Small Enterprise and Market Service Receives Presidential Citation as Outstanding Public Procurement Institution

Exceeded Statutory Mandatory Purchase Rates Across All Public Procurement Product Categories

The Small Enterprise and Market Service announced on the 27th that it had received the Presidential Citation, the highest honor in the field of public procurement, at the "2025 Public Procurement Promotion Conference" held the previous day at the Grand Walkerhill in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul.

The Public Procurement Merit Award is a government honor hosted by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and organized by the Korea Small & Venture Business Distribution Center. It is awarded to public institutions with outstanding records in purchasing priority products such as those from small and medium-sized enterprises. The evaluation comprehensively considers various indicators, including achievement of procurement targets and efforts to increase procurement.

The Small Enterprise and Market Service received the Presidential Citation at the award ceremony of the "2025 Public Procurement Promotion Conference" held on the 26th at the Grand Walkerhill in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul. Small Enterprise and Market Service

The Small Enterprise and Market Service was recognized for its contributions to revitalizing the public procurement ecosystem by streamlining internal procedures to enhance policy implementation and by exceeding the statutory mandatory purchase rates for all product categories in public procurement.

To establish a company-wide performance management system for public procurement, the organization introduced an internal monitoring function for priority purchase performance and created new internal performance indicators that reflect the achievement of priority purchases in employee evaluations. It also completely revised regulations related to public procurement, such as contract guidelines, making it mandatory to verify a company's priority purchase certification status in advance during the contract signing stage.

Park Sunghyo, Chairman of the Small Enterprise and Market Service, stated, "This award is the result of our continuous efforts to improve the public procurement system and the dedicated implementation by our staff. We will continue to actively support the sustainable growth of small and medium-sized enterprises and small business owners."

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