Public Procurement Service (PPS) Administrator Lim Ki-keun (L) and Uzbekistan’s Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance Gulnora Rakhimova pose for the camera after signing a memorandum of understanding, in this photo provided by the PPS. (Yonhap)
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Public Procurement Service (PPS) and Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Economy and Finance held a bilateral meeting on cooperation in public procurement and signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in the Central Asian country last week, the PPS said Monday.
The meeting between PPS Administrator Lim Ki-keun and Uzbekistan’s Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance Gulnora Rakhimova took place in Tashkent last Friday, the PPS said.
Under the MOU signed by Lim and Rakhimova, the two organizations will cooperate to share public procurement system information, including electronic procurement, provide information necessary for establishing and improving the electronic procurement system, and stimulate corporate participation in the public procurement market, the PPS said.
Lim’s visit to Uzbekistan came after he held bilateral talks with Rakhimova during the International Procurement Workshop jointly organized by the Asian Development Bank and the PPS in Seoul in September last year.
“Following an MOU signed last year with Kyrgyzstan, full-scale exports of the electronic procurement system are under way this year. The MOU with Uzbekistan will help further expand Korea’s public procurement cooperation in Central Asia,” Lim said.
(Yonhap)
