UN/CEFACT 9th ForumNew Delhi

KONEPS 2006 National Update

Public Procurement Service of Korea

Oct. 4 2006

Korean ON-line E-Procurement System

Single Window

- Integrated bidding information

(specifications and criteria for the evaluations)

- One-time registration for all bidding participations

1. WHAT IS KONEPS?

Online transactions

- E- purchase request, bidding, contract, payment

- One-stop service (including internet banking)

- Accessible to information of 77 institutional systems linked to KONEPS

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Public procurement contract

Act on Contracts to which the State is A Party (ACSP)

- Similar processes for public procurement based on the ACSP for

central government, local government to state-owned enterprises

Revised for e-Procurement in 2002

- Mandatory : Integrated bid notice on KONEPS, Registering the black list of

businesses

- Voluntary : e-Bidding, e-Contracting, sharing the database of businesses

Approval of e-documents are applied from other Acts

- e.g. Digital Signature Act, E-Government Act, etc.

1.2 Legal Framework

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2. BACKGROUND

PPS e-procurement (1997~2001)

• 1997: EDI (20 public organizations users)

online shopping mall (goods)

• 2000: construction and services included

in the shopping mall based on XML

• 2001: e-bidding, e-contract, e-payment

(not yet integrated)

2. Background

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Government-wide expansion (2001~2002)

2001: One of the 11 e-government projects

• Government created a task force comprising relevant institutions and businesses

2002: KONEPS (integrated procurement network) launched based on ebXML after the BPR/ISP started in 2001

(* BPR: Business Process Reengineering / ISP: Information Strategy Planning)

2003-5: DRS (Disaster Recovery System), DW (Data Warehousing),

CRM (Customer Relationship Management System), and Ubiquitous Service

2. Background

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30,000 organizations (buyers) + 150,000 businesses (Suppliers)

220,000 users

140,000 daily website hits & 100,000 electronic documents

exchange per day

Transaction Volume

bidding 25 B + Shopping mall 7B + others 11B

= Total 43 Billion

Utilization Volume

3. Performance

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(FY 2005 – US$)

2003: the First UN Public Service Award

2004: the Best e-Government Service Provider (OECD) 2004: Best practice model for e-procurement from around the

world (UN, “E-government Readiness Index”)2005: Reflected the standardized process in the UN global

standard (Registration → Public Invitation → Tender/Opening Tender → Publication of Award

2005: BS15000 acquisition from BSI (British Standard Institution)

the management service standard for IT service (ITIL : Information Technology Infrastructure Library)

2006: the Global IT Excellence Award in the public sector (the 15th World congress on Information Technology)

4. International Recognition

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Face-to-face consultation services through a computer screen are provided by establishing Web Call-Center

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

2004: Individually Customized Service

5. Innovations

2005: Focusing on the Ubiquitous Service

Mobile service from KONEPS to wireless PDAs

Wireless purchase and property management through Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

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620 thousands products registered totally

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5. Innovations

Mostly used for the government’s property management by providing

standard classification* and identification code

(* UNSPSC: United Nations Standard Products and Services Code)

Established the ONTOLOGY infrastructure from 2004

a universal ontology repository with browsing, searching, and

downloading functions on the base of semantic web

2006: Semantic Web based E-Catalogue

Sun Young Yoon (sunny79@pps.go.kr)

Information Planning Team

Public Procurement Service of Korea

(www.pps.go.kr / www.g2b.go.kr)

Thank You