Notice of the Ministry of Finance on issuing the Interim Measures for the Administration of Governme

Relevant departments of the CPC Central Committee, various ministries and commissions under The State Council, the General Office of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the General Office of the CPPCC National Committee, the High Court, the High Procuratorate, the Central Committee of the democratic parties, the relevant people's organizations, the Department of Finance (bureau) of provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, the Finance Bureau of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the Procurement Center of organs directly under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the central government organs Purchasing center, National People's Congress organ purchasing center:

　　The Interim Measures for the Administration of Government Procurement of Government Information System are hereby issued to you, please comply with them.

Annex: Interim Measures for the Administration of Government Procurement of Government Information System

　Ministry of Finance

　　December 26, 2017

　　   Interim Measures for the Administration of Government Procurement of Government Information System　　

Article 1 In order to promote the standardized and efficient development of government procurement work of government information system, these Measures are formulated in accordance with the general deployment of national e-government and the relevant requirements of the Notice of The General Office of the State Council on Issuing and Distributing the Implementation Plan for the Integration and Sharing of Government Information System (State Office [2017] No. 39).

Article 2 The term "government information system" as mentioned in these Measures refers to all kinds of information systems invested by the government, jointly constructed by the government and social enterprises, purchased by the government from the society or in need of government operation and maintenance, used to support government departments to perform management and service functions, including goods and services such as computers, software and peripheral equipment for government information processing.

The term "administrative departments" as mentioned in the preceding paragraph refers to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the National People's Congress, The State Council, the CPPCC National Committee, the Supreme Court, the Supreme Procuratorate and all departments of central and state organs, and local party committees, people's congresses, governments, CPPCC National committees, courts, procuratorates and all departments (units) directly under them.

Third government information system government procurement work by the relevant government departments (hereinafter referred to as the purchaser) responsible for unified planning and specific implementation, financial departments at all levels to perform government procurement supervision responsibilities according to law.

Article 4 The purchaser shall determine the procurement requirements of the government information system (hereinafter referred to as the procurement requirements) and organize the procurement according to the contents approved in the feasibility study report, preliminary design report, budget approval and actual work needs.

Procurement requirements should be scientific and reasonable, clearly detailed, including project name, purchaser, budget amount, funding channels, operation and maintenance requirements, data sharing requirements, security review and confidentiality requirements, grade protection requirements, graded protection requirements, government procurement policies to be implemented and performance acceptance programs.

Article 5 Procurement requirements shall comply with laws and regulations, meet the requirements of relevant national and industry standards, and encourage the use of group standards independently formulated by the market.

The government information system with strong professionalism and high technical requirements can invite industry experts or third-party professional institutions to participate in the requirements formulation work. For projects where the purchaser and the actual user or beneficiary are separated, the actual user or beneficiary should be consulted in the formulation of requirements.

Article 6 Procurement requirements shall implement the integration and sharing requirements of the government information system, comply with the standard system of government information sharing, and ensure that the relevant system can access the national shared data exchange platform in accordance with regulations. Procurement requirements should be coordinated with existing system functions to avoid duplication of construction.

Procurement requirements should reflect the relevant requirements for public data openness, and promote the opening of original, machine-readable, and socially reusable data sets to society.

Article 7 Procurement requirements shall implement the policy requirements of the State to support cloud computing and promote the intensive construction and management of government service platforms. A government information system that does not contain state secrets and provides services to social entities should, in principle, be built using the cloud computing model.

Procurement requirements should include technical requirements for related equipment, systems and services to support Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6).

Article 8 Procurement requirements shall implement the requirements of the relevant laws and regulations, policies and standards of the national password management, synchronously plan, synchronously build, synchronously operate the password security system, and regularly evaluate it.

Article 9 Where the government information system is procured by bidding, the comprehensive scoring method shall be adopted; Where non-tender procurement is adopted, competitive consultation or single-source procurement shall be adopted.

In addition to the single source procurement method, the government information system procurement of goods, the price of the total value of the proportion should be 30%; For purchasing services, the proportion of the price score to the total value shall be 10%. If it cannot be determined that the item belongs to goods or services, the purchaser shall determine the attribute of the item in accordance with the principles conducive to the implementation of the procurement item.

Article 10 The procuring party shall assign staff familiar with the situation to participate in the bid evaluation committee or competitive consultation group as representatives of the procuring party, and participate in the evaluation of the procurement activities of the government information system.

11th government information system procurement review, the bid evaluation committee or competitive consultation group believes that the supplier's price is significantly lower than the price of other qualified suppliers, may affect product quality or can not be honest performance of the contract, shall require it to provide written explanation within a reasonable time at the review site, provide relevant certification materials when necessary; If the supplier cannot justify its offer, the bid evaluation Committee or the Competitive Consultation Group shall treat it as an invalid bid or invalid response.

Article 12 The purchaser shall organize the acceptance of the government affairs information system project in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State, and formulate a complete project acceptance plan according to the characteristics of the project. The acceptance plan shall include the realization of all the functions of the project, password application and security review, information system sharing, maintenance services and other procurement documents and the contents stipulated in the procurement contract. If necessary, industry experts, third-party institutions or relevant competent departments can be invited to participate in the acceptance.

Article 13 The purchaser may engage a third-party professional institution to formulate a quality assurance plan for the government information system, supervise the progress plan, stage results and service quality of the relevant suppliers, form a project rectification report and performance evaluation report, and invite industry experts or relevant competent departments to review and demonstrate if necessary. The relevant information of quality assurance shall be used as the basis for project acceptance.

Article 14 A government information system with multiple service periods may be checked and accepted by stages according to the work objectives of each period. The government information system serving the public shall take public opinions or use feedback as an important reference for acceptance. Where the purchaser is separated from the actual user or beneficiary of the government information system, the opinions of the actual user or beneficiary shall be solicited during the performance acceptance.

Article 15 The project acceptance results of the government information system shall be used as an important reference for the selection of subsequent operation and maintenance suppliers of the project.

Article 16 Under the premise that the annual budget can be guaranteed, the purchaser may sign a government procurement contract with the operation and maintenance supplier of the government information system for a period of no more than three years.

Article 17 These Measures shall come into force on January 1, 2018.