Public Procurement Service: "Distributing Nara Market Bid Deadlines... Preventing System Overload and Failures"

Bid Submission Deadline, Specified Only in Exact Hour Units
Limited to a Maximum of 1,500 Cases per Hour

The Public Procurement Service (PPS) will stagger the bid submission deadlines to prevent overload and failures in the Nara Market system.

According to the PPS on the 15th, until now, bid submission deadlines for announcements using Nara Market were freely set by the minute between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. on working days.

However, starting from the 21st of this month, the PPS explained that bid submission deadlines can only be set on the hour and will be limited to 1,500 submissions per hour to prevent a concentration of bid submissions at specific times.

So far, procurement companies have mainly submitted bids at 10 a.m. At the same time, a surge of last-minute bid submissions close to the deadline caused a high risk of system failures around 10 a.m. Based on last year’s data, the number of announcements closing at 10 a.m. accounted for 60% of the daily average.

The PPS will also take proactive measures to prevent system failures, such as increasing the number of servers related to Nara Market bidding from three to five on the 24th of this month. Considering the restrictions on purchasing new servers due to the launch of the next-generation Nara Market in the second half of this year, the PPS plans to reallocate servers with low usage among the existing ones.

Lee Hyung-sik, Director of the Fair Procurement Bureau at the PPS, said, “We will strive to provide an environment where public institutions and procurement companies can use Nara Market without inconvenience,” and added, “We also ask procurement companies to submit bids with ample time, preferably in the afternoon of the previous day, rather than rushing to submit close to the deadline.”

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