Hidden corners of national reserve rice

To buy enough 190,000 tons of rice reserve in 2020 under the direction of the Prime Minister, General Department of Reserve and 22 regional Reserve Department announced on 12-5 will bid to buy 182,300 tons of rice. The state must spend about 200 billion more?

According to the announcement of 22 regional State Reserve Department, at 10am on 12-5, all 22 Department of Foreign Agricultural Department will open bidding for package of 182,300 tons of rice.

Why won the contract  ruffled contract?

Specifically, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Hebei area (Bac Ninh) opened a tender to buy 9,000 tons of rice. Unit price 11,287.5 VND / kg. Comparing the bidding unit price on May 12 with the winning price 2 months ago, each signing of the State rice must pay an additional 1,470 VND (the contractor refused to sign the rice supply contract so it had to cancel). Therefore, the state budget has to spend more than 13.2 billion dong to buy 9,000 tons of rice in Ha Bac Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Similarly, the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Northeast region also bought 9,200 tons of rice reserves this year, the budget will cost more than 10.5 billion VND due to the increase in rice prices, while the previous auction, the winning bidders declined. signed a contract because rice prices have risen.

In addition, a series of foreign bureaucrats also had to bid for the acquisition of reserve rice, such as the Northern Thai area bidding for 9,000 tons of rice. Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development announces bidding for 9,000 tons of rice ...

Compared to the average unit price of about 9,720 - 9,950 VND / kg of the previous period but the contractor "ruffled" the contract, by this time each kilogram of rice that the budget has to spend 1,100 - 1,470 VND. It is estimated that to buy 182,300 tons of national reserve rice this year, the budget will have to cost an additional VND 200 billion, 7 times higher than the VND 27.8 billion that 22 foreign investment departments confiscated the bid guarantee of 26 contractors. cancel the contract.

Rice in storage is still waiting  to "chant"?

Talking with Tuoi Tre , Mr. Dang Ngoc Tuyen - Deputy Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Finance - said that recently discovered a mistake in 7/22 regional DTNN areas including Hebei, Northeast, Bac Thai, Hanoi, Ha Nam Ninh. , Binh Tri Thien and Thanh Hoa.

Mr Tuyen said that he also checked the management and purchases of national reserve rice in the past, but no mistakes were detected. Affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, rice prices soared and 26/28 contractors canceled, refusing to sign contracts to supply national reserve rice. 

Through checking the rice warehouses, in addition to the amount of rice of other businesses, the special inspection of the Ministry of Finance discovered that more than 10,000 tons of rice of units won rice on March 12 but refused to sign contracts. provide rice  to the State.

Meanwhile, according to the National Reserve Law, the area of ​​national reserve must be strictly protected, safe and confidential ... Circular No. 56/2013 of the Ministry of Public Security also stipulates the system. network and protection plan for the state treasury stores on the list of state secrets of  the financial sector.

Will the above 7 Department of Foreign Affairs collude with businesses to cancel contracts and then wait to sell rice at higher prices? Mr. Tuyen responded to the Ministry of Finance's dispatch to the Police Department for investigating criminals on corruption, economy and smuggling - the Ministry of Public Security to coordinate the investigation, clarify the violations and handle them according to the provisions of law. law if applicable.

Talking with Tuoi Tre, Mr. Do Viet Duc - Director General of the General Department of Foreign Affairs - said the mistake of 7 Department of Foreign Affairs was clear when sending thanks to rice in the State's warehouse. At this point, the General Department of Reserve will intensify inspection and inspection on a quarterly or irregular basis to monitor more closely. Regarding the responsibility of letting a series of State Department of Foreign Affairs make mistakes, leaders of the General Department of Reserves admit to how wrong they will get there. Mostly, the department has to take responsibility.

Will closely monitor  and lift sanctions

According to Mr. Tuyen, the Ministry of Finance has directed the General Department of Foreign Affairs and the functional units of the Ministry of Finance to review the processes and regulations on the management of the State Treasury warehouse to amend and supplement. In particular, one of the solutions is to equip and install surveillance camera systems at all points of the DTNN warehouse.

Regarding the idea that the State should force rice exporting enterprises to temporarily store a proportion of rice for national reserves as if they must ensure a circulation reserve of at least 5% of exported rice, Mr. Tuyen said. Should consider carefully. Vietnam often has floods and disasters every year, so the national reserve rice is to ensure this goal.

Regarding sanctions for enterprises that have broken contracts to supply rice for national reserves, the Ministry of Finance said that it has also considered banning violating businesses from participating in bidding for 3-5 years.

To prevent the rejection of the contract like the last rice auction, a series of foreign bureau announced to raise the guaranteed value in the bidding documents. Specifically, the deposit rate was increased from 3% to 5% of the package value. In case of expiry of the delivery time limit, if Party B fails to deliver the full quantity of goods, he / she shall be subject to a fine of 5% of the undelivered value instead of 1.5-3% as previously prescribed  .

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/goc-khuat-gao-du-tru-quoc-gia-2020051108180659.htm