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As the coastal sightseeing belt engineering projects are completed one after another, the payment of the first batch of project payments is put on the agenda. According to the bidding contract, the scenic spot management office must entrust a third party to conduct the project audit, and the audit price will be used as the actual payment amount.

There are seven engineering cost consulting companies involved in the audit, including three in the provincial capital, two in Wuxiang City, and two in Huanghai County. The three provincial capitals were recommended by Ainya, and they were deeply trusted by Fang Sheng. They required that all projects worth more than one million were responsible for; projects worth less than one million were divided by Wuxiang and Huanghai.

In order to prevent the project party from colluding with the auditor, Fang Sheng strongly demanded that additional clauses be added when signing the contract:

When the entrusted party believes that the audit price reduction is not in place, or the auditor has acted inappropriately, or the auditor has the right to require the fourth party to conduct a "reaudit". If the "reaudit" reduction rate exceeds the original audit verification rate of more than three points, the entrusted party has the right to refuse to pay all the fees of the original audit unit and settle the project funds at the "reaudit" price.

At that time, both the engineering party and the auditor expressed strong opposition, believing that it was a bully clause, and even came to Secretary Han. After careful consideration, Secretary Han felt that Fang Sheng was out of public interest and did not try to make profits from it, so he said that he had to add it. If he approved it, he would sign the contract, otherwise he would withdraw as a voluntary.

The county party secretary personally made the decision, and the project party and the auditor said nothing if it was difficult for him to say, so he would cooperate well.

At this time, the payment list sent to Fang Sheng's desk involves nine engineering projects, with a payment amount of 16 million. Each project provides formal invoices, bidding records, bidding contracts, visas, acceptance reports, final accounts reports, bill of quantities and audit reports according to regulations.

The acceptance report is jointly issued by the supervision company commissioned by Yiguan Company and the scenic spot management office. The relevant responsible persons signed and stamped, and attached with detailed pictures and data.

Fan Xiaoling, the head of the acceptance team, Cheng Gengming, director of the scenic spot management office, and Zhu Zhengyang, the deputy head, carefully verified step by step and signed and confirmed. They could enter the payment process only after Fang Sheng agreed.

In fact, after layers of review and inspection, when Fang Sheng comes to him, he only grasps the general direction and takes a process. He will not raise any objections just like before filing financial expenses.

But Fang Sheng had the patience to sit alone in the office for more than two hours, studying the ins and outs of each project one by one, and pondering the possible problems.

It would be fine if I didn’t think about it, but I found a problem after thinking about it!

He frowned and called Zhu Zhengyang, signaled to close the door, and said, "When Huanghai Hongtai Company won the bid at a low price from the tourist avenue to the expressway?"

Zhu Zhengyang was naturally aware of all projects in the construction of the coastal tourist belt, saying: "The profit margin of gardening and greening projects, short construction period and fast capital turnover, has always been the focus of project bidding. Although the connecting road is only a few dozen kilometers, leaders from the city to the county greeted and handed the note. In desperation, they had to split it into five sections to allow as many companies as possible to participate. At that time, the county leaders recognized the split plan."

"But the minimum price of the No. 3 bid is 1.09 million, and the maximum price is 1.27 million, while Hongtai won the bid at 9.22 million, which is ridiculously low."

"After the winning results came out, a horticultural and greening expert on the scene said that 920,000 yuan could not be done at all, unless I was determined to lose money. I also warned the Hongtai bidders in person. They said confidently that they had made sufficient preparations and would definitely complete the task with quality and quantity."

Fang Sheng tapped the desktop with his finger and said, "The problem is that the contract amount is less than one million, and there is no need for audit by the provincial capital firm. The person responsible for the project audit is Huang Haiqi Star Audit Firm, with a reduction rate of 4.6% that is not painful; look at the No. 1 section, the winning bid price is 1.238 million, with a reduction rate of 1.19%; the winning bid price of 1.133 million, with a reduction rate of 9.8%... Do you think there is something wrong with it?"

Zhu Zhengyang pondered for a long time and said, "It is inevitable that local firms will start to audit local projects..."

"You are careless," Fang Sheng shook his head, "I mean that the local firm can show mercy in reducing the rate. Wouldn't it be a tampering with other aspects?"

Zhu Zhengyang's face changed drastically: "Secretary Fang, are you thinking too seriously? Integrity is the capital of the firm's survival. Unless you want to smash your own signature, you dare to make false statements against your conscience!"

Fang Sheng took out another project information and said: "Looking at Section 5, the winning bid was also low, and the winning bid was also lower than one million. The winning bid was Huang Haixuyuan Company, and the auditor was also Qimingxing Audit Firm. Don't you think it was too coincidental?"

Zhu Zhengyang took the information and carefully compared it with Section 3, and his face became more and more serious.

"I searched the Internet and found that Hongtai and Xuyuan were both new companies that were just established two years ago. One was registered in June last year, and the other was August last year. Another coincidence? Also, the gardening and greening projects on both sides of the tourist avenue were divided into eleven sections. These two companies also adopted a low-price strategy and won three, and the winning bid price was lower than one million. Similar methods also appeared in the county road construction project that directly leads to the forest park in the county. The county was responsible for it. They had a bigger appetite and won seven bids at low prices!"

