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Procurement tenders 75% open

Korea, Republic of


What data is expected?

All tenders and awards of the national/federal government aggregated by office. Monitoring tenders can help new groups to participate in tenders and increase government compliance. Data submitted in this category must be aggregated by office, updated at least monthly & satisfy the following minimum criteria:

Tenders:

  • tenders name
  • tender description
  • tender status

Awards:

  • Award title
  • Award description
  • value of the award
  • suppliers name

What data is available

  •   Openly licensed? Yes(Here)
  •   Is the data available for free? Yes
  •   Is the data machine readable? No (n/a)
  •   Available in bulk? No
  •   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes
  •   Publicly available? Yes(as Korea ON-line E-Procurement System (KONEPS) - KONEPS is aiming to establish a nationwide web-based procurement system, dealing with whole procurement process including acquisition of all the information on the national procurement projects, procurement request, bids, contracting and payment for 37,000 public organizations and 120,000 private firms. published by Public Procurement Service)
  •   Is data in digital form? Yes
  •   Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
  •   Does the data exist? Yes

Details

The Public Procurement Service (PPS) of Korea, Republic of has developed an electronic procurement system called Korea ON-line E-Procurement System (KONEPS). KONEPS is aiming to establish a nationwide web-based procurement system, dealing with whole procurement process including acquisition of all the information on the national procurement projects, procurement request, bids, contracting and payment for 37,000 public organizations and 120,000 private firms.

Although the data provided on the site meets the minimum criteria, it is not available in machine-readable formats, and not available in bulk. The data can only be accessed in HTML formats. Descriptions of tenders and awards are only provided by attached documents. There are Web APIs that can be used to access the data in machine-readable formats, but they require pre-registration so they are not publicly available.

Reviewer comments

Submission correct.

Contributors

Reviewers

  • Georg Neumann

Submitters

  • James G. Boram Kim