The Whole Process Tracking School Uniform Price Increases 14.02%&Nbsp; All Relevant Departments Are Interviewed.

A student parent showed reporters that the school uniform marked 45% cotton and 55% polyester.

Reporter questions

Why should the cost be re tendered at a high level?

According to the briefing, the management measures for primary and secondary school uniforms in 2009 were revised to "uniform dress management practices for primary and secondary school students in Shenzhen", which clearly stipulates that the designated supply enterprises are entrusted by the municipal educational administration department to determine the government procurement centers through public bidding, and tenders every three years.

Reporters found that in 2002, the last time the students installed the designated production enterprises bidding, after 9 years did not re invite the tender, but to the production enterprises to reflect the rise in costs, asking for price increases when bidding, is it to wait for this price increase "time window"?

Does the City Education Bureau really grasp the profit and loss of manufacturers?

Does the school clothing manufacturer reflect the fact that the cost increase and the situation of making ends meet are not entirely true. Is the school clothing enterprise really protecting the profit? Has the City Education Bureau checked the city education bureau?

Development and Reform Commission:

Only perform the functions of countersigning

As for the new round of tendering for school uniforms, the first consultation with the municipal development and Reform Commission said that Hu Zhuosheng, director of the price bureau of the municipal development and Reform Commission, told reporters that the role of the NDRC is only a signing unit.

Hu Zhuosheng said that because school uniform is not the category of government pricing catalogue, it belongs to the market pricing category.

Therefore, even if the NDRC is the price control department, the NDRC is not the organizer or the lead department during the school price adjustment.

The main process of school uniform price increase is organized by its lead unit, the Municipal Education Bureau.

The price of the school uniform rises, and the price department of the NDRC only needs to sign the final pricing document.

He recalled that the Municipal Education Bureau stepped down step by step according to the tendering procedure. When the price department of the NDRC went to the price office, it had already formed a countersigned document which was signed by the relevant bureau leaders of the Municipal Education Bureau.

"We are mainly looking at whether the procedure is legal compliance, there is no problem in confirming the procedure, plus the signature of the education bureau leader, we agree to sign the agreement."

The official also said that the City Education Bureau had expressed the hope that the price increase was in early August, when the eve of the Universiade was held, considering the social impact, the public sign was postponed, and it was issued at the end of October and early November.

As for the final 14.02% increase in school uniform, Hu said that the price department mainly entrustment the city price authentication center to participate in it and give technical cooperation.

As for the final increase in the price of school uniform, it is the result of mutual consultation between the Municipal Education Bureau, the winning bidder and the price Certification Center.

Reporter questions

How do regulators supervise?

The school uniform management regulations stipulate that "the price department of the city is responsible for the supervision of the price of student clothes". As the municipal development and Reform Commission of the price department of Shenzhen, the head of the price office said that only the "sign up function" had been fulfilled in the course of the price increase of the school uniform.

How does the price regulation function of the price department reflect? How do we supervise the price increase of the school uniform? The city development and Reform Commission has not made a convincing explanation.

City Price Certification Center:

A tender price benchmark was calculated.

Reporters came to the city price authentication center, director of the center Huang Xiqin said, the center is not the price department, did not put forward any opinions on school uniform price rise.

Huang Xiqin said that before the school uniform was tender this year, the center did undertake the cost certification work of 5 original school uniform manufacturers.

The entrustment is based on a letter from the City Board of education on the cost of a benchmark price entrusted to the school uniform.

That is to say, the original intention of the cost certification result is to make reference to the decision-making process in the bidding process, and set the tender price in the future tendering process.

The bidding price of school uniform manufacturers is high or low. The decision is all in the enterprise itself.

Since then, the certification center has not participated in the process of government procurement, and has not participated in the joint signing of price increases.

He also admitted that in the cost certification of 5 school uniform manufacturers, the cost market in 2010 was investigated, because commissioned by the end of March this year to complete the certification, so the survey data used last year's data, this data is the highest cost of clothing production in 10 years.

At that time, the main raw material affecting the cost of school uniform was cotton yarn, which basically occupied about 50% of the cost of all school uniforms, and even reached the maximum of 60%. Cotton yarn prices were high at that time, so the certification result of the certification center was 13.73% higher than that of the original school uniform, and it was directly related to the high price of cotton yarn.

Reporter questions

Why use the most expensive raw material price as the cost data?

Last year, the cost of raw materials such as cotton yarn had surged, and the city price Certification Center identified the cost price higher than the original price by 13.73% at the highest price last year.

In fact, by the second half of this year, the price of fabrics such as cotton yarn has dropped substantially. Some of the respondents in the industry think that the market basis of school uniform price rises is obviously insufficient.

