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To those who are considering joining the Government of procurement

At Digital Agency, we are developing environments that enable prompt procurement of solutions that meet social needs at an appropriate price while ensuring fairness and transparency.
We aim to have a wide variety of businesses, including small and medium-sized start-up companies, participate in the government procurement, and we are implementing various initiatives.

Main flow of government procurement

The procurement of goods and services by the government is carried out through a bidding process in order to maintain fairness and transparency.

1. Advance Preparation for Participation in Bidding

1. 1. Application for Bid Participation Eligibility

In order to participate in general competitive bidding, it is necessary to obtain a unified bidding eligibility for all ministries and agencies. Anyone can apply through the Unified Qualification Application and procurement Information Retrieval Site .

2. Flow up to contract

2.1. procurement Deal Search

Government procurement projects that are currently under public notice are posted on the procurement Portal, so you can search on the procurement Portal .
In addition, procurement projects in Digital Agency are also posted on the Digital Agency Website procurement Information , so please refer to it.

2. 2. Confirmation of procurement Project Details

From the procurement Portal, you can download materials related to procurement that include procurement specifications, schedules, bidding conditions, guidelines for preparing technical proposals, etc. Depending on the project, a bidding explanatory meeting may be held, so please confirm it before applying.

2.3. Proposal Submission and Bidding

For each procurement project, we will participate in the project to be procurement by the government by submitting the required Various Certificates, technical proposals, etc., and bidding (quotation) documents. It is also possible to submit technical proposals by e-mail and use electronic bidding using the procurement Portal.

2.4. Bid opening and project commencement

Procurement In accordance with the type of project, etc., the successful bidder (contractor) will be determined, the contract will be concluded, and the project will be started.

Type of procurement Project, etc.

There are multiple types of government procurement projects, each with its own characteristics.

General competitive bidding (minimum price bidding method and comprehensive evaluation bidding method) You can check the project information of

General competitive bidding is a method to conclude a contract with a business operator who has bid under the most advantageous conditions for the country. There are two bidding methods, the minimum price bidding method and the comprehensive evaluation bidding method. The minimum price bidding method is a bidding method to conclude a contract with a business operator who has offered the lowest price. The comprehensive evaluation bidding method is a bidding method to conclude a contract with a business operator who has offered the highest total of evaluation points by scoring the offered amount of money and the technical proposal from the business operator.
General competitive bidding (minimum price bidding method and comprehensive evaluation bidding method) You can check the project information of provides opportunity information for Digital Agency.

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This is a method in which technical proposals from business operators are evaluated by scoring them, and a contract is concluded with the business operator who has the highest evaluation score. The upper limit of the amount is specified, but this is a method in which the most importance is placed on technical capabilities.
You can check provides opportunity information for Digital Agency.

General competitive bidding and planning competition through technical dialogue

In cases where it is difficult for the national government alone to create written specifications, this is a method in which the national government requests technical proposals from business operators, and the national government and business operators create written specifications through dialogue in order to improve and utilize the technical proposals. In the process of technical dialogue, among the business operators who submitted a technical proposal after the public notice, multiple business operators selected through prior examination and the ordering party will review the terms and conditions, etc., while repeating dialogue for the improvement of the content of the proposal, etc., multiple times, and the written specifications will be finalized.
General competitive bidding (comprehensive evaluation bidding method): In accordance with the specifications determined through the technical dialogue process, will create a final technical proposal, and the ordering party will conduct a technical examination based on it. After the subsequent bidding, etc., the successful bidder will be determined.
In the planned competition method , a preferred bidder is determined through a technical dialogue process, and a successful bidder is determined through price negotiations with the bidder after the specifications are completed.

Market Research (RFI)

In order to conduct the procurement described above, this is a mechanism to disclose necessary information on the procurement scheduled by the national government and to collect useful information from business operators.
Request For Information (RFI) provides opportunity information for Digital Agency.

Procurement's Efforts on Digital Agency Procedures

Digital Agency is implementing various initiatives to enable a wide variety of people in the private business to participate in government procurement, and is creating environments that are more conducive to participation.

Publication of the procurement Procedures Manual for Staff

In order to ensure transparency, fairness, and competitiveness, we publish the procurement Procedures Manual, Templates, and other actually used by employees. It is possible to check what procedures are implemented in the Agency at each procurement.

Publication of the procurement Plan

By announcing the Digital Agency procurement Plan , we are working to enable people in private business to understand the prospects for procurement in Digital Agency and to consider a wide range of bidding opportunities.

Disclosure of List of Contract Business Operators, etc.

Digital Agency has announced the of contract business operators (including subcontractors) in the Digital Agency, including subcontractors. Please use it to consider bidding opportunities.

Relaxation of bidding participation criteria for bidding participation qualifications

With the expectation of participation from a wide range of private business, bidding at all ranks (from A to D) of the bidding participation qualifications is possible in the case of a proposal type planning competition.

Setting the number of payments according to the content of the procurement

In addition to procurement projects in which all deliverables are delivered in a lump sum at the end of the contract and billing and payment are performed, we are expanding partial payment in which the timing of delivery is set during the contract period and billing and payment are performed according to the content of the procurement.

Promotion of procurement in digitalization procedures and project implementation

We are promoting procurement as much as possible in terms of digitalization procedures, document delivery and meetings in projects, etc. As a government procurement, there are documents that are required to be submitted, but we are further promoting them by implementing online submission through e-mail and communication tools, and not requiring a seal.

Meetings, etc.

Digital Agency Information Systems procurement Reform Study Meeting