UN/CEFACT 9th Forum

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UN/CEFACT 9th Forum

• New Delhi
• KONEPS 2006
• National Update
• Public Procurement Service of Korea
• Oct. 4 2006

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1. WHAT IS KONEPS?
Korean ON-line E-Procurement System

• Single Window

• Integrated bidding information
• (specifications and criteria for the
  evaluations)
• One-time registration for all bidding
  participations

• Online transactions

• E- purchase request, bidding, contract, payment
• One-stop service (including internet banking)
• Accessible to information of 77 institutional
  systems linked to KONEPS

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2. BACKGROUND
1.2 Legal Framework

• 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.

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2. Background

• PPS e-procurement (19972001)
• 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)

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2. Background

• Government-wide expansion (20012002)
• 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

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3. Performance
Utilization Volume

• 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

(FY 2005 US)
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4. International Recognition

• 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)

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5. Innovations
2004 Individually Customized Service

• Face-to-face consultation services through a
  computer screen are provided by establishing Web
  Call-Center
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

2005 Focusing on the Ubiquitous Service

• Mobile service from KONEPS to wireless PDAs
• Wireless purchase and property management through
  Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

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5. Innovations
2006 Semantic Web based E-Catalogue

• Established the ONTOLOGY infrastructure from 2004
  
• a universal ontology repository with browsing,
  searching, and downloading functions on the base
  of semantic web

• 620 thousands products registered totally

Mostly used for the governments property
management by providing standard classification
and identification code ( UNSPSC United
Nations Standard Products and Services Code)

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Thank You
Sun Young Yoon (sunny79_at_pps.go.kr) Information
Planning Team Public Procurement Service of
Korea (www.pps.go.kr / www.g2b.go.kr)