In response, Huang Xiqin said that the price of cotton yarn has indeed fallen off the market, and the recent price is close to the price around last August. However, he said that the price of school uniform has been finalized. Even if the change of raw materials is a market rule, the fact of the change is estimated to be difficult to change.

It is puzzling why the center calculates the cost price to take the highest price of the garment production cost for a year in 10 years. {page_break}

Bidding for government procurement shall not be lower than the "last price +13.73%".

After entrusting the city price authentication center to carry out the cost calculation, the school uniform manufacturer's bidding has entered the substantive stage, and the municipal government procurement center has organized the procurement bidding.

Xiong Xiaoming, the head of the school uniform purchasing project, told reporters that the center was commissioned by the City Education Bureau in April 8th to organize the school clothes enterprises to tender.

Xiong Xiaoming said, our center has no pricing, price adjustment and price management constraints.

The municipal government directly under the municipal government procurement center manages and assumes the purchasing needs of all the municipal financial departments.

The municipal government procurement is mainly divided into three categories: goods procurement, service procurement and engineering procurement.

Student clothing belongs to the procurement of services, belonging to the "qualification bidding project".

That is, the winning notice issued by the centre only contains the name of the winning bidder and the supplier, and there is no execution price of the supplier.

The final execution price shall be signed by the contracting party authorized by the Municipal Education Bureau in accordance with the method stipulated in the tender documents.

Price changes during execution shall be subject to the restriction of the contract and price authorities.

Reporters in the city government procurement center to provide the procurement bidding operation records to see that from April 29th this year, after entering the bidding response stage, by May 22nd, nearly 30 garment enterprises through the online bidding system for bidding response.

What are the prices of the bids? The reporters from the municipal government procurement center provided the detailed information on the tender and tender items for the production and supply of students in primary and secondary schools in Shenzhen, and found that in the "project requirements" part, the cost of school and clothing included in the "project requirements" section, which is the school uniform cost price calculated by the market price Certification Center, is clearly stipulated in the "project requirements".

It is not lower than the price and price of each student provided by the city price authentication center.

According to the reporter's estimate, the sum of school fees including tax costs and costs is 1541 yuan.

City Education Bureau official said, in school uniform bidding, the weight of the price factor is higher, usually the service government procurement project price weight accounted for less than 20%, under the request of the City Education Bureau, the school uniform bidding price factor weight accounted for 45%.

The reporter checked the bid price of the 9 successful enterprises and the 3 enterprises listed as the alternate ones, the highest price was 1763 yuan, and the "tax cost price" provided by the city price authentication center was 222 yuan, the lowest was 1541 yuan, which was equal to that of the bidding requirement.

According to the formula of the winning price, the best price of the school uniform price is 1553.36875 yuan.

Reporter questions

Why setting minimum price for bidding

In people's impression, tendering is usually under the same conditions, and the relatively low quoted price is easy to win the bid, which reflects the high quality and low price.

Why is the Shenzhen school uniform bidding contrary? Only stipulates that the bidder's quotation can only be higher than the bid price declaration, but can not be lower than this level. Is this not blocking the bidding way of the enterprises with strong cost control and high quality and low price? Does it mean that the tender has clearly asked the enterprises to bid up and raise the lowest price.

Municipal Education Bureau:

The threshold is set to ensure quality.

In this regard, Xiong Xiaoming explained that the school uniform bidding is a service tendering, and the bidder's quotations are not lower than the requirements of the student price and the whole set of tax cost price provided by the city price authentication center, which is formulated according to the requirements of the tenderer City Education Bureau. The purpose is to guarantee the basic quality of the uniform.

The relevant person in charge of the Municipal Education Bureau explained that because the price of the first school uniform was very high, the lowest price threshold was set up so as to prevent some low quality enterprises from coming to a mess, and to compete for a vicious competition at a price lower than the cost price, resulting in a waste bid; or to muddle through, reduce the quality of the winning enterprise and affect the quality of the school uniforms in Shenzhen; therefore, the Municipal Education Bureau agreed with the municipal government purchasing center that the tax cost price calculated by the city price authentication center was higher than the previous school uniform price of 13.73% for this bid price.

Reporter questions

Why are there many complaints about the quality of school uniforms?

The problem is that after the bidding increases, the public complains a lot about the quality of school uniforms, especially the complaints that the winter clothing materials are obviously thinner.

Municipal Education Bureau:

Persuade enterprises to reduce the winning price and implement it.

City Education Bureau official said, according to the relevant regulations, the price of Shenzhen student clothing is decided by tender. The bid price of the successful bidder is 1553.36875 yuan, which is 20.5% higher than the original price.

