Public Procurement Service Standardizes Inspection Items for Specialized Agencies... Enhancing Reliability

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] The Public Procurement Service has established standardization of inspection items for items subject to inspection by specialized institutions, enhancing reliability in the delivery process.

According to the Public Procurement Service on the 8th, specialized institutions are organizations entrusted by the Administrator of the Public Procurement Service to conduct inspection tasks for procurement items, with 19 institutions designated and operating as of the end of last year.

However, until now, specialized institutions have independently selected and applied inspection items specified in group standards and Korean Industrial Standards, causing issues such as differing inspection results even for the same product name.

In response, since 2018, the Public Procurement Service has promoted a standardization effort to unify essential inspection items by product name so that inspections for the same product name are conducted according to the same criteria and procedures, establishing standardization of inspection items to be applied to 63 product names of items subject to inspection by specialized institutions.

Additionally, a booklet titled ‘Standardization of Inspection Items by Product Name’ was published for use by contracting departments and inspection agencies.

The Public Procurement Service expects this to resolve distrust among procurement companies caused by discrepancies in inspection items between specialized institutions and to improve the efficiency of inspection tasks.

Kim Dae-su, Director of the Procurement Quality Institute, stated, “We will expand the scope of inspection item standardization to 220 product names actively traded on the Korea ON-line E-Procurement System (KONEPS) comprehensive shopping mall. Furthermore, expanding the standardization target will lead to the provision of uniform inspection services during the delivery process, laying the foundation to enhance the reliability of procurement item delivery inspections.”

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