去年国务院在关于开展和保护社会主义竞争的暂行规定中提出了在经济活动中,可以试行招标、投标的办法,以促进企业改善经营管理。这种办法在国际上,特别是在资本主义国家,应用是很广泛的,而在国内,过去采用的比较少。许多同志对如何搞好招标与投标,十分关心,为此,本文简单介绍一些国际上招标(Invitation to Tender)与投标(Submission of Tender)的做法。招标与一般的贸易方式不同。一般的贸易是由买卖双方自由选择交易对象,对商品 Last year, the State Council proposed in the interim regulations on the development and protection of socialist competition that in the course of economic activities, it may try to implement tendering and bidding methods to promote the improvement of business management. This approach has been widely used internationally, especially in capitalist countries, but it has been used in the past in China. Many comrades are very concerned about how to do a good job in tendering and tendering. For this reason, this article briefly introduces some of the International Invitation for Tender and Submission of Tender. Bidding differs from ordinary trade methods. The general trade is the free choice of trading partners by the buyer and the seller.