The government purchases supervision and inspection services is here! The transformation of supervision is accelerating again - Gongbao.com
The government purchases supervision and inspection services, which means that local housing and urban-rural development departments at all levels, centralized construction units of government-invested projects, or public institutions undertaking construction management functions purchase services according to the government According to the methods and procedures, engineering supervision companies with corresponding conditions are entrusted to provide major engineering risk identification and control services for construction projects.
As early as 2017, in the "Opinions on Promoting the Transformation, Upgrading and Innovative Development of the Engineering Supervision Industry" issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development encouraged supervision companies to "adapt to the government's work requirements for strengthening project quality and safety management, and follow the government's purchase of social In the form of service, we accept the entrustment of the government quality and safety supervision agency to conduct engineering quality and safety inspections on key links and key parts of the project." Based on the subsequent pilot work in Guangdong, Shandong and other places, in order to implement the "Exploring the Participation Supervision Model of Project Supervision Enterprises" in the "Guiding Opinions on Improving the Quality Assurance System and Improving the Quality of Construction Projects" forwarded by the State Council in 2019 to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, this residential project The Ministry of Construction has officially begun to deploy the pilot project of government purchase of supervision and inspection services.
1. What is the supervision and inspection service purchased by the government?
First of all, we need to clarify the difference between supervision and inspection services and supervision services, as well as the difference between government-purchased services and construction unit entrustment.
Different from the supervision service that supervises and manages the construction process of the project, the supervision inspection service focuses on strengthening project performance and quality and safety risk prevention and control, mainly targeting important parts and key risk points of the construction project. The performance of quality and safety responsibilities by all parties involved in the project construction, and suggestions for handling potential quality and safety hazards.
Unlike accepting the entrustment of the construction unit to provide supervision services, the supervision company under the government's purchase of supervision and inspection services must perform its duties to the entrusting unit. Of course, the construction unit can also hire another supervision company to carry out quality, cost, progress control and safety production management. The entrusted supervision company will only report the situation to the construction unit.
From a conceptual comparison, it is not difficult to find that the government's purchase of supervision and inspection services is essentially a supervision company providing the government with major engineering risk identification and control services for construction projects. Behind the supervision companies' participation in the government's purchase of social services, there are far-reaching practical implications.
2. The government’s purchase of supervision and inspection services has far-reaching implications
First of all, through the government’s purchase of supervision and inspection services, the professional advantages of supervision companies in building construction quality and safety inspections can be fully utilized; pilot plan It also requires companies that undertake supervision and inspection services to have construction site information supervision methods and engineering monitoring, detection and control capabilities, which will be more conducive to supervision companies making up for the government's deficiencies in quality supervision expertise. On the one hand, this has formed a market mechanism to improve the core competitiveness of supervision companies, and on the other hand, it has strengthened the government's quality supervision of the entire process of project construction.
Secondly, the government purchases supervision and inspection services. Due to the lack of unified regulations on supervision services (for example, in the "Safety Management Measures for Sub-projects with Greater Danger", "If the construction unit refuses to make rectifications, it shall report to the construction company in a timely manner". The supervision unit reporting requirements of "Unit Report" conflict with the "Construction Unit Refusing to Make Corrections or Stop Construction, the Project Supervision Unit shall report to the relevant competent authorities in a timely manner" in the "Construction Project Safety Production Management Regulations") The problem of "one servant and two masters" in enterprises can be solved, and it will also help to build a new model of engineering quality and safety supervision with government supervision as the main body and supervision and inspection as the auxiliary support.
In addition, the government's purchase of supervision and inspection services gives the supervision company an independent identity from the participating units. On the one hand, this provides prerequisites for supervision companies to carry out inspections fairly, impartially and independently; on the other hand, by straightening out the relationship between the competent departments, participating units and supervision companies, it also helps to improve the quality and safety management of project construction. Conduct fair and accurate inspections and supervision to promote construction units to fulfill their quality and safety responsibilities in accordance with the law.
3. Analysis on the path of government purchasing supervision and inspection services
From international experience, professional institutions that are independent of the government, construction units and construction units and have legal person qualifications carry out construction projects The technical service model, including supervision-assisted inspections and spot tests, has been implemented in Europe, the United States, Hong Kong and other countries and regions for many years.
Based on domestic experience, it is a common model for enterprises that undertake supervision and inspection services to carry out quality, safety, supervision assistance, inspections, random tests and other tasks for all projects under construction within the pilot scope: Since 2014, Shandong Yantai City in the province has adopted the method of government purchasing services, and openly invites the public to bid for construction project supervision, inspection, and random testing agencies. It carries out supervision assistance, inspections, and random testing and evaluation of projects under construction in the district 1-2 times a year; Zhoushan City in Zhejiang Province also In 2019, through procurement services, we conducted third-party inspections on construction projects under construction within Zhoushan City, including critical projects, creating a national civilized city, and construction hoisting machinery.
This requires local governments to formulate a supervision and inspection indicator system, explore ways to match supervision and projects, and refine the results and applications of supervision and inspections to build a long-term mechanism for project performance and quality and safety risk prevention and control, so as to maximize Give full play to and amplify the synergistic effect of supervision inspections and quality and safety supervision agencies. Of course, the pilot program of supervision and inspection cannot be copied, let alone one-size-fits-all.
This is why the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development requires pilot areas to refine and adjust requirements in various aspects based on the actual conditions of the region and project.
The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development’s pilot government purchase of supervision and inspection services not only encourages and supports supervision companies to further expand the scope of service subjects, but is also an innovative move to transform government functions: by introducing a competition mechanism, professional services are handed over to Qualified social forces will assume the responsibility, and the competent authorities can concentrate on macro supervision.
For supervision companies, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development’s pilot government purchase of supervision and inspection services is an opportunity and a challenge. Supervision companies need to further improve their technical and service levels and have the professional capabilities to provide the market with distinctive and professional supervision services. In the future, supervision companies can also expand their service areas to "upstream and downstream" and move toward full-process engineering consulting.