In accordance with the laws and regulations of the state and Shenzhen on Tendering and bidding, once the winning price is determined, it can be implemented immediately.

However, under the principle of "high quality, low cost and minimal profit", in order to control the increase of prices and benefit the majority of students and their families, the Municipal Education Bureau also discussed with the winning companies, and persuaded the winning companies to lower the price. Finally, the total price of primary and secondary school uniform was 1490 yuan, which began in November 5th.

Reporter questions

14.02%, there is still lack of basis.

The price of school uniform began to rise in November 2011. The basis for supporting this price increase is the raw material and cost price of cotton yarn, which is at a high historical level in 2010. The industry disclosed that the price of cotton yarn has dropped from a high level in March this year, according to the average cost of cotton yarn and other clothing last year, and the price of major textile fabrics such as cotton yarn has actually dropped back to the level before last year's big price rise when November school uniform began to rise in price.

Therefore, even if the cost price of the school uniform calculated by the city price Certification Center is 13.73% higher than that of the original price, it can only represent the cost of last year's cotton yarn price at the highest level. It will be used as the tender price of the new round of bidding, and it will be difficult to justify the price of the school uniform in the next 3 years.

"Changes in the cost price, the City Education Bureau will discuss with the price department".

City Education Bureau responsible person answering reporters' questions

Recently, the reporter's livelihood hotline has been receiving calls from readers. It still reflects the price of school uniforms and the quality and service of uniforms. The relevant person in charge of the City Education Bureau recently answered questions from reporters.

I will communicate with the municipal development and Reform Commission, which is in charge of prices.

Reporter: Recently, people have questioned the price rise of school uniforms. The cost of raw materials is based on the data of last year, and the price of raw materials has dropped sharply. Should the price of school clothes drop with the drop in cost?

City Education Bureau: the cost of clothing is a very professional problem after all. It is very difficult for the education department to make it clear all the time, so the market price authentication center is commissioned to calculate.

Since many people and people in the industry have reflected that the price of raw materials such as cotton yarn is falling, even down to a level that is much lower than the cost estimate, we intend to reflect this situation to the price department, and we will go further to negotiate with the development and Reform Commission, which is in charge of price.

As for whether the price of school uniform can fluctuate along with the rise and fall of cost, it involves the problem of system design and needs further coordination between the parties concerned.

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Immediately cooperate with the quality supervision department to improve the quality of school uniforms.

Reporter: the general public's opinion on school uniforms is very big. The price is up, the quality is not as good as before. The new school uniform, pilling and burrow is common. The thickness of winter clothes is almost the same as that of the previous autumn.

Are the uniforms sold in accordance with the samples at the time of the initial bid of the enterprise?

Municipal Education Bureau: the quality supervision department of Shenzhen city issued the technical standard of school uniform in primary and middle schools as early as 2004. At the time of bidding, the enterprises participating in bidding have made samples according to the standard. In the end, the enterprises in the final bid have been qualified by the quality supervision Department, and the qualified rate of the inspection of the provincial quality supervision department is also 100%.

In fact, after the completion of the tender, we did some spot checks on some successful enterprises. We found that some enterprises had rough workmanship and unclean thread. At that time, relevant manufacturers were interviewed and ordered to make rectification and make written explanations.

The public responds strongly to the quality of school uniforms. We will take immediate action to check with the city market supervision authority whether the uniform sold by all successful companies is in conformity with the samples submitted for inspection when they are bidding. If they find that the thickness and density of their uniforms are not in conformity with the samples, they will be severely punished if they fail to comply with the commitments submitted at the time of bidding. If necessary, the elimination mechanism will be launched, and a single vote veto will be imposed on the enterprises that are not in good quality, so that alternate enterprises can take their place.

At the same time, we will also consult with the municipal market supervision and Management Bureau, improve the technical standards of school uniforms, and introduce the non mandatory indicators such as fine workmanship into the scope of supervision so as to ensure the quality of school uniforms.

School uniform can be returned if there is quality problem.

Reporter: many people reflect that uniforms can not be returned at the sales outlets, but is it a kind of overlord clause?

Municipal Education Bureau: according to the forty-fifth provision of the law on the protection of consumers' rights and interests, "the two repair can not be used normally during the warranty period, and the operator shall be responsible for replacing or returning goods". The forty-eighth provision provides that "if the consumers are required to return the goods according to the law that the relevant administrative departments are deemed to be unqualified, the operator shall be responsible for returning the goods". Therefore, if the school uniform does have quality problems, it can return the goods. If the sales outlets do not comply with the provisions of the consumer law and refuse the legal return requirements of consumers, consumers can complain to the Municipal Education Bureau.