Korea Rail Network Authority Expands and Reorganizes 'Contract System Innovation TF' with Participation from Professional Associations and Public Institutions

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] The Korea Rail Network Authority is expanding and reorganizing its Contract System Innovation Task Force (TF).

According to the Rail Network Authority on the 4th, the Contract System Innovation TF was launched in 2021 with the aim of creating a fair and transparent contract culture, and is operated under the leadership of the Authority’s Vice President.

The expansion and reorganization involve adjusting the previously operated five teams?System Improvement Team, Fair Evaluation Team, Win-Win Cooperation Team, Business Support Team, and Customer Voice Team?into the Regulation Improvement Team, Fair Trade Team, Mutual Growth Team, Consulting Team, and Customer Communication Team.

In particular, this year, the ‘Customer Communication Team,’ which previously included associations related to construction, will additionally include service-related associations and public institutions to enable various voices such as industry suggestions to be heard.

First, the Regulation Improvement Team will serve as the control tower of the ‘Contract System Innovation TF,’ overseeing system improvement tasks, while the Fair Trade Team will be responsible for establishing bidding methods that promote fair competition in important bids such as design-build turnkey contracts and comprehensive service evaluation bidding systems.

The Mutual Growth Team will propose ‘win-win coexistence plans’ for mutual benefit between large and small-to-medium enterprises, including the development of mutual growth models. The Consulting Team, composed of lawyers and integrity ombudsmen, will review the appropriateness of improvement tasks, and the Customer Communication Team will serve as a communication channel between the industry and public institutions to collect balanced opinions from both the public and private sectors.

Kim Han-young, Director of the Rail Network Authority, said, “With the active participation of related organizations, the Rail Network Authority will accelerate the achievement of national policy tasks by innovatively improving the contract system this year,” adding, “The Rail Network Authority will continue to make every effort to improve the system so that policy effects can appear quickly even amid uncertain external conditions.”

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