1. UN/CEFACT 9 th Forum New Delhi KONEPS 2006 National Update Public Procurement Service of Korea Oct. 4 2006

2. Korean ON-line E-Procurement System Single Window -Integrated bidding information (specifications and criteria for the evaluations) -One-time registration for all bidding participations 1. WHAT IS KONEPS? Online transactions -E- purchase request, bidding, contract, payment -One-stop service (including internet banking) -Accessible to information of 77 institutional systems linked to KONEPS - 1 -

3. Public procurement contract Act on Contracts to which the State is A Party (ACSP) -Similar processes for public procurement based on the ACSP for central government, local government to state-owned enterprises Revised for e-Procurement in 2002 -Mandatory : Integrated bid notice on KONEPS, Registering the black list of businesses -Voluntary : e-Bidding, e-Contracting, sharing the database of businesses Approval of e-documents are applied from other Acts -e.g. Digital Signature Act, E-Government Act, etc. 1.2 Legal Framework - 2 - 2. BACKGROUND

4. PPS e-procurement (1997~2001) 1997: EDI (20 public organizations users) online shopping mall (goods) 2000: construction and services included in the shopping mall based on XML 2001: e-bidding, e-contract, e-payment (not yet integrated) 2. Background - 3 -

5. Government-wide expansion (2001~2002) 2001: One of the 11 e-government projects Government created a task force comprising relevant institutions and businesses 2002: KONEPS (integrated procurement network) launched based on ebXML after the BPR/ISP started in 2001 (* BPR: Business Process Reengineering / ISP: Information Strategy Planning) 2003-5: DRS (Disaster Recovery System), DW (Data Warehousing), CRM (Customer Relationship Management System), and Ubiquitous Service 2. Background - 4 -

6. 30,000 organizations (buyers) + 150,000 businesses (Suppliers)  220,000 users 140,000 daily website hits & 100,000 electronic documents exchange per day Transaction Volume bidding 25 B + Shopping mall 7B + others 11B = Total 43 Billion Utilization Volume 3. Performance - 5 - (FY 2005 – US$)

7. 2003: the First UN Public Service Award 2004: the Best e-Government Service Provider (OECD) 2004: Best practice model for e-procurement from around the world (UN, “E-government Readiness Index”) 2005: Reflected the standardized process in the UN global standard (Registration → Public Invitation → Tender/Opening Tender → Publication of Award 2005: BS15000 acquisition from BSI (British Standard Institution) the management service standard for IT service (ITIL : Information Technology Infrastructure Library) 2006: the Global IT Excellence Award in the public sector (the 15th World congress on Information Technology) 4. International Recognition - 6 -

8. Face-to-face consultation services through a computer screen are provided by establishing Web Call-Center Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 2004: Individually Customized Service 5. Innovations 2005: Focusing on the Ubiquitous Service Mobile service from KONEPS to wireless PDAs Wireless purchase and property management through Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) - 7 -

9. 620 thousands products registered totally - 8 - 5. Innovations Mostly used for the government’s property management by providing standard classification* and identification code (* UNSPSC: United Nations Standard Products and Services Code) Established the ONTOLOGY infrastructure from 2004 a universal ontology repository with browsing, searching, and downloading functions on the base of semantic web 2006: Semantic Web based E-Catalogue

10. Sun Young Yoon (sunny79@pps.go.kr) Information Planning Team Public Procurement Service of Korea (www.pps.go.kr / www.g2b.go.kr)www.pps.go.krwww.g2b.go.kr Thank You