Zhu Zhengyang was sweating and ashamed, and said, "You didn't notice the four or five links, but you saw it... There is a problem, there is definitely a problem!"

Fang Sheng picked up the bidding documents: "Go and go to the scene to take a look!"

Highway gardening and greening is not as ordinary people imagine. Cultivating seedlings, transplanting turf, and then watering them. Instead, it is a series of projects such as comprehensive water and electricity line laying, fixed-point line laying, seedling preparation and cultivation, drainage setting, hole drilling and ventilation, irrigation, fertilization and maintenance.

The selection and cultivation of seedlings are not just about making up some green plants. They should be carefully selected according to the local climate characteristics and soil pH. First, they should reflect a sense of layering. There are both evergreen leaf trees or deciduous coniferous trees with high branch points, as well as shrubs with low trees close to the ground, and the turf is a warm-season lawn grass; second, they are sparse and dense, and they should not be too thick to cause ventilation, nor too large spacing to affect the visual effect; third, the soil layer thickness is moderate, taking into account maintenance costs and greening quality, and it is also convenient for land leveling and tilling.

There are clear and detailed requirements for tree species in the bidding documents, such as the selection of varieties such as round cypress, camphor, osmanthus tree, magnolia, red-leaf heather, dragon cypress balls, hypericum, etc., and the number of trees for each variety and the survival rate reached on the day of acceptance must be reflected in the audit report.

Shrubs mainly include short purple cherry, yellow thorn rose, golden privet, golden thorn leaf, cherry blossom, cherry blossom and forsythia. These are the number of plants calculated by planting area, and engineering auditors usually randomly sample and check.

The main focus of gardening and greening is on three aspects:

First, the varieties are inferior as good. The prices of different saplings vary greatly. Precious trees can often cost tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, while ordinary trees can range from dozens to hundreds of. From the perspective of gardening and greening vision and effects, the usual plan is to focus on ordinary trees, with precious trees between them. Even if they are ordinary trees, the price difference is dozens of times, but in the eyes of ordinary people, they are trees, and there is no difference at all.

Second, reduce the planting density. Although the bidding documents put specific requirements on the planting density, it is impossible to implement it very strictly during actual construction. On the one hand, the project auditors cannot measure one by one, but randomly select it, which itself has the possibility of taking tricks; on the other hand, as long as a tacit understanding is reached, the project auditors will tactfully select the designated area of ​​the construction party, so that everyone will be happy.

Third, reduce the quality of the project. Soil layer, tree pit depth, soil maintenance effect, drainage construction quality, drilling accuracy, etc. are directly related to the survival rate of greening plants. However, as long as you pass the free maintenance period specified in the contract, it will be considered natural loss and maintenance will be charged separately. Therefore, the construction party will usually grasp the degree and basically achieve vitality during acceptance, and then wither one after another, and you need to continuously increase investment.

When they drove to Section 3, Fang Sheng and Zhu Zhengyang began to make field measurements. Although they could not name the trees and shrubs, they had visited village and town enterprises many times to investigate and collect data. They had their own set of methods: draw different types of varieties into patterns and number them, and then select a certain area at will and count them one by one.

Two hours later, the rough results came out: not only the trees and shrub varieties were seriously inconsistent with the bidding documents, but the planting density was far from meeting the standards!

When counting the adjacent No. 2 section, the quality is significantly higher, the planting density is basically consistent with the audit report data, and even if there is error in the number of tree varieties and quantity, it is basically within the acceptable range.

Fang Sheng called all the staff of the scenic spot management office headed by Cheng Gengming with a calm face and ordered them to continue to measure sections No. 3 and No. 5, which not only allowed them to feel the importance of on-site acceptance, but also asked them to reflect on the mistakes in the acceptance work.

After noon, the group was sweating profusely in the sunlight, and was so tired that they were breathing. However, the statistical results made everyone feel even more heavy:

The construction situation of the two sections No. 3 and No. 5 is seriously inconsistent with the bidding documents, and the audit report issued by Qimingxing Audit Firm was infringed!

"Secretary Fang, we have a responsibility for this matter. When we go back, we will reflect seriously..." Fan Xiaoling is the leader of the acceptance team. Of course, we have to be responsible for any problems.

Fang Sheng said in a deep voice: "Everyone is here now, let's find out a problem first. Who decided to make the No. 3 and No. 5 sections?"

After a while of silence, a staff member named Yi Jingru raised his hand in frustration: "Secretary Fang, it's me..."

"Why is Qimingxing arranged for audits of two local construction parties in Huanghai at the same time? There are five sections connecting the highway horticulture and greening. The three winning bids of more than one million were given to three offices in the provincial capital. That one is very reasonable. But why do the remaining two give Qimingxing? Wuxiang's two offices have no time? They are not at a high level? Or have they not given you red envelopes?!"

This sentence is very strong, Yi Jingru almost burst into tears and said aggrievedly:
Chapter completed!