An Innovative Study On Government Procurement Performance Management Based On Public Value In China

As for managerialism and market orientation-based management tool, performancemanagement played an important role in public administration. Governmentprocurement performance management is an important part of the governmentperformance management, and also an important content of the construction of thegovernment procurement system, which can provide reliable protection to ensureefficient use of government budget funds and the level of government procurementmanagement. At present stage, issues to be included in the government procurementscope covers almost all areas of social life, not only involving the procurement of goodsand services, but also of engineering procurement, involving almost all areas ofeconomic and social life, changes in the size and structure of government procurementwill play a huge impact on a country’s economic development and industrial structure.Therefore, the analysis of the value of government procurement performancemanagement and the value evaluation of government procurement become the focusesof government procurement performance management.Public value has long been neglected in government behavior studies, which iscontrary to the important role of public value in reality. The public value of publicinterest in government procurement was especially evident. In the market-orientedsociety it emphasize on using the market to configure a variety of social resources, highlighting the value of independence and particularity of the value resources,government procurement gets its legitimacy through the performance of systemoperation, but system performance is often simply replaced by economic achievement,such biases will put the public value and market economy in opposition. The rising levelof performance does not necessarily bring an increasing satisfaction and level of trust ofcitizen on government procurement, at the same time, the government procurementprice higher than the market price, the procurement cycle longer than the independentprocurement, the utilization of the procurement results and the non-transparency ofoutput efficiency of the financial funds are highly controversial.Public value as a new public management philosophy, embodied the logic of thegovernment’s behavior, to emphasize the public effectiveness of public services andpublic goods, the government as an administrative body to pursue the public interest aswell as the value of the demands in the course of action the government acts to thepublic advocating public service oriented. Public value shapes the public life of citizens,promotes public welfare and personal well-being. Products and services offered throughgovernment procurement contains the value of satisfaction the public needs, thegovernment is to meet the public demand through the implementation of governmentprocurement, with the pursuit of efficiency, fairness, justice, democracy, responsibilityand other public values in this process. It’s significant to ensure the correct direction ofgovernment procurement performance management by entering public value. Torationally combine of the tools of public value based performance management andgovernment procurement performance management, can government procurementperformance management solve its own dilemma of powerful instrumental rationality,weak value rationality. Through some problems that appear in government procurementperformance management, We can analyze some obstacles in the course of public valuepractice, the defects can be better understood of the conventional performance management which is valued by the instrumental rationality and the sheer pursuit ofefficiency.Government procurement performance management based on public value havesignificantly different characteristics of traditional performance management, in themain selection, system design, the use of public participation and the results,government procurement collective attention and guidance to the public in the provisionof public goods to meet the public demand for government procurement process,identify and create public value. In the government procurement process, throughgovernment procurement it is not only to use the limited financial resources to completethe project procurement within the period stipulated, and require attention and respondto the preferences of citizens as the government watch-dog, project owners as theservice users, and taxpayer as the funds sources. Public values largely determinewhether the government procurement performance really fully reflected, theconstruction and realization of the public value of government procurement constitutesa path dependence to enhance the level of government procurement performancemanagement, and a direct impact on the direction of government procurementperformance management.At present, China is in an important historical node, the reform has entered acrucial stage and deep water areas, a decisive phase of building a moderately prosperoussociety. Economic globalization, the globalization of information, domestic andinternational trade environment and rules challenge enormously on the concepts,systems, procedures and other aspects of government procurement performancemanagement. In this changing environment, market allocation of resources play adecisive role, the government’s dominant position has been weakened, and thelegitimate profit-driven individuals, to achieve self-worth, but also increased conflictwith public values. Government procurement performance management should not only reflect public values, correcting the traditional performance management efficiencydominant values, return to government action’s "public" nature and center, but alsoreflects the economy itself, therefore, the innovation of government procurementperformance management, the establishment of public value as the theoretical basis ofthe government procurement performance management, reflecting the dual needs oftheory and practice.Based on the literature review of the researches and studies on governmentprocurement performance management, combing the theoretical basis of publicadministration, management, finance, and following the Marxist methodology, inaccordance with the logical thinking of ‘theoretical basis--reality--analysis--experience--innovative thinking’, integrated the use of Marxist dialectical materialism,comparative analysis, logical analysis, value chain analysis, collaborative managementtheory, seeing recent government procurement performance management as the startingpoint, starting from the analysis of public value of government procurement,conducting in-depth analysis of the current status and the causes of governmentprocurement performance management, on the basis of analyzing the important role ofpublic values on government procurement performance management, demonstrate thatthe value of government procurement performance management was born among thepublic value, the allocation of resources, the distribution of goods, the adjustment ofinterests and so on of government procurement should be subject to public value for thepurpose and destination. The ultimate point of the public value based on to governmentprocurement performance management is to create more public value for the public, notjust pay attention to the completion of the government procurement tasks and the simpleimprovements on methods and techniques.This paper, there has been a detailed analysis of the basic issues, the specificstructure, morphology of reality and the general ideas of government procurement performance management based on public values, a design of the theoretical frameworkof public value based performance management for government procurement: From thereform of the budget system for government procurement to provide reasonableoperating platform; improve organizational model for a fair competitive environment ofgovernment procurement; optimize process design to provide a clear framework forgovernment procurement set; strengthening oversight mechanisms to provide effectivepower constraints for government procurement; establish collaborative mechanisms forgovernment procurement organizations to provide smooth coordination; promoteinformation technology for government procurement to provide adequate technicalreserves; setting evaluation indicators to provide operational guidelines for standardizedperformance evaluation. This paper offers reform and innovative ideas to governmentprocurement performance management based on public value from the above sevenaspects.