Public Procurement Service Promotes and Activates 'Proactive Administration' Culture... Building Public Consensus on Procurement Administration

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] The Public Procurement Service announced on the 30th that it has prepared and will implement the '2021 Proactive Administration Execution Plan.' The execution plan focuses on creating a horizontal and professional organizational culture through proactive administration and spreading public consensus.

The execution plan will be promoted based on five major tasks: ▲ fostering a proactive administrative culture led by the head of the institution ▲ strengthening preferential treatment for proactive administrative officials ▲ expanding protection and support for proactive administrative officials ▲ preventing and reforming passive administration ▲ spreading tangible results to the public and enhancing communication with citizens.

First, to foster a proactive administrative culture, the Public Procurement Service will ensure the smooth implementation of five key tasks: expanding public procurement of innovative products with high public awareness, revitalizing public procurement of digital services, building the next-generation Nara Marketplace based on digital new technologies, operating the government mask stockpile project, and supporting promising companies such as those involved in K-quarantine to enter overseas procurement markets.

Additionally, by holding labor-management coexistence councils and other activities, the agency plans to create a horizontal organizational culture where the head of the institution and employees communicate, and strengthen expertise by selecting and awarding 'Procurement Masters' in each work field.

Efforts will also be made to create an environment where procurement officials can participate in proactive administration. Incentives will be given to officials who achieve excellent results through proactive administration, and additional points will be awarded to outstanding departments.

Furthermore, by encouraging the use of pre-consultation, officials will be exempted from disciplinary action if their proactive administration is justified by national interests, etc. In cases where lawsuits arise from proactive administration, costs for hiring lawyers and related civil and criminal expenses will be supported through liability insurance.

Conversely, the Public Procurement Service will impose disadvantages on officials who do not engage in proactive administration, such as limiting rewards when disciplinary action is proposed, strengthening self-inspection of passive administration, and operating a permanent reporting center for passive administration. This approach aims to use both carrot and stick methods through proactive administration.

In addition, the Public Procurement Service plans to spread tangible results felt by the public through internal employee awareness and behavior improvement education, public promotion of excellent cases, and strengthening communication to form public consensus, thereby enhancing communication between the agency and citizens.

Kim Jeong-woo, head of the Public Procurement Service, said, “As a measure to appropriately respond to rapid social and economic environmental changes, we will activate proactive administration and strive to solve problems occurring in the field through this. Above all, we will focus on inducing behavioral changes among public officials by providing exceptional incentives to excellent proactive administrative officials and imposing disadvantages on passive administrative officials.”

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