Research On Government Purchasing Of Public Services

Improving the people's livelihood and the establishment of basic public service system are important contents of the 12th five-year plan in our country, with the development of economy and society, the public 's demand for public services not only in quantity and quality, diversified and multi-level personalized demand has been put on the agenda, it is inevitable that alone the strength of the government to meet the growing needs of the public so innovation of public service supply mode has become one of the ways to improve the level of public service in China. Government purchasing public service is to meet the practical needs of the present stage of our country, emerge as the times require a new public service ways. Government purchasing public service is purchase behavior, refers to the public sector and non-governmental organizations (mainly social organizations, including non-profit organization) signed to complete a specific public service targets of the contract, and to establish a contractual relationship as the basis for supervision and post performance appraisal. Western developed country early in last centuries 80 time began to explore the way of marketization of public service, and the government purchasing public service as an important means of. Coastal developed area of China heretofore already had history of ten years in 1995 began to try government purchasing public service the purchase of the scope related to education, social service, community health services, employment services and environmental protection the majority of areas, and achieved some success. But our market economy is not perfect, the legal system of purchasing public service and the relevant theoretical research lags behind, leading to early government purchasing public service practice produced a few problems.This paper from the public service concept, and then extends to related concepts of the government purchasing public service, then definite and describe the scope of the government purchase. The theoretical part introduces the theory of new public management, service oriented government and the provision and production theory, and from the improvement of the quality of public service, the transformation of government functions and the reform of government agencies, optimize the allocation of financial resources and the promotion of social organization to develop angle elaborated the significance of public service of government purchase. In the third part,the paper sum up China's government purchasing public service practice, mainly from the development of present situation of China's government purchasing public service, and the achievements and existing problems at this stage. Later, sum up the experience and enlightenment which is worthy of drawing lessons on the basis of public service reform course in the UK, the United States and Australia and other developed countries for example to recognize the relationship of government, market and society, give full play to democracy, improve supporting system, pay attention to the use of information technology and the performance evaluation which are worth learning actively. The last part as part of solving question, proposed system optimization and policy suggestion of our country government purchasing public service, separately from each participant's view of their respective duties and tasks of government purchasing public service, the country should perfect related legal system, formulate preferential tax policies, cultivate the market and develop the social organization, recognize the duties of governments in government purchasing public service, the public sector as the executive of the purchase, the non-governmental organizations as the producer and public should each doing his own job well, ensure the smooth implementation of government purchasing public service. Finally, the article clear the basic processes of the purchase of public service, describe the detail and main task the links need special attention in.The innovation of this paper is the description of the scope on the purchase of public services in detail, a clear classification from ten aspects of public service, which is easy to grasp in the practice. And for government purchasing public service to the state, public sector, private enterprises, social organizations and the public, which involved in the purchasing process,these duties and tasks are discussed in detail, so that different groups could be suggested and the participants in charge of their duties more easily in the practice.The purchase of public service in our country is be just unfolding situation, as the important supplement of government procurement, play an important role in the reform of the public management system and the reform of government institutions. But, show great enthusiasm on this new providing method of public service, also should establish risk consciousness. At the same time, the government departments in the implementation of the purchase, we must strengthen the sense of public duty, ensure purchase is directed toward improving the level of public service, satisfying the growing and changeable of public demand.