as collusive bidding.

It refers to the mutual agreement between several bidders to unanimously raise or lower the bid price for bidding, and by restricting competition and squeezing out other bidders, a certain stakeholder wins the bid, thereby seeking benefits.

It can be said that these four projects are already in the pockets of these businessmen, and they have not let go of the remaining eight projects.

The remaining projects are subject to public bidding, but these projects are subject to public bidding announcements.It was published in a newspaper with very little influence. Unless someone told you about the newspaper, few people would find out.

This is also a common method used by officials and businessmen to collude. To exploit loopholes in the rules and regulations, as long as the matter is publicized in the newspaper, it will comply with the procedural regulations.

This loophole was not blocked until the country promulgated the "Measures for the Management of the Release of Tender Announcements and Public Information Information" in 2018.

At the bid opening site, all the bidders were having fun and greeted each other. After completing the bidding process, all the bidding documents were sent to the small conference room on the second floor, which is also the review room.

Then the bid evaluation began.

The bid evaluation is divided into preliminary bid evaluation and detailed bid evaluation.

The preliminary bid evaluation is relatively simple, but it is a very important step.

Mainly check the completeness of the bidding documents, the overall orderliness, whether the document signing is qualified, whether the bidding deposit has been submitted, whether there are any calculation errors, etc.

After completing the preliminary bid evaluation, the next step is to enter the detailed evaluation and comparison stage.

Only bids determined to be basically qualified in the preliminary evaluation are eligible to enter the detailed evaluation and comparison stage.The specific bid evaluation method depends on the provisions in the bidding documents, and the order of each bid is evaluated according to the level of the evaluated bid price, from low to high.

The last step is to prepare and submit the bid evaluation report.

This report mainly includes the time when the bidding notice was published, the name of the unit that purchased the bidding documents, the bid opening date, the bid quotation, the basis for price evaluation, the principles, standards and methods of bid evaluation, and the bid award recommendations.

However, the above are all formal procedures. At this time, in the bid evaluation room, these judges were talking and laughing. One of the judges had already opened a bid book and started writing a bid evaluation report. All of this was done very skillfully, that is, walking Just go through the motions.

Li Ancheng followed for two days. Although Ma Guohua hinted that Li An could just take a look and rest in the hotel room, Li An insisted on watching all the bid evaluation processes and recording all the evidence.

On the night after the bid evaluation ended, Li An came to the county party committee guest house.

In the same conference room on the first floor of the villa, two heavyweights were sitting in the room. One was Chen Xingsheng, secretary of the county party committee, and Du Guobin, secretary of the municipal discipline inspection commission.