0.01 yuan! Tencent Cloud really won the bid for Xiamen Government Cloud

According to Leifeng.com, on the afternoon of March 17, the winning bid announcement for Xiamen’s government external network cloud service was finally released. The results showed that Tencent Cloud won the bid at a price of 0.01 yuan, which was almost free.

Last Friday, a picture was exposed online, which showed that Xiamen City publicly bid for external network cloud services. Five companies participated (Tencent Cloud, China Mobile Fujian Company, China Telecom Xiamen Company, China Unicom Cloud Data, and Xiamen Zongheng). As a result, Tencent Cloud's bid price was only 0.01 yuan, which was extremely eye-catching, while the bid prices of other companies ranged from 1.7 million to 3.09 million.

After the Tencent Cloud bidding price was announced, there were many doubts online, saying that Tencent Cloud was making trouble and that it was making a price out of spite because it knew it had no chance of winning the bid. Some people also said that Tencent Cloud's practice was malicious competition, because according to the relevant provisions of the "Government Procurement Law of the People's Republic of China" and the "Implementation Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Bidding and Tendering", government procurement must be paid and the bid price cannot be lower than the cost price.

However, Tencent Cloud has not responded to this matter.

Tencent Cloud won the bid today, and the price was 0.01 yuan, so the claims of disruption and malicious competition were self-defeating.

Leifeng.com once analyzed that from the bidding price, it can be seen that Tencent Cloud has adopted a different approach from the other companies. It no longer regards cloud service projects as building data centers and then buying servers, storage, and networks. This is also the reason why the other companies bid millions of yuan. Instead, it returns to the essence of cloud computing and provides cloud as a deployable service.

As Alibaba CTO Wang Jian said, the essence of cloud computing is service. If computing resources cannot be shared on a large scale and on a large scale, and if they cannot be truly provided as a service, it cannot be considered cloud computing at all.

The whole incident reflects the different strategies that Internet companies and traditional telecommunications companies have towards cloud services.

As of press time, Tencent Cloud has not responded to this matter, and Leifeng.com will continue to pay attention to it.