There are also unspoken rules for the tendering of fake hydropower projects.

Why can fake projects really bid?

This is a strange thing that happened recently in Yunnan: a tender for a project called "Investing 6 Billion Yuan in Hydropower Earthwork Projects" has attracted more than 40 companies to bid. One company even won one of the bids and hit a bond of 3.5 million yuan. .

However, people soon discovered that this project is fundamentally fictional. What is even more embarrassing is that such a project that does not exist at all is not only represented by a well-known agency, but also appears in an authoritative website recognized by the industry. Many loopholes and unspoken rules of various industries have emerged from the tendering of this fake project, which is thought-provoking.

Many companies have participated in bidding projects

In July and August of 2012, the bidding for the earth and stone works for the Qule City-Dezhe multi-level hydropower station in Qujing City, which claimed to invest 6 billion yuan, has been tendered. Many construction companies have taken a fancy to this good project and bid one after another.

In order to win the bid, Chongqing Liulu Group Co., Ltd. Yunnan Branch found the middleman and the “project” owner, Wang Wenjiang, chairman of Yunnan Wenjie Dacheng Transportation Energy Development Co., Ltd., took the line. At this time, 43 units were allegedly bidding.

Wang Wenjiang showed them the application list, the approval of the Development and Reform Commission, the red-headed documents of the Water Conservancy Bureau, and the bank loan vouchers. He also called the "project" a total of seven bids. Although it is publicly available for bids, "the agency can leave two bids when registering." Then the middleman gives Liulu a bid.

After that, Wenjie Dacheng organized the engineer and the bidder to go to the "project" site for investigation. With regard to the local people's sentiments, topography, hydropower construction, trend and other issues raised by the bidders, the engineers are answering questions. Soon, Liulu Company signed a contract with Wenjie Dacheng Co., Ltd. without an agent company under the premise of “indefinitely determined”, and destroyed a performance bond of RMB 3.5 million.

However, the middleman detained the original letter of the successful bid and demanded an intermediary fee of RMB 300,000 from Liulu Company. This has caused Liulu Company to gradually become suspicious. The results of their enquiries to Qujing City are surprising: There is no local project!

Six Roads immediately alerted. On January 7, the reporter learned from the Civil Investigation Department of the Economic Investigation Team of Panlong District, Kunming City, that the case had been filed as a contract fraud and the police arrested two people. After verifying with the provincial and county development and reform commissions, the so-called Development and Reform Commission approvals, etc. All are forged.

Authoritative website publishes fake information formal company agency fake project

What is even more incredible is that such a fake project tender announcement actually appeared in the industry-recognized authoritative website "China Procurement and Tendering Network"; the well-known Xinhua International Tendering Co., Ltd. Yunnan Branch also represented the project. “We were cheated. First, we believed in authoritative websites and well-known companies. We thought that the projects they announced would definitely not be false. Second, we were used to these non-standard operations.” At the time of writing, they still failed to get back the deposit. Li Shuangquan, head of the Yunnan branch of the Lulu Company said.

On January 15th, the reporter could still check the “Tendering Information” column of “China Purchasing and Tendering Website” for the bidding for the construction and supervision of the earth and stone works of the Qujing City Broadcasting and Dezeduo Hydropower Station published on July 6, 2012. The announcement, which was subsequently confirmed by the police as a series of approvals by the National Development and Reform Commission, is still clearly displayed in the first paragraph.

According to Li Shuangquan, “China Purchasing and Tendering Network” is an authoritative website recognized by the industry. Everyone has checked the bidding information above and has never heard of any problems before: “This website has a membership system and charges vary from year to year depending on the level. 4,000 to 16,000 yuan."

The reporter saw that the website of “China Purchasing and Tendering Service” advertised its authority on multiple pages: LOGO reads “The only government designated to publish tender announcement website in China”; under the front page, it states that the partner is “China. "Development and Reform Commission"; in the "about us" introduction, it said that "the National Development and Reform Commission authorized by the State Council, designated as the only online media to publish tender notice", "This site as the current domestic bidding and public procurement "The most authoritative and most influential online media and e-commerce website."

As an authoritative website how to ensure the authenticity of information? The reporter dialed the information release hotline of the website. The staff said that after registering the account, the tender information can be published after the user logs in. The owner has issued a fax for the first time to provide the project approval and official seal. The agent company first issued the fax of the business license and qualification certificate.

If the approval, business license, etc. itself is a forgery? The staff member said "all are owners and agents who often release information and will not be false." When a reporter asked about the fake project in Qujing Broadcasting Township, the staff members also claimed that "we are only information publishing platforms and cannot verify the authenticity of information."

What kind of website is this "China Sourcing and Bidding Website"? What is behind the background? What is the responsibility for releasing false information? No one is currently investigating and investigating, but people are looking forward to the truth.

As the agent of this fake project, Xinhua International Tendering Co., Ltd. Yunnan Branch, simply refused the reporter's interview.

Fake project reveals real chaos insiders revealed "hidden rules"

Is the construction industry really as "habitually accustomed to non-standard operations" as Li Shuangquan said? An industry official admitted to the reporter that although the current tendering and bidding market has clear laws and regulations, the owners and bidders are accustomed to playing the ball. He analyzed the various unspoken rules in the current bidding market.

The first is the bidding relationship between bidders. According to this personage inside the industry, in the past five or six years, it has operated hundreds of projects with a total value of 3 billion. Only one project with insufficient funds, high risk, and low attention from the industry is the normal winning bid. All other projects depend on relations. Successful bidder. The hardest relationship is usually a leader who says hello.

The second is the owner's decision to bid for the company. There are many specific operations. For example, a project has multiple bids. When the bidder signs up, the agency stops the registration on the basis of a certain bid “too many applicants”. In fact, the bid has already been reserved for the internal company. In the fraud case Li Shuangquan experienced, the suspect used the industry’s usual tactics. Although the upper limit of the number of bidders has not been set in laws and regulations, in reality, the bidders have no way to do so.

Another example is that although the agent company allows bidders to register normally, in the subsequent qualification examination, various kinds of artificial obstacles are set up and various reasons are taken to kick them out, leaving only the “relationship households”.

The third is to win the bid through the "circumference", this situation is the most common. Specific operations can not only privately negotiate with other tender companies, give them a fee to withdraw from the market, they can also find a few companies to bid around, collude with quotes, and sometimes engage in “Infernal Affairs” to find employees of rival companies to buy bids.

The fourth is to bid after winning the bid. The person in the industry said that when he saw a good project and went to the agency company, the other party claimed that "the project has been completed. In this kind of project, the owners let the company in charge of the construction of the advanced field construction, and then symbolically find three companies to bid and walk through the court.

"In our eyes, some bidding is just a form, the key is the operation after the backrest." The industry source revealed.