What are the irrelevant and unreasonable requirements in air conditioning procurement

What are the irrelevant and unreasonable requirements in air conditioning procurement

As a device commonly used in daily life and work, the purchase demand for air conditioners is strong all year round. Looking through the bidding documents of the government procurement of air-conditioning projects, the bidders are required to provide unreasonable terms and clauses that have nothing to do with the project itself, occasionally.

　　 In order to facilitate purchasers and procurement agencies to be more standardized in the procurement process, promote fair competition in government procurement, and optimize the business environment for government procurement. A few days ago, the reporter carefully sorted out the more common irrelevant and unreasonable items in the procurement process of air-conditioning equipment in recent years, hoping to help the majority of purchasers.

　　 One is decoration qualification. After sorting out, it is found that there are proposals for air-conditioning procurement projects. In addition to installation qualifications, bidding suppliers must also have decoration qualifications. Government procurement of air-conditioning projects is the supply and installation of goods and is not directly related to decoration. It is unreasonable for the purchaser or procurement agency to request the bidding supplier to provide this qualification.

　　 The second is to specify a special color. With the ever-changing needs of purchasers, special requirements for non-core parameters such as the color of air conditioners have also appeared in the bidding documents. Some air-conditioning suppliers believe that the actual operation level of the designated target color may involve the implementation of differential or discriminatory treatment of suppliers, which affects the fairness of procurement activities.

"In order to match the new building, the bidding documents require the bidding supplier to provide a personalized color air conditioner that matches the wall color." When talking about the designated color, which may be suspected of discrimination, a purchaser said in an interview I thought it was just a matter of painting the product, not as complicated as I thought.

　　 On this topic, relevant industry experts pointed out in an interview that if most of the brands in the color specified by the purchaser can meet, there will be no discrimination. However, it would be unreasonable if special colors are required in the project and only individual brands can meet them. The purchaser should put forward some reasonable non-core parameter requirements based on the actual situation of the project.

　　 Three is the warranty period. It is most common in air-conditioning procurement projects to put forward requirements for the length of the purchased products. For example, some bidding documents require that the air-conditioning products bid by the bidding supplier be repaired for 10 years after passing the inspection and acceptance. The air purification equipment has a life span of more than 15 years, and the filter system can be repeatedly cleaned and reused.

　　 In this regard, the person in charge of an agency told reporters that there is no problem if the service life of the equipment is set to be more than 15 years, but it is indeed a bit long to have more than ten years of repair. In the actual operation process, purchasers should consider industry practices and refrain from setting up unreasonable obstacles to government procurement activities. The person in charge believes that the reasonable free repair service time can be set at about 1-3 years.

　　Four is to mark the specific model of refrigerant. The reporter found that, whether it is central air-conditioning, precision air-conditioning or air-source heat pump projects, most bidding documents have clear requirements for refrigerants or refrigerants. Some purchasers pointed out in an interview that refrigerant is only one of the technical parameters of air conditioners. As long as there is no uniqueness and serious exclusivity, it is not impossible to mark the specific model.

　　 This is considered unreasonable by industry experts. He believes that the bidding documents can mention "environmental refrigerant", but do not indicate the specific model of the refrigerant. At present, the environmentally friendly refrigerant models for air conditioners include R410A, etc., but the environmentally friendly refrigerant is not limited to this range. In the future, there will be more environmentally friendly new refrigerants. If the specific model of the environmentally friendly refrigerant is included in the bidding documents, it is obviously discriminatory.