Establishment of Innovation Procurement Planning Officer and Narajangteo Construction Promotion Team... Public Procurement Service Organizational Restructuring

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] The Public Procurement Service (PPS) will establish the Innovation Procurement Planning Office and the Next-Generation Nara Market (National Comprehensive Electronic Procurement System) Construction Project Promotion Team.

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety and the PPS announced on the 28th that they will carry out this organizational restructuring centered on these changes.

The organizational restructuring will take effect from the 29th. Prior to this, on the 22nd, the Cabinet meeting approved the “Partial Amendment Ordinance of the PPS and Its Affiliated Agencies’ Organization Regulations.”

According to the restructuring, the PPS will newly establish the “Innovation Procurement Planning Office (Senior Executive Service Level B)” and the “Innovation Procurement Operations Division.” This reflects the expansion of the scale of innovation procurement tasks previously carried out by the Innovation Procurement Division and the need to spread its achievements.

Innovation procurement designates products with high “technological innovation” and “public service improvement effects” as innovative products, supporting the government and public institutions to prioritize purchasing these products to help open sales channels.

The core is to support the government and public institutions to be the first buyers of products developed in a customized manner for each demand agency before these products gain marketability, enabling them to proceed to commercialization. The innovation procurement project has been a key policy promoted by the government since 2019 to drive innovative growth.

The newly established Next-Generation Nara Market Construction Promotion Team will be responsible for ensuring the smooth progress of the complete overhaul of the Nara Market system.

The next-generation Nara Market aims to be completed by 2023. Nara Market is the national comprehensive electronic procurement system used in the public procurement market worth 100 trillion KRW annually. The newly built Nara Market will apply digital new technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and blockchain.

The next-generation Nara Market construction project focuses on completely rebuilding the outdated Nara Market system, which was launched in 2002, based on digital new technologies and integrating the independent procurement systems of 26 public institutions.

Through this, the PPS expects to provide customized services by analyzing user types and work characteristics, enabling convenient purchasing of products at the level of private shopping malls through accurate search and comparison within the comprehensive shopping mall.

Kim Jeong-woo, Administrator of the PPS, said, “This organizational restructuring focuses on accelerating innovation procurement and maintaining Korea’s electronic procurement system’s leading position.” He added, “With this restructuring, the PPS will strive to practice procurement administration that breathes with the people in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and digital transformation.”

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