Public Procurement Service Selects 6 Cases of Proactive Administration Including Rapid Supply of Vaccine Syringes as 'Excellent'

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] The Public Procurement Service held an ‘Active Administration Competition’ and selected a total of six outstanding cases for the first half of this year. The best case among the selected active administrations was the rapid supply of vaccine syringes.

According to the Public Procurement Service on the 28th, the public officials in charge of the rapid supply case of vaccine syringes are Yeom Seong-hyun and Seo Hye-jung, officials belonging to the Chungbuk Regional Procurement Service.

They recently formed a dedicated team for purchasing vaccine syringes and held briefing sessions for syringe companies jointly with the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, receiving recognition for their proactive work in timely supplying 84 million vaccine syringes to the field.

Among the outstanding cases, officials So Jae-seung and Kim Hye-eun, who are striving to designate the ‘mobile negative pressure ward’?which solves the shortage of hospital beds caused by COVID-19 and enables timely treatment of severe patients?as an innovative product, were also named.

Obo-gyeong, officer, and Lee Joo-hyun, official, who built a digital service exclusive mall enabling public procurement through cloud services in collaboration with the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Ministry of Science and ICT, were also recognized as outstanding active administration officials.

In addition, cases such as signing contracts for distribution and storage projects for domestic supply of COVID-19 vaccines and overcoming the expiration date issue of stockpiled masks through inventory rotation received encouragement awards, and the case of standardizing and automating 34 types of bid announcements to improve internal staff work efficiency was selected as an excellent collaboration case.

Kim Jung-woo, Commissioner of the Public Procurement Service, said, “Cash rewards will be given to the awardees selected as outstanding active administration cases according to their grade, and benefits such as agency head commendations, highest grade performance bonuses, and reward leave will be provided. The Public Procurement Service will continue to actively discover challenging and creative outstanding active administration cases to foster a culture of active administration within the public service.